A friend sent me a link to this video and found it to positively brilliant. Definitely worth noting here so that I can readily find it again in the future.
1982 Volvo 240: Fall in Love in 9 Seconds Flat
I also found a copy of this Volvo 240 ‘Fall in Love‘ ad via Google Books, showing it as originally included in the January 10, 1983 issue of New York Magazine . The text portion of this ad states: FALL
Volvo Print Ads
A few years ago I started collecting Volvo print ads. I purchased them from various sources and ened up with a decent little collection. At some point I scanned them in with the intent of posting them on-line but never
Photos from My Garden
These are some photos from my flower garden this year. This flower garden is a bit of a work in progress.
Saison Homebrew Recipe
A few months ago I found a couple of good looking beer recipes at HomeBrew.com. The first one I chose to try was a Milk Stout recipe. When brewing it, I had an issue with the White Labs yeast that I had used. It basically failed to activate. I had to make an emergency substitution with a couple of packets of Safbrew S33. This was the only other yeast that I had in my house at the time. The Safbrew S33 did the job and the Milk Stout turnecd out pretty good.
Today I am trying out a Homebrew.com Saison Recipe. The recipe is called “Bridget’s Love Potion Saison” and here is my attempt at it:
HP ProBook Memory Upgrade
I recently went to install a memory upgrade into an HP ProBook 4320s and was surprised to find that this involved having to remove multiple screws and the keyboard.
To get to the memory slots on the HP ProBook:
MLB.tv & Blackouts
One of the serious drawbacks of no longer being a cable tv subscriber is that I cannot watch local sports. For the most part, it is the lack of baseball that gets to me. It seems like it was only a few years ago that baseball games were broadcast locally. Those days are definitely gone. Most of the Red Sox games are now only broadcast on the cable channel NESN. This means I cannot watch Red Sox games.
To Cable TV or Not to Cable TV
Last week I called Comcast and requested that they downgrade my cable television service from the Digital Classic package to broadcast channels only. This is a rather fun conversation to have with the Comcast folks. Their procedure seems to require that they escalate the call at least twice to give a couple of supervisors a chance to talk the caller out of this decision.
Apathy & Support
Recently I found myself thinking about the ‘Apathy’ Demotivator.
There is a software that I use to convert video so that it is podcast friendly. The software had an update available for download. To get the update I had to login to the product’s support site via a login form (choose product from drop down list, enter email address and registration code from my purchase email.)
Email Pet Peeve
A decent portion of the email that I receive is definitely spam, but there are some fringe candidates in my Inbox as well. Often these borderline emails are sent from folks that are legitimately trying to market something to me. As there are email marketing companies out there that are actually concerned about the quantity of spam-flagged emails that are sent from their clients, I always look for an opt-out option before reaching for the spam button.
