Pick a password. Any Password.

I just upgraded my machine at work to OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). It is one of 4 machines that I regularly work on. I keep the passwords and PIM data on these machines synced using MobileMe. Upon the first run of the MobileMe sync process after the upgrade, I got this dialog:

pick a computer, any computer

So apparently I just need to guess.

MA cancels tax holiday, raises sales tax

Abigail Beshkin reports:

Negative Pressure Area

I can feel my stress fading already.

Well, I’m certainly impressed.

Best Precision Haircut 2007

Wow, that is some award. But it’s 2009, people. Stop resting on your laurels.

Lint Cthulhu

Ok, gross.

I previously posted about how much I liked the sticker on the drier in my basement. It guaranteed poor results if one didn’t keep the lint trap clean.

Tonight I was dismayed to find that my clothes were still damp after an hour in the drier. I gazed at the admonishing sticker. Clean the screen, it said. I took out the screen and verified that I had indeed cleaned it. It was when I put it back in that I noticed it was not quite sitting back down where it belonged.

Curious, I investigated. There was certainly some stuff down there. Actually, there seemed to be quite a bit of stuff. I found a dowel lying around and started digging…

… fifteen minutes later I’ve got this pile:

Frankly I’m surprised the thing worked at all.

Obama FTW

Yoga for Sarah Palin

Ah, the intersection of Yoga and Politics.

I’ve been checking out what yoga podcasts there are online. There were like 30 listed in the iTunes directory alone. One of them is titled “Tara Stiles Yoga.” I’m not ready to endorse it as the best yoga vodcast out there, I’m not really done checking out the scene. But it is definitely the one with the most political satire.

Eat it all

The real-deal soft-serve ice cream that Carl’s (in Fredricksburg, VA) serves up from almost antique-looking ice cream makers is awesome. However, I always find it disturbing when my food tries to tell me things. That cone says “EAT-IT-ALL”.

No two are alike

“Audits are like snowflakes.”

–Jenn McVetty

Business ass

In case you don’t recognize what you’re looking at, it’s the flank of an Amtrak car.