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Went to a seminar from Artec 3D on Friday afternoon.  I'm very impressed with their machines--but I'm so far behind on the tech that I'd have to spend loads of money to get caught up again.

No sooner did I make my previous post as my brother-in-law reminded me of something that I had forgotten.  As a result I was able to get my data off the old hard drive.  Not all of it, but enough of it to put me back in business--and I can transfer more of it if necessary.

Now I'm wondering what programs I should get to replace the ones I "lost", as ( Read more... )

Just before New Year's weekend, I caused a circuit to overload on Rather Manor's box and it took down the hard drive on Precious.  It took a week to get my computer back, and the shop installed a new hard drive with some data recovered from the old one.  Today I bought an external case for the old drive; Precious can recognize that something is ( Read more... )

I don't know if this silly pile of wires and plastic will connect with the greater pile of wires and plastic, so here it is.

...Yo ho ho and a pitcher of tea ( Read more... )

I accidentally took Precious out of commission while trying to clean out the dust bunnies overnight, so it was in the shop today. The damage: a CPU chip (a second-hand replacement) and a fan for it. $100, mostly for labor.

Now I'm trying to get caught back up to things. I probably won't do too much of this though...it's supposed to be vacation

(Linking to an NPR Post ABOUT THIS, I added:)

I remember when OMNI magazine had an article about a fiction-writing artificial intelligence named Racter.

Elsewhere today I on Facebook I linked to an article about a thesis-writing app that has suddenly become a tool for abuse among scientific scholarly “authors”.

Allow me to connect some more dots ( Read more... )

Goodbye Sierra Momentum Connect Device ( Read more... )

My divisions of labor vis-a-vis my smartphone and my desktop PC are coalescing ( Read more... )

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