Okay, it should quickly become obvious that I'm not camping in Enchanted Ground[*] ...

The latest American Science & Surplus catalog arrived in todays snailmail. "Oh, right," I thought, "they sell photovoltaic solar cells! I've been meaning to look up whether it'd be cost effective to get some of those for Pennsic."

Eep! On p.52, a panel ( Read more... )

Made it to pharmacy. Made it to nail salon after very annoying wait for wrong bus due to misinformation. Stopped at Appalachian Bluegrass for a nut blank because the slot for the bottom string on the mandolin I was practicing on while waiting for buses crumbled. (Blank is way bigger than I need; gonna have to cut it lengthwiseAnybody local have ( Read more... )

Dear Lazyweb,

What's the proper lubrication for this type of AC motor (from a box fan)? I'm guessing that neither WD-40 nor olive oil, the two oils I have on hand, are correct.

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Hmm. I shoulda seen that coming ...

When mirroring an LJ entry to GJ and IJ, if the entry contains an tag (e.g. examplename => examplename), the IJ and GJ copies of the entry will interpret the same tag as linking to a user of the same name on those sites. And similarly, if I try to link to a GJ ( Read more... )

"In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before." -- Andy Hertzfeld

Swiped from Bash.org:

Did you hear about the Linux-car finishing last in the indy500?
I did now ;-)
Not surprised though... You know how impossible it is to find a decent driver for linux hardware?

[I personally have not had hardware driver problems in Linux, but I've heard enough old horror stories to be amused anyhow, -- DGA]

"Now, this pulls against the cardinal virtue of ease of use. But ease of use is wrong. Ease of use is the wrong way to look at the situation, because you've got the Necker cube flipped in the wrong direction. The user of social software is the group, not the individual.

"I think we've all been to meetings where everyone had a ( Read more... )

Yak-shaving. *grrr* At least the dialogue box that told me to install that library should have warned me yak-shaving would be required, even if, "for patent reasons", it couldn't provide a way to sidestep the yak-shaving entirely.

I guess some folks will consider it a silver lining of sorts that ( Read more... )

Okay, the cable is connected ... 'lsusb' shows that the computer can see the printer ... I click "Print Test Page" in ( Read more... )

"Hey, what's the name of that tune ... uh, the one that goes da Da dee deedle dum, da Dee dee Dada diddle Dum?"

There exist search engines for melodies; you enter, by various means, a ( Read more... )