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Topic Bonanza!

There's about a million things I'd like to mention and at present I lack the motivation to discuss any of them at great length. It's not that they're unworthy topics, it's just that I'm lazy. I could be telling you about DiggNation, the weekly podcast I'm addicted to,...

The History of Complete Bordem

We went to see History of Violence tonight. Let me save you $8. Have you seen the trailer? Good, then you've already seen the most interesting parts of the movie. Shit, you seen the WHOLE movie. Why can't they make good movies anymore? Its not that the plot was bad,...

Back Home

Well, it was a hell of a week. Having left on Wednesday, it seems like we've been gone forever. Our place is fine, no damage, just a few downed trees here and there. I can't even tell if it rained. Our last place had some leakage issues with the window panes but our...

Day 3

Well, day three and we're still waiting. The crazy media machine has made it next to impossible to stop watching the coverage. We're still here at the ranch, dry and bored. Luckily the storm went east in the last few hours, missing Houston by about 80 miles. Of...

Rita

Well, we're up from a cat3 to a 4. Evacuations are being called for all over. I've already taken all the computers apart and I'm sending this via my Sidekick. Last night was crazy. People fighting over gas, long lines, people freaking out. It was a little over the...

Less internet, more Hurricane please

So, I call Time Warner and get them to run some packet loss tests on my modem. Finally, I get a wave of bad connection to happen while I have a tech on the phone. First it starts out with 10% packet loss to Dallas, then, while he's talking to me I hear "ohh, it just...