Yes, I could be watching football and playing poker. Instead I wrote a Thread class and implemented a Lock-Free Pipe. And it works!

Our Internet service has been up and down all weekend. Qwest is having some problems with their servers, apparently. Anyway, if you need to contact me, and you know my phone number, you'll be able to hire the A-Team.

I've been buying back packages of old Infocom games as collectors items, trying to find high quality boxes that were well cared for and have all the original included feelies.

Today I arrived home to find a pristine edition of Leather Goddesses of Phobos waiting for me, complete with a scratch & sniff card that still has detectable odor on it. ( Read more... )

I'm assuming last night was the Chinese New Year. Starting at midnight, there was the sound of firecrackers for about five minutes straight from some uncertain distance to the West and possibly North. I'm guessing they were in the International District. I'm also guessing that because there were no police sirens, this was in fact a planned event ( Read more... )

When the PSU was rattling, I changed my Vista Power Plan to the "Power Saver" mode in an effort to put the PC in sleep mode more often and prevent the PSU from burning out with a shitty fan. What I didn't realize was that each of these plans have associated advanced options, one of which sets the minimum and maximum speeds of your CPU, and the " ( Read more... )

My CPU is capping out at 1GHz, when it should be scaling up to 3GHz. This explains the slowness. Now to figure out how to fix it. Hmmm...

I picked up a new 550W PSU, and now my PC is not a rattlebox. Now to test out other stuff and make sure it's running as quickly as it should ( Read more... )

Something happened to it last night while I slept. I'm not sure what. What I'm pretty sure is my PSU fan is rattling away like a fridge, and my framerates in L4D are the suck right now for no discernible reason. I checked that my HDs were still running DMA, my CPU is running at proper speed, there's no weird processes running in the background ( Read more... )

Many people have already commented on the Inauguration of Barack H. Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America. Much has been said about his race, and the role that plays in history, our National politics, and the mood of the Citizenry. I'd like to comment on a slightly different perspective, and one that I find more personally ( Read more... )

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The plane was bound for Charoltte, NC, then on to Sea-Tac. It hit a flock of birds on takeoff, and the pilot managed to gently put the jet down safely in the Hudson River, on the East Side of Manhattan. Supposedly everyone is off the plane safely and is being treated for exposure. It's about 20F in NYC now.