It's kind of amazing to me that I have internet friends that I have never met, that I never will meet, that I care so much about.

A friend brought me a laptop recovering from a virus sickness. She had reinstalled windows but could not get the sound card working. A bit of googling showed me that the audio driver would not install without a specific MS patch (nonstandard hardware on a panasonic tough book ( Read more... )

I doubt anyone reading this will be interested in who I'm voting for or why, but I'm going to tell you anyway. It wasn't an easy decision but I've finally decided to vote for McCain ( Read more... )

Yes, rabid fanboy-ism

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me:
oh
and the fire is out
so thats a good thing......

friend:
yay no fire
what fire?

me:
son's car

friend:
omg

me:
battery shorted out, started an actual fire
but it's a toyota, so once we cleared away the refuse, and the sparky part

friend:
woah!

me:
it went "OHAI! I WUZ ON FIR BUT IMOK NAU"

friend:
lol
awesome

me:
hey thats a

and it's name is Ikea. What an organized madhouse it is. We have to redo a bedroom in fairly short order at the condo. We are replacing the 20 year old bunkbeds that have survived remarkably well. $wife bought a semi-antique rugged heavy brass bed on craigslist and that has been sitting up in the hallway since last spring ( Read more... )

Three or more years ago I started this exact project as a way to learn c ( Read more... )

This weekend has been freakin gorgeous! Sun, no humidity, light breeze. Just exactly the kind of days you'd want to really enjoy because you know they won't really last much longer....or at least thats what I think it was like as I looked out the window ( Read more... )

So because $wife will now be commuting 3 miles to/from work we thought it would be cool to get something like a vespa or honda scooter. It turns out that in MA there is a big difference between a scooter and a moped. Mopeds must not be physically capable of going over 30MPH, through the use of a governor. A scooter must not "be operated at a ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentleman, I give to you Rodrigo y Gabriela

The savvy among you already know of them I'm sure. For the rest, I hope you like it as much as I did!

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