At approximately 11:50am (estimated from timeline), suspect attempted to forcibly open the patio door. This failed because of a dowel in the door track preventing its opening. He/she left a palmprint, and the door was opened hard against the dowel. Undeterred by the alarm company sticker, the suspect broke and entered the eastern-most window on …
Category Archive: General
Aug 24 2009
Burglarised again
Yes, once again the house has been broken into. This time with a vengeance. They smashed a window to get in. Tore my 47" TV off the wall mount. PS3 gone (Wii, oddly enough, left). Lots of jewelry. Pics:
Jul 03 2009
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Watch this. Now. It's a 50 minute documentary interview of Richard Feynman. Only part 4 is a little wonky, when he discusses hadron collision jets. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Feb 17 2009
The Wedding, The Honeymoon, and Oenophilia
If there was one thing that Jessica and I wanted our wedding to have when we had it last month, it was class. Weddings often start out with treacly yet empty words, devolve into an interminable set of forced monologues and meaningless rites, and end up like a well-dressed frat party. We thought we would …
Feb 09 2009
Being Nice is Stupid: A Lesson Learned from My Cat
My cat is the nicest cat in the world (I'm sorry, she just is -- I will not believe any cat is nicer than my cat). She looooves people, and she is very, very, very good with children. She'll let them pet her for as long as they're interested, even though child-petting is rather similar …