Live from Austin!

I don’t know which is more amazing—that the UK didn’t repeal the Witchcraft Act of 1735 until 1951, or that a woman was convicted of witchcraft in 1944.

I now have a Wii…

…component video cable.

Now all I need is the actual console. I figured the cable would be the tougher piece to get, because they were only available by direct order from Nintendo, but it turns out the console is still near impossible to find in Austin.

We got a Roomba. It’s cleaning the living room and kitchen at the moment. It does a good job of keeping the wood floors clean. It also does OK on the medium-thick carpet upstairs. I also like that it’ll clean under the double bed, so I no longer need to shift the thing to vacuum. Not to mention the sideboard in the dining room, and the kitchen table.

I was pretty skeptical about whether it would be any good. First time I tried it, I had just cleaned the floors the regular way. It picked up a bunch of dirt I had missed. So yeah, I’m a Roomba believer.