Archive for December, 2007
Project Toastr
I am good at coming up with ideas. I am not so good at executing them. Sometimes, I am simply unrealistic. Other times, I lack the know-how to go anywhere with an idea. Other times, I come up with a plan to acquire the know-how, which might, for instance, involve purchasing [Read More]
I spoke too soon…Verizon, you suck, too
I was telling the sales rep at Costco that while it would be good to have the same functionality in my new phone that I had with my old one, I didn’t care too much about the music player or getting TV on my phone or having a full keyboard. I wanted a decent phone [Read More]
The season for giving
I’m not one to give to charities specifically at the end of the year to get tax breaks, but if you’re looking to give some money away before the end of 2007, you might find charitynavigator.org useful. My personal plugs: - PKD Foundation - Doctors Without [Read More]
Bye bye Sprint!
One of the mistakes I made in 2007 was re-upping with Sprint for yet another 2-year-contract with the upgrade to a new phone back in January. I’d been a Sprint customer since 1998, having gone through at least 5 different phones. As of today, I’m free of Sprint! [Read More]
8 Favorite Flickr pet photos of 2007
I was designating someone’s photo on Flickr as a “favorite” recently, and I thought that perhaps I could come up with a quick list of my Top 10 Flickr Photos of 2007. I figured it would simple enough, that I’d just need to go through whatever photos [Read More]
More pics of my big boy
Big Cat (December 2007) Originally uploaded by toastiest People don’t realize just how big Aremid is until they see him sprawled out. Here’s one from recently. Here are a few from the archives: (1998) (2001) (2002) [Read More]
Huckabee’s hypocrisy
Huckabee calls for border crackdown in response to Bhutto’s assassination It’s laughable reading about Huckabee decrying Islamic fundamentalism, and how we need to seal our borders to keep out those Pakastani fanatics. Why is this laughable? Google up an old [Read More]
Christmas Reflection on The Meaning of Life
“I felt, like, there wasn’t a purpose to live”. - 14-year-old Molly, after her mom got fed up with Molly’s enormous cell phone bill and had the service shut off [Read More]
Durham: I got my trashcan. Thanks. What other wonders can you achieve?
Dependable Erection: Ummm, a little help please? Barry’s got bigger problems. And I know 95% of those reading this probably read about them in DE already, but it’s the holidays, and this shouldn’t fall through the cracks. Mr. and Mrs. Dependable have had [Read More]
