Friday
We picked up the keys for the house a little after 3:00 PM. We walked through and I took pre-moving pictures (while we can still see the floor); I should have them posted sometime tomorrow. I talked with the ‘rents again (to let them know that we had the keys) – all’s well on that side of the country. I called Sprint and DirecTV to get the broadband and satellite services uninstalled here and reinstalled at the house. DirecTV was a breeze. Sprint is a different issue:

They can disconnect service here on the 25th, but “the earliest available installation date” that they had is 20 July 04. Yes, a month away. *braincramp* The CSR that I talked to said that it had to go to the Area Manager and from there to a dispatcher who could then check for an earlier date. Right. I find that amusing because Sprint Broadband isn’t accepting any new customers nor have they for about a year. You would think that for a service that isn’t expanding, they would be able to unmount, move and remount an antenna fairly quickly. AND… since they already have someone coming to take the antenna down, doesn’t it make sense that the same person could install the antenna a couple of miles away? It does to me. Maybe that’s just the way I’m wired. *shrug* Maybe I’ll start looking for a new broadband provider. I’ll wait to see if they get back to me by Monday.

Tonight’s coffee turnout was small (Jess, , , , and me) but good. After that, Jess and I headed to Cheers for a bite to eat.

NPR and Other News
Talk of the Nation – Science Friday: Science Fiction Museum Co-Founder Paul Allen
Talk of the Nation – Science Friday: The Interplay of Science and Science Fiction
Talk of the Nation – Science Friday: The Red Planet in Fiction
All Things Considered: U.S. Struggles for World Cup Soccer Respect
All Things Considered: Tom Hanks Talks About His Role in ‘The Terminal’

Stray Toasters

  • Life on the I-15 parking lot. Whoop-de-fuck.
  • Jesusita
  • From Slashdot: Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill *sigh*
  • : This is for you: Batman returns to his darker roots
  • Coffee-and-Cookie Shake. A new twist on a couple of old favorites. Tonight wasn’t the first time that I made one, but this one was rather tasty, if I do say so myself.
  • From Broken Frontier: Cover Me: The Purpose of a Comic Book Cover
  • It’s the suburb of the week…
  • Animation Express
  • Behind the Name (Results for Robert)
  • By way of Backwash: RetroCrush: Exploring Flintstones Mysteries
    As if this couldn’t stand on its own merits, I had to include it for this quote:

    Ever wonder why there weren’t any black people in The Flintstones? I mean we’re talking about an ancient society that predates the great Pharaohs in Egypt, surely there would be someone in town with darker skin. Bedrock must have been The Stone Age version of Salt Lake City.

  • I stopped carrying my Palm Pilot (Palm Vx) a few weeks ago. The digitizer – which tells the Palm where the stylus is on the screen – had shifted upwards, thus rendering the top few millimeters of the screen useless. The rest of the screen was also off by that same amount. When I would touch one part of the screen, it would activate something else. And, since the top of the screen was “unavailable,” I could not access the recalibration program. *sigh* I was ready to relegate it to The Palm Graveyard. On a whim, I did a search on Google for palm digitizers problems and was surprised by the number of results. One of them pointed to a program called “DigiFix,” a freeware program that recalibrates the digitizer. I downloaded and installed it… and it worked! Hallelujah!

I should get some sleep… especially since I’m helping move tomorrow morning/afternoon and then get to move some of our stuff to the house.

Namaste.