Matt Brundage

I proposed to Annie this evening and she said “Yes”! I caught her totally off-guard too. She knew I was planning on popping the question, but she thought it would occur sometime in the spring. I got down on one knee, and at first, couldn’t get the words out. I didn’t really have to because I was already in her arms and she was jubulant. I managed to eke out a whispered “Will you marry me?” She loves her new “sparklie” and, upon receipt of the ring, couldn’t stop squealing and going “eeeeeeee!”

I looked out the window this morning to see a flock of pigs fly by. That’s how I knew it was time to get my first cell phone. It’s a Valentine’s Day present from Annie.

Know what deeply saddens me? When I go to peoples’ houses and they have a huge, fancy widescreen HDTV, and they’ve got a 4×3 picture stretched to fit their 16:9 display, and they’re using a standard $5 yellow RCA cable instead of component video or HDMI. *Sigh* Granted, I watched the Super Bowl at a friend’s house, and he had everything right — HD, correct aspect ratio, correct cables, sound, et cetera. But it’s no use telling some people when their audio/video components aren’t optimized. When I leave, they would say, “Oh, Matt told me to do something with my TV cables, but I forget now. Oh well.”

MSN.com actually warns you not to use Microsoft Internet Explorer. Check the 14th paragraph, where it gives an external link to download Mozilla Firefox:

Stop using Internet Explorer. Microsoft’s Web browser is a hog. Switching to the Mozilla Firefox or Opera browser can yield swifter program launches, faster page loads, and an all-around smoother ride. In my personal experience, Firefox has proven the fleetest browser…