Author: Rick Klau

… What product came with the instruction manual I wrote about last night?

From a toy my in-laws bought Robby for his fourth birthday last week: CAUTION-ELECTRIC TOY: Not recommended for children under 3 years of age. As with all electric products, precautions should be observed during handling and use to prevent electric shock. Please keep reading the following safety notes before use or examination. i). Primary technical…

Growing up in Boston in the 80s, I was a big Celtics fan. It was hard not to be: it was the team of Danny Ainge, Dennis Johnson, Kevin McHale, Bill Walton (in ’85 and ’86), Robert Parish and of course Larry Bird. One thing stands out for me about the Celtics in the 80s,…

Over the weekend, Robin was telling me she wanted to keep a wishlist online. Amazon’s wish list is nice, but it’s exclusive to Amazon products (and Amazon partners). Why not have a wish list that could span multiple sites? To which I proclaimed, “I have the answer! Del.icio.us!” (It’s hard to pronounce those periods when…

Our real estate and auto insurance agent recently retired, and sold his practice to an agent whose office is quite a few miles away from us. While we don’t have to interact with our agent too often, it’s nevertheless nice to have someone in the community to deal with when the need arises. Robin visited…

Hollywood Reporter shares the frenzy over Snakes on a Plane. Just 147 days left and counting. I love that they’re including a signature line by Jackson because of fan interest: “the filmmakers do concede that the Jackson line will be in the movie for the sake of the fans.” What’s the line? Read the article.…

Henry raises a fascinating, and disturbing, consequence of voting by differing means, and the potential to determine exactly who someone voted for. This is a non-trivial matter, and something that needs further attention.

One last note: With just over 60% of the results in, great to see that Debra Shore is the top vote getter right now for Water District Commissioner. Fingers crossed for the rest of the results…

I’m crashing, been up since 4am (to catch that oh-dark-hundred flight to NYC) and am finally spent. Some quick observations on a few big winners tonight: Barack Obama. He backed Alexi Giannoulias over Speaker Madigan (whose candidate was Paul Mangieri). Alexi, armed with a TV ad featuring Senator Obama, won handily. That’s more than a…

I’m blogging all of this from a hotel room in NYC (business travel!), but just heard from Brian Sebby, who’s at Cegelis’s party. She just addressed supporters, said that things are too close and it’ll be a long night. With only 3 DuPage precincts left (and 40% Cook precincts left), my calculations have Tammy up…