I was inexplicably slow at work tonight; finished almost an hour later than usual. When I left to go home, the windshield was iced over; pouring water on it didn't help much, and I drove home looking through a 6-inch hole in the ice, and parked by sense of smell. When I got home, the computer froze, and since I had to kill everything anyway, I ( Read more... )

I'd like to welcome our new Red masters comrades.

So, LJ's been bought out by the Russkies. Makes sense, since 90% of the random LJs you get from the random link and picture-grabber applets are in Cyrillic.

Time to format the old-computer-turned-backup-turned-portable HDD for use at school. Which file system works with both Mac and PC? (WinXP and OS10, if it matters.)

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Jeffie and I are making a Murder Mix, but we're coming up short. Any songs about killin' people we should include?

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I used to read Hack a Day all the time (not that I really understand any of that hardcore EE stuff, but it's fun to see what wacky shit people are doing with electronics), but I'd forgotten about it for a few months. Today somebody linked it in the SA "useful websites" thread, and I went and read the first two pages.

And found a link to this. The ( Read more... )

I just went from supersonic bombers to horse cavalry on Wikipedia. Steps included, but were not limited to: B-58 Hustler, F-111, some French runway-cratering bomb carried by their F-111s, the mythical sword the bomb is named after, swords in general, cavalry sabers, cavalry.

When I upgraded to 2.0 last week, the theme I had for Firefox wasn't compatible, so I had to find a new one. I found one I liked the nav buttons of, but found that it had ugly "close tab" buttons. So I unzipped it and the one I had before, and did a bit of .png-swapping, and now it has the nice close buttons. I still need to wade through the CSS ( Read more... )

Could you measure your laptop's keyboard? Just rough width and whatever you want to call the dimension between spacebar and Fkeys. Length or depth, though neither sounds right to me. Anyway, I have a Crazy Scheme, but it requires a keyboard smaller than 12"x4". Therefore it probably won't work, at least not the way I was hoping ( Read more... )