I'm still quite fascinated by the social networking phenomenon taking hold in the American zeitgeist. Everybody seems entirely too keen with sharing everything about themselves with everyone they know and those they claim to know ( Read more... )

For the past 3 months, I have been sitting on a motherboard, CPU and RAM for a tower I wish to build for myself.  Trying to save money for other parts proved problematic due to my mother being the saver she is.  Last week, I got the case and yesterday, I acquired an optic drive and a new mouse.  My system is up and running with an OS on the HDD.  ( Read more... )

 The past 10 days have been some of the most stressful my family has endured in recent memory.  My brother has been in the ICU at Harborview Medical for the past 10 days in a medical coma after being a jackass.  He is only now coming out of it and off a respirator.  The prognosis is that he will take over a year to fully recover from the fall.  On ( Read more... )

I have not posted on this blog recently for a number of reasons.

The first reason is the various technical difficulties I have been having with every computer with which I come into contact having some critical part fail.  Most of the time, it has been a hard drive crashing either on my laptop or PC tower.  Then there was the issue of my PowerMac G4 ( Read more... )

The past 6 weeks have not been the best cup of tea.  I've been taking care of my mom as she recovers from a broken ankle that, thankfully did not need surgery.  I have also been trying do well in classes despite a mid-term, a research project, a presentation and a final exam.  During this time, I was concerned for my professor's heath because she ( Read more... )

I read web comics frequently.  So rarely do I find one that tickles me in such a way as the following.  I'm not as big of a gamer as I used to be, but this is still on the ball for Microsoft.

www.virtualshackles.com/142

  I spent yesterday in shock over the news I read.  Waking up, I had not expected to find out Satoshi Kon, writer/animator/producer/director, had died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 47.  I was devastated, partially because of his age and partially because of the things he had done in such a short span of time.  10 years was all he had to make ( Read more... )

The bowling league I was in, with the hand injury and all, did not end the way I would have liked.  I finished in 10th place out of 26 people.  I missed making the top 8 by 2 points.  I knew I would need that many points, but I was struggling the last two weeks.  Two weeks ago, I took 2 points, but could barely bowl afterwards due to a migraine.   ( Read more... )

Approximately nine weeks ago, I was bowling in a new league.  It was the first game of the first week, 3 frames in when I did something I did not think was physically possible:  I sprained my ring finger and aggravated a tendon in my wrist.  This led to some very gentle and soft bowling for the better from then until now.  Tonight, I was able to ( Read more... )

There must be some merit to the thought of one computer problem being contagious to others, whether it is a software issue or a hardware issue.  Last week, I had the thought of my mom's computer hard disk drive failing after 10 years of faithful service.  Sure enough, three days ago, it started giving the click of death, as well as running slow and ( Read more... )