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“AT&T is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of a new iPhone, bringing the price down to $199 for customers who sign two-year contracts.”
links for 2008-04-29
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When I first read this headline, I immediately thought of my Uncle Donnie, who used to work carnivals in Florida. It took me another few moments to remember that Uncle Donnie died over a year ago.
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‘Claiming that he is “literally being starved to death,” the 6′, 308-pound Laswell Friday filed a lawsuit charging that his civil rights have been violated by jailers.’
Quick Update
On my to-do list for this evening was posting more about the Japan Trip of 2007, since I’m running out of time to finish up with that before the next vacation. However, the other things on the to-do list took precedence.
I’ve rediscovered the joy of cooking, and spent a good part of this evening preparing food for the upcoming week. I cooked two cups of rice and portioned it out into six servings of one-third cup each. I made the Pureed Broccoli Soup recipe I read in this month’s Women’s Health magazine. Add to that the two single-cup servings of Three Amigos Chili I have stashed in the fridge from this weekend, and I’m loaded for bear.
Also on the agenda: a cardio workout with PUSH (quickly aborted ten minutes in, when the yoga-cardio chick started doing a V-step and some sort of jazz hands) and processing / uploading audio files from my Zen teacher‘s most recent retreat with his Zen teacher.
In the foreseeable future: Tomorrow is my second-ever Weight Watchers weigh-in and meeting. I have four more days of work before I get two weeks off. And I have only nine days to wait until I can see the sunny shores of Oahu!
I’ll try to post some more substantive entries within the coming week. We’ll see…
links for 2008-04-26
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Although I don’t necessarily condone the behavior described in the prank letter, I still think this prank was ingenious, and they seemed to pull it off well. Better idea than putting the principal’s VW bug on the roof of the school.
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If you must smoke, maybe you should just roll your own…
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‘On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter. The message only had one word. “Arrested.”‘
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“The shooter will not likely face a murder charge stemming from the deaths of the twins, Rinehart reported. That charge typically doesn’t come into play until a fetus is 7 months.”
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‘Motorists would be fined $60 for displaying the novelty items, which are known by brand names like “Truck Nutz” and resemble the south end of a bull moving north.’
links for 2008-04-25
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‘The Florida Legislature is considering a specialty plate with a design that includes a Christian cross, a stained-glass window and the words “I Believe.”‘
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“The high-frequency sound … can be heard by most people in their teens and early 20s who still have sensitive hair cells in their inner ears.”
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‘Adam Sternbergh’s long investigative New York Magazine piece, “You Walk Wrong,” makes a compelling case for shoes as inherently damaging to your feet and spine.’ – via BoingBoing
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“[T]he number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone Age.”