So I’m continuing to chat with Ellen about various things, and we get to something about Thursday. So she says, “That’s St. Patrick’s Day!”. Now, remember, we’re A, not religious, and B, at least 50% Jewish, so I ask “Does St. Patrick’s Day mean a lot to you, then?”. Ellen: Well, he scared away all…
I’m having a conversation with Ellen just a minute ago about DNA, and about cloning, and of course that leads into talking about Jurrasic Park. I say to Kim: Paul: What a perfect segue. Ellen: What’s a segue? P: It’s switching from one topic to another. KIm: A transition. Do you know what a transition…
Walking to the bus station tonight, I look up from the corner of 42nd and 8th to see this: Now, you can’t read the words, but it says, in letters as tall as I am, on a lit up billboard that must be 40 feet high: “Windows XP Is shutting down.” If only that were…
Two funny snippets in the past 12 hours that I wanted to post. The first was chatting online with my friend Karin, about silly stuff, when this conversation, worthy of bash.org, occurred: Paul hands karin a woodburner. You say, “what are those things called?” You say, “that you write in wood with?” Karin says, “Penguins?”…
I’m bustling around the kitchen tonight getting some chinese takeout ready for dinner and Ellen knows one of the things we’re having is pork fried rice, a favorite of hers. So I hear her mumbling and then I start to pick out words. She’s singing, to the tune of “Kumbaya”: Pork fried rice, my lord,…
Kim told me this story: “The other day, I’m sitting in my office, and Katie comes tearing in with “Mommy! Mommy! Come quick!”. “What’s wrong?”, I asked. “There’s a noise in my room and I didn’t make it!”” Turns out the radiator was making the noise, but I love that line…”There’s a noise in my…
This was a writing workshop thing that Ellen, age 7, did in her 1st grade class. We questioned her up and down as to whether she make this up, or got it from somewhere, but she swears she made it up. Love is… A delicious food that makes you feel like you can fly. When…
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Today was the day that we want to visit our bean counter. Perfect accoutant material, but he’s seriously lackadaisical. So, he tells us that we probably won’t owe more than a few thousand dollars. After all is said and done, that “few” is SIX THOUSAND, at least. Whee. But, on the plus side, after we…
So…Yes, an iPod Shuffle is a USB 2.0 device. And yes, an iPod shuffle can be mounted as a hard drive. And, still yes, you can take multiple USB devices and connect them together to make a RAID. The question is…SHOULD YOU? Geek.