This Wireless!

I spent the afternoon borrowing things from the internet at some pretty high speeds. It turned out to be one of your classic win-win-win situations.

Win #1: The 'k' Barrier. Goodbye 1,000 k/s download speed, hello 1.1 M/s download speed! I'd never seen that 'M' down there before and it felt good. Real good.

Win #2: The CIF Barrier. Which is sort of like The 'k' Barrier, but with different letters and a lot more emotion. Dealing with the post-Napster world was pretty unpleasant. There was KaZaA. But KaZaA sucked. Or sucks? I don't know. Is it still around? It doesn't matter, nobody cares. Luckily Rochester had the Computer Interest Floor, words I really never expected I would say. But they did host the CIF Server, available only to IP addresses from NYSERNet institutions, and chock full of really cool stuff. At really cool speeds. The world was at our fingertips! That 1.1M makes me feel like I'm back in college.

Win the 3^rd: 5 seasons of Dennis, Mac, Charlie, Frank, & Sweet Dee on the Command Station.

Welcome to Mustache Week

Every year, as November turns over to December, a great change occurs on our faces. Our beards of November are trimmed and shaved to become the mustaches of December. And so it has begun—Mustache Week is upon us again. Someday I'll finally be able to pull off the Jagged Edge, but not as a 28 year-old. Instead, December 1^st - 7^th, 2009 will feature The Double Swoosh: One swoosh, next to another swoosh.

Double Bingo.

Sunday night finished off with some hot chocolate and a Scrabble game with the elder Barnebeys. They may have been impressed when I played EDITION, but they were browbeaten by the time I laid down SQUALID two rounds later. Good thing they believed me when I told them that ET is a valid variant for the past tense of EAT.

I made it!

I'm not sure I even care.

Happy Turkey Day!

Wall of Twine

A little bit more Birthday Art; this one a direct result of the Twine Flu Epidemic of Aught-Nine. Are you getting a load of that stuffing job KAtie did?

Mustache Week Approaches

Anna and I made a giant papier mâché mustache for my birthday party. At one point we claimed it was going to be a mustache-shaped piñata. Then we saw it in real life. And covered it with months worth of my completed crosswords. At which point we knew we could never actually part with it. And it came just in time for December, the week of the mustache!