Andrew Huey | pointlessly blogging since 2001
I think this is from Halloween 1976. I would have been only 9, and so still at an age where making a cardboard Liberty Bell costume, and painting it red, white, and blue, would have seemed like a good idea.
I finally finished uploading all the slides I had scanned in by ScanCafe. There are a bunch of good ones in there. Some very nice photos from Japan, though some seem to have picked up some mold or something that couldn’t be removed by their digital ICE.
I’m starting a project at work right now that’s going to involve integrating content from a WordPress blog and Picasa Web into an ASP.NET site. I’m a little leery about this, since it seems that this could all be done directly in .Net, and would be more efficient that way, but I’m game to give it a try. It should be fun. (Yeah, I know, now that I’ve said that, I’m doomed.)
I just got my first batch of scans back from ScanCafe. I’m uploading about 2GB worth of images to Flickr right now. I think it’s going to take a while. Here’s a nice photo of me (in a Mets jacket) and my brother Mike (in a Yankees jacket).
Happy birthday Pat.
One more video today. “I had a brain that felt like pancake batter.”
I was just looking through my last several blog posts, and I apologize. They’re all quite boring. To make up for it, here is some Mitch Hedberg.
I’ve had a Kindle subscription to Newsweek for a while now. I’m pretty far behind on my reading right now, but I am still reading it. I was disappointed to hear that The Washington Post is putting Newsweek up for sale. It’s actually a pretty good magazine.
It’s always possible someone interesting will buy it, and the quality will remain (reasonably) high. I’m worried that it will be bought by someone who’ll close the magazine, fire most of the staff, and just use the name for a generic news portal of some sort. Or it could get bought by Rupert Murdoch, which would probably result in a change in tone that would make the magazine much less interesting to me.
I guess if it goes under, or changes too radically, I’ll switch back to reading The Economist.
The Hugo voter packet is out. I haven’t gotten an e-mail on it yet, but I’m hoping I will soon. There are a bunch of books in there I’d really like to copy to my Kindle and start reading!
It’s official. Apple is killing lala. I used lala for a while, primarily for trading CDs. They stopped doing that a while ago, but continued to exist as a music streaming thing or something like that. I really never used it for anything other than CD trading.
I had a few things I wanted to take care of today. I’m starting a new job on Wednesday, so I just have today and tomorrow left before I’m back at a full-time job, and not easily able to run errands during business hours. Mostly, I needed to work on stuff related to my parents’ estates. To make a long story short, I ended up making three separate trips to the post office, two trips to the bank, two trips to the mail box down the street, one trip to Staples, and one trip to a local UPS drop box. If I’d really thought things out in advance, I could have cut out half of these trips and probably gotten all this stuff done before lunch. Oh well. At least I got a few important things done, even if it wasn’t in the most efficient way possible!
