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Top Gear host till not alright 18 months after crash
During this period of shows is when host Richard Hammond crashed a jet-powered dragster going 288 mph. Though he suffered significant injuries including head trauma, Hammond was back on the Top Gear set just four short months after the crash. He now admits that was "much […]

You find out your favorite bands that were new/popular in your teens are releasing Greatest Hits albums. I’ve been diving back into my music repertoire and through the magic of Pandora (more on that later) have been finding other music that I like of the same style & time period as my current selections.
Along […]

Andy Rooney’s Thought On Life….
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. And then you die. What’s that? A bonus? I think the life-cycle is all backwards.
You should die first and get it all over with. […]

A neighbor will be able to watch Belly from the 24th-26th when our house/dog sitter will be out of town. I got some NZ-specific ThinkPad power cords for Kat’s Mom’s new T61 (which I scored for an incredible deal), as well as for our machines down there. I’ll be picking up a couple plug […]

Well, so much for reliable people. Anyway - we’re visiting Kat’s Mom in NZ for the holidays and of course need to have someone take care of the dogs. It would be easier if our dogs got along, which they don’t.
We have one person who will take care of Pumpkin, but it looks like […]

We don’t have much "land" at our condo, consisting of maybe 10×10 of dead grass out front and a big larger space out back mostly infested with canine droppings (yes, they are picked up regularly). It’s been on Kat’s mind for a while to re-do the front yard and probably about a month ago we […]

  Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, NC
You know you live in North Carolina when one day in mid-October the leather seats in your car get toasty sitting in the sun, while the next day it is near jacket temperatures.

Looking at my calendar, I’m seeing a lot of….milestones, as I can best describe them. Luckily these aren’t all birthdays or other gift-giving events, as I’d be broke rather quickly.

October 2nd - my hire date at Lenovo - 1 year baby!
October 6th - my six year anniversary since Kat and I started dating. That will […]

OK not quite. We’re done our two nights at the hotel and I never had my computer on the beach - in fact we were only on the beach for a few hours total. However, this picture is from our balcony looking over the beach

Of course when we are down here, it is hot […]

It appears one of Bill Stevenson’s regular readers is one of my college professors - they are even in fact old buddies. I think I had him for ECE 406 - Design of Complex Digital Systems.
It’s a small intarweb indeed!