Archive for May 9th, 2012
Obit watch: special “and his hair was…perfect” edition.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012Hog update.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012A few weeks ago, we asked the musical question:
…how bad was the damage to Petrino’s Harley Davidson Road King?
By way of FARK, we have an answer. The Harley is for sale on a site called copart.com. It looks to be in pretty bad shape; as both the Mobile Press-Register and copart note, the Harley is estimated to have suffered $18,000 worth of damage, but is only valued at $16,000.
En Fuego.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012Some folks may have noticed that I haven’t written much about my experiences with the Kindle I purchased a while back.
Well…the screen went south on that one and it is unusable.
I’d held off on replacing it because I have the Kindle reader on my phone, so there wasn’t a compelling argument for me to have a stand-alone Kindle.
At least until Amazon had their sale last week offering refurbed Kindle Fires for $139.
Mine arrived yesterday. I’m still messing around with it trying to get things set up the way I want then, but expect some thoughts on the Fire in the nearish future.
(I actually do still agree with John Siracusa’s summary of the Kindle Fire: “a magical, colorful window through which you can give money to Amazon“. But my plans for the device mostly do not involve giving a lot of money to Amazon; rather, I’ve been loading it up with O’Reilly ebooks and public domain/free content.)
Edited to add: Interestingly enough, the Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson 3rd Edition
probably works much better on the Fire than it does on the regular Kindles. I’m willing to give Amazon $15.39 for that; Supica and Nahas are essential, but also an awful lot to lug around.
This is intended to enrage you. (#3 in an irregular series)
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012Random notes: May 9, 2012.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012Notoriously anti-gun RINO Richard Lugar went down in flames like a tax-fattened hyena last night. Tam and Roberta X have more.
For the record: NYT obit for Maurice Sendak.