Month: June 2002
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New Poll: Have you caught World Cup fever?
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It’s meme time again, kids! Here’s “Me From A to Z”, courtesy of TD. A – Animals/Pets: Four goldfish, all named after Star Wars characters (Admiral Ackbar, Porkins, Aurra Sing, and Grand Moff Tarkin). Unfortunately Salacious Crumb, our snail, died last week. *sniff*B – Best Friend: Snookums. I’m not just saying that to be cute,…
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Good luck to Tara D, who begins the Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk tomorrow. Sixty miles! I know you can do it, TD!
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Hey Dad, I found an interview with Ted Nugent you might like. I read it figuring I’d loathe the guy, but he actually comes off pretty cool. I mean, he stands up for what he believes in. I had no idea that he was such an environmentalist. Plus he’s hilarious. I’m going to start “Nugetizing”…
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Take heed, children, of Brigita‘s wisdom. It reverberates through all time and space. (Yeah, I’m just jealous that I’ve never spawned a MeFi catchphrase.)
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“That which doesn’t kill us…”In running news, I’m ridiculously happy to report that today I managed to run the entire 5K (3.1 miles) without stopping! That is seriously, like, a Lifetime Best. My pace is still pretty slow, but at least I managed to finish. Only four more days til the race! I figure I’ll…
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Since Snookums is home this week, we happily accepted his sister’s invitation to accompany her and her son Kurt to Sydney’s Taronga Zoo yesterday. We figured it would be a pleasant morning of pushing the baby around in his stroller and pointing out animals to him. Man, we were so wrong. I had no idea…
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In case you’re interested, here are some more info and links about my problems with that latest OSX update. This guy got the same exact error I did.
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Great news! Boudicca (my computer) is back up and running. (Well, she’s not 100%, but she’s getting there.) Always remember to backup your hard drive before updating your operating system. Just a helpful tip there, kids.
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CRAP. I was trying to install the latest Mac OSX update today (10.1.5) and it completely killed my machine. Kernel panics everywhere. I can’t even boot up into OSX anymore. Now we’re frantically trying to back everything up in OS9 before doing a total reinstall. In other words, I might be MIA for a little…