Look, it's real simple. Whatever mileage we put on, we'll take off.

iPhone line at the Apple store, in Los Gatos

nobody@vox.com(Schomer) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:49:38 -0700

I captured a couple pics with my phone and a few people yelled at me for rubbing it in. I guess they thought I had a new iPhone. I don't. And apparently won't. But who cares, with all these apps to play with?

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Software Dream

nobody@vox.com(Schomer) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:24:09 -0700

Just woke up from a dream where Apple's iWeb application was running city government. A JavaScript error was tearing the people of the city apart.

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tenant/landlord lawyer needed

nobody@vox.com(Schomer) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:51:55 -0700

Anyone know a lawyer in the bay area, who knows tenant/landlord law? I need to talk to someone ASAP. Any leads you could forward would be appreciated.

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Netflix Box

nobody@vox.com(Schomer) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:58:35 -0700

Roku Netflix Box

I received my Roku Netflix box yesterday. For those who haven't seen or heard of this, it's basically a box that allows you to play movies on your TV that you have added to your Netflix Instant Queue. What I find nice about the idea is that it's $99 and nothing more. (Apple TV charges you for each movie rental, and you only have 24 hours to complete the movie - which is an issue, if you have crazy work and kid schedules like we do.)

The setup was pretty close to nothing. You plug it into your TV, choose your wifi access point, enter a code on the website, and all your movies appear on the TV. Choose a movie, and it starts playing immediately. On the downside... there are not a lot of great titles to watch because the list is quite a bit smaller for the instant shows/movies as compared to the regular DVD rentals.

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First drive home to Santa Cruz. No traffic?

nobody@vox.com(Schomer) — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:28:21 -0700

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hi mom!

nobody@vox.com(Schomer) — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:26:09 -0700

hi mom!

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john lennon was wrong

nobody@vox.com(Schomer) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:52:10 -0700

"We're more popular than Jesus." -- John Lennon

What Google Labs says about it

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lease laws

nobody@vox.com(Schomer) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:33:47 -0700

Do any of my Vox friends know if there is a law having to do with a landlord giving a specific amount of notice to a renter about them doing work to the house they are renting? Our landlord called us the night before a crew replaced the roof on the house. And they were working on the roof for a week, banging away while my wife was trying to work in her home office. Also, they did not cover our things inside the garage, so all the debris fell into all of our things. On top of all that, the guys dropped something on our washer and broke the front of it, and also stole a few cell phones I had sitting in a box in the garage.

The roofing company is going to fix the washer - but our landlord isn't helping us get that done, which is bullshit.

The phones are just gone. I seriously doubt anyone will do a darn thing about that. I don't need them, but I was going to give them to a family member who could use them.

It's the "no notice" of the roofing work that really irks me.

I'm about to call the landlord and tell them we're moving out. And I'd like to have some firepower to bring up, if they don't want to work with us on getting out of the lease two months early. I think we have been more than reasonable in dealing with these things, and I hope the landlord is too, but I'd like to know if I have legal grounds to get out of this lease if she did not give us 24 hours notice of work to be done to the house.

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train on the waterfront

nobody@vox.com(Schomer) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:03:52 -0700

Whoa, I didn't realize those tracks were still used!

train on the waterfront

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A letter to my liberal friends

nobody@vox.com(Schomer) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:42:15 -0700

Tax-rebate

Dear liberals,
Enough man. I'm already paying all the freaking tax in this country, and now I don't get the rebate? I was going to turn around immediately and put it back into the economy by spending it. But now I guess I can't. Well maybe you'll spend yours on a new laptop, which will find its way into my Apple stock, and then I'll cash it out at some point down the road. Oh, but that might not work either, if your friend Obama or Clinton are elected, because they want to tax the crap out of my capital gains, too. Okay, so I'll buy a house, so I can write off all the mortage loan interest and lower my taxable income (you liberals call this a tax loophole only available to the rich, right?). Oh man, wait a second, I'm paying more in property tax than the 9 other houses on the block, combined, because their taxes only go up minimally, while mine gets set to the sale price of my house. Hmm, but that's fair, right? Since I can buy a house, why shouldn't I pay 50% of the property taxes on my street. I mean, I have the money, so why not take it? And why not increase the taxes on gas while you're at it... it's nearly $1.00 per gallon now, but you know I can handle much more, because I am driving this nice car. And we all know people with more expensive cars should pay higher gas taxes. Of course, that's what is done for registration. Oh and I forgot to thank you for wanting me to pay $4,000 in sales tax for the purchase of my car I bought in Oregon - where they have no sales tax. Do you really think I was trying to get out of paying the sales tax - when I lived there for the previous 15 years, and an additional 11 months before moving here?
I am living paycheck to paycheck these days, trying to get caught up on life. But you... you think I'm not paying enough. Not paying my "fair share" in taxes. If what I am paying now is still not fair, I can't imagine what is.
Kind regards,
Schomer

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