...yours truly will, as with the first Saturday of ~many~ months ever since way back in like 2002, be on campus tomorrow for the all-day Evil Geniuses get-together. Tentative plans involve bringing a load of consoles like I used to back when but really haven't lately. Anyone else attending is welcome to recommend the things I should bring, and if ( Read more... )

...when one of the bits of random crap that tend to fall out of my mouth accidentally make me sound smarter or more profound than I have any right to be ( Read more... )

So I was based at Blue Heaven again somehow. Nothing's very clear, except that the universe was kind of Bayformers 3, my buddy Batman was seeing me off as I went to take out Sentinel Prime and Megatron with a Casey Jones-esque golf bag full of blunt trauma, and in the end everyone was outside some house on a dock, and Megatron was a Pretender who ( Read more... )

Max here, taking an elective day off work just because I felt like I could use one. It's been pretty good so far - if nothing else, I finally got the kitchen cleaned up a bit, a good thing since yesterday morning I screwed up and spilled coffee on the stove, and on top of that the dishes had been piling up a fair bit ( Read more... )

Given that there's damn near no video on all the Internet any more that doesn't come equipped with at least 15, maybe 30 seconds of advert in front of it, a keyboard being equipped in turn with a distinct 'mute' key seems like a pretty damn fantastic bit of hardware engineering.

Every now and then I think everyone has one of those moments wherein they say something to the tune of "hell with it, I'm going to ________". It might be choosing to eat that piece of cake you resolved to avoid, or buying that game that you weren't going to play because the manufacturer wears baby seal-skin thongs, whatever. You heed an impulse and ( Read more... )

...boiling your potatoes and then 'mashing' them in a food processor is highly effective. Why did it take me this long to think of that?

I did something interesting this morning ( Read more... )

Well, kind of, anyway ( Read more... )

Skynet Alpha seems to have gone comatose on me again, as machines are occasionally wont to do. Everything powers up and the monitor comes to life, but no POST and no life in the peripherals (read: mouse optic light off, keyboard unresponsive). I fear the BIOS chip died. Everything seems to be powered yet, and for at least the last month I've been ( Read more... )