http://silentchris.com/blog Not the TV show.... Although... I do enjoy it. Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:55:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been almost six months now since I bought my first car (the 1990 Dodge Spirit that my parents bought when I was a Sophomore in high school doesn't count).  It's a 2008 Nissan Altima 3.5 SL (pictures here). Some thoughts as a first-time buyer after having lived with my ... http://silentchris.com/blog/archives/25 Yes, the right one is upload, the left one is download. To be fair, we usually get 5kbs+ but I guess our phone line is throwing a tantrum or something. http://silentchris.com/blog/archives/23 We put some of our stuff up on craigslist when we moved recently and some of the responses are great. I'm sure anyone who puts items up gets the same emails, but they struck me as funny. It's amazing how generic they get. Like this one, in ... http://silentchris.com/blog/archives/22 Tawheed, Garret, his parents and I went skydiving today at Bay Area Skydiving. The experience was great. Of course, we signed our lives away before going up. They also had us watch a crazy instructional video that was narrated by a guy that had a beard which must have ... http://silentchris.com/blog/archives/20 For those who haven't yet been exposed to the hilarity that is lolcat - you should head over to I CAN HAS CHEEZEBURGER. It's gotta be the best lolcat site on the net. http://silentchris.com/blog/archives/17 For the three or four other people out there who are actually using memcached having problems using the set function because of expiration issues --- expiration time is handled differently for anything over 30 days (as it was for us trying to make a year-long session here at Plaxo): set ... http://silentchris.com/blog/archives/16 It's been about a month since I got my Pentax K100D and half that since I bought the DA 50-200mm lens for it. The camera is really nice, although it's often not worth it to switch lenses. I find most of the time I want to zoom in ... http://silentchris.com/blog/archives/13 So, today was Easter Sunday and Garret, Pete and I went to church this morning. It's only the second time I've been in my entire life (the other was in Ireland, of all places). Mark Jen was part of the team that helped put the service together. ... http://silentchris.com/blog/archives/8 Today was the last day that Pete's mom is here, so we decided to enjoy the weather and cook out on the grill. We used the 80/20 ground beef to make our hamburgers (the last time we used the 93/7 stuff). All was going well until we went ... http://silentchris.com/blog/archives/5 I'm not sure why I didn't get a domain and hosting before this, but I finally just went and did everything a few nights ago. I guess I'm probably pretty lucky to have gotten christopherrivers.com after waiting so long. There are lots of other Chris Riverses out there. ... http://silentchris.com/blog/archives/1