My brother’s rogue in WoW just hit Champion PvP and is now in full rare PvP gear. Way to go!

Elizabeth named my roomba “Fizzgig” from The Dark Crystal

hahah roomba just fell down the stairs, bin came out, and it said “oh oh” in beeps

Guess the stair detector isn’t so hot. hmm

So I charged the room, moved some chairs, unplugged my laptop and set roomba to work.

It rocks!

Ok its not a replacement for a full vac. But on a maintenance cleanup, it does a really good job.

It runs around banging into things, going under chairs, etc. I moved most chairs into the kitchen and it still went under them in there, getting crap off the kitchen floor.

It didn’t like the floor vent too much.

My discovery SE from woot.com came with the nicer caster wheel.

The roomba got stuck under the backside of my couch because the corner is slanted and it wedged the roomba so the wheels were off the floor. The roomba cycled 10 times and got free. Later, it hit the same spot, got wedged and abandoned cleaning.

I stuck it in the middle of the living room and did a spot clean to get what it missed.

This is what the roomba picked up in 45 minutes:

Update: I will make a time lapse video of the roomba working. Also, I plugged in its home base charger, powered it up, pressed SPOT + CLEAN at the same time and it beeped, spun, and docked itself for charging!

Yeah, that’s right. Doug Morris, one of the music industry’s enlightened ones, of Universal Music, says “These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it”

Screw you, Mr. Morris. Screw Microsoft for caving into your licensing, too. What did Microsoft do, you ask? They agreed to pay Universal $1 for every Zune sold. Oh I’m sorry, you’re paying Universal $1 if you buy a Zune. Universal gets 50 cents an the remaining 50 cents is distributed to all of their artists equally. YEAH, RIGHT.

Oh and you don’t get any free music after paying your Universal tax, do you? Of course not, because you’re a thief and you have been found guilty by Doug Morris and the Microsoft court of appeals agrees. By purchasing a Zune you have signed the plea bargain in admitting you are a thief.

Next up? Who knows, maybe Doug’s buddies from the RIAA might be sending you a letter. You’re a thief after all!

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Heart Attack Grill

Eat the quadruple bypass burger and a scantily clad nurse will wheel you out in a wheelchair. 8,000 calories.

be the first in Oregon and do it in the rain, when people are fed up and want to get outside.

We have a Sonic Burger now, first one in oregon, so Elizabeth and I went by last night. They have drive in stalls, like the 50s. Two rows of cars backed up, the parking lot for Kohl’s was coned off, one row for drive thru, one for the stalls, about 15-25 cars in each row.

We went for Sushi.

Reporter - “I wonder if you have metrics on your reading contest with Mr. Rove”

Pres. Bush - “I’m losing - I was obviously working harder on the campaign than he was. ok, he’s a faster reader”

This just in! The Vice President of the United States of America, Dick Cheney, has announced that he has invited Madame Speaker Elect Nancy Pelosi duck hunting. The congresswoman is expected to decline.

During Pres. Bush’s Q&A with reporters, Pres. Bush decided to throw some props to Texas based Dell Computers with the following comment:

“When people see carnage on their Dell television screens”

Apparently, its not just Dell Computers where people deal with carnage, such as Windows viruses, etc.

Simply amazing, its almost laughable these days:

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Now more than ever, our democracy needs your participation. Please make sure you vote. Its important to exercise our right to vote and never take it for granted.

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(I taught the podcasting class <g>)

Interesting read about the state of e-voting.

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Interesting HBO documentary on the insecurity innate in the Diebold voting machines. It doesn’t matter who abuses these systems, the fact it is so easy to abuse them is horrific, considering people are dying today for our right to a democracy and to vote.

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Draw your own conclusions. As much as I am a geek, these closed system e-voting machines are pretty scary. It would be very easy to affect this election with the crappy system these people have developed.

I got a call from my colleague at the airport today. “Steven? Can you check the trash? I think I threw away my ipod”

Sure enough, an apple bag with a nike armband and inside that was the brand new red nano. Of course, it was all so light that it ended up tacked onto the other bag he was throwing away as he headed out the door.

Welcome to level 4 of iPod ownership!

A quick jaunt to the airport reunited the stray ipod with its caretaker.

After a long week in Canada, I went to the post box to get my mail. In the postbox was a large package from my wonderful friends Ketra and Simeon.

Inside said package? A signed copy of iWoz.

How freaking cool is that?

Thank you!

The real gifts don’t always come at xmas or on birthdays. Send some early and spread the joy! (Which is why I’m really happy Coral was born in March, the coolest gift of them all! Speaking of, get well my love!)

Take the time to watch and draw conclusions for yourself. I find it refreshing to have one media person speaking the truth.

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