Got an e-mail today from a fellow Dell 8600 and Tumi Briefpack owner asking if I’d ever decided on a new backpack. The short answer is “sorta.” After the original postings I spent the following two or three weeks contacting every local retailer I could think of to find out if they carried the Dakota […]
Archive for June, 2004
Backpack Follow-up
29Jun04Favorite Things in New Jersey
17Jun04Philadelphia
I sometimes say that I’m from Philly because people who aren’t familiar with the Delaware Valley region think that South Jersey is near Newark and that the odor must be terrible. Americans are terrible at geography, but most can grok that Philadelphia isn’t near Newark.
Many seem to think that Philly is some poor substitute for […]
Another New Jersey Favorite
15Jun04The Platon T. Berkey Memorial Bridge
My grandfather was burried at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Arneytown, NJ. Visiting his grave involved navigating across a natural ditch that would get muddy and dangerous after it rained, so my grandmother donated several thousand dollars to errect a bridge dedicated to my grandfather.
It’s […]
Favorite Things in New Jersey
15Jun04The Reagan Rock on Ronald Reagan Drive
My father grew up in the town of Hammonton, which is the self-declared “Blueberry Capital of the World.” I don’t like blueberries, but Hammonton is a town that is charming in the ways of many small New Jersey communities. One of my aunts still lives there, and another lives […]
Favorite Things in New Jersey
13Jun04The Street That Wasn’t Named After Me, But Should Have
When I win the big lotto jackpot I plan to buy every house on this street in Voorhees.
FYI, my namesake is Bryce Canyon National Park, which my father desribes as one of the most beautiful places he has ever seen. I think the only National Park […]
Discrimination
11Jun04Gmail is trying to keep me down. After begging, pleading, and even placing a few low-ball bids on eBay, I finally managed to get an invite. I hoped to become tby, or bryce, or even byehl @gmail.com… but no, it’s gotta be at least six friggin’ characters.
Google is discriminating against people with short names. Quick, […]
Tivo News
09Jun04Tivo has transitioned the former Home Media Option features to the standard service bundle and added a Multi-Service Discount for having several Tivos under one account ($6.95 for each additional unit).
Now if they’d just release Tivo2Go and add support for the Microsoft MN-710 802.11g adapter…
All isn’t happy for me in Tivo land right now tho. […]
One Last Toy
09Jun04Saturday night I made a quick trip to Best Buy to get a 40GB iPod, ’cause being on the road requires a soundtrack… But I think it’s going back after my next Jersey trip.
It’s not that the iPod sucks so much as what came in the box doesn’t live up to the money. After laying […]
