http://trivialmatters.today.com A commentary on life and other unimportant things. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:33:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm taking today to update Trivial Matters itself. I created a page for TNT, which I will be adding to once I get the fundraising page setup tomorrow (this weekend at the latest). I also updated the FAQ page with the last post, and updated the About the Author page ... http://trivialmatters.today.com/2009/01/08/blog-maintenance/ Wait. Pub Quizzing has an "etiquette" round? Not quite. Rather, the entire pub quizzing experience requires some modicum of etiquette, and I think we should discuss that now. What's so hard? As long as you don't shout out the answers, you should be fine... right? You would think that, wouldn't you. But pub ... http://trivialmatters.today.com/2009/01/07/pub-quizzing-etiquette-a-faq/ Sunday I joined Facebook. Between the new job on campus and the fact that everyone else I seem to run into is on there, I figured it was time to give in. And I must admit, this is *way* better than MySpace (not that I'm a social network aficionado by any ... http://trivialmatters.today.com/2009/01/06/mafia-wars/ People! Yeah, you! Come over here. Let me show you something... See this? This is a Meetup group. Yeah, I know Meetup is a great place to meet new people. But did you read the terms and conditions when you joined? No. Well, let me clue you in to something. When ... http://trivialmatters.today.com/2009/01/05/meetup-email-lists/ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a trilogy consisting of five books and a short story. It was written by the late Douglas Adams, and is one of my favorite books of all time. I didn't discover the books until I was into my late teens. A guy I worked ... http://trivialmatters.today.com/2009/01/05/h2g2/ Finally, I got to see this movie. I had to drive clear across town (in the snow as it turned out) to find a theater playing it. One would think that for all of the press it has been getting, and all of the talent involved (Ron Howard, Frank Langella, ... http://trivialmatters.today.com/2009/01/04/frostnixon/ There were actually two benefits that came out of my music drive going to sh*t. The first was finally weeding out some old duplicate tracks that I had been carrying around. Back in 2002, when I was deployed, I copied about 5 CDs of MP3s off of a shared music server ... http://trivialmatters.today.com/2009/01/02/itunes-optimization/ As of writing this, I'm about 90 minutes from next year. Actually, it's 90 minutes and an extra second since they have to adjust the atomic clock to account for orbital wobble. I've been thinking hard about the goals that I want to set for next year, and I'm not sure ... http://trivialmatters.today.com/2008/12/31/welcome-to-2009/ I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a great fundraising idea for TNT. I want to hit the ground running next month and not have to worry about whether or not I'm going to make my goal. One of the webcomics I read, Crtl-Alt-Del, posted a notice about ... http://trivialmatters.today.com/2008/12/29/fundraising-ideas/ Grrr... I bought a hard drive several months ago in preparation for my deployment. I wanted to increase my music library in the likely event that I was asked to play some music while I was over there, and my MacBook HD just was not big enough to hold it all. ... http://trivialmatters.today.com/2008/12/28/fried-hard-drive/