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Tickle: IQ and Personality Tests – Emode.com: The Classic IQ Test – Here’s an amusing little site. They say that by taking a 2 page test, they can calculate your IQ fairly accurately. It took about 15 minutes and was tougher than I expected. Go ahead, try it out and see how you do. I… Continue reading Untitled

I got a very kind email today. Someone on the net (I have no idea where he really is) read my page about Ahi, my notebook DAW, and all the problems I’ve had (and subsequently solved). He was also having audio dropouts every 68.5 seconds, just like I was. But my page got him unstuck,… Continue reading Untitled

Yahoo! News – Republican Sen. Campbell Won’t Seek Re-Election – Good news!

Ulli’s Roy Orbison in Cling-film site – A former coworker named Tim Holt (Team Fortress name: Waldo) sent me this link. I laughed out loud at the first of the stories. Hilarious!

Oh, and did I mention that Beth and I went to see Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World last weekend? It was entertaining, but neither of us felt it was worthy of an Academy Award. I was a little disappointed, I think, because I’d just finished watching the two new Horatio Hornblower… Continue reading Untitled

I’m at home tonight, getting lots done at my desk. I know it’s boring to sit at a desk on a Friday night, but I’ve been negligent on paying bills and dealing with emails from family and friends and businesses and so on. This past week has been a busy one, and so I’m way… Continue reading Untitled

I went to the doctor this morning. You see, I have high cholesterol. I’ve been taking medicine the past couple years to reduce my cholesterol level, but my last blood test showed that it’s elevated. Not as bad as before taking the medicine, but higher than it should be. So I went into the doctor,… Continue reading Untitled

Yahoo! News – Laura Bush Says Gay Marriage ‘Shocking’ – Shocking, just utterly shocking. 😉 I liked Laura Bush’s quote, “I think people ought to have that opportunity to debate it, to think about it, to see what the American people really want to do about the issue.” It’s almost as if she thinks America… Continue reading Untitled

Kakushi toride no san akunin (1958) – I TiVo’d “The Hidden Fortress”, which is a Japanese film from 1958 by the famous director Akira Kurosawa. I finally finished watching the thing last night. I’d read for years that this was, in some way, the inspiration for “Star Wars”. But having seen “Star Wars” enough times… Continue reading Untitled

Casa Playa del Caribe, vacation rental house, South Akumal, Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico, LocoGringo.Com – Here’s where we’re spending the week of Thanksgiving this year. Thanks, Mom!