ESPN.com:: “After learning that Roger Clemens had officially un-retired on Monday, the Yankees made an immediate, internal decision to avoid a public squabble with the right-hander.” Thank god. There isn’t anything to be gained by getting upset about this. Clemens was a great Yankee, and I wish him the best in Houston. If he is happier being closer to his family, I, for one, certainly wouldn’t begrudge him that happiness.
I’m working from home today in order to take delivery of some new bedroom furniture. Woot woot!! It’s been a long time in coming, but I think I have finally gotten into a “nesting” groove with my house. Like so many other things in my life, I tend to look too much at the big picture, get overwhelmed, and get frustrated. This tends to get worse with the house because it is a large place for one person, and the big yard and pool only make that worse. This year, I have resolved to focus on one room, or one outdoor project, at a time. I decided to start with the bedroom because it ends up being where I spend the bulk of my time. As a result, the guest bedroom also gets an upgrade.
It's worth mentioning that this was all set in motion by one of the best customer service experiences of my life. Last summer, in July, I decided to look into getting new bedroom furniture. I went to a few stores, and decided that I liked one particular set, but that the amount of money was beyond what I wanted to spend at that point. I hadn't been back, or even really thought about going back, until I got a call from the saleswoman who talked to me in July last week. That's right, six months after I was in the store, she called me to let me know that they were changing around their showroom, and that the king bed I was looking at would not fit in the new location, so they were replacing it with a Queen size and needed to sell the King at a deep discount immediately. I went in over the weekend, and walked out with almost a fifty percent discount on the entire set of furniture I wanted. Rest assured, when it is time for the new dining room table, I know what store and salesperson I will be going to first. It's this kind of personal customer service that I find missing in most of my consumer type experiences these days. She even called me this morning, not because she had to, but because she wanted to make sure that my delivery experience went as smoothly as possible. So thanks Kelly, I really appreciate it. In case you live in Atlanta, and are looking for furniture, Kelly works at the Storehouse in Lenox Mall.
Clemens to pitch for Astros Sweet Jesus.
Medium Footwear is a beautiful flash site, and the sneakers are equally beautiful and clearly inspired by the classics of sneaker design.
Why does qbert.com resolve to Sony Pictures?
BBC NEWS: ‘Chemical weapons’ found in Iraq Woah. I think the funny thing about this is how dissapointed it must make one of the political parties in this country.
Of course, I’m also excited to check out the SuicideGirls Live Burlesque Tour when they are in town on January 28th. I’ve never been to a burlesque show before.
Saddam’s an OutKast: Hey Allah! Hahahahahaahaha.
PVRBlog discusses the new TiVo to Go features that TiVo announced at CES today. Sounds great to me. Of course, with some hacking you can do this today with a series 1 TiVo, but it’s great that they are going to bring this to the masses. I just wish that I didn’t have to wait until Fall 2004 for the feature.
Philips Mirror TV has to be the coolest idea for home electronics that I have seen in a while. I must have one or two.
Like Pete, I have switched to Thunderbird as my primary mail client on both my Windows and Mac OS X machines. It works, it is fast, and it is the same on both platforms without punishing me in order to do so. Worth checking out.
I got my machine back from Apple when I returned to Atlanta after the Christmas holiday. They ended up replacing not only the hard drive, but the display, display bezel, keyboard and some other parts. This was odd to me because I only took it in for the hard drive issue. The new keyboard is nice though, I had worn shiny spots on a bunch of the keys on the old one.
As you might expect, I had to reinstall virtually everything after having the hard drive replaced. It made me realize just how great I think iSync is. My Safari bookmarks and contacts were on the machine in a few minutes, and it saved me the terrible task of rebuilding these things. This also made me realize that Apple needs to extend iSync with an API that third parties can take advantage of in their own applications. It would be great to have my NetNewsWire subscriptions or Transmit bookmarks move over in the same way. I went to the iSync feedback form and asked. I wonder if I shall ever receive?
Wow, NFL STREET from EASports Big line, looks like it might be the next killer Football video game. The gameplay looks very fluid, the character modeling is impressive, and the arenas look very well done.
Merry New Year.