Over the weekend I picked up a Kodak EasyShare Z612. It was $379.99 at Best Buy, but I’d check other places first ($56 restocking fee) It’s a 6.1 megapixel camera with a lithium-ion battery, 12x optical zoom, optical image stabilization, and it can be operated in a “fully” manual mode. That is, you can set [...]
Archive for May, 2006
I picked up a SanDisk SD card for my camera, and it was packed in that hard plastic packaging you see on electronics and other products — many items at Costco use it. It’s hard to cut, it’s hard to tear. It’s basically completely anti-consumer(anti-user). It turns out, it’s so hard to cut that the [...]
The spam filter employed by gmail, which I’ve commented on before, has significantly improved. It lets the occasional spam through to my inbox, but it is sending far fewer legitimate messages to my spam box, including emails from sites I’ve only just begun communicating with (ie: sites not already in my “white list”). Now if [...]
I wonder how much the publishers had to pay the various news media outlets to cover this “ invisibility cloak” story. It’s not like it’s new news — they’ve been talking about it for a long, long time — but they’re acting like it’s some fancy new idea linked to some _Harry Potter and the [...]
Good Morning America asks What happens to the loser of ‘American Idol’? I figure they must mean America; I can’t figure out who loses more than the country as a whole when so many millions of people watch this or other pseudo-reality type shows like it.
Actually, I guess there is one possible gain here — [...]
Everyone seems to be talking about this “game” — “Brain Age” for the Nintendo DS. It’s interesting, I guess. It tests your brain age by doing a Stroop test (mine is 59), and then offers you a few other time tests, all of which you can get through in a handful of minutes. It loads [...]
I’m a week late for Native Plant Appreciation Week (404 now for some inexplicable reason), but I am hoping I can still participate, with my minor contribution:
Left to right, that is generic bark (boring), Physocarpus Opulifolius - Gold’s Common, and Ribes Sanguineum Alba - White Flowering Currant. I’m going to plant these in the front [...]
