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Posted by Jordan on April 29th, 2007

Couple of tidbits — first of all, I don’t have a 700p and I have no idea why that snuck into my previous post instead of 680.  Oops!
Secondly, there’s a ton of baby pictures uploaded to wienspix.com if you want baby picture overload.
Also, I’m finally on Twitter.  I held off for a while after first [...]

A Good Day?

Posted by Jordan on April 2nd, 2007

I suppose today would count as a good day.  The Gators one their third National Championship between basketball and football in 12 months (even now cheering students are streaming past my office window), Steve Jobs proved (per my previous post) that he wasn’t kidding about DRM.  Oh, and I’m behind on trying to finish up [...]

Excessive s-pen-ding

Posted by Jordan on March 11th, 2007

I’ve become slightly nuts about fine point pens. Unfortunately, the finest fine point pens are Japanese imports. For some reason, not only do the Japanese get the best role playing games, the best electronics, but they also get the best writing implements! What kind of cruel world is this we live [...]

On the Irony of Etymology and Geography

Posted by Jordan on December 20th, 2006

I was pondering the other day how ironic that it is that I’ve always hated the topic of geography. By name I ought to be fated to be a fanatical geography buff. Take the individual components of my name and their meaning:

Jordan - The river or country, take your pick
Kyle - From [...]

Reach exceeding your gasp?

Posted by Jordan on December 19th, 2006

In high school I had a particularly vicious (and wonderfully fun) English teacher named Ms. Yentz. She terrorized us and challenged us, and mostly we loved her right back in the same language. I don’t mean “love” sarcastically–once you wrap your head around “vicious”, “terrorize”, “challenge” and “love” in the same person, you [...]