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Archive for August, 2004

Absolutely Awesome

Posted by Jordan on August 26th, 2004

Jaime and I have spent way too much time apart in the last six months in our opinion, so we’re rewarding ourselves a bit. We rented a house on Amelia Island, north of Jacksonville near Georgia for three nights, have some friends from Atlanta coming to stay for part of the time as well, [...]

Five Rings and Ten People

Posted by Jordan on August 16th, 2004

Does anybody else feel bad for the Olympic athletes this year? Watching the games (I love watching volleyball, Jaime loves gymnastics, and there’s some good drama in swimming this year, so we’ve been watching a ton lately) this year it seems like the audiences have been virtually non-existant. Is this a side-effect of [...]

Dhell

Posted by Jordan on August 12th, 2004

After nearly a month of screw-ups, (1 electronic submission, one fax, and one email later) Dell finally is able to tell me they have successfully received the PO for my laptop. Of course, it’s been OVER a month since I first generated the quote and submitted the purchase request into our campus system. [...]

Love and Marriage

Posted by Jordan on August 4th, 2004

I’ve often heard it said that people who cohabitate before marriage have a higher divorce rate than those who don’t, but I never really know how much of that was fact and how much was myth. It seems fairly clearly to be fact (thanks google).
This is doubly interesting to me. First, because it [...]

Night of the living dead ebooks

Posted by Jordan on August 2nd, 2004

An interesting story on slashdot recently highlighted some of the supposed flaws with ebooks. Most of the article is really and trule pretty retarded. It treats ebooks as if they’re only going to catch on when a dedicated device catches on to support it.
Nevermind the fact that I’ve been happily reading ebooks on [...]