RIP: Ed McBain
Total bummer. So Drue and I stayed to Selkirk
Lighthouse for the weekend. Pretty cool to go up in a lighthouse built in
the late 1830's. I hit the library and picked up an Ed McBain book -
The
Frumious Bandersnatch - I hadn't read yet. I'd read a couple of his books
in years past, and then forgot to pick up the rest. As with his past work, I
devoured the book and loved every page of it. I was making plans to start from
the first one in the 87th
Precinct series - Cop
Hater (published in 1956!) - and read my way through them all in order. When
I got back into town and checked up on the news I found that
Evan Hunter - Ed
McBain's legal name - had died over the weekend. I still plan on reading the
series. There is one
more book in the series that has yet to be published. I'm just very
disappointed that after that the series will have died with Hunter. Thanks for
the great story-telling.
Posted: Monday, 3:22pm |
Topic: /General
Mon, 11 Jul 2005
Wed, 25 May 2005
What a Good Idea.
Since I'm frequently bored and always looking for something stupid to do, when I stumbled upon this following a link from Slashdot, I just said to myself, "Self, that's something you should try too!" I think I'll even go a step further, and sort it out by type. I'd love to know just how many credit offers Discover sends me in a month, let alone a year. Should be fun. Now, I just need to train the wife NOT to throw away the crap.
Posted: Wednesday, 6:39pm | Topic: /General
Since I'm frequently bored and always looking for something stupid to do, when I stumbled upon this following a link from Slashdot, I just said to myself, "Self, that's something you should try too!" I think I'll even go a step further, and sort it out by type. I'd love to know just how many credit offers Discover sends me in a month, let alone a year. Should be fun. Now, I just need to train the wife NOT to throw away the crap.
Posted: Wednesday, 6:39pm | Topic: /General
Thu, 7 Apr 2005
MyMortgageStatus.com
The OPAL Group announced our initial release of
MyMortgageStatus.com, our newest product.
(Yes, this is a plug, but we're excited about it.) MyMortgageStatus.com is a tool for Mortgage
Brokers or Loan Originators to help manage their company and to offer an additional resource
to interface with realtors and customers. If you're buying or refinancing you home, hopefully
you'll see our product in the near future. :)
Posted: Thursday, 10:41am | Topic: /General
The OPAL Group announced our initial release of
MyMortgageStatus.com, our newest product.
(Yes, this is a plug, but we're excited about it.) MyMortgageStatus.com is a tool for Mortgage
Brokers or Loan Originators to help manage their company and to offer an additional resource
to interface with realtors and customers. If you're buying or refinancing you home, hopefully
you'll see our product in the near future. :)Posted: Thursday, 10:41am | Topic: /General
Tue, 1 Mar 2005
Getting Started.
Dumped my ancient version of Greymatter. Haven't blogged in about 1.5 years. Trying again.
Bare with me while I get the layout, styles, and stuff worked out.
I should point out that - to start - I've blatantly ripped off the layout and styles from Jason Clark for this blog. I wanted something to start with and after looking for someone using the same blogware that I am, I stumbled upon his page and proceeded to thieve it. Hopefully soon, I will come up with my own design, ripping off learning from former co-worker and CSS master, Eric Meyer.
Posted: Tuesday, 5:13pm | Topic: /General
Dumped my ancient version of Greymatter. Haven't blogged in about 1.5 years. Trying again.
Bare with me while I get the layout, styles, and stuff worked out.
I should point out that - to start - I've blatantly ripped off the layout and styles from Jason Clark for this blog. I wanted something to start with and after looking for someone using the same blogware that I am, I stumbled upon his page and proceeded to thieve it. Hopefully soon, I will come up with my own design, ripping off learning from former co-worker and CSS master, Eric Meyer.
Posted: Tuesday, 5:13pm | Topic: /General
