So, yeah, I bought an iPad. Pre-ordered one at 6am on day 1, actually. Love the thing. I also bought the Apple case with it, which I'm not totally thrilled with, but cannot quite give up using. The typing angle mode is just too great. But, totally unexpected, the Apple iPad in the Apple case does not fit in the Apple iPad dock. Doubleplus ( Read more... )

My beloved Macbook was sent away for service on Tuesday (display backlight flickering) and was delivered back into my hands this afternoon. Though they charged me for the service, Apple seems to have done a bang-up job in repairing the device. They replaced a number of components, not all of which were relevant to the display problem. They found ( Read more... )

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Having obtained a quorum of tools, I've started to rebuild my woodworking skills. My first project was a bookcase built out of 3/4" hardwood veneer plywood:


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It's a bunch of made-up nonsense that 1 + 1 == 2. Anti-religious extremists made up the mathematics and have since decreed that 1 + 1 MUST equal 2. The Lord our God describes in his Bible that he is "all powerful", and therefore may at any time cause 1 + 1 to equal 69. This equal but opposing view to "1 + 1 == 2" MUST be presented to students in ( Read more... )

If it is your belief that, at any point in human history, you could have put a carpenter and a leper in a room together and later have wound up with fewer lepers than you started with, then I not-so-humbly request that you stay off of any school boards. At the very least, stay the fuck off of MY kids' school boards.

( 60% redshirt )

If one is a devotee of X, how can one be driven to perform acts that X would find horrific? How can you believe that the son of God wants you to explode buildings containing doctors, nurses and young pregnant women? Think the Prophet wants you to riot over a cartoon? Does galactic overlord Xenu really want all those body thetans removed? Why ( Read more... )

I've had a Griffin iMic for a couple of years now, but I bought it on a whim and soon discovered that I didn't really have any use for it. I bought it to get an audio input device for my Powerbook, but I never wound up using it at all ( Read more... )

( silly hero meme )