I'm in con scramble mode because Otakon is next weekend and I'll be in St. Louis all week on business, so I can't do my work midweek at the absolute last minute like I usually do ( Read more... )

Every year, the city of Cambridge takes a few of my tax dollars, and a few dollars from each of the other 100,000+ residents, and does this:


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Here's an interesting story (with several photos) about a bit of good fortune I had with a camera. ( Read more. )

...an internal optical drive? I've got an IDE CD/DVD burner and a SATA CD burner/DVD-ROM. Don't care to go through the effort to sell them on eBay, so if you need a drive for your desktop computer, ask me plz.

Also I got a job, woohoo! It looks like Bush Recession II only derailed my career for a few months.

Last week, I went to Target and got this:


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I write anime reviews for Sci-Fi Wire ( Read more... )

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Okay, I have a couple of VHS tapes to dump for the con this weekend. So let's fire up the DVD recorder, and... shit, it's broken. Stopped working entirely. What brilliant timing.

Okay, well, I can just buy a new recorder. Oh wait, I can't, because they've apparently stopped selling DVD recorders unless I want to drop $300 on the single DVD-VHS ( Read more... )

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