We’re buying a house!

Here’s are some photos of the front:

Begone, hoops!

My oral proposal went well, and now I’m just a few approvals away from being a candidate.

Space heater

It’s cold so I got out the space heater today.  It uses 110 lightbulbs worth of power on high, or about 55 lightbulbs on low.  Though considerably less effective, I think my socks, afghan, and cat-on-lap solution is much more efficient.

Adventures in buying a Wii

We decided we would get a Wii this year as our Christmas present to one another. It’s only October, but with the continuing shortage of Wiis, we decided it would be a good idea to try to order it well ahead of the Christmas-buying season.
It’s still not easy to find one. They retail [...]

Energy usage

I asked for and got a kill-a-watt for my birthday this year (thanks mom!). I’ve dutifully measured some of the things around the apartment. I figured blog action day would be an appropriate time to post some of my results.

Rewriting paper submitted

At the end of August, I started working on a paper which I had intended to submit to a conference. The submission deadline was only two weeks away, so I pounded out a draft in a little over a week. But after I gave it to J to read over, we decided to [...]

Safe in her fortress

That scary vacuum cleaner has never tried to come up here before…

I miss SunRocket…

I think Sunrocket really spoiled me. They included all the taxes and charges upfront in their price, so when I paid $199 for a year of phone service, the actual cost was $199.
Not so for Vonage, where the taxes and fees add an extra 25% onto the advertised price. Here’s the breakdown for [...]

Starting a wiki

I’ve pretty well convinced myself that all the user-level documentation for Milawa should take the form of a Wiki.