FlasshePoint

Life, Minutiae, Toys, Irrational Phobias, Peeves, Fiber

Morning Final

On Wednesday, I first heard about the closing down of the SF Chronicle from my friend Sue. Today, I woke up to the last ever edition of the Rocky Mountain News:

To no one’s surprise, E.W. Scripps finally pulled the plug on the tabloid-format Rocky after months of failing to find a buyer for the [...]

Where No One Knows Your Name

So much going on… so little time to talk about it.
We’re in the middle of Denver Restaurant Week, something that the girlfriend and I take advantage of every year. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s a week (actually two weeks this year; it’s been extended) where hundreds of higher end restaurants in the Denver area [...]

Mystery Gas

Yeah, yeah, I’m still not blogging too regularly these days. Lots of other things to keep me busy. Major life and household changes are a-comin’, which I’m preparing for. New project at work has left me somewhat exhausted. Trying to fit time in at the gym. It’s tax season, and [...]

Bye Bye Blackhawks

Again, sorry about being lax with the blog updates, but I have a good excuse. I’ve been vacationing in Florida for two weeks. Okay, you caught me, that’s a lie. Well, it’s kind of the truth, since I live vicariously through others. I’ve also been fighting wildfires in Australia.
Some of you [...]

The inPhonite Migration: Tracking the Lard

Today’s installment of The inPhonite Migration should rightly be about list managers. However, I’m just going to focus on a subset of the lists that I’ve migrated from the Palm T|X PDA to the iPhone. One thing that you find with iPhone applications is that in addition to general list management, there are [...]

Depth-Defying Dorkiness

Pet Peeve of the Day: The Third Dimension.
Oh, it can be cool and everything, but will it ever really rise above “gimmick” status? James Cameron says (I think) that all his movies are going to be 3D from now on, which probably explains why it takes him ten years to make one. Yeah, [...]