Kara & Michael’s Blog

Last night, as Michael and I are strolling through a mostly-closed mall towards our car, I note the long line of people (nerds, young professionals) waiting outside an Apple store.
I ask Michael why people are lined up, “are they giving out free blow jobs at the Apple store?”
Nope, he tells me. They’re lined up (14 [...]

Michael and I received our Wii Fit on Thursday, but didn’t get to do much other than register ourselves and do a few of the exercises.
Wii Fit comes with a balance board you set on the floor. The board calibrates itself to your weight and based on the weight on the sensors, can tell [...]

(How to obtain the MSL, password and phone unlock code for a Treo 700p without paying a cent or using any hardware other than the phone itself.)
I have a Treo 700p smartphone, which I’ve had for a couple of years and really enjoy. The 700p has been replaced by newer models but is still fairly [...]

Where I live (suburban Maryland), Verizon and Comcast are a well-established oligopoly that people desiring phone/internet/TV service are pretty much forced to deal with. I use Comcast for all three services, and whenever I sit on hold with them for half an hour or speak to a surly in-home technician, I find myself smiling and [...]

WoDM signed us up for a free two-week trial of gamefly.  The first game we received was Trauma Center 2 for the wii, I haven’t played this game yet.  Yesterday, we got My Word Coach.
We sat down to play, because it beats watching tv.  I have a lot of issues with this game.

They over-explain everything.  [...]

WoDM and I went to a thrift store last weekend, in between picking up party supplies and going to the Asian Market.  We mostly went to the thrift store for cheap vinyl since his family gifted us with their record player, and we did, in fact, get plenty of cheap vinyl (I don’t remember all of it) [...]

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When the controversy over illegally downloading music and etc first started, I have to say I was strongly in favor of, well, buying cds.  I think it’s reasonable for people to expect to be paid for work they did, even if that work was writing up a contract for someone to sign or stupid crap [...]

Now, I know it’s not fair to call the customers in an electronics store stupid — after all, the majority of them are probably decent, upstanding human beings. But when high-tech and everyday necessity collide, there are often unfortunate results. The following are misusages and bizarre substitutions for a variety of computer-related terms, all of [...]

So some of you astute readers (ha ha! All three of you) may have noticed that this blog has been literally inundated with spam comments of late. For the last week or so, I’ve had to manually delete hundreds of crap comments advertising party poker and the like. The filters have caught most of them [...]