A Life In Beta

If it takes well beyond a week to return a simple email to us, I wonder how long it takes this...

Sep 29th

Scanning and sorting 459 pages of paperwork without a single papercut. How’s that for personal...

Sep 26th

A free local newspaper given away on the way out of a store only serves to remind me I should have...

Sep 26th

Giving me a free copy on the way out of a store isn’t going to get me to subscribe to your...

Sep 26th

The remainder of my morning will be consumed with anticipation of lunch and the Margaritas burrito...

Sep 25th

RT @mbrandenburg: Wii price drop confirmed: $199 starting this weekend http://tinyurl.com/nrede4

Sep 24th

Pulling a Halloween website out of its Internet mothballs for work. Updating Drupal and a couple...

Sep 24th

Honestly, who would pay $10 to see “The Wizard of Oz” projected as video on a movie...

Sep 24th

RT @lseroogy: Matthew McConaughey Has Balance Problems http://bit.ly/uf7ZV (and I would add… a...

Sep 24th

Just accidentally smacked myself in the teeth trying to put on my headphones. It’s one of...

Sep 23rd

RT @FoxCitiesTV: FOX advising DVR viewers to add extra minute for ‘House’ season...

Sep 23rd

#iTunes 9.0.1 update still hasn’t fixed the annoying iTunes Store garbled text bug (at least...

Sep 23rd

RT @JeffLast: RT @tommytrc iTunes 9.0.1 released, bugs squashed http://bit.ly/vaEtG (I’ll be...

Sep 23rd

RT @alyankovic: I hope I live long enough to see either the end of strife in the Middle East or the...

Sep 23rd

Hey Mad Men fans… Time Warner Cable is adding AMC HD (and at least 9 other HD channels) by...

Sep 21st

Caffeine-free Dr Pepper? What the heck was I thinking? Ugh…

Sep 21st

With its intrusive ads, reading the GB Press-Gazette is the literary equivalent of a loud, obnoxious...

Sep 21st

Anyone know where I can pick up an RF attenuator in this area? Radio Shack doesn’t carry them...

Sep 19th

Off to Bella’s Meat Market to buy provisions for chicken parmigiana, then home to cook, eat...

Sep 19th

RT @FoxCitiesTV: Gearing up for 1st annual FOX CITIES TV AWARDS for local TV! Send your suggestions...

Sep 19th

Threw up in my mouth a little bit hearing myself do a bad Barry White impersonation. What have I...

Sep 18th

Off to grab lunch and swap my Time Warner DVR (again!)

Sep 17th

Wow, I’ve amassed 1,000 tweets. I need a social life.

Sep 17th

Watched the sneak preview of the pilot for HBO’s “Bored To Death.” Really liked...

Sep 17th

Livid at Disney for re-issuing the horrible 1998 NON-anamorphic transfer on the new “Grosse...

Sep 17th

New DVR appears to be working great! (And none too soon, new season starting!)

Sep 17th

RT @PostCrescent: Streets east of Appleton’s College Avenue bridge opening today. (About...

Sep 17th

Might have to get the Time Warner DVR I just had replaced, replaced again. Live TV looks fine but...

Sep 16th

Who knew the jackhammering going on in my basement would distract me from working from home this...

Sep 16th

After some light jackhammering, a new palmer valve and few bags of concrete later, our bathroom is...

Sep 16th

Holy crap… I forgot how expensive AT&T U-Verse is!

Sep 16th

RT @DerekBlaszak: Obama caught on tape calling Kanye a ‘Jackass’ http://bit.ly/1yS8u5...

Sep 16th

Watching football and installing Windows 7 on my laptop. Love lazy Sundays.

Sep 14th

Hey #Netflix, you’ve got until the end of the day to find us a copy of “Doc...

Sep 14th

My Scotts Patchmaster experiment seems to be working. This morning we’re sprouting grass like...

Sep 14th

Off to the Downtown Appleton Farmer’s Market, then putzing around Appleton and home to install...

Sep 13th

Next Tuesday, after almost six weeks of being in the new house, we’ll finally have blinds. No...

Sep 12th

Unwritten rule of copywriting… never put the word “on” after someone with the last...

Sep 12th

Hoping to work on a new project this weekend… a locally-based humor-news blog. Can’t...

Sep 12th

Now I know what those “backflow preventers” really do. When I turn the hose off, it...

Sep 11th

Sucks being broke on the days they roll out the new iPods.

Sep 11th

Podcast syncing is MUCH improved in iTunes 9, as is the Store interface and many other little...

Sep 11th

Wow, iTunes 9 is extremely buggy. MiniPlayer flat out doesn’t work, the Store has weird...

Sep 11th

Anyone else seeing weird characters happening in the iTunes 9 Store? This is what I’m...

Sep 11th

My Time Warner HD DVR suddenly will not pause or rewind live TV on any channel. Other wonky behavior...

Sep 11th

RT @FoxCitiesTV: WIWB (Wisconsin’s CW) tower upgrade nearly doubles signal strength -...

Sep 11th

Just found a binder in my office from a 2007 “Emerging Marketing Technologies” seminar...

Sep 11th

I was hoping the new version of #iTunes would fix an iPod Touch backup taking several hours to...

Sep 11th

Facebook’s SMS finally has Cellcom as a supported carrier. Now I can drive my wife crazy with...

Sep 11th

RT @wilw Woke up in alternate universe where the president inspiring kids to stay in school &...

Sep 9th

RT @whby: Predicting Brett’s pick offs is your chance to “intercept” some cash!...

Sep 9th

RT @SkylineComedy: James Johann recording DVD for new CMT “Rural Genius” segments all...

Sep 9th

Googling “stress-induced nervous breakdown.”

Sep 4th

Anyone filed an Realtor association ethics complaint and/or a Better Business Bureau complaint...

Sep 4th

Holding out hope that we may not have to foot a $1K+ plumbing repair because the seller didn’t...

Sep 3rd

Off to dig up some grass, regrading to slope away from the house and then replant. Ahh… a...

Sep 3rd

OK, all that productive stuff I was intending to do tonight… scratch that. Got set back by a...

Sep 3rd

Sore back this morning. Who knew lifting over 700 pounds of top soil in bags with my back would...

Sep 2nd

Anyone know where we could get free legal advice on a small claims case? Debating taking our...

Sep 2nd

Yeah, doing CAT6 for the gigabit network in the house was pretty much worth it.

Sep 2nd

Major backup on 41 tonight http://flic.kr/p/6UQJou

Sep 2nd

RT @FoxCitiesTV: DirecTV subs lose Versus over carriage fee fight http://ow.ly/15NjaF

Sep 1st

Sorry Universal… won’t be renting “State of Play” until I can rent it at a...

Sep 1st

RT @FoxCitiesTV: Channel shift to include analog shuffle in October on Time Warner Cable...

Sep 1st

RT @FoxCitiesTV: Time Warner Cable drops WisconsinEye after negotiation impasse http://ow.ly/15Nic4

Sep 1st