So I would like to buy some new glasses. Mine are going to fall apart eventually, and I'd rather have a new pair before it happens so I'm not rendered useless and blind.

Where is a good place to buy glasses?

It ends up that my previously reported technical woes were due to a spontaneously-failing power supply. Oh well, as fun as it might have been to buy a new computer, I'm happy enough to not spend the money. However, the backup power supply I have swapped in sounds like a vacuum cleaner, and is not appropriate for constant use in a living room. ( Read more... )

Last night I took some time out to install a new hard drive in my server. After ripping out some components and putting some others in, I hit the power button and.... nothing. Well, the power supply kicked in, I could hear the hard drives start up, and the ethernet card LEDs flashed, but nothing showed up on the monitor, and no booting happened ( Read more... )

I had a great weekend ( Read more... )

We're going to CM tonight. Bundle up and join us!

The weather is supposed to turn to rain tomorrow, does anyone want to make the most of the sun and go biking today?

... or, do anything? Caitlin has to study all day and I have no plans.

Though I doubt any of you will care, the year is set to end (and next year begin!) with quite the musical bang, crossing the full spectrum of ridiculous musical genres I enjoy:

• Headwater, Vancouver's finest bluegrass band, is playing at Cafe Deux Soleils tomorrow night (Friday).


• The Advantage, Planet Earth's second-best NES cover band, is playing ( Read more... )

I just finished Underworld, which had some of the most gorgeous writing I've ever read, tragically arranged in a particularly infuriating manner. It would have been a fantastic book if his editor had been more agressive in pruning, and had forced him to arrange things chronologically ( Read more... )

The week's Escapist is about Women in Games. Possibly most interesting is a dissection of gaming and gender from the view of evolutionary psychology"If we were to whisk a young hunter-gatherer male out of the remote past into the present, dress him up in whatever the current uniform of youth happens to be and plunk him down in front of a videogame ( Read more... )

It's certainly been one hell of a week, let's recap:

• Dead Can Dance: Amazingly awesome. Ten years since their last tour, and they sounded better than ever.


• Seattle: It's kind of like Vancouver, but not as good. One thing we really noticed is the absolutely huge number of "crazy" homeless people in the city, way more than here.


• Amtrak: Taking the ( Read more... )