A few years ago, after seeing a character in Six Feet Under use a neti pot, I mumbled something to my wife about having always been curious to try a neti pot. A few days later, she brought one home from the store for me, and I’ve been a neti pot fanatic ever since. I’ve […]
Something I’ve found wonderfully amusing is that ever since Dad got on the email bandwagon in the mid 1990s, we Vangs (and in-laws) have received email nearly every weekday and often on the weekends that opens, invariably, with a weather report. Dad’s a farmer’s son, which probably has something to do with the obsession, and […]
[Note: I originally wrote this for my consultancy’s blog, where references to localization make more sense. You can read it here if you prefer: http://globalpragmatica.com/?p=62] Many people are depressed these days, for many valid reasons. The economy is still a disaster. The localization industry is a mess in more ways than I can count. (I […]
It was starting to feel this way around here yesterday. I’d finally had it with my AppleTV STILL trying to finish syncing less than 20gb from the night several months ago that my friend Noel helped me mess with channels, realized that 2 of my 3 Expresses were not 802.11n (or whatever that number is) […]
As threatened in earlier posts about the collapse of the MacArthur Maze, I did indeed get back into the motorcycling game, so here is an overdue picture of the new baby, a 2002 Honda VFR 800FIA. Candy was reluctant to pose with me, perhaps miffed that we can’t seem to find her a helmet that […]
The kitty-bjorn takes a new form, and my newest boss gives me my marching orders.
Syltetøy, the young Siamese kitten we adopted in July, refuses to be intimidated by Candy, our ten-year-old black lab. In fact, they seem to be good friends. The other night, V and I were on the couch with Candy and Gjetost. Syltetøy wandered up, and I invited her to join us. She hopped up into […]
It makes me completely nuts to hear fireworks going off around here, living as we do in a neighborhood whose entrances are all prominently marked “CAUTION: FIRE DANGER ZONE. FIRE DANGER TODAY IS !” What are people thinking?!?! It was only 15 years ago that hundreds of houses burned and a bunch of people died […]
This printer has been going by the name “Norton’s Napzone” for as long as I’ve owned it, but the new kitty seems to have claimed it as hers. I might have to rename it “Syltetøy’s Bathzone.” The new kitty arrived on Thursday. She is a 10 month old sealpoint Siamese, and her full name is […]
So far the evening commute has also been decent; apparently many people took advantage of free mass transit today. However, the news outlets are all predicting that by the end of the week, many drivers will have resumed commuting by nearly-empty car. Earlier I posted an anxious musing on the situation. A more optimistic possibility […]