After five long years my good ol’ Linksys WRT54G wireless router decided it was time to bite the dust last week. I had been thinking about upgrading recently since the router does require a resetting once or twice a week due to dropped connections, which is annoying, but something I can deal with short term. [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2008’
The 2008 Apron Gala at the North Market
Anne & Desi & I attended the 2008 Apron Gala on Saturday evening. It was our first time participating in this annual fundraiser for the North Market, and I think we’re going to be making it a yearly thing from now on. Basically, this event is like having the whole North Market to yourself for [...]
The Buzzing Reed: Confessions of an Orchestral Clarinetist
An interesting blog from a member of the CSO: David H. Thomas has been an orchestral clarinetist for 23 years. Additionally, he is also an experienced soloist, with numerous critically acclaimed performances. Starting his performing career directly after undergraduate studies, he won a position with the Greensboro Symphony in 1982. The next year he was [...]
Eighteen Months Later…
Exactly 18 Months ago (November 19, 2006) Anne & I were out at midnight trying to score a brand spanking new Nintendo Wii. I didn’t think pre-ordering one was necessary, and there was no way I was going to stand in line for 24 hours like those other goofballs. I figured there would be enough [...]
Gas Price Thread on ColumbusUnderground Coming Full Circle
One of the more interesting ongoing discussions on Columbus Underground lately was started with a link to a Dispatch article back on December 30th which predicted the cost of gasoline surging up to $4 per gallon by Memorial Day 2008. When the article was published, gas was averaging $3 per gallon, so that was a [...]
Finally… Purchased our first lawn mower
After Anne got the front yard cleaned up nicely a few weeks ago, we lazily let the grass run wild. We had never owned a lawn mower before as our previous rental apartments were mostly yardless (not much grass to be found in German Village) and we had been putting it off despite the recent [...]
CSO’s closure won’t have much of an impact on Columbus
As you’ve probably read by now, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra is halting their operations as of June 1st due mostly to financial troubles. It seems like everyone is really quick to say that they’re sad to see the CSO disappearing, but also quick to admit that they rarely attend the symphony’s events. Personally, I’ve enjoyed [...]
It’s 2008, and The Other Paper doesn’t understand the Internet
First off, let me say that I was mostly happy with the way the article turned out in this week’s Other Paper. I believe that Columbus has a great online community, and any attention (no matter how slanted) given to bloggers is good news. That being said, there were some standard Other Paper problems with [...]
Columbus blogging featured in The Other Paper
The Other Paper YOU’RE WELCOME BY LYNDSEY TETER / MAY 8, 2008 Ranked as the No. 8 most active blogging community in the nation, an estimated 10 percent of Columbus inhabitants regularly pounded the keyboard in 2007, offering up online commentary themselves or consuming somebody else’s, according to Nielson Media Research. Walker Evans, the longest-running [...]