Claudia passed away this morning. The funeral's this weekend and, as with all things of this nature, I find myself in the process of self-discovery. For most people, the stages of grief goes something like denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance ( Read more... )

5 Reasons Why We Love Lists

And now, some lists.

6 Real Supervillain Lairs
7 Terrifying Creatures You'll Never See Coming
10 Coolest Foreign Words that the English Language Needs

Spring cleaning is upon me, and this year I'm officially giving up film photography ( Read more... )

The Polish and German in me won't let me make a thin soup, especially if it's still averaging 37 degrees outside ( Read more... )

Seems to be that my beastie is booting fine, but she just can't decide which graphics card to rely on.

The onboard graphics are messing up my NVIDIA so that 9/10 times the computer boots sending video to the wrong port. Updating drivers seems to have made the problem more of a pain. How do I disable my onboard graphics?

So, I unplugged everything, and turned the computer on with the bare minimum (per Alpha and Kent's advice).

I haven't had problems turning the computer on at all, but rather problems with the peripherals not responding, so the whirring of fans and lack of beeping told me nothing new.

Powered down, waiting a minute, and plugged my monitor in. ( Read more... )

-Built new computer ( Read more... )

-Claudia is out of the ICU (way earlier than I anticipated) and into rehab. She's still at the point where she can't stand on her own, and now she's off all coma-inducing drugs. So, with her snark back in tact, this is the hard but rewarding part ( Read more... )

'Spose this is what happens when a person continues to pursue education all the while trying to be an "adult" and have a full-time job ( Read more... )

I'd name it one of the following:

Suburbia's Daughters
Hot Pink Rage
Purple-headed murder
Hot-headed murder

Or maybe I'll just play Guitar Hero with many different profiles. Heh.