Richard & Misti's Blog

Kinda sucks that Outlook distribution lists are limited to approximately 125 email addresses.
Found the ‘Ranch Scrabble‘ cache today, along with the ‘god bless america G.B.A‘ [sic] travel bug. No one in my family could decipher the anagrams – but it only took Deanne about 30 seconds to do so. Guess we’re the losery [...]

We procured some of the new Brown and Haley Cashew Roca. It only tastes slightly different from the original Almond Roca. Push come to shove, however, the original tastes better. They also have a new Mocha Roca flavor, which we haven’t tried.
I also snagged a 2.5 oz (70g) package of Farley’s & [...]

Grisoft’s free AVG 7.0 anti-virus program seems to be more refined than 6.0. (And you can’t beat the price!)
Watched “Charade” (1963; Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Coburn, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy) last night on VHS. I love a quirky murder mystery.
Well, get ready for copy-protected music CDs, folks. I’m sure that’ll make [...]

I enjoyed comparing F-Secure’s 2003 and 2004 year-end summaries on Internet security. Very good reads – well written, and informative (with just a touch of nostalgia!).
I also enjoyed reading Maximum PC’s new article about how the new AMD FX-55 64-bit CPU running at 2.6 GHz (socket 939) completely trounced on Intel’s P4 Extreme Edition [...]

Watched “The Great Train Robbery” (1979; Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland) on DVD three nights ago. Misti finished crocheting me a nice warm scarf recently, using one skein of Lion brand homespun yarn (“Nouveau 338″: chocolate color with dark gray, a touch of tan, and subtle reds and blues mixed in – 98% acrylic, 2% [...]

Watched “The Bourne Supremacy” (2004; Matt Damon, Julia Styles, Brian Cox) last Wednesday night on fullscreen DVD, and also surpassed 60,000 miles on our car that day coming home for lunch.
Found the ‘Who am I?‘ cache on Saturday, followed by some monster crazy Christmas shopping at Meadowood Mall and Walmart. Tried the new Wisconsin [...]

Finished listening to “The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga” by Edward Rutherfurd yesterday on abridged audiobook. Brad and Emilie came over on Sunday night to visit and discuss our recent noveling experience, in addition to bagging on various aspects of geocaching. Last night, we watched “The Medallion” (2004; Jackie Chan) on VHS.
Finished [...]

In a major bonehead move, Lycos Europe created and distributed a screensaver that is aimed at illegally shutting down websites of known spammers, but is in reality in the process of unintentionally DDoSing (Distributed Denial of Service) their own antispam campaign website. When I posted this, their own site was completely unreachable (effectively shut [...]

Well, we made it: 55,175 words in 30 days, between 6 people. NaNoWriMo was fun, and our collaborative novel isn’t too bad, actually. I can’t believe that some people do that much all by themselves – there was someone here in town that did over 100,000 all by herself. Insane. Once [...]

New: a completely cross-browser security flaw (affects all browsers, including FireFox, Safari, Mozilla, etc.). That’s comforting. Also, check out the recent Nokia cell phone virus and trojan horse, and this weekend’s SCO website defacement (again). Is nothing safe?
We built a snowman (“Frosty”) and a snow bunny (“Snowball”) on Saturday, after the previous [...]

Went geocaching with Dave today, and found the ‘Lexi’s Loot‘ and ‘Butter‘ caches, along with the ‘Octavia‘ and ‘Jumbo Jet‘ travel bugs.
Watched “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde” (2003; Sally Field, Bob Newhart, Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Regina King, Bruce McGill) last night on satellite TV, which is hilarious because any time an airplane [...]

Found the ‘Guitar Rock‘ cache today after work, and watched “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” (2004; Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Sir Michael Gambon, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint) last night on widescreen DVD.
Finished reading “The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits” by Lewis Carroll recently. Read the famous [...]

Dave’s homecoming talk was great this past Sunday in the Galena Ward. Ginger and Neal and Marta were there, too.
For my birthday this year, I got some cool gifts, including a huge ‘Croton‘ plant (Codiaeum Variegatum ‘Petra’) from work, a smiley face tie from Becky, a Star Wars tie from Jared, a Mondrian art [...]

I WATCHED the gnomemobile the other day. hey diddle diddle. happy happy dog duh [...]

I’ve tried a few queries via the new Google Scholar, and it looks pretty cool. Also bizarre to hear that Bill Gates gets over four million spam messages per day. Ouch.
In an odd bit of irony, Linux users without a firewall are safer than those with one.
Watched “Glitter” (2001; Mariah Carey) last night [...]

Just when you thought K-Mart was finally dead, they up and merge with Sears!
Anyone up for some online hunting? Can your digital camera take 2.5 gigapixel (2,500 megapixel) photos? Didn’t think so. Muppets are back!
Things to remember when writing even the simplest of perl scripts (especially on a PC):
Wordpad (and Windows/DOS, in [...]

Tried some sugarless Pina Colada Koolerz gum with Xylitol over the past few days. Very tasty.
Also watched “The Transporter” and “Rundown” again a couple of nights ago on VHS. (Seen them before.)
Finally got my Atom and RSS feeds fixed, with a ton of help from Christian Renz at CGI Lance. (Blogger slightly [...]

Tried some Vanilla Silk Organic Soymilk this past week. It’s not as tasty as chocolate soymilk, but it’s not too bad.
It’s been fun to listen to all the Christmas music on the radio lately (95.5 FM). Becker and I actually watched “Frosty the Snowman” (1969; Jimmy Durante) on VHS today, just for kicks.
Found [...]

We took the kids to see “The Incredibles” yesterday at the Riverside Theatre downtown. The previous night we watched all the various trailers and movie clips online, and were stoked for the real deal. When we got there, the 12:30 matinée was sold out, but we got tickets for the 2:00 showing. [...]