My new hard drive, a Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500, 500GB, 7200 rpm, 16MB, SATA-300 / RoHS / OEM / Hard Drive, model #7H500F0. It’s a midline drive, rated for 1,000,000 hours.
$150 from Tiger Direct.
It makes me giddy. I’m such a nerd.
Andre tagged me. So… 5 things about me that most people don’t know…. ![](http://lee.org/blog/images/thumb-20070201chiefbigwheel.jpg)
When I’m having stressful weeks, I sometimes talk in my sleep
I never use nail clippers on my fingers. I bite instead.
I am proud that I can eat an ice cream cone without a single drip
I have a collection of Chief Big Wheels. In high school, one of the kids I sat with, George Karl once tore up the Chief Big Wheel from his package of Big Wheels (cousin to Ding Dongs and Ho Hos). He said something like that he hated them and wanted to destroy them all. In response I (of course) took the Chief Big Wheel from my package and said that I loved them and was starting a collection. Every day, the more he told me how he hated them, the more I’d -need- to collect them. My collection has grown to about 70. That’s about 140 Big Wheel treats! Yum!
I have a secret super-hero identity where I wear the letter “R” on my chest. I’m called Resourceful Man! No, really.
I don’t really feel comfortable tagging others. But if you are reading this and saying to yourself, “Bring it on!” Consider it “brought”!
The front page of Boston.com as well as the Eagle Tribune report:
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Public safety officials are not laughing and a 27-year-old immigrant from Belarus is going to end up in front of a judge for planting illuminated electronic devices throughout the Boston area that brought out bomb squads and raised fears of terrorist attacks.
The first of the devices were found early yesterday afternoon at a subway and bus station underneath Interstate 93, forcing the shutdown of the station and the highway. They turned out to be part of a nationwide publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon by Turner Broadcasting. Most of the devices depict a character giving the finger.
Peter Berdovsky of Arlington was arrested last night on one felony charge of placing a hoax device and one charge of disorderly conduct, state Attorney General Martha Coakley said. He had been hired to place the devices, she said.
Here is how to make the terrorist devices in question
Just to be sure you get it: 2 artists were arrested and given felony charges for putting up blinky-art around Boston. The police thought the (12″ x 12″ x 1″) blinky-art were bombs so they closed down the city. The police even blew up a couple of them just to be sure.
TJIC, add this to your Boys in Blue file.