Apple Mouse M0100

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Sent.

Friday Update from Chuck 10/14

Here’s another update of the 2nd floor living area and master bedroom:

The wall color was darker than I anticipated, but I like it so far. In fact, I’ll probably flush my initial plans of individually painting some walls.

I’m anticipating the installation of kitchen and living room cabinetry. You’ll see. 🙂

Here’s an evening shot of the community in progress:

MÜHLE Safety Razor Set (For Later)

I hate shaving. It’s not that I hate the act of shaving, but really the act of repurchasing razors. They just seem so unecessarily expensive. As a matter of fact, I think the only razors I’ve ever owned are the ones that P&G sent me for my 18th birthday (luckily for me they thought I turned 18 twice). Okay, I’m lying. I’ve gone to Costco to purchase that giant 25-pack of cartridges once or twice–but I hated it.

A few weeks ago I watched Put This On Episode 4: Grooming, and decided to give the traditional wet shave a go. Here’s the set I’m currently looking to put together:

MÜHLE R101 Tooth Comb Safety Razor

MÜHLE M106 Silvertip Badger Shaving Brush

MÜHLE S971 Stand for razor and brush

MÜHLE RN46 Shaving Mug

MÜHLE RSAV Aloe Vera shaving soap

I still haven’t pulled the trigger yet, but I expect to in the near future. I’ll report back my findings.

Friday Update from Chuck 10/7

Now that the garage door is put in, it looks like they’re locking the front and side doors when they leave.

RIP Steve.

Desktop Modding

Found a folder of screenshots back from when I was into modding my WinXP desktop. These are from a short period between Oct 2002 to Jan 2003 when I was using my 13.3″ 1024*768 IBM Thinkpad 600E. Enjoy.

Btw, I was going to remove the screen names shown in my buddylist, but who the hell still uses their old AIM screen names? 🙂

wallpaper : iceblocks
icons : jaffa collection (by Greg Fleming)
visual style : kde crystal (by Timan)

wallpaper : something bumpy [orange]
icons : jaffa collection (by Greg Fleming)
visual style : realm [orange]

wallpaper : giving tree (by Joseph Rosario)
icons : jaffa collection (by Greg Fleming)
visual style : classic [Emerald Garden] by OutRigged

wallpaper : t w o . f i v e . s i x (by Joseph Rosario)
icons : jaffa collection (by Greg Fleming)
visual style : braille (by Xcert)

wallpaper : two.five.six – pixeled (by Joseph Rosario)
icons : Moonshine (by Greg Fleming)
visual style : watercolor (by Binary)

wallpaper : none [R:82 G:162 B:66]
icons : BlockOS (by unknown)
visual style : classic w/ 3dcc theme (by Joseph Rosario)

wallpaper : Aerialsm [drk grey]
icons : BlockOS (by unknown)
visual style : classic (3dcc theme)

wallpaper : Whistler plus (by Joseph Rosario)
icons : BlockOS (by unknown)
visual style : Watercolour mod (by elw3irdo)

Friday Update from Chuck 9/30

Dry wall is up. I didn’t get to see them insulate the interior walls, so I guess I have to trust that my walls aren’t hollow. 🙂

I took panoramas to compare with the previous week’s again. Here’s the 2nd floor living room:

Here’s the master bedroom:

A few more angles of the 2nd floor:

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I noticed in the garage, all the service cables (satellite, cable, telephone) are passed through to each house. It’s a smart way to wire the building. Since my house is on the end, I essentially have access to my neighbors’ tv/internet/phone service. Of course it’ll be secured, but it’s good to know I have options when the neighbors get too noisy.

Friday Update 9/23

Had a pre-drywall walkthrough with Chuck on Wednesday, so no call from him today.

The house is really coming along–it’s actually beginning to feel like a house. This week the electrical and exterior insulation was installed, so everything looks pink. Here’s another look at the 2nd floor living room today (compare it with last week’s):

A shot of the 3rd floor master bedroom:

And a few more images around the house:

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One thing I wanted to mention was a design option that I opted for called a “smurf tube”. It basically is a tube integrated into the wall allowing cables to be easily passed through. The one I chose in particular was for the living room TV area. The cost?

Expensive right? Yeah, a bit. But I know that it’d be something I’d regret when it comes time to wall mount my TV with cables dangling about. The cost is worth it.

Today I was reminded of what it actually is–a tube nailed to some wood.

That cost one-hundred and thirty-five dollars. Amazing.

Facebook Timeline

I was a little reluctant to give Facebook another shot, but after seeing a few of the partnerships and app integrations from today’s f8 I really think FB is beginning to treat their role as a social network with respect. Timeline is turning out to be a great balance of top, recent, and relevant info (something that Google+ is currently struggling with).

So far, I’m happy with it.