We have learned a new word from the manual for codesama's PC power supply manual - Einjechicken!

Original german text - "Zur repapatur anden kuncehdienst einjechicken!"
Original english text - "Return to service center for repair"

So the question arises: What the heck is an einjechicken?!
Does codesama need to visit the Fry's Einjechicken for assistance ( Read more... )

( Fortune cookery (...in bed) )

Ruafholtach is now lvl 13 & working on her fishing skills!

The generosity of other players in FF:XI continues to surprise me. Last night, I was battling one of the quest monsters, Bubbly Bernie, in order to grab the steam powered Barstokan clock. Bernie turned out to be tougher than expected & it was turning out to be an even battle to see who ( Read more... )

Tuesday was manic - eventually escaped home just after midnight, after duelling with parasitic diode area equations for several hours, so I could get a release out for use in Germany the next morning (which due to the time difference, they'd be using just a couple of hours later). As is often the case, sleep was elusive once I did reach home, so I ( Read more... )

Saturday was cool. The beef at the Chinese New Year Monkey bash was really, really nice. The fish was acceptable, but strange. The soup, I avoided since it seemed to have stuff in it that post-CA, might kill me... I now know why the other Christine is called Chii, though I wasn't able to ascertain if she was the good, or evil Christine. The ( Read more... )

( No suprises here - move along... )

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...is one of compliment & criticism - discuss!

( Some random quizzage )

Went down the FedEx office to pick up some stuff & then to the most important task of the day - to boldly hunt for BritChoccy! Figured it was time to finally infiltrate the British Emporium, so over to Grapevine I did go. Before getting inside, I had to negotiate a way across the sidewalk outside, which someone had thoughtfully dug up. You'd be ( Read more... )

...claiming to be from Citibank, that contains some atrocious spelling & asks you to enter your card-id & pin numbers - you should, of course IGNORE it! It is data-mining spam, that appears to originate from a Korean IP masquarading under a very similar URL to citibanks. This one is getting copied to comcast (where the spam was sent from) and the ( Read more... )