Hard Times

At the risk of embarrassing him if he reads this blog, let me tell you about one my favorite people and the awesome über-geeky, salt-of-the-earth stuff he does. I’ve known Ben since high school. We used to go camping, mountain climbing and also do crazy stuff like playing “CB Tag” and going mudding in our [...]

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you know you spend too much time on a computer when…

you’re filing articles in your office when you accidentally put an article in the wrong folder, and your first thought is “Edit –> Undo” instead of just pulling the article out and sticking it in the right folder.
Yikes.

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old fashioned fun

So my sister is here visiting until Tuesday. So far we’ve done a lot of shopping, watched movies, and cooked. Last night we watched Maryann’s pageant DVD and drank Mint Julips (we were going for a southern theme but I’m not sure how the Miss Maine pageant fit into that). We’ve also played tons of [...]

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introducing Phoebe!

I’m blogging to you from my new MacBook, Phoebe! I decided against the name Edna as soon as I saw her– she is definitely a Phoebe, not an Edna. Don’t ask me how I know that, I just know.
So we have already bonded quite a bit over the last couple days. It was fortunate my [...]

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the next generation

My brother is still here visiting from Boston. We’ve drunk a lot of gin over the weekend, and grilled a lot of food. Right now we are waiting for Jo to get home and he is actually watching “Anne of Green Gables” with me– no one ever wants to watch this with me! We are [...]

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rest in peace, Agatha

After 5+ years of faithful service, my beloved ibook is dead. Really dead.
I can’t blame her– She was a 1st generation G3, for crying out loud. I’ve used her for hours and hours and taken her everyplace. She was quite battle worn– missing a key, scratched up from my watch, and dented on the side [...]

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decluttering

The past couple days I’ve been doing some serious decluttering of the physical and electronic kind. (Yup, this is a continuation of boring until I leave for Finland in a couple weeks.)
I discovered an incredible RSS aggregator, Google Reader. I tried Bloglines a while ago, but was never impressed with its clunkiness. Google Reader [...]

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productive laziness

I feel like I’ve been super lazy the past few days, but actually I’ve managed some productivity. It only feels like I’ve been lazy because I’ve been in the same house for 3 days watching TV (I keep it on because it is just too quiet around here). So what have I been up to [...]

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going microsoft-free

Perhaps you knew this already, but I’m a fanatic mac person. My first computer experience was on an Apple IIe in elementary school, playing Oregon Trail. And my family’s first computer was an Apple IIse. I have an adorable picture someplace of my entire family standing around the computer box with huge, excited grins Christmas [...]

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random updates

I finished another draft of my dissertation proposal last night, and sent it off for feedback. I think it is finally coming together- at least it feels that way to me. But, I put in too many hours on it in the last 4 days and my body is just not happy with all the [...]

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30th birthday

No. I'm not turning 30 (although I am turning 29 in a week), Apple is turning 30 on April 1st.
Mac geeks out there will enjoy this retrospective of mac OS through the ages. I remember from 1.0 on. I also remember when HyperCard was the coolest thing ever.

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geeked out

Many thanks to the reader who sent me a link to this website. I spent the better part of the morning importing my library (directly from endnote, and from my unweildily amazon.com wishlist) and the better part of this evening tagging stuff. I was looking for a way to organizing the piles of stuff I [...]

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letting go

I took my ibook in to get repaired yesterday. Instead of going through all the trouble shooting again, the guy there agreed the hard drive was probably dead. My last ditch efforts to save my archived email didn’t work, and I could have paid for data recovery, but I didn’t think that 5 years of [...]

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the apple gods are with me

One of the reasons why last week was so crappy was because my laptop died. Yes, my beloved ibook’s video card crashed. So, I sent it in to apple for repair. It was mailed out on Friday and I got an email this morning letting me know that they had received my ibook at the [...]

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with a *bling” of my email program, my masters draft is sent across the atlantic…

I emailed my thesis draft early this morning. i finished it late last night but I wanted to read it over this morning before sending to make sure it didn’t sound ridiculous. It grew from 38 page last draft, to 58 pages and I have no idea why. There are a lot of tables with [...]

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