I tried the Irish Breakfast tea that I got in my sampler from Adagio. It’s a nice, mellow tea that goes down smoothly. I think I’m gonna need to get more of it.
Mar 202008
Mar 192008
The Good: My new teapot works great! I’m enjoying a nice cup of Wissotzky Earl Grey tea.
The Bad: I’ve had to spend all morning so far updating several hundred hostdb records from a spreadsheet while the rest of my work backs up to be dealt with whenever I get this $@#!$ list done. I’m about *this* close to going mental and smacking someone.
iTunes: Faultline by Yngwie Malmsteen, from Eclipse
Mar 192008
OK… So I am a tea snob. I admit it. I may not be a slave to the bean, but I’m a slave to the leaf.
I just ordered the black tea sampler from Adagio Teas this weekend, and it arrived today. I’ve heard good things about their tea, so I’m keen to try it out. The sampler contains Earl Grey Bravo, English Breakfast, Irish Breakfast and Pu Erh Dante. In addition, it comes with a nifty little book and all, but the most intriguing thing aside from the tea itself is the InginuiTEA teapot that comes with it.
More as this develops!
Feb 192008
The battle is over. HD-DVD has died the death it so richly deserves. Can’t wait to get Serenity and Transformers on Blu-Ray!
Feb 012008
… have I been?
I’ve been busy lately. And sick. I’ve missed a day of work each of the last two weeks because of the creeping crud. I’m feeling a good bit better, but still have that lingering cough that just won’t go away.
Anyway… important things to touch on from the last couple of weeks…
Boy has still been having trouble at night. More specifically, he has a few issues. The first is that he stalls a ton before he goes to bed, but that’s not a surprise. He’s 3 1/2. However, he absolutely will not go to sleep by himself. He has to have me or Wife (usually me) sitting in his room until he’s asleep. It’s not that hard to do anymore since I got the MacBook, but we really shouldn’t be enabling that sort of thing. One of these days we’re going to have to just lay down the law and let him scream, repeatedly get out of bed and deposit him back in his bed repeatedly for several hours. Apparently it works eventually, according to SuperNanny. /shrug
The other big issue he has is that he wakes up in the wee hours and refuses to go back to bed unless one of us goes with him. Generally he falls right back to sleep when we do so, but ideally we shouldn’t be having to wake up at 5 AM to put him back to bed.
We’ve started an incentive-based solution that seems to be working. It worked with his potty training, anyway. He is totally enamored with my LEGO Star Wars Clone Troopers Battle Pack, so I created a sticker chart. When he slept all night in his bed without getting out until morning, he got a sticker. When he got 5 of them, he’d get a Battle Pack of his very own. It seemed to work well, but he’s not really trained yet. so we’re going to have a go again for the Imperial Drop Ship.
Hope it works. Squishy generally sleeps pretty well, but having the both of them waking up in the wee hours is killing Wife. And it’s wrecking me as well.
iTunes: Burn It Down by Alter Bridge
Feb 012008
So as you probably have gathered from that little post I added on the 16th, I went to Macworld Expo.
The Rev (my good friend from college) drove up to my place from Sunnyvale and met me for breakfast at Country Waffles. After a hearty breakfast including copious amounts of gravy, we headed to the BART station and headed toward Moscone.
I’m going to just cover the major things…
1. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf – I don’t like coffee, but I really like good tea. And they make a tea latte that will knock you out. Don’t even bother ordering it at Starbuck’s or Peete’s. But they make unbelievably good tea latte’s. Special thanks to the Rev
2. Drobo – RAID for everyone. This was probably the coolest thing I saw at the show… and for some time. I want one of these SO bad.
3. Macbook Air – Yeah, it’s impossibly thin, and danged sexy. Not really the machine for me, as I need the graphics horsepower to play SWG on. But for some people, it’s gonna be a great machine.
4. Had dinner with Rev and Spiff at the Cheesecake Factory on top of Macy’s there in the city. It was nice to hang out with them again and talk about everything from computers to kids to music to theology. Reminded me a little bit of the conversations we’d have in Spiff’s room in the wee hours of the night back in college.
All in all, it was quite the nice experience, and I had a blast.
iTunes: Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits
Jan 182008
Jan 132008
Well, I have taken another step into the “nerd” zone. I have w00ted something.
In this case, it’s the Razer Copperhead Tempest Blue Gaming Mouse. They had one a couple of weeks back, for $25, but it was a refurb. Now they’ve got the new ones for about $10 more. I’d been thinking about getting a multibutton mouse for my MacBook for awhile, so this was pretty much right up my alley.
Blue LED’s are cool.
Jan 082008
Apparently Paramount has an ‘out’ clause in their HD-DVD exclusivity contract, stating that should Warner Brothers abandon HD-DVD, so can they.
Uh, oh.
(insert giggling here)
Oh, and just to give those of you who think that HD-DVD has a chance in hell of becoming “THE STANDARD” a little perspective…
Oh, and thanks to AppleInsider for the graphic.
Jan 052008
Grabbed some pictures this morning. Pretty wild.
iTunes: Respect The Wind by Edward & Alex Van Halen, Twister Soundtrack