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Today, Eileen and I went to Camp Yahoo! 2005! That was fun! It’s Yahoo!’s company picnic. We had a great lunch, lots of dessert and had fun at the carnival portion — where we won a fish, whale, mood ring, dolphin bracelet and other assorted goodies. Check out the pictures.

DSL went down again this morning at 4am or so. Weird. I hope this does not persist.

We’re having a garage sale today! If you know us, swing by. We promise a good deal The postman just came by, he dropped off some mail and picked up a lot of stuff!

Is Sony trying to go out of business? Because it sure does look like they are. As evidence of this, I present this stupid quote from Ken Kutaragi (the “father of the PlayStation”):
“[T]he PS3 can’t be offered at a price that’s targeted towards households.”
What the hell? Who the hell are you [...]

I lost my silver Fisher Space Pen (my wife got me the pen for Christmas 2003) a few weeks ago! Since then, I have been using cheapie pens at work and carrying nothing with me. Whenever my wife and I go to the office supply stores (not often), I would look [...]

Looks like the Xbox will go HD-DVD…well, almost: The initial release of Xbox 360s will only have a standard DVD drive installed! Only when HD-DVD drives are ready will Xbox 360s get produced with them. Those who bought the initial non-HD-DVD versions? I don’t know, but I bet they are [...]

Weird, I woke up and found the DSL connection down. So, any connections to ultramookie.com was not working since around 2:40am as far as I can tell from the logs. I am not sure what happened, but it took a hard reset of the DSL modem to get the connection to come [...]