First the Vista box's monitor is refusing to work again. Without its keyboard and mouse and Synergy for comfortable typing at my desk, I dug out a out a USB keyboard to plug directly into the MacBook Pro -- and of course, I had to manually program the meta keys, and the function keys didn't work at all. Then my Mac lost its wireless connection ( Read more... )

Watching Neil Gaiman's interview with Stephen Colbert, the word "masochistic" has been inserted repeatedly (like 5+ times) in the subtitles, yet is never actually said. ???

PS Did Colbert tell Gaiman his questions ahead of time, or is Gaiman just that much better at being interviewed than everyone else I've ever seen on that show?

Do the more Apply-savvy people out there have a clue why my MacBook Pro looses its wireless connection every once in a while? (Like once a month, maybe.) Even weirder, if I then try to click on our house's wireless network to get reconnected, it asks me for the password (which I don't have memorized and so never give it in these circumstances), ( Read more... )

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Just had the much-needed basic structure of the slot 6 Dashing Blades of Amber game fall into my head. That is to say, I knew roughly what events in Amber history the game had to cover. But I didn't really have a solid idea how to fit the PCs into those events. Now I do ( Read more... )

Still trying to figure out how to manage ACUS this year. I think I'm definitely skipping the first and last slots, and I may be looking for a Saturday day game that would be compatible with keeping an eye on a six month old.

So mandolinjen and I stumbled across a review of the new (technically speaking, not even released yet) Green Fields of America album over the weekend. Our initial reaction was puzzlement, because the newspaper was talking about this band we'd barely ever heard of as if it was some long established ITM supergroup. (Research shows a previous lineup released ( Read more... )

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I seem to be missing several notes towards the end of the B part of the Bonawe Highlanders.

I'm having the worst time getting Mono to work with an up-to-date NUnit. As far as I can tell, it should work, but something is misconfigured somewhere.

And my mainstream work seems to require a completely new lightweight system for parsing IGES data.