Month: December 2000

I’m happy to say that

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I’m happy to say that I’ve been sleeping much better the past few months. I’m not sure if it’s on the account of being exhausted all the time or if it has to do with the fact I was able to associate my bedroom with sleep only. I moved my computer out of there and for the most part, only enter the room when it’s time to hit the sack. In one month, my apartment-mate will be moving out, and I’ll be taking the bigger room. I’ll end up moving my computer into the bedroom and spending more time awake in the bedroom. Hopefully I’ll be able to continue where I left off when it comes to sleeping habits. I’d hate to have to re-learn sleeping well.

So people are talking about

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So people are talking about how interactive TV will be Big Brother (and I’m not talking about the elimination television show, I’m talking about the concept from 1984, by George Orwell — or was it Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley? I read them both the same time back in high school.) Anyway, apparently the new television format will monitor your viewing preference and model its stimuli after the viewer’s reactions. In any case, the simplest way to get around this, as I see, is embrace the new TV format, but just click “off” (or unplug, or whatever you have to do) whenever an ad or commercial shows up.

Yesterday I walked into the

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Yesterday I walked into the office next to mine and spotted co-workers watching TV. It was a news program — an aerial shot of a Ryder truck driving along a freeway. “What is this, a California slow car chase?” I asked. They were watching the Ballots being brought from wherever to Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. Quite exciting. The news anchor made a remark, something like, “We take you now to the O.J.-cam…”

So I finally signed up

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So I finally signed up for EZPass yesterday. I couldn’t find any evidence to support that they will give automatic speeding tickets to those drivers whose average speed is determined to be higher than the limit by timing the entry and exit to the highway. This should speed up my commute a little bit, since a lot of time is wasted at the toll booths. I was able to cut down the wasted time in the first place by not driving during rugh hour. But with EZPass, the tolls are cheaper, too, so it’s a bonus.