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This video by Lauren Weinstein, although tongue-in-cheek in some respects, is dead serious and does an excellent job of explaining how your cell phone works and how it might be bugged. It’s both fun and informative.

Read: Is Your Cell Phone Bugged? »

The Ski Boy is so romantic! He sent me several totally cute valentine’s e-cards, surprised me with a chocolate bark heart, and helped Tyge make a card.
And dinner will be waiting when I get home from work this evening!!!!!
Whatta guy!

Read: Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!! »

As I type, the Ski Boy, Tyge, and I are parked in front of the TV watching the Westminster Dog Show. We’re already very excited - this afternoon, Webber’s dad won Bouvier Best of Breed. Here’s the video of the Bouvier judging. I have to admit, that even to me - a true-blue Bouvier lover […]

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Six months ago today, was the big Slat Rat-Ski Boy nuptial event!
I had no clue that today was our six month anniversary. However, the Ski Boy is always on top of these sorts of things. He gave me a fun card and the cute little guy to the right.

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As I type, my old HP laptop, Ping is undergoing a rebirth of sorts. Its hard drive has been wiped and the I’m in the midst of reinstalling XP Pro, associated drivers, and selected application software. All of this is in preparation for Ping’s new owner - Peter!
The last time I did a full […]

Read: Ping Born Anew »

I’m a member of the “One Cannot Possibly Post Too Many Moose Pictures” club. And as a premier member of that club, here are a few pictures I took last week of a pretty hefty calf in our neighbor’s yard. Mom is out of sight, off to the right. I had just arrived home from […]

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Today’s front page story in the Daily News: A lone wolf, nicknamed Romeo has been roaming around the Mendenhall Glacier outside of Juneau. Unfortunately, Romeo is losing his wariness towards people and dogs. Romeo has been spotted playing with other dogs and in this picture, he’s got a pug in his mouth and is carrying […]

Read: Only in Alaska »

Ooooh - I must have one of these - a Dwight Schrute bobblehead! Frankie and Andrea would be very jealous.

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I had quite the post all typed out yesterday in regards to the whole astronaut-cross-country-revenge thing. But then I thought about her kids and decided the only honorable thing to do was to delete the post. So I did.
However, my little post was a mere grain of sand in the universe that is this story. […]

Read: Trying, but Failing to Take the High Road »

This video is via one of my fellow co-workers/geeks. I actually like it - although its geek quotient is quite high.

Read: The Machine is Us/ing Us »