New laptop!  Probably a good 3x as fast as my old one, at half the price.  Mind you, this wasn’t on my list of things to do today.

My timing is just so impeccable.  The old laptop died today.  2 papers and an exam to write in the next two weeks and it can’t boot up.  Couldn’t have happened on the 15th when time would have been a luxury to figure ( Read more... )

I know I shouldn’t be mucking around on the internet while on vacation, but it looks like its fixing to rain, so it’s a good day to putter around and read rather than having to make a mad dash from the beach when the skies open up.

Once again, we are not being failed in the food department.  Did our usual Friday night outing for Awful Arthur’s so I ( Read more... )

If anyone else is on it, let me know so I can stalk find you.

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Despite any indicators to the contrary, he’s very handy to have around. I cannot easily clip the cats’ nails myself - they’re pretty good about it, but I get through one or two nails and they decide they have something more important to do and leave. After Lily caught a nail in her tail the other day, it was obvious it was trimming time again. ( Read more... )

So, I’m thinking the time is coming for a new cell phone. Old one isn’t holding a charge very well and it’s cheaper to get a whole new phone than trying to replace the battery. (And it seems like they don’t make that particular battery anymore anyway.)

So, if you have gotten a new phone in the past year - what did you get? What do you love about ( Read more... )

So, I was sitting here a little while ago, minding my own business and paying some bills. An average day.

Then I hear a hissing noise coming from the right side of my laptop table. At first, I thought it was the soda can. Then I saw what appeared to be steam or smoke shooting sideways from the vicinity of my AirCard, but I still couldn’t really ( Read more... )

Holy crap, Batman I just saw the trailer for Tron:Legacy. (Click the link.  CLICK IT!!!)

The original came out in 1982, we got a (likely pirated) copy on VHS when we were overseas - I cannot tell you how many times we watched that movie, and this one looks FREAKING AWESOME.  I didn’t realize they were actually going to extend off the original - I ( Read more... )

Despite the somewhat unfortunate name, the iPad looks incredibly cool.

From what I can tell, it looks a bit like a cross between a Kindle and an iPhone, which again - incredibly cool. However, having no need for a Kindle or an iPhone, I also have no need for a combination of the two. But I almost wish I did, cause damn, it is shiny! The price ( Read more... )

From CNN: Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook

One day recently, Cynthia Newton’s 12-year-old daughter asked her for help with homework, but Newton didn’t want to help her, because she was too busy on Facebook. So her daughter went upstairs to her room and sent an e-mail asking her for help, but Newton didn’t see the e-mail, because, well, ( Read more... )

I swear, every time I turn around there is yet another new version of WordPress to upgrade to.  I think I make it about every 3rd release.

New theme this time around - I need a better banner for it, and then some more color tweaking, but it’s the layout that I want, which is a good start.  And this theme has more pick & click options that the older ( Read more... )