Archive for November, 2007

iReprieve
Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Back on October 5, the iPod Death Clock told me that my iPod would die on November 11. Well, we’re a week beyond that deadline, and my iTem is still going strong. I reconsulted the Death Clock, and it says I have another 22 days of entertainment. So iPod death is back on the countdown!

Jeter’s a Criminal
Saturday, November 17th, 2007

When your baseball team has a historic collapse in the last two weeks of the season and rumors start that they might sign David Eckstein.

When the likes of Purdue, Boston College, and Navy beat your football team.

When your hard drive, nay, two hard drives fail within four days.

When TV’s writers go on strike taking away The Office indefinitely.

When you haven’t seen a Berkeley car in months.

When life’s got you down, it takes something special to make you smile. That something is Derek Jeter, like Al Capone before him, being investigated for tax evasion.

Overcompensating on Blackwater
Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Just when I think I’m the only sane person left in the world, it’s Overcompensating to the rescue.

Sodium disposal, 1947 edition
Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Today’s absolute must watch Google Video: How the War Assets Administration disposed of 20,000 lbs. of sodium in 1947

Winning streak?
Friday, November 2nd, 2007

I won this bag from Google in a raffle. I’m not sure how this affects my predictions about my pace of winning things (video games do not count), but it probably means nothing good will ever happen to me ever again.

[Google bag]