Archive for December, 2003

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Tech Christmas

Santa brought us DSL.

Our DSL modem and other hardware arrived christmas eve. Suffice it to say that msn is teh suck, and qwestnet is the new hotness. The router/modem they gave us is nicer than the D-Link router we had been using. OK, so being better than D-Link isn’t too hard. […]

Don’t floss…

…Until after you wash the baby barf off your hands. I found this one out last night. Tommy is sick. Just a cold, but it is his first cold and he is pretty mad about it.

Culinary post mortem #2

It’s no KFC.

I made up this recipe a while back after seeing a few people in the food tv channel network make roast chicken. Recently L suggested I use a stoneware roaster instead of the usual metal one. Holy moist chicken.

Cutting board, clockwise from the top: a few red potatoes, a […]

Culinary post mortem #1

This is the first of what will hopefully be a tradition of posts about cooking, both good and bad. Today’s installment: Thai noodles with Chinese chives…sorta.

First of all, I had to make some substitutions:
I don’t know where you buy Chinese chives, but I’m pretty sure such a place isn’t called HyVee. So I […]

you aren’t with us no more

So we decided to ditch mediacom…except not…

We signed up for Dish Network . They scheduled an installation and then called and said they had no receivers and they would reschedule. They have done that two more times since then. So eventually we will have Dish with a DVR and all sorts of […]

Back in Effect

Here’s the latest from the hellmouth…

I actually AM graduating in December with my mathematics degree, which is a welcome surprise. Computer Science will follow in May. Tommy has started laughing which is the cutest thing ever, and he rolled over, though I wasn’t there to see it and he hasn’t done it since. […]