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Florida birthday celebration vacation!

Thursday, August 28th, 2003

I’m going on vacation, starting now. Florida should be fun. I’m driving down with my camera and will take lots of pictures. Hooray! (:
Know of any sites I simply must see in Florida? I’ll be approximately mid-way down, on the west coast of the state.
If I’m able to have [...]

Reactions

Wednesday, August 27th, 2003

Last night, on my birthday, I had organic cereal. I poured the cereal into the bowl and then added some vanilla flavored soy milk.
Shortly afterward, I began to have severe allergic reactions. I could barely breathe, and my throat swelled up. My chest started hurting, my stomach region was in pain, and [...]

Birthday

Tuesday, August 26th, 2003

Today is my birthday. I am now 26 years old. (:

YANCC

Monday, August 25th, 2003

There’s yet another new Canon camera in the DSLR space.
Basically, the Canon "prosumer" (second usage defn.) digital SLR family of products has been a progression as of the following:

D30
D60
10D
300D / EOS Digital Rebel / KISS Digital

It should be noted that everything from the D60 onward has the same megapixel rating at 6.3… The [...]

Printer cartridge price gouging…

Wednesday, August 20th, 2003

This past evening, I went to the local Office Depot to pick up ink for my Epson 1270 oversized photo printer. When I went to pay by credit card, the little machine asked me to authorize the purchase.
The screen read:
$99999999.93[OK] [Cancel]
Now, I [...]

Ate at Joe’s

Tuesday, August 19th, 2003

I went with Joe K. and a few others from RHN to Joe’s Place for lunch today, and we ate Joe’s mom’s food. Yum.

“Please call Stella”, the accent database

Monday, August 18th, 2003

I just found out about a really neat accent database which has samples of speech from around the world. All have the same phrase, in English, in common. It starts out with "please call Stella" and continues with some sort of nonsense phrases.
It seems as though the paragraph was constructed to [...]