I've been surprised at how long my PC has lasted with little-to-no maintenance.  I don't really use it for anything besides playing games anymore, and I soon intend to replace that function with an Xbox 360.   For the past 6 months or so it's been hobbling a bit, with one of the disk drives occasionally making odd noises on boot and not being ( Read more... )

Why are people so god-damned stupid? Someone decided they wanted to unsubscribe from the film club weekly newsletter mailing list. This list is opt-in, so this person managed to subscribe themselves, but apparently clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of EVERY LIST MESSAGE was too complicated and they just sent a message to the list (which ( Read more... )

Headed out to MassArt last night for the inaugural season opener of the Boston Derby Dames. coco_b and I were meeting a bunch of people from work there.. As we were walking from the bus to the venue, I got a call from John telling us that they had been waiting on a long line and by the time they had gotten to the front of it, the show had already been ( Read more... )