Entries from December 2003
Visited the Ransom Center today
A visit to the Ransom Center, a reflection on what Modernism means.
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
War is hell
porting…
On this the thirteenth day after I ordered my phone number ported from Sprint PCS to T-mobile, something is happening. The number hasn’t ported yet: calls still ring through to my old phone and it can place outgoing calls, but calls between it and any other phone don’t quite work right: whichever end initiated the [...]
More toys!
As if getting a new (and amazingly gadgety) cellphone weren’t enough, I just upgraded to OS X 10.3. So far so good: despite doing a wipe-and-install, with manual restoration of preferences, things have gone pretty smoothly (the one unaccountable and annoying problem is the complete loss of my NetNewsWire Lite subscription list).
This is a big [...]
Phone phun
Getting acquainted with the T610
Go ask Metafilter
Ask Metafilter may be the new LazyWeb–if you’re a MeFi member already. It’s already off to a roaring start, I’d say.
More comment spam
I’ll get you, fucker.
Papa’s got a new pair of shoes
Eat your livers out.
The importance of the definite article
If you are in Austin and want to order a pizza from The Parlor (which you should–they’re quite good), and you don’t know their number by heart, you may have occasion to look in the alphabetical listings of the SWB yellow pages. If so, do not look under the Ps, because it ain’t alphabetized there. [...]
And away we go
Let’s see how number portability does…
