About a month ago, I mentioned that I wanted to sort my collection of Lego parts, so that I'd be able to actually do some custom building in the future. Since then, I've been working on this project for a couple hours a day every day or so (that's about all I can handle of standing in my bedroom and fishing through parts bins), and the scope is a ( Read more... )

Prior to acquiring a dedicated converter module for the USB ports in my car, I was going to use the guts from USB cellphone car chargers (the kind you plug into a 12v port) to hard-wire them. So, I disassembled one to learn more about their construction, and had another one just sitting around. Now, I don't need them, nor is it likely I'll need ( Read more... )

After my last sunrise hike, I decided on a whim to do it again earlier this week, with working camera batteries this time. So, I rapidly loaded up and headed out to Wolf Gap one more time in the middle of the night. For future reference, I really need to remember that it takes me like a half-hour to load up for a hiking trip :-P ( Read more... )

For the last couple days, due to feeling kinda blah, and being delayed on a pending project (*pokes a certain fox*), I've been playing around with displaying my Twitter feed on my website (among other places). I'd been eagerly wanting to replace the Flash version provided by Twitter with something not Flash-based, but there seems to be a ( Read more... )

For the last 24 hours or so, my stomach's been really unhappy, and I'm not sure why. Presumably, it was something I ate. I'll spare description of my symptoms, but suffice to say I've spent almost all my time today either in bed or in the bathroom. I tried to eat some ramen today, the "safest" food in the house (which is really sad, but ( Read more... )

So, despite my lack of proper tools or woodworking knowledge/experience, my Lego table is coming together quite nicely. Granted, it's basically just some 2x4s with plywood stuck on top, but still, I've never done anything like this before ( Read more... )

Well, I finally got around to installing the last of my computer mods tonight, and it was a much more involved job than I had planned. I installed lighted switches in my case to control two fans, my LED bar, and an auxillary port that I'm using to power another fan. I'll be putting some directions on how to do this in tomorrow's entry, along with ( Read more... )

Well, I know I said I was going to wait until after Nvidia released their new stuff to buy my video card, but not being able to play games is really bugging me. So, I just bought an Nvidia GeForce FX 5950, 256mb DDR RAM, VIVO adapter, all that good stuff, along with a new case (since I'm tired of not being able to do anything cool with this Dell ( Read more... )

I nearly worked a triple shift today, which sounds like a lot but my shifts are only four hours long. Today was the last day to get hours added to the last paycheck I'll get before going to Orlando, so money is good. I left work for a nice dinner at Cracker Barrel, which was yummy as usual. Still a bit blah over Joe, which bugs me because I want ( Read more... )

Yeah, haven't posted in awhile. Blah ( Read more... )