Alex and I both have accounts on Quora.com, which has been described as "Yahoo Answers for intelligent people who know how to use grammar." For many months now, he has been complaining frequently of getting hit for violations of their "Be Nice Be Respectful" policy ( Read more... )

I hate Windows. The latest evidence, I just watched my desktop do the following, in order ( Read more... )

So now they sound like they're dismantling Shane's entire apartment, using hand tools mostly. And these ceilings and walls are very thin, so we can hear everything. I'm starting to wonder if Shane's undead corpse got up and smeared rot into every nook and cranny it could find before it was discovered. The noise is ridiculous, and keeping us awake. ( Read more... )

I just discovered, by accident, that getting an ebook from OverDrive in ePub format is ridiculously easy: it loads the book right in the first OverDrive screen. No extra logging in, no 30 minutes of scouring the help page trying to figure out what to do, just sign in once, check out the book as an epub, and go back to the original OverDrive screen ( Read more... )

Okay, so I had another irritating computer moment. For months and months, I've been unable to get sounds to play in Chrome, and I couldn't figure out why. Well today I stumbled on the cause of the problem, by going into the Mixer in the volume controls to try to get a loud program to be quieter, and noticed that Chrome was on mute for some reason. ( Read more... )

Earlier today, I had an adventure replacing the valve elbow on my CPAP. But to properly tell the story, we must go back, back to the time I first got the CPAP ( Read more... )

In which I illustrate one of the many reasons I detest Windows and love Ubuntu ( Read more... )

Well, thanks to someone pointing out that the buy links on my "friends mostly" page are broken, I discovered that Publish America has changed its name. Publishamerica.com still works though ( Read more... )

If someone offered me a deal where I got 5 years taken off my life to never have to sneeze ever again, I would be tempted. ( Under a cut for grossness )

Okay, so a couple really stupid design flaws with my new phone ( Read more... )