A friend of mine was in Hawaii recently and gave me a call and it got me thinking how strange it is that these islands in the middle of the pacific, so completely far away from my world (read Ohio and east coast cities), yet the phone call isn't international even with the six hours [...]
Filed under: Minutiae, Misc | Leave a Comment »
You may or may not know the Sony Betamax case (Sony v. Universal City Studios) where the Supreme Court held that it was fair use to 'Time-shift' TV shows via videotape, i.e. tape the whole program and watch it at a different, possibly more convenient time. That was all well and good, more recently there [...]
Filed under: Internet, IP, Law, Tech | 1 Comment »
I read an interesting article in the Economist about how some Economists have tried to explain why so many more Europeans smoke than Americans (only 19% of Americans smoke according to their data). Affluence was ruled out, as was the cost of cigarettes (which are much cheaper in the US for the most part) The [...]
Filed under: Economics, Misc | Leave a Comment »
Trying to be busy doing work here, but I thought I'd mention since I don't think I have before that I've been really into the British television series Foyle's War. The show consists of movie length episodes that I think were shown on PBS here a few years ago, I've been watching them on Netflix [...]
Filed under: Diversion, Misc | Leave a Comment »
So I decided to change hosts so no new posts will be going up on the old site, so feel free to update your bookmarks to this address (inre.wordpress.com) I hope to sometime move to a full featured blog interface where I can have more control, but as of this time that requires hosting fees [...]
Filed under: Internet, Misc | Leave a Comment »
So this weekend I went out and got some herbs at the garden store and put them into some pots on my front porch. Since then I've been able to use them in a few ways, including putting some mint in some fresh made lemonade which I make using a boston cocktail shaker to dissolve [...]
Filed under: Cooking, Drink | Leave a Comment »
The Cleveland mounted police force, which was put in hibernation (the horses were kept stabled and paid for by a private trust to save the force) during cost cutting rounds by former mayor Jane Campbell. Apparently the mounted police force is coming back. Why does this matter? Well some would say it doesn't, others of [...]
Filed under: Misc | 1 Comment »
I myself am not too familar with livejournal, which is essentially a blogging interface for creating journal-esq blogs, although when they started it I am not sure they called them blogs. Anyway, it was eventually bought by Six Apart, a blogging software/provider company that makes a number of blogging related services including moveable type and [...]
Filed under: Internet | Leave a Comment »
So I haven’t been writing too much on here this weekend, and I’d love to say that its because I’ve been hard at work on my seminar paper, but that would only be partially true, as its been slow going on that. I’ve also been spending sometime experimenting with a new blog hosting site called [...]
Filed under: Internet, Misc | Leave a Comment »
Something about Sundays always feels a bit magical. While it would seem Saturday would be the day of choice as you don't have Monday looming, there is something different about Sundays, some inherent stillness, some ethereal quietness (aside from the lawn mowers humming while I am still laying in bed at 10am). Today had the [...]
Filed under: Minutiae | Leave a Comment »
