I learned from a tweet today that there are some cool “quick searches” that can be done from google.com, Use these search arguments: To see the weather for many U.S. and worldwide cities, type “weather” followed by the city and state, U.S. zip code, or city and country. Type in weather new york city, ny … Read more
This morning’s buscapades left me wondering this about the girl who got on the bus with her bicycle and then got off two stops later: “Why???” Agriculture Awareness Week @ NCSU continued, where on the way to coffee, I saw not a man outstanding in his field, but a cow outstanding in his brickyard—along with … Read more
I worked from home today, since I had no meetings and needed to run to my eye doctor’s during lunchtime to get my partially-rimless glasses fixed. I had them hanging from the collar of my shirt on Saturday, and when @justis hugged me at Helios, a wire snapped that holds the lenses in and the right … Read more
Watch a lot of TV? How sad. Happy people watch less TV than sad people, a three-decade-long study of 30,000 people has concluded. The General Social Survey, an ongoing project of the National Science Foundation, found that people who described themselves as happy watched an average of 19 hours of television a week, while their … Read more
We had a snow day today, and I worked from home. At 10:00, I logged into cnn.com‘s live coverage of the inauguration, and I was glued there until about 1:00. I was watching the event on my PC (wired connection), and I was following Twitter on my laptop (wireless connection). I found the commenter on … Read more
Kevin (av8rdude) and I hit the gym today, where I once again did a bunch of lower back and lower abdomen stretching exercises. After that, I ventured back onto the elliptical machine, which my knee doctor said would be okay to do. I used the manual option instead of the hill option, as I didn’t … Read more
I made a grocery store run for some cranberry sauce, black olives, and turkey gravy. While I was out, I made a pit stop at K-Mart to get some half-price wrapping paper for next year, and then did a quick run to Ten Thousand Villages in Cameron Village, where I picked up a little something … Read more
Robert came over at a little after noontime and we began a “Six Feet Under Marathon,” during which we: Watched 12 hours worth of episodes—pretty much the entire second season, and the first episode of season three. Lunch: Had ham salad and Swiss cheese squares on cracked wheat sesame crackers Salty: Popcorn Sweet: Hershey’s Kisses … Read more