42spotting

The US Postal Service annouced today it will increase the cost of a first-class stamp by one cent, to 42 cents, starting May 12.
I expected the next increase to be in 2009 and to be greater than one cent. But this excellent news means there will be stamps emblazoned with The Answer.

Ruth found this in her change yesterday. I believe it is worth roughly sixty times its face value!

My good friend Michael just moved to NYC.
His train for the trip? Number 42.

My parents’ home network automatically assigns IP addresses via DHCP. My MacBook is named “Cotterpin.”

Via email from Abbey:
When I was getting a tour of what was going to become my apartment, I asked what number the unit is. The building is being remodeled and it took a moment for the landlords to plot out what number mine would be. When they settled on three, I joked that [...]

While toodling around online, for reasons I can no longer remember I wanted to know our latitude and longitude here in Okemos. So instead of grabbing a map and guesstimating it, I figured I’d check google. After stumbling around a bit, I came across Geocode.com, which has a product called Tele Atlas. You can “test [...]

When we moved to Michigan, we realized our auto and renter’s insurance with Erie wouldn’t move with us since Erie doesn’t cover Michigan. So on January 13, we finally got around to getting coverage up here and canceling our policies back in PA. My car insurance was expiring on the 17th anyway, but Ruth got [...]