Worthless bags of feces attack epileptics
I have very little patience for people online who think it is their right to disrupt, harass, and harm others purely because they can. I am talking about griefers: a…
“Global warming”, my ass
I'm looking out the window into our back yard, where we have several big flower bushes with hundreds of flowers in bloom. It is spring... except for the little fact…
Skeet shooting… with cars?
I came across this video on Gizmodo today and... well, there is something about automatic weapons, rockets, and cars instead of clay pigeons that just tickles my funny bone. The…
Fujitsu to make bigger “fast” laptop drives
I'm pretty happy with my Macbook Pro. But on the day I bought it, I started planning upgrades: I'm a geek, after all. The first thing on my list- upgrade…
The Sword and the Sorcerer… a tale of my aging memory
I spent a couple of hours this weekend trying to remember the name of a movie I vaguely recall watching many years ago. It was back in the ’80s, during the era of Conan and its imitators: the era of Sword and Sorcery movies. I recall the film being kind of fun: a first rate B movie, if that makes sense. Yet I couldn’t recall a title or, with any certainty, the details of the plot.
I remembered two scenes from the movie, and possibly a third one. I wasn’t sure if perhaps I was misremembering, and combining these scenes from several different movies together into some sort of frankenmemory. I recounted my vague recollections to my nephew Shane when we were talking about other movies, and to my friend Chris, who I recall was there when I saw this particular flick all those years ago.
Office re-org 2008
I promised earlier that I would post some pictures and information regarding my home office “refresh”, and this post is my attempt to fulfill that commitment. I’m basically done, and I’m happy with the change- happier than last year.
iPod in Space…
I came across this photo on Gizmodo and thought it was sufficiently odd to reference here: Yes, apparently that is an iPod sitting on the dashboard of the Space Shuttle…
Wouldn’t you know it…
I just completed a completely unnecessary and unintentionally expensive upgrade to my main gaming computer. Of course, this means it is time for something to unexpectedly break and need replacing.
The upgrade that wasn’t…
I decided late last year that I was going to take the year off from the computer upgrade process. That doesn’t mean that I planned on absolutely zero upgrades, but that I would defer the “big stuff”. This came after a tremendous amount of hassle and fuss trying to get Vista and my 2006 PC upgrade working to my satisfaction, and after the satisfying experience I had with my MacBook Pro.
But things change… and the upgrade that wasn’t going to happen, did…
(more…)Server outages due to office re-org
I am in the midst of another office cleanup. Unlike last year, I don't think I'll bore / shock you with too many pictures. But as I shuffle things around,…