Conversation

So a conversation the other day with my wife went something like this....

Me: "Oh, we should stop by Kohl's and see if they're having a sale." (We had been discussing how my Mom just e-mailed and said she had bought me a sweater and a pair of pants- 80% off- she NEVER does anything like that, so it was kinda off-the-wall...)

Lovely Wife: "That would be good, because I need some jeans. But, Kohl's only sells Levi's and [some other company]. I don't want to buy those."

Me: "Why not?"

Sweet Wife: "Because they're big supporters of pornography and stuff like that." (3 minute diatribe about all the bad things these companies support)

Me: "So I guess you should sell your iPod, huh?"

Unsuspecting Wife: "Why is that?"

Me: "Because Apple supports a lot of homosexual agendas and Al Gore is on the Board of Directors!!"

Indignant Wife: "UGH! You didn't have to tell me that! Why is HE on the Board?"

Me: "He loves Apples and-- [sarcastically] he created the Internet!

Adorable Wife with momentary look of confusion: "I thought Bill Gates did that??!!"

Alas, I laughed really hard, and after shopping at Target and Costco, we forgot to even go to Kohl's.

DcD

Bottom of the Barrel Yields Big Bat for O's (washingtonpost.com)

Further proof that the Orioles are NOT Washington's team. The entire ordeal over the 'Nats coming to town was front page for days (seemed like weeks). The O's get Sammy Sosa, and you can barely find an article on it. Granted, Sosa isn't what he used to be (see article), but he's Sammy, for Pete's sake.

Bottom of the Barrel Yields Big Bat for O's (washingtonpost.com)


p.s.- I'm still mad Loudoun didn't get the team. We'd live 10 minutes from the stadium....

Give chance a chance

Apple's new "cool gadget" is called the iPod Shuffle. Meant for those with wallets on the Atkins diet, this MP3 player is uber-cool. Basically the size of a pack of Doublemint, it holds either 120 or 240 songs (depending on if you shell out $99 or $149).

The unique part of Apple's "Flash-based" player, which sets it apart from the dull, drab, and otherwise lemming-like world of your typical small MP3 player, is that what you listen to is left up to chance (or Providence, if that is your theology, but we'll save that for another time).

You plug in your iShuffle, load up your choice of songs (or let it randomly choose the songs for you that will fit on your size player), and off you go. And NOW here comes the cool part (if you haven't already fainted from super-wicked coolness already)...

Flip the setting for shuffle- and off you go. Absolutely no idea what song you will hear next, or after that, or heck- even what songs you have loaded up! There is no display, no feedback to tell you what songs you have on there. For the faint of heart, you can CHOOSE what songs to put on there, and you can CHOOSE to play them in order- but isn't it so paradoxical for him with free-will to be SO predictable?

So, as Apple says, Give chance a chance. Plop down a mere $99 and let the gods of the MP3 world fill your heart with merry songs- randomly.

DcD

Double WHOA!!

This, too...

WHOA Nelly!!

Need I say more?

Mac Mini

Waaaa-HOOOOOOOO!!!!

Coming to the day of closing, we had heard conflicting reports of how long it would take. 30 minutes. 2 hours. 4 HOURS!!??

I was slightly concerned, as our closing was set at 4pm, and I had a meeting at 6pm I really needed to attend. So off to the title company we go...

...and before we know it, we own a house!! Yep, 30 minutes, baby! Everything went fine, and as the agent selling us the house explained the loan documents: "You pay, you stay; you don't, you won't!!" Easy enough for me....

Now to move in- more to come.

DcD