The pinkification of my hardware continues! I got a more pastel pink spray paint than I used for my monitor and bike fender and yes: this is the correct shade. It's called "Candy Pop" or "Éclat de Bonbon". The latter is how I'm going to think of my keyboard. *laughs*

Disassembling the keyboard was more complicated than I expected. The older version ( Read more... )

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... )

I'm trying to figure out if there are TVs that let you turn off upscaling completely. This would mean that, if you are watching a SD source on a 1080 TV, you'd have black bars around the edges. Similarly with a 1080 source on a 4K TV. Most people talking about these things online seem to think that that's such a ridiculous thing that nobody would ( Read more... )

The Kijiji seller with the keyboard didn't get back to me for several days, so I started combing eBay.

I found a keyboard to buy! It's by a company called AUKey. I was not familiar with them, but reviews speak favorably of them as a budget-friendly mechanical switch keyboard maker. AUKey sources their own versions of Cherry MX's keyswitches, which ( Read more... )

Our plasma TV supports 3D video. It would be kind of fun to be able to see things in 3D, but it also seems like the technology is dead (kind of like plasma TVs!), so it would just be a toy with use limited to whatever media is already out there filmed in 3D.

It's first generation 3D technology, using IR-synched active shutter glasses. Since a pair ( Read more... )

I've been spending a lot of time together with my keyboard but today, for some reason, I was suddenly struck by how very grungy it was. While I did a surface cleaning (except the keys) with paper towels and citrus cleanser, I thought about how long I've owned this thing. The realization that I've been with Danae for about ten years now and that ( Read more... )

We are building a new computer for Danae and parts are slowly arriving. We have the monitor so I unboxed it and tried it out to make sure it works. I've never used a curved monitor before. It's weeeeird.

And in other, less serious, news, I dropped into Goodwill on the way home from taking Piper to the shelter and found a 24" monitor for $10. Bigger than any of the three connected to my system at home, and, at seven years old, considerably newer too. I can see lots more of my Factorio map at once!