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You know how long we have been in this deep freeze? Well, deep freeze problem isn’t the right term. Our deep freeze is way warmer than it is outside. Well, today the wife said, “Hey, it’s a nice day out today. We should take the dog for a walk.” So then I checked the temp. It was -2º. Yes, now -2º is a nice day.

It seems like I never have time to read. I probably only get through five or six books a year. I usually read newer stuff. I wish I had more time to read some of the classics. Well today I checked out dailylit.com. They email parts of book to you every day. That way you can just read your email and eventually read complete novels. You get one email a day, and if you want to keep reading you can just click a link and the next part will be sent to you.

Of course they mainly only have old books that are in the public domain. The one newer book that I saw they have is Cory Doctorow’s first novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory has been giving away his books online from day one. He says it has increased the sales. I am one of them. I bought Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom after reading the first chapter online.

Now I can finally catch up on the Charles Dickens novels that I have never had time to get around to reading.

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It’s crazy how warm 5º feels after the cold weekend we just had. I just shoveled the sidewalk and driveway in just a sweatshirt and no gloves.

I hate when people complain about how they hate Super Bowl or say they just watch it for the commercials. I understand not everybody likes football. To me this is one of the biggest days of the year. I have only missed one Super Bowl since 1983. I watch almost every NFL game that I get a chance to watch. The NFL is my American Idol. I think American Idol is stupid. I think the American Idol season finally is stupid. The Super Bowl is the NFL’s season finally. The finally of something that has been going on since 1920. It’s a big deal to a lot of people. It’s a big deal to me too. Sure, in the grand scheme of things it’s only a football game, but I love this game.

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I finally got a story on the main page of Digg. Actually it’s on the main sports page. It’s the top sports story now. It was from an article I found about what the NFL does with the championship hats and shirts of the losing Super Bowl teams found here. When ever I find something interesting I try to post it to Digg. 99% of the time someone else has already posted it, so I just digg it again. In fact I have only submitted five stories in the two years that I have been on Digg. Actually it was exactly two years ago yesterday that I joined Digg. I joined on Groundhogs Day 2005. Go digg me if you want to.

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I think it’s save to say that I won’t be spending much time outside today. It’s pretty cold out, but really, once it gets below zero you can’t really tell how cold it is. It’s just damn cold. Single digits would feel so nice now though. Hey look at the wind chill. I guess when you get down to -39º Fahrenheit and Celsius are the same. I didn’t know that, but then I don’t know much about the Celsius scale since I am just an American idiot.

I love spotlight in OS X. I don’t use it to search for things a lot, but I am always using it to launch programs. It’s simple. I just hit Command+Space, type a few letters of the app I want to launch and bingo, the app in launched. When I am using my Windows PC it’s a pain in the ass searching through the Start Menu for the program I want to launch. Well, that is a thing of the past. Today I discovered Launchy. It works just like spotlight, but it’s for Windows. Now I can start any program with just a couple of keystrokes.

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When is it going to warm up?

So lately I have been noticing my eyesight getting a little worse. It’s not too bad. I can read everything close up. I just have a problem reading fast food menus and the guide on the TV. So last week I went to the eye doctor for the first time ever. It was pretty cool. I found out my eyes weren’t that bad, but I am a little nearsighted. The Doc said I didn’t need glasses, but wrote me out a prescription just in case I wanted them. If If was bothering me that I can’t see very well. I think I am going to get a pair. It’s going to be weird, but it’s a pain in the ass not being able to see fast food menus.

So Windows Vista came out today. Part of me wants to upgrade because I always want to have the latest and the greatest. I think I am going to wait a bit though. I played around with the beta of Vista, and it looks pretty cool, but doesn’t really add anything I don’t already have. I don’t use my Windows PC all that much. It does it’s job running my Windows Apps. I don’t think I would be gaining much upgrading to Vista, but I still want to. It’s killing me.

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