"Go Get Help, Lassie" | Technical Things Nobody Cares About
Last weekend we went up the coast to several points north, notably Cambria and Hearst Castle. Very good times. They are photographically documented very well here.
Also, these artifacts from my childhood were unearthed during the adventure.
It officially became an adventure when we stopped in Morro Bay to see Morro Rock, the giant volcanic plug that's plopped down near the beach. While leaping playfully from rock to rock along the beach, I hopped onto a large rock that turned out to be less solidly placed than the others, and when it gave way it also tipped over and pinned my pant leg down. I needed eowyn797's help to get me unstuck. I also scraped my right hand very slightly on the rock while we were freeing my leg. ADVENTURE! And yes, I did say the quote in the subject line while this was happening.
Yanagi Sushi in Pismo Beach (easily visible from the freeway) is still the most awesome place we ever have lunch/dinner whenever we drive that far north. I highly recommend it for anyone passing through there. Everything we've had there the last 4 or 5 times we've gone up there has been fabulous. The Golden California Roll was the first thing to capture my heart, but seriously, just get anything. It'll probably be awesome.
My DVD burner started petering out earlier this week, and its replacement (which arrived today) just happens to be the same model as eowyn797's. Our computers are matching! Teehee.
Our router is also showing signs of decay - the connection drops when too many connections are made, but "too many connections" wasn't too many before. Our new replacement router (not yet installed), like most routers now, contains both ethernet and wireless connectors, but we don't have any wireless stuff (or any reason to switch) yet. It also happens to be supported by an open source firmware that is supposed to be impressive, so I may check that out later if/when we have a reason to go wireless.
I recently learned how to convert regular old AVI video to a format called DPG, which is basically just an MPEG-1 modification that can be played back on the Nintendo DS using homebrew software. I don't use the DS for watching video, but it's just one of those neat things I like to figure out how to do every once in a while.
I quietly started using Thunderbird (Portable) for email, since I have both my Gmail account and my work email (IMAP) configured in it. It's surprisingly handy to have both email accounts available through the same interface, on a USB drive that I can take with me, and with neither account storing mail on my device. (Edit: Incidentally, the Win32-based PortableApps, with its ability to travel between home and work, is probably the only thing keeping me from exploring the current crop of useful Linux stuff and considering it as a permanent home OS.)
My phone's data cable was giving me trouble on the home PC a long time ago, so I just forgot about it for a while, but I recently took it to work and got the data connection working there - which means, in short, that I can get camera pictures off it, and put other ringtones on it. (I have a lj pics gallery called "crappyphonepics" set aside specifically for these pictures.) In retrospect, it's probably not the driver or software that was having trouble. It sometimes takes some jiggling of the power cable to get the phone to start charging, which could mean that the phone's connecting thingy is a little messed up. It's showing its age.
Also, these artifacts from my childhood were unearthed during the adventure.
It officially became an adventure when we stopped in Morro Bay to see Morro Rock, the giant volcanic plug that's plopped down near the beach. While leaping playfully from rock to rock along the beach, I hopped onto a large rock that turned out to be less solidly placed than the others, and when it gave way it also tipped over and pinned my pant leg down. I needed eowyn797's help to get me unstuck. I also scraped my right hand very slightly on the rock while we were freeing my leg. ADVENTURE! And yes, I did say the quote in the subject line while this was happening.
Yanagi Sushi in Pismo Beach (easily visible from the freeway) is still the most awesome place we ever have lunch/dinner whenever we drive that far north. I highly recommend it for anyone passing through there. Everything we've had there the last 4 or 5 times we've gone up there has been fabulous. The Golden California Roll was the first thing to capture my heart, but seriously, just get anything. It'll probably be awesome.
My DVD burner started petering out earlier this week, and its replacement (which arrived today) just happens to be the same model as eowyn797's. Our computers are matching! Teehee.
Our router is also showing signs of decay - the connection drops when too many connections are made, but "too many connections" wasn't too many before. Our new replacement router (not yet installed), like most routers now, contains both ethernet and wireless connectors, but we don't have any wireless stuff (or any reason to switch) yet. It also happens to be supported by an open source firmware that is supposed to be impressive, so I may check that out later if/when we have a reason to go wireless.
I recently learned how to convert regular old AVI video to a format called DPG, which is basically just an MPEG-1 modification that can be played back on the Nintendo DS using homebrew software. I don't use the DS for watching video, but it's just one of those neat things I like to figure out how to do every once in a while.
I quietly started using Thunderbird (Portable) for email, since I have both my Gmail account and my work email (IMAP) configured in it. It's surprisingly handy to have both email accounts available through the same interface, on a USB drive that I can take with me, and with neither account storing mail on my device. (Edit: Incidentally, the Win32-based PortableApps, with its ability to travel between home and work, is probably the only thing keeping me from exploring the current crop of useful Linux stuff and considering it as a permanent home OS.)
My phone's data cable was giving me trouble on the home PC a long time ago, so I just forgot about it for a while, but I recently took it to work and got the data connection working there - which means, in short, that I can get camera pictures off it, and put other ringtones on it. (I have a lj pics gallery called "crappyphonepics" set aside specifically for these pictures.) In retrospect, it's probably not the driver or software that was having trouble. It sometimes takes some jiggling of the power cable to get the phone to start charging, which could mean that the phone's connecting thingy is a little messed up. It's showing its age.