matt | October 28, 2011
The problem with a blog is that you don’t have time to keep up with it when you are actually doing things. I’ve had some thoughts on various topics of philosophical natures (Occupy Wall Street, password complexity, top posting of email, etc.). This is the latest addition to the estate, and accounts for a lot [...]
matt | August 28, 2011
As a result of the hurricane, at least one of the cats has decided to seek refuge in the hung ceiling of the basement. The wind is blowing, but as of right now there is nothing tremendously interesting going on – just rain and wind and we still have power. It’s flickered a bit, but [...]
matt | April 16, 2011
Not posted before or during the trip, obviously, for reasons of operational security. My grandfather passed away last Monday night. The wake was well attended. The funeral was on a clear, crisp spring day. Some of the local CMA chapter showed up, in support of my father and uncle who are members, and of my [...]
matt | March 30, 2011
A character in a Joss Whedon series. Angel is the vampire with a soul, loses his soul, gets his soul back, then gets killed by Buffy. Buffy has to be the slayer, kill Angel, explain everything to her mom – and then her mom flips and she has to go off on her own for [...]
matt | March 27, 2011
Kind of a lazy about the house weekend, but with us, that doesn’t mean nonproductive: Got the oil changed on my car, the inspection sticker affixed, and some misc detail repair (the 1 to 4 power adapter is remounted, etc.). While the oil was draining, I tidied up the garage a bit. Got the seed [...]
matt | March 26, 2011
If you want to come by and try to get me to trade in my Golf, I’m more than willing to take one of the Fords for a test drive. I mean, Ford has a whole line of nifty diesel engines and they would definitely be competitive with the Golf…. if, you know, they were [...]
matt | March 7, 2011
Half inch of sleety slush, topped by an inch of slush, topped by four inches of heavy, wet snow. The tractor worked fine, but got stuck several times, even with the chains and wheel weights. In some cases, I was blowing slushy mud. The roads aren’t much better – there’s about half an inch of [...]
matt | February 20, 2011
Well, my version of lazy anyway. Slept in both days, and am fighting bad glasses. I’m waiting for the new ones to come in from the lab – according to the optometrist, aside from the LensCrafters crappy knockoff transitions coating delaminating, when I had them make me another set to replace my broken ones, it [...]
matt | February 20, 2011
Watched Rampage. It was okay. I expected a modern, post-9/11, post-Obama version of Falling Down. In the end, despite both the above IMDB synopsis and the Netflix summary, it really wasn’t. It was more of that as a distraction covering a bank heist. Now, the big thing that gets me about this movie was the [...]
matt | February 14, 2011
Doing a little more research, I found this petition by the guy in charge of LASIK at the FDA from 1996-2000. There is also this statement from a German company who is saying that they have a device which does a really good job mapping the surface of the eye – and LASIK eyes look [...]
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