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I've been having trouble with my USB widgets lately. Every couple of days my windows gaming machine goes a little insane and I have to unplug and re-plug some USB devices (bluetooth dongle, or audio adapter ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I bought a bluetooth earpiece and dongle for my computer. I used it with Ventrilo so I wouldn't have to take off the headset whenever I wanted to get out of my chair and move around. (Plus I had a tendency to catch the cords on things and yank the headset when I moved ( Read more... )

One of the subjects briefly touched upon during lunch was "chest-talker". A cow-orker used it to refer to another cow-orker who would carry on all conversation while staring at her chest.

(yeah, it's a cliche ( Read more... )

I'm jumping to conclusions at this stage, but there are people reporting that the suspicious device that paralyzed the Boston commute this morning was actually an Adult Swim advertising stunt.

night time picture of moononite on overpass

day time picture of moononite on car hoodIt is possible that the moononites are unrelated to the device that ( Read more... )

tinkerboo has been harassing me for weeks to buy a computer capable of playing WoW at decent frame rates. It didn't help that WoW stopped working on my linux laptop with WINE with the 2.0.4 patch (although I suspect it was unrelated to Linux and WINE and was more a driver issue ( Read more... )

On the 9th my WoW addiction was interrupted by the 2.0.3 patch which didn't like my WINE video driver.

I took the opportunity to "finish" Psychonauts and Guitar Hero Medium Career. I even gold-starred some songs. I didn't really finish Psychonauts. I just made it to the meat circus and the platforming became unbearably demanding ( Read more... )

Apple announced the iPhone yesterday. I think I speak for most of the nerds when I say "Why didn't we have this 2 years ago ( Read more... )