Haha! Noses on sticks! For those of you who can't immediately tell (those of you who can are dorks), I'm Phil Ken Sebben, a minor character on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Goofy quotes abound! And Layla is a lolcat, found most prevalently at icanhascheezburger.com. Layla has dozens of velcroable...
Seeing as I don't actually use OS X, it took until today for me to run across this. I'm going to refrain from commenting except to say that I'm disappointed....
I don't click on ads. Given the size of the advertising industry and the amount of money that changes hands over this kind of thing, I have to imagine that I'm not at all representative of the population at large. But last I checked, most of my peers don't respond...
Halloween. When the lolcats come out to play. Welcome to the internet....
I suppose tonight is the big night for everyone who's throwing a halloween party to actually ... throw it. Layla and I (and a handful of others) are headed to a friend's house back near where we lived in Kirkland. They managed to book three (3) bands for the evening....
I thought yesterday's post would be the last one about work for a while. It turns it isn't, because after nearly four1 three years at Microsoft, Layla will soon be getting a window office! This, much like the stock price, is a Big Deal™. It usually takes five or six...
10% may not seem like a huge amount in today's market, but Microsoft is a huge company with loads of value. Pushing the price up this much is a significant effort. Sweet....
I've launched a new blog. I may even launch some real content there, at some point. No really, it turns out that I've got loads of work-related stuff to post about, but /dev/null isn't exactly the most ... appropriate forum. So instead of trying to cram lots of Windows posts...
Beautiful Katamari was released for the 360 last Thursday. I didn't pick up a copy when it first came out (and it turns out that the local Fred Meyer didn't have one in stock on Sunday night) but Layla read my thoughts and snagged one from some local game store...
When we first moved into our house, our neighbor across the street mentioned that the tree in her front yard would soon need to come down. It turns out that the top ~15' of the tree had died, leaving the lower branches exposed. When the tree's crown dies or is...
Noses on sticks! Haha!...
Today is turning out to be quite a day....
Comcast's service was down all day last Wednesday. Our power flickered Monday night, taking down my cable modem. Comcast went out again Thursday night, ostensibly due to the massive windstorm. But that didn't matter, since the power flickered early Friday, taking out the cable modem. When it all came back,...
Quite a while ago I posted about N733HF, the Cessna 172 I piloted on my first solo flight. Well, I got a comment today that a Rio Ranchonite purchased N733HF and has recently refitted it with a newer engine, which is good because as I remember, it was awfully underpowerd—even...
I've been waiting for Kenna's Make Sure They See My Face since 2005. Well, I got a copy today (as MP3s downloaded from Amazon). About half of the tracks are really really good—and most of those were released as singles before the album debuted. But the rest are merely "good,"...
I spotted this on the way back from Leavenworth. Anyone know what the heck an interpretive trail is? It appears such things exist, but none of the links really help explain what they are....
Behold, the power of branding! Interestingly, the intertubes do not appear to acknowledge the existence of pictured Disney Aristocats-branded cat food....
Layla and I went to Leavenworth for Oktoberfest this weekend. What the heck? Leavenworth is an odd little town. You can read this on the Wikipedia link, but essentially Leavenworth was originally a timber town founded in the early 1900s but lost momentum when the railroad relocated to nearby Wenatchee....
We woke up to this view this morning. I [heart] fog. It turns out all of Seattle is like this today....
I keep my inbox fairly clean. When work is light, I've typically got around a dozen threads waiting for followup or action. Once any of them becomes stale enough that I'm not receiving updates daily, it gets filed into a topic folder where subsequent mails go. This week is different,...
We've had this film in our queue for stinking ever and it's finally shifted off and into our DVD player. I Like Killing Flies is a documentary about Shopsin's, a hole-in-the-wall restaraunt which has been doing business in New York's Greenwich Village for the last four decades. The film focuses...
The upside of going to see an opening act is that you can bail early and get home to sleep since you have work and meetings the next day. The downside is ... pretty much everything else. The Kenna concert on Monday night was very very kickass, but was cut...
While browsing through Netflix's Watch Instantly selection of comedy films, Layla remarks: Oh, this is what they think comedy is? OK no, I want something that will make me laugh. Too true....
I've mentioned Kenna once here on /dev/null but have largely kept my mouth shut otherwise—in truth, I've been a big fan since shortly after his debut release New Sacred Cow in 2003. But tonight he's opening for She Wants Revenge at the Showbox in downtown Seattle. And I've got tickets...
For a few days last week, Dell and Amazon offered the Logitech Harmony 880 universal remote for a deep discount off the ... somewhat exorbitant $250 list price. At $115, the Harmony 880 isn't exactly a steal, but I've been dying for a robust universal remote to replace the four...
Pink: I spend more time surfing the internet than watching TV Green: I spend more time watching TV than surfing the internet Grey: [50/50]...
I'm trying out the new Windows Live Writer. All I did was:Install it Fire it up Type in this blog's URL Fill in my username and password ...and that's it. Type this post in the editor, and hit "Publish." So...does it work? P.S. Holy [expletive deleted], it does work. Right...
Ever since, oh, a month after I originally found it, I've been lamenting the state of The Onion. It's a clever format, but it's definitely run its course for renewable entertainment, instead relegating itself to links I get emailed from family members who have just stumbled across the site. It's...
Congratulations to Layla on being accepted to the University of Washington's Technology Management MBA program!...
I get a lot of spam. I've talked about this at length lately, but I raised the issue a long time ago, too. Some spammers scour sites for a handful of blog posts, and then relentlessly send spam comments to the small handful of selected entries. The aforelinked older entry...
This amuses me greatly. I'm quite curious to see if anything comes of this. P.S. My home theater features audio by Radio Shack....
