Someone on the Facebook Solitary Cycling community made a post asking the people who are "still" using manual gear shifting instead of electronic systems why they are doing so. This person does not seem to occupy the same existence I do, or even a neighboring one. I did not leave my answer, which is that my bike is 24 years old and those systems ( Read more... )

Me last night: I'd like to sleep now.

My brain: Sure, but remember how much it hurt when you had to give up the dogs you were fostering before you moved to Europe? Also, what if the used HEPA filter you just bought has bad wiring and starts a fire while you're asleep? Ok, sleep well now!

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Having determined that the budget to replace my computer ( Read more... )

I decided to try out Diablo IV since this is their open beta weekend. I played for about ten minutes, during which time I decided that this is a hell (no pun intended) of a lot like Diablo 3, except my computer doesn't have the graphics power to run it well. I got bored/discouraged fairly quickly and watched Miriam play instead.

I've been wondering ( Read more... )

I have a lot to journal about. But first I'm going to whine about my tweaks to my interface with the computer.

Maybe this is a technological get-off-my-lawn rant?

I've been spending more time helping Miriam or doing my own stuff at the computer lately, and the more I do that the more I want to tweak the computer to function the way I want it to.

The ( Read more... )

I've been helping Miriam with getting slides ready for her lectures! I got annoyed with having to keep clicking through mouse menus to change fonts and text colors and things, and I was also feeling good enough to have brain power to work on the problem with.

I wrote scripts in AutoHotKey to make F13 + various keys do all the things! I really miss ( Read more... )

Miriam and I were talking about my annoyance and frustration with new versions of various software interfaces yesterday, and that might be a post in itself. But the conversation reminded me of my experiences trying other media players since Winamp 2.x and how annoying or unhelpful I found them. Winamp 2.71 did exactly what I wanted and very little ( Read more... )

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As I carried the replaced TV through the office to tuck out of the way in the back bedroom, I looked at my computer desk and made a suddenly obvious connection. I started to get things set up to connect it to my computer.

"Is it going to replace your smaller monitor?" Asked Danae.

In an incredulous tone, I responded "No...?" I mean, why would I do ( Read more... )

I really don't know why, but I've started playing a bunch of the Commodore 64 games I grew up with. Brief reviews?

The current version of VICE (the emulator) is nifty. You can even emulate the sound of the 5¼" floppy drives. They sound basically like I remember. I wonder if someone sampled the actual sounds? The sound seems to be the same between ( Read more... )

Everything we ordered for Miriam's computer has arrived except the M.2 SSD. As of the beginning of the week, it was about a week overdue. I contacted the seller who said they'd send another. They didn't give me tracking info though, or say when it would arrive.

My own PC has two hard drives that were in a RAID 1, but at some point the mirror broke ( Read more... )