I guess we should have gone to the parks today instead of yesterday: it was gray and overcast, but cool and not a single drop of rain. Oh well! After breakfast and a little personal time at the hotel (Disney’s All-Star Music resort), we headed over to check out Disney’s Boardwalk. We had seen it [...]
Archive of entries posted in August 2008
Down(pour) and out in the Magic Kingdom
We’re in Orlando this weekend for our annual Labor Day mini-vacation at Walt Disney World. The day started out great: blue sky, white clouds, nice temperature. We got up early and headed over the Disney’s Hollywood Studios (formerly MGM Studios) since it opened an hour earlier for resort guests. Once inside, we made a bee-line [...]
Attention to detail
I consider myself to be very detail-oriented, so it bugs me when I run into examples of where it’s obvious no one else is paying attention to the little things. Take this receipt from today’s lunch at Subway for example: Huh? Happy Holidays!? Happy New Year!? It’s August! No one working at this Subway (like [...]
Good ol’ Windows 98
The office directory touchscreen in my building has been stuck like this all day: Nice to see that Win98 is still in use … I think.
Stream to your TiVo
The 9.4 software release for the TiVo Series3 and HD boxes included the ability to stream YouTube videos in H.264 format and the community quickly started re-engineering the feature. pyTiVo developer wmcbrine was the first one to get a basic stream working in his HME for Python framework. Now, TiVo Community user moyekj has released [...]
“Snow day” in August
Luckily Fay is going to track to the east of us today, but last night Pinellas county cancelled the first day of school to be on the safe side. So my daughter has to wait one more day to start the second grade. Right now it’s just cloudy and stormy looking outside. The Tampa Bay [...]
WIJFR: Mossflower
Martin the Warrior finds himself trespassing on the land of Verdagua, King of a Thousand Eyes, as he lies sick and near dying. With his last strength, Verdagua is struggling to make a decision on who should replace him as ruler of Mossflower Country. As Martin and his newfound friend and fellow prisoner Gonff become [...]
What is it about this shirt?
Last month when we were on vacation, I bought this t-shirt at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. Out of all the other shirts in the gift shop, I thought this one was the coolest: it was simple, had no writing (except for the small Rock Hall logo on the [...]
Here we go!
Looks like Fay is making a bee-line for the Tampa Bay area! This just figures since our new hurricane windows for the house aren’t scheduled to install for another two weeks. I might have to get the plywood out one last time …
WIJFR: The Call of Cthulhu
“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.” I’ve had H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” in e-book form on my Treo for some time now (reading it slowly in bits and pieces as I found myself with a little time to kill) and finally finished it. I was first introduced to the Chthulhu [...]
