The grocery store in Boulder has a big, green vending machine at the front now that sells… iPods! They have a pretty good inventory of them, too, so I’m looking forward to seeing how long this green behemoth stays around before the business model falls flat.
I mean, how many people do you know that [...]
I’ve been traveling for work/pleasure a lot this week (in fact, I’m in the airport now), hence the dearth of entries. I just wanted to share that I used my first auto-soap dispenser in a bathroom yesterday. Not auto-water, but auto-soap — you put your hand in front of it and it squirts [...]
Yep, those of us who had the thrill of spending 5.5 hours sitting in the plane (after 2.5 hours of delay in the terminal) finally got to Columbia yesterday morning at the grand hour of 5 A.M. Needless to say, this is the first time I’ve had the pleasure of taking the red-eye from [...]
Note to self: when arrival is scheduled on east coast at 4:00 P.M., departing Denver, with a connection in Chicago, it is illogical to assume that the originating flight departs around noon.
Second note to self: it is a bad idea to try to connect through Chicago late in the day when snow is [...]
Today I got my eyes checked (just fine), my car’s oil changed (Mobile1, the only way to go), and my teeth cleaned (”you have nice, white teeth”). I also got to go to SBUX! What could be better?
Sorry for the short entries. I have a backlog of image processing to do, and [...]
The aquarium has had a major hair-algae escapade, so we took a few hours yesterday to suction a big chunk of it out. Interestingly, wherever the purple coralline algae has found purchase, the hair algae cannot grow. To grow more coralline, though, requires lots of intense light, which… also help the hair [...]