My Mailbox Likes Tea
In fact, it likes tea so much that it was quite unwilling to relinquish the package I received from the Indigo Tea company. Ultimately, I outwitted the headstrong mailbox, and am now enjoying the spoils of victory.
(Yes, there’s a story here to be told about the poor mechanical design of my mailbox. But really, [...]
Snow!
It’s snowing!
Winter Exercise
The problem: It’s cold and wet outside, and my desire go to cycling has consequentially disappeared.
The solution: Dance to progressive rock (such as this, or this, or this). It’s fun, fast, and exhausting. Also, figuring out how to dance to “experimental” music can be a challenge in itself.
Hedge Your Happiness
The Economist suggests that you hedge your happiness. It’s simultaneously hilarious, and a good idea. Anyone want to gamble money that I still won’t have any job offers in a month?
WaMu Suffers Least Damaging Fraud in Bank’s History
In an attempt to move my several financial accounts to a single bank, I opened a new pair of checking and savings accounts with WaMu.
Banks continually monitor their accounts with a variety of automatic tools designed to detect fraudulent activity. I managed to inadvertently trip WaMu’s fraud detection system, a system which is — quite [...]
OpenPGP key
To go along with the new name, I made a new OpenPGP cryptographic key. Download it and then phone me to verify the key fingerprint.
For those of you who aren’t so familiar with cryptography, it is just a set of mathematical tools which enable people to exchange messages (e.g. email) over unsecured channels [...]
Hello world!
As you may have gathered, I now have my own domain! And a blog! Admittedly, the blog is nothing more than a single post and someone else’s Wordpress theme at the moment. Check back later for actual content. As for the theme, I think I will have to design my own eventually — for some [...]
