3 Stations East

I happened to be at Target yesterday and checked them out - very very nifty. They're all rather small, but smell pretty nice. $5 a pop; $5 for shaving cream (for instance) isn't too bad, but I do believe the giant Trader Joe's natural shaving cream I currently use costs around $4.

That said when I run out of it, I'm willing to try out the bloq.

The packaging exudes a kind of quiet coolness, in contrast to method's other bottles. (Oh, and I love the new dish soap bottle. I AM A GEEK.)

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Book It's Revenge

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:28:03 -0500

I promise, I'm not reading books in order to get a free personal pan pizza.

Yesterday I started Self-Made Man. Today, I finished it. I know! It really was a quick read (of course, giving it 2.5 hours of a 4.5 hour flight didn't hurt any.)

Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back

Overall it was an interesting diversion but I'm sorry to say I didn't find any amazing revelations in it. Vincent makes a totally passable man though - save for the lips, which are pretty red for a guy. I was interested more in what happened to the relationships she developed once she revealed that she was a woman.

Unfortunately, the book followed this format for each of its main chapters: Vincent infiltrates group x, writes about group x and members y and z, reveals she is a woman to group and/or members. That was it. It felt a little simplistic in that regard.

I would have liked to have read more details about her relationships and what it felt like for her. These topics are covered but not in any great length. I'm also really curious about what her wife thought about all this, and how this impacted her mental and psychological states during the experiment (we do get a wrap-up of sorts on this.)

There's nothing too deep here, I'm afraid. There are some nice insights relating to men's emotions. Still, I recommend it.

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Hot Hot Heat

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:47:12 -0500

So yeah, 90 in San Francisco is pretty warm!

It is definitely a "dry" heat though.

Now, time for dinner.

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ATTACK OF THE GIANT BUTTONS

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Sun, 06 May 2007 13:05:01 -0500

Gee whiz WordPress. Be more like Vox.

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Browser Gripes

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:05:18 -0500

So I switched back to Safari last week after using Firefox forever. I just can't seem to settle on a good browser on the Mac - I haven't been able to in a long time. I'll probably go back to Firefox though.

Safari feels faster and more solid than Firefox. I like the speed, I love the minimal interface. I don't like the fact that Vox doesn't work with it (hello!) and neither does Google Adsense, I've found - the latter is a new revelation as it did work previously.

I'd use OmniWeb as I still love it but, it has all of the Safari issues plus the Ping's CMS makes it crash for some reason. (It's just rendering a control, for goodness sake.)

Camino? If I'm going to do the Gecko core then I want all of the extensions too, so I might as well just run Firefox.

Firefox is still a bit of a resource hog and feels really, really cobbled together on the Mac. It just feels alien, and that's unfortunate because its feature set is still good (OmniWeb's is better.) I think what I want is OmniWeb with the Gecko core. That would rock my socks.

Until then, my socks will hum a little tune instead. Sigh.

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MacBook, Loud Shirts and Coffee, and 1995 Deja Vu

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:09:21 -0500

The MacBook is back and better than ever. The Apple Store replaced my finicky SuperDrive and had it back to me in a day (well, technically less.) There's definitely a Ping coming about the lousy, stupid reservation system for the Genius Bar though - it doesn't work, or at least, didn't for me.

Just glad the thing can read CDs again.

II.

Yesterday morning I was drinking coffee in the car when I started to spill some. I feared the worst, imagining it had spilled on my shirt. I looked down to see all of it had been spilled onto the seat belt. So I said out loud...

"Saved by the BELT!"

IIa.

Of course I spilled coffee on myself here at work about an hour ago. This time, not so lucky as I wasn't wearing a seat belt. The upside is that my shirt's pattern is loud enough to mask any coffee spill.

III.

I added both the new Tori Amos and Nine Inch Nails albums to my ever-growing "albums to buy" list. It's like it's 1995 all over again, isn't it?

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