Richard & Misti's Blog

My last post of 2005, and I have both nothing really important to say, but also a lot to catch-up stuff to mention. Ugh.
We’ve listened to some sweet music at work lately, including:
“Digital Ash in a Digital Urn” (album) by Bright Eyes“Shine” by Kevin Reeves“Sound Scientist” by Bill“Get Behind Me Satan” (album) by The [...]

Well, we’re back. We finally got the DSL back on, so the blogging, podcasting, and caching, etc. should resume fairly quickly. Congrats to Brad and Emilie on the arrival of baby Chase! I’ll be blogging some more this weekend, so look for some updates soon! (Ugh, so much to catch up [...]

We moved into our new house on Saturday, woohoo! We’re super tired, though, so more details will follow later. Zzzzzzz.

Here’s a short list of eccentric/cool/nerdy things I’ve seen on the ‘net since yesterday:
Lady-like Holiday decorationsDickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol” – the 5-part podcast seriesBigfoot’s autobiography
I saw this fake-blue-enhanced fountain on my way to work, and had to snap a photo to share (oops, is it cold outside?):

Question: Is there any way to have Firefox [...]

First there was the Sony DRM that could be bypassed with a piece of scotch tape. Now, apparently, biometric fingerprint scanners can be easily fooled with Play-Doh. Doh!
Speaking of Sony woes, Sony has decided not to recall any more CDs, instead just offering a software patch to fix a new problem with CD [...]

Oops, Sony CDs have yet another bug. Some people are actually suggesting that this is exactly the kind of copy-protection Sony secretly wants – that people will be too afraid to play the CDs in a computer and will therefore only listen to them in regular CD players, hence no piracy. Hmmm, I [...]

It appears that Sony has patched their second DRM flaw. Oh, joy. Britney Spears and Billie Holiday CD’s sport the new Sony DRM this time around (Sony dumped the first DRM that caused all the problems, and has embraced that of another company).
I found the “Picture Perfect” cache yesterday during lunchtime. [...]

The word “podcast” will now be added to the dictionary, while “sudoku”, however, will still not be (yet).
We signed all the paperwork on our house today (at Pioneer Title) and scored some sweet pens in the process. =)
We’ve been enjoying a plethora of forensics/murder mystery shows on primetime TV as of late. [...]

We swung by an event cache tonight (“TVCA Meeting – The Winter Opener“), and I got to see our first 2005 White Jeep Travel Bug. (About time!)
Today’s Word of the Day is “logorrhea“, which is just a hilarious term. I think it’s cool that there is now a Gold’s Gym in Reno.

We found our 500th geocache tonight: “Sudoku Numbers” in West Boise. Misti solved the three Sudoku puzzles requisite to getting the cache’s coordinates. A new twist, indeed.
I guess I hadn’t noticed this before because it didn’t apply to me at the time, but since we’re now in the market for a garage door [...]

Our ‘podcast‘ from last Sunday night is an interview with Darlene Barnet, plus some wonderful podsafe music. Tune in here:
Show #: 20   Length: 13 minutes, 5 secondsBitrate: 128 KbpsSize: 11.99 MB
Mentioned in the podcast:
The Secret Life of BeesCruiseboxGive a Hoot, Don’t PolluteCraig CaesarAlex BrookeAux and Big Mike
I tried running the new SNARF [...]