I knew it. I knew it.
When Verizon cut my line last Friday, and I was able to force him into “fixing” it, he just grabbed any old line and hooked it back up. But, of course, it’s a bad line. The connection has been dropping at least once a day since then. Normally, I wouldn’t [...]
Got my health insurance renewal rates today.
Current plan: $581.20 per mo. or $6,974.40 per year.
Same plan starting 01-April: $662.22 per mo. or $7,946.64 per year.
For those math challenged, that’s an increase of $81.02 per mo. or 14%.
No, we don’t need health insurance reform at all. No. Nope. And it’s really nice to see the Massachusetts [...]
Bought a membership to the MFA yesterday. I haven’t been there in a few years. I was looking for something to do yesterday so I decided to go check out their new Egypt exhibit “The Secrets of Tomb 10A“.
It was pretty interesting. Crowded. A 1915 expedition uncovered the plundered tomb of a very wealthy provincial [...]
So this morning, Verizon came out to work on some neighbor’s phone line (it’s in the punch box in our cellar) and what do they do? Cut my line. Dead.
So if a line doesn’t have a dial tone, it’s not being used, right? Dolt.
I had to explain to him how a DSL line without voice [...]
Update: The OnPoint show: OnPoint 20-Jan-10
and you all know what happened.
The ones most likely to take the wrong message away from the result: the republicans.
IMO, this had very little to do with the republican agenda (assuming they have one other than “no no no”). This was meant as a kick in the teeth to the [...]
It took four hours for the Harpoon B2B ride to fill 800 slots!
I got up this morning and there was a message in my inbox that said registration started at 7:00 AM today. I got another one a few minutes ago (11:20) that said it was full.
Pretty impressive!
Some day I’ll do that ride. But it’s [...]
At long last, I am Verizon free! As of last Friday, my VOIP phone was turned with my transferred number. Verizon turned off my dial tone, and I’m free of them. No more taking two weeks and a hundred calls to get a repair, no more letting burglars in the house. Nothing.
I just hope they [...]
Saturday was the latest in our Boston Symphony subscription series.
The program was:
Mozart
Symphony No. 38 in D Major K.504 “Prague”
Elgar
Violin Concerto in b minor, Op. 61
Guest conductor was Sir Colin Davis, guest violin soloist was Nikolaj Znaider of Denmark.
Full program notes
Overall, it was good. It was certainly technically great. But, like the Saint-Saens piece a few [...]
Someone had the same experience I did.
Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, looks to be in very, very rough shape after the quake.
There are lots of good charities out there, please consider donating to one. If you’re unsure of one to pick, I’d like to ask you to join me in supporting:
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Click->> MSF Haiti Press [...]
So two big baseball stories this week. Both bad ones.
First, Daisuke lied.
Dude, you’re making more than 10 Meeeeellion dollars a year. That brings with it an obligation to be honest with your team. It is not honorable, noble, or smart to take that money and not tell them you’re injured, and exacerbate that injury in [...]
NYT has a little flash application that shows what people in various zipcodes rented in 2009.
The South End has no zip code of its one, but straddles 02116 (Back Bay) and 02118 (Roxbury).
Top 10 rentals for
02116
Rachel Getting Married
Milk
Doubt
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
Burn After Reading
Vickie Christina Barcelona
The Wrestler
Revolutionary Road
Changeling
02118
Milk
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Rachel [...]
I have a couple other things to write, but wanted to get this down before i forget.
Wednesday night I went to the re-broadcast of the Met Opera’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann. It was great. Mostly.
I got there a bit late (6:15 for the 6:30 show) and the stadium seating was full, as far as I could [...]
A pretty big year for watching films and stuff though, due mostly to the greatly increased streaming offerings from Neflix. That plus since getting the repairs and painting done to the house, I have yet to hook the TV back up.
The list from Netflix (alphabetical):
2010: The Year We Make Contact
A Mighty Wind
Aeon Flux: Animated Collection
After [...]
A slow year for books too. Read next to nothing.
In fact, I recorded nothing though I know I read at least a few things. I wonder what they were.
So I suppose I need to summarize in spite of the fact that I did almost nothing this year but work.
Cycling: way down over past years. In fact, according to the log (which I do update) says I haven’t been on the road bike since June. That’s probably correct.
Only one century this year, the Boston [...]
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