Kick her in the musical box, and other quick hits

So yeah, if you didn’t see it on Fark or Slashdot this week, check out pandora.com. You feed it songs/artists you like, and it creates streaming music channels for you based on the styles of the songs you feed it, very cool, great for work.

Thanksgiving marked my first trip back east since the westward migration, and in two months I can see a difference. Traffic up there is quaint, it was weird to see that much open space on the plane ride in, and I’ve completely become a bitch about cold weather (today it was 55 and drizzly in Cali, OH NOES, TEH WINTER!!1!). Yeah, not quite the white out Lauren and I experienced on the way to Rochester.

I invited Angela to play poker with the guys on Saturday (I know, I’m a romantic), and she won first place (which earned me a free garbage plate Sunday morning).

And finally, I just received my first credit card that has airline miles rewards (the basic Citi bank card). I’m also going to retroactively sign up for the United and US Air mileage programs to recoup miles from my last two flights. Anyone out there have other good ways to rack up miles quickly/cheaply? Right now I’m looking for a good way to funnel my rent payment via this credit card.