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LJ question
Some LJ friends have pointed out that it is likely to become impossible to maintain a paid account on this platform very soon.
One of the only remaining things I'm interested in here is photos in the ancient Scrapbook. It seems possible to click through one-by-one to download them, but I have a bunch of albums. Anyone aware of any tricks?
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Heads-up LJ readers
Today the owners of Dreamwidth posted about a status change for crossposting to LJ from a Dreamwidth blog post. Essentially, LiveJournal is no longer cooperating to facilitate crossposting. What this means is that my posts on DW will only sporadically work as crossposts here ( Read more... ) -
Meal Prep Sundays / Crumpeteria [food]
My head is abuzz with trying to think about the things I need to remember for teaching tomorrow. I'm going to forget something, I just know it.
I made broccoli-chickpea burritos for the week. I still have a bunch of leftover kung pao Ficken, and I got some marinara out of the freezer just in case.
I wanted to try skipping the grocery store this ( Read more... ) -
Still miss her [cats]
I still miss having my cat here, waiting attentively while I finish eating some ice cream, ready to lick out the bowl. Eating ice cream without her in this empty house just isn't the same.
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Small Adventures [rowing]
So, the erg race. I biked in to my office (in -5 deg F weather, brr), borrowed the erg from the physiology lab into my office, plugged in the cable to the desktop computer, and away I went. I'm 5 seconds slower than last year, which I believe continues a 2-year trend.
Then I put the erg away, took care of the campus animals (neglected project from ( Read more... ) -
Neither sick nor well + third time's the charm?
My sinuses have been bothering me and my throat has continued to be slightly scratchy, so I worked from home today and fed myself another zinc lozenge.
The second SSD enclosure showed up today. It's also the wrong size and shape.
So now I have finally looked up the drive type and have ordered something that looks specific to it. I guess that's an ( Read more... ) -
Bah.
So it looks like one thing I'm not going to be able to do with any sort of ease whatsoever, is figure out how to get the rowing machine monitor to talk to this computer.
The thing people are using to run virtual rowing machine races works through Chrome. I eventually found a rowing machine help forum page where I ran lsusb and was able to see ( Read more... ) -
Progress.
I buried this in a comment somewhere, but today I managed to get Beryl set up to hibernate (new Ubuntu-machine is named Beryl, by the way). Helpful so I don't have to shut the computer down every time I want to schlep it somewhere. That was no small task.
I also got underway with USB'ing files onto Beryl. The biggest piece of progress there was ( Read more... ) -
Did you know there are different kinds of SSD interfaces? [status, computers]
Now that the case has arrived, I have learned that the 2012 MacBook Pro has an mSATA SSD, not an M.2 SSD, which was developed later.
So I won't be able to access its hard drive until I get the correct kind of case in, which is going to take several more days and another $20.
Last night I caused myself all kinds of headaches by trying to learn how to ( Read more... ) -
Today's computer brain explosion
At the moment I still only have a murky sense of the various different ways to install software on this machine, but at least my internet searches also tell me this can be kind of a murky thing anyway. I'm generally going with the Ubuntu Software GUI and the synaptic GUI, as this murky understanding indicates that's least likely to cause horrible ( Read more... )