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April 14, 2014 Leave a Comment
Part 4 of 12 Albums That Stuck With Me
There are a lot of drum machines and synthesized instruments on this album. Those things were a lot more obvious in 1990. Wow. Read more of this post
April 8, 2014 1 Comment
Twelve and a half years ago, Microsoft released its first operating system that most users were actually reluctant to give up. Today, April 8, 2014, after three service packs, two browser updates, and dozens of hotfixes, Windows XP gets its final security patches. Read more of this post
March 24, 2014 Leave a Comment
I just bought a wireless charger for my phone. You lay the phone down on it, and like magic, the battery receives power through the magic of electromagnetism. The engineering was done quite well.
The English translation of the manual? Not so much.
March 10, 2014 Leave a Comment
Part 3 of 12 Albums That Stuck With Me
In this very special edition of Beating a Dead Facebook Trend Over the Course of a Year but It’ll Probably Come Around Again So It’s Fine, we discuss a band who happens to have a new album out. TV en Français, released last week, is a long way from 2006’s With Love and Squalor, but the shift in tone had already happened in the intervening two releases, Brain Thrust Mastery and Barbara.
March 7, 2014 1 Comment
An official notification arrived in my mailbox last October, trumpeting the weekend liquidation of “hundreds of new and used cars, trucks, vans and SUVs” at a local dealership. Imagine my shock, then, when I received the exact same notice again this very week.
The obvious yellowing of the one on the left should be ample proof of its provenance.
