This morning I had a nightmare where all the computers in the house got infected with some kind of malware that completely replaced the graphical user interface with their own ugly, useless, fake-anti-virus-scanner interface that you could actually SEE downloading stuff in the background. None of the usual Linux tricks for killing bad programs was ( Read more... )

My scanner, part of an all-in-one HP printer we got with this computer six years ago, has gone all crunchy when I try to scan something. Repair? Replace? Try to fix it myself? Also the underside of the glass has needed cleaning forever, and the manual says they want a pro to handle that ( Read more... )

Sketch. Just about the only thing I like on this page is the lone samurai with the odachi, bracing himself to cut down a horseman. The figure on the bottom right I tried to draw off-the-cuff, without using a proper stick figure first. Let that be a lesson.

( More weird dreams today. )

I'm not sure exactly what I think about the validity of dream analysis, but some things taken over time are simply too freaky for me to dismiss as nothing.

( My teeth are imitation diamond! )