Cruftbox: My Box of Cruft

I was at work, not working, when I saw this on Yahoo! Most Popular:

Coincidence?

They mentioned someone I kinda know in the Wall Street Journal. Lukas “Lukwam” Karlsson is a friend of James “Trikster” Ho, cousin of my wife.
The article discusses Tivo profiling and how it can lead to some strange results.
I’ve noticed the same thing where I need to counter-program Tivo to get it to stop recording programs I don’t want. I don’t want Spongebob Square Pants.
On a different note, here is an interesting article on predictions from 1992.

Several loyal Cruft readers have asked questions recently. I will answer.
Q: Ya’ll boil crawfish out there??
A: See the story.
Q: tooth fairy LOOT? what are you trying to do?
A: Don’t blame me. My idea was for shiny coins only. Scarymommy is the one that insisted on a present. This time it was the Spirit DVD, a pack of sugarfree gum, and two gold dollar coins.
Q: What’s the BTU rating on the burner?
A: After extensive research by Top Men, it have been to be 1.21 gigaBTUs.
Q: are those phillies blunts? what are the co-ordinates?
A: Yes, Phillies Blunts we were supposed to smoke on this geocache, but we had already broken several rules and I didn’t feel like starting a forest on fire. The new cache is posted.
Q: Your power failed and THEN your UPS thingy failed too?
A: No, we were upgrading the UPS thingy and it broke. We were on the power generator at the time. We didn’t lose power, but we did stay up to 2AM fixing the UPS thingie with the replacement whatchamacalit.
Ok, that should answer your questions for now. If you have more, let me know.
For all those concerned, I am working on my holiday greed list, so save your pennies and keep on the alert.
Lastly I would like to remind you TANSTAAFL.

A productive day…
This morning I prepared an ammo box to place for a geocache. I put some good stuff in it.

I placed the cache with the girls at a local park. I’ll post the URL once the cache is approved.
We headed down to my parents house for a visit. I spent a large part of the day trying to move my mother’s contact database from ACT 2.something on a Umax Mac clone running Mac OS 8.something to Outlook XP on a Dell running Windows XP. What a pain. Trying to explain the issues of data conversion and field parsing to my mother is tiring. Mom cares about the end result, not the method to get there. I did my part, I got her contacts into a modern platform. She can export the database into anything whe wants now.
Other computer support I performed include running Ad-aware on my dad’s machine to clean out Gator and some other spyware. I did the WinXP service pack one on my mom’s computer. My pay was dinner.
Zoe lost a tooth today while we were at my parent’s house. She was quite proud of herself that she pulled it out herself.
When we returned home, I was sent out to get tooth fairy loot. I just happened to go to Target. I just happened to stumble across a turkey fryer on sale. I just happened to buy it.
You ask, “What do you need a turkey fryer for?”
Ah, it’s not just good for frying turkeys. It’s good for brewing beer and boiling crayfish. I have big plans.
Later. I need to go rub blinding ointment into my eyes.

I will cause a war unless you pay me ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Thanks to Metsfan for the link to Second Spin. It’s a cool site where you can buy used CDs & DVDs.
I have a good day puttering aorund and went to the park with Mira. Who could ask for more?
Night.

I’m sitting here with Mira. She’s on her computer, I’m on mine. She’s asking me how to spell everything so she can write an email to Bear in the Big Blue House.
LAst night I had to put this special ointment in my eye. Says on the tube “For Corneal Edema”. The doctor said when you put it in, your vision will be very blurry for a couple of hours. I put the stuff in and amazingly everything was very blurry. I went to sleep.
In my chat with the doctor, we discussed that if I had to they could do the cornea replacement and then do Lasix and I would have perfect vision. Cornea replacement surgery is not a simple one week recovery like laser surgery. It would probably take six months to a year. I think I’ll give it a few more years for the surgeons to hone their skills. Patience. I just have to have patience.
On the gaming front:
I haven’t had a good gaming session in a week. Between family, Comdex, and the busted UPS, I haven’t had a chance to play many games. Squidly has helped to get me to play with his clan, but I just haven’t had a chance.
I guess I should make up a ToDo list so I can get all my RL stuff done and find time for gaming.
Styrofoamkitty is having a bad day.
After a week hiatus, Lukwam is back with a triple post.
Lastly, this will make my brother wonder what’s going on.

OK, trying to catch up…
First, it appear that Trikster.com has awaken from a long slumber. Now that he’s working, he has plenty of free time to update his weblog. Conversely, Lukwam, who is out of work, has not updated in almost a week. Kids these days…
I wrote up the latest Geocache I did in Vegas.
Next, I wrote up my visit to Comdex 2002.
Lastly I picked up a bottle of Glenmorangie Sherry Wood Finish 12 Year Old Scotch today. Most tasty. Michele and I enjoyed a drink before dinner.
Now this is a information filled post. Drink deep of the original content. G’night.

I’m finally home and it’s almost 3.
The problem at work is fixed and the safety of children’s TV is assured.
The morning wakeup will come quickly…

It’s past midnight and the UPS is almost working. Almost isn’t good enough.
Hopefully within the hour we’ll be able to switch back. Until then, it’s time for coffee.
In other news, I want some turducken.