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Continue reading →: Shannon Hale’s Goose Girl
squeetus: books. Amazingly, this is a book that everyone in the family loved. We listened to it for six non-stop hours. Shannon Hale’s first effort and it is delightful. Ani is a little slow, but who wouldn’t love the ending. It is a retelling of a Grimm’s fairy tale and…
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Continue reading →: D-Link Router Firmware Dies
Talk about a strange problem. Today, everything got really slow. Called up Comcast and they pointed out a nifty tool called the Speakeasy – Speed Test. You plug a machine directly into their cable modem and it measure the real speed from a server. Here in Seattle, I got pretty…
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Continue reading →: Free McAfee for Comcast Users
SECURITY – MCAFEE SECURITY MANAGER – Comcast.net. This has got to be the worst promoted thing in the world, but bascially you get the whole Mcafee suite of firewall, antivirus and other things are free if you have a comcast account and an email. Check it out. A nice value.
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Continue reading →: Get there before its all gone…
What a terrific place. A traditional locally owned bookstore. I highly recommend you frequent it before it really disappears. It like Powell’s in Portland are really unique institutions. The cafe downstairs is also wonderful and on a cold winter day, nothing quite beats buying a book and then heading for…
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Continue reading →: It isn’t the best, but it is convenient
OK, as I mentioned to Katherine, it ain’t the best place, but if you’ve got screaming kids and it isn’t crowded (nearly never) it isn’t too bad. After all, it is hard to ruin noodles, although truthfully, they do overcook them. I’ll have to give China Village a try. Or…
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Continue reading →: Sun Peaks (Redux)
Tong Family Blog: Sun Peaks Archives. Well we are here again at Sun Peaks and two years later, there are still no real reviews of restaurants. Heard that the steakhouse is busy and slow, but to recap the ones that are still open as listed in the official “Sun Peaks”:http://www.sunpeaksresort.com/winter/restaurants.aspx…
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Continue reading →: Learning Chinese
Iv’e ordered a bunch of Chinese language programs and texts. Wow, things have gotten wayt better than the old days of just learning from a book. Here are some of the tools and an early review: * Rosetta Stone. This is the most expensive package at $300+ for Level 1…
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Continue reading →: Do you need an agent, it depends
First off, we’ve always used an agent for a pretty simple reason, most of the time when we’ve been buying, it has been into neighborhoods we haven’t known that well. While 3% off the top can seem like a lot, if you have a good agent, you can at least…
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Continue reading →: Great place and great eggs
It’s a little out of the way, but an institution on Madrona. I’m surprised I can’t find it with Judy’s Book, but here it is on A9 Maps http://maps.a9.com/?mpref=1&mscl=5500,55000&mimg=914aadcf0ce6fffe,1&mstr=34th%20Ave&ypLoc=1000%20Boren%20Ave%2C%20Seattle%2C%20WA%2098104&mll=47.61289954238346,-122.28932241455185,47.60773871693669,-122.29697353730622,47.613178419414425,-122.28932241455185 and here it is with google local http://www.google.com/local?hl=en&hs=fHz&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=hi-spot+cafe&near=Seattle,+WA&sa=X&oi=locald&radius=0.0&latlng=47606389,-122330833,5377379225633446724 An awesome spot, no pun intended, the eggs are particularly good. Try the…
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Continue reading →: They rival $1,000 speakers
Well, on the going deaf part, I think the main thing is don’t turn your iPod up to deafening levels. Seriously, its really about not blasting them. The easiest way to do this is to watch and make sure you don’t turn it up too high *and* to get headphones…
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