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Arrested Development Season 2

It’s hard for me to say which seasons of Arrested Development are my favorite, as there were only 3 of them (see also some thoughts on Season 3). However, I do have a soft spot for Season 2, as it is probably the season that got me into the show in the first place. Season 2 had established even more of the recurring jokes, such as the family chicken dances. It had some great guest stars-Ben Stiller, Dan Castellaneta, and the returning Julia Louis Dreyfus- to mix with the cast and the recurring guest stars such as Henry Winkler and Judy Greer. It’s one wacky show that was only too short.

Like my previous post on Season 3, I’ll be picking one great quote from each episode (thanks to the OP fansite for the quotes)
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Introducing the New Blog

I’ve started this new Blog (with posts and comments imported from a previous blog) to discuss and post pearls of wisdom I’ve found through out life, whether through reading online or offline. While some of the posts will be short links, others will be longer thought pieces. I hope you will have fun reading this as I will writing it.

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“Ponderings on the way to being musings”

In case you didn’t know the title is a King of the Hill reference.

  • I slowly started to realize I needed to get out more when my boss offered to take me to the NTEN nonprofit technology club. Sure they met at a bar and that’s always fun, but it’s a little disconcerting seeing your boss in social situations. I really need another set of friends (or go back to hang out with my other friends more often).
  • I did hang out with my friends Justin and Norbert Wong though. Justin tells me his income forces him to pay a ridiculous amount in income taxes. That’s the price of not owning property, being married, or having kids.
  • Is it bad for me to be craving a new Macbook when I have a fairly decent Sony Vaio laptop that I only got 2 years ago? And chances are I’ll use it, and then start complaining about it afterwards. Darn those folks at Macbreak make things seems so cool.
  • I’m still looking for that great business idea. I wonder if it would be possible to work full time and on a side business at the same time. Who am I kidding of course it’s possible, but you just need to make time for it.
  • I’ve been really loving Countdown with Keith Olbermann even more now that they have a better blog. Just wish they would let you embed their MSN videos in something other than an MSN space blog.
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Startup Guides

A few blog posts about some other software and Internet services that might be useful for starting up a company (or nonprofit).

In summary, you’ll need these applications the most:

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Voicemail still needs improvements

Why do cell phones have color screens and yet voicemail prompts are still voice only? For those of us who get the newest phones, we still are stuck with a system from the late ’90s. There’s no reason for this. Fortunately, Apple has done something about it with their visual voicemail feature on the iPhone. And remember 37signals wants to help make this visual phone system. Remember that they have made some really killer apps.

Update: I talked about this a bit last year.

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More thoughts on MacWorld

  • Photoshop CS3 looks really cool. The perspective grid looks amazing. By far that was the best conference I attended.
  • Most of the conferences I wanted to go to were really full, which really sucks. Hope that means they’re good.
  • I’m tempted to buy the disk for the conferences I missed from Macworld Encore. At $99, it maybe a better value than the conference itself.
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Blogging from MacWorld

My job as Computer Resource Specialist for the College Writing Programs of Berkeley has me blogging from the MacWorld Expo. I’m at the great Microsoft Blogging Lounge typing away. I must say I’ve learned a few things from the consultants that I haven’t been able to figure out, which was great. I also saw a great show by David Pogue of the New York Times and ran into a few friends I didn’t expect to see. However, I’ve already missed a couple of the fun things like the Steve Jobs Keynote and the Q & A with Kevin Smith. Now I’m off to the User Conferences.

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Big Game 2006

Oh geez. This week just started badly. I was just incredibly out of it when it came to everything, so I was really looking forward to the weekend. Well, the week started turning around a little while earlier, as I had run into siobhan06 (who I hadn’t seen in a long time) in the line for free Chiptole which stretched around the block. She was gracious enough to allow me entrance into the line and I was able to secure the free food.

Little did I know how great a weekend this would be. First the big prize:

Alpha Delta Phi with the Stanford Axe
Alpha Delta Phi with the Stanford Axe

Thanks to current president for bringing the Stanford Axe to the Alpha Delta Phi Big Game Luncheon where I got to talk with a lot of the alumni about all sorts of things.

more from the weekend

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Drivels of a late night

I think I need more LJ friends. Most of the ones I had early on seem to have moved on to other things, which is fine. Maybe I should try posting in the communities or something.

We all know it get progressively harder to meet new people as we grow older. I don’t feel as though I need more friends, but it seems like it would be nice to meet some more people. I think I’ve been trying that more recently. Part of the problem with meeting people sometimes, though, is that you don’t feel like meeting people when you’re all by yourself and they are with other people.

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The Dems retook the House and the Senate. And Rumsfeld resigned. Hopefully, real change will have come from this election.

I personally had just hated the idea of voting for any incumbent this year or any body in a major party. So I voted for nothing but Green and Libertarian party candidates. I think I might start voting absentee, though, just because it would allow me to look up more about the candidates.

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Damn Arizona took away Cal’s chance at a National Championship. We have to beat USC now to get back our Rose Bowl shot and make sure we don’t lose to Stanford (who actually won’t got 0-12 this year).

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I like that one of the Linux LJ programs is called Drivel. It’s no Semagic, though.