On Friday night, Ben had a sleepover planned and so we drove him over there and spent a little time with the adults. We’ve all been friends for about seven years now, and it’s always great to see them, but they have moved and it’s kind of a pain to get to their house. To avoid the northeast perimeter during rush hour(s), we take a back way over Windsor Parkway to Roswell Road. It’s not actually a parkway, but rather…
Got a fantastic package deal – it’s worth haggling a little at Best Buy! W00T! Dell Inspiron i530-111B Intel Core2 Q9300 Quad-Core Processor (6MB L2 cache, 2.5GHz, 1333 FSB) 6GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM Memory at 667MHz – 4 DIMMS (2x2GB, 2x1GB) 750GB Hard Drive (7200 RPM) DVD+/-RW (Plays and writes CDs and DVDs) 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio/Dell Speakers 19-in-1 Media Card Reader USB Keyboard and Mouse Samsung 22″ Wide-Screen Monitor This was thrown…
Some questions – would love it if you have advice. 1) So, I blew a couple of capacitors on my motherboard and now I’m looking for a deal on a new computer. I’d like a dual- or quad-core processor and 2-4G RAM and lots of disk space. I also need a monitor because mine is snapping and crackling and it’s only a matter of time. A built-in webcam would be kind of neat, too. Post links if you happen to…
Oh! What a wonderful night it was! Rainier is in town. He’s giving at paper at the National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference this afternoon, but last night he was free for dinner. Through the rain and lightning and terrible traffic, John and I drove into the center of Atlanta to meet him. I had made reservations at Nikolai’s Roof! Oh boy, oh boy! So, some background. Rainier and I were fellow graduate students in the ILA at Emory, and…
But eventually let it go…. A child diagnosed with autism every 20 minutes? I have to wonder at what point and for what reasons doctors started giving so many vaccines at once anyway. How would they be able to determine which of the vaccines caused a negative reaction if there was a problem? And parents – are adults so cowed by physician authority that that would so easily allow so many shots at one visit? I refused that plan for…
Thanks to Memere’s email delivery service…. with a couple of slight corrections… The George W Bush Presidential Museum is now in the planning stages. It was supposed to be a library, but the planners kept resigning. You’ll want to be one of the first to make a contribution to this great man’s legacy. The Museum will include: The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction. The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you can’t remember anything. The Texas Air National Guard…