We bought our first car GPS in 2009. We set it to the male Australian voice, just because it's the sexiest of the lot of 'em. Garmin names this voice "Lee", so we started calling the GPS itself "Lee ( Read more... )

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Was in a music video being filmed (Chemical Brothers?). I was in a pool, with somebody behind me. For the video, my body transformed into globs of liquid metal, that morphed into the other actor, who was some other medium, like green glass.

During a break in the filming, a journalist asked my thoughts about the video's meaning. I told him I thought ( Read more... )

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I would like to have an augmented reality, so that whenever I'm talking to someone, a little pop-up box-visible only to me-would appear over their head, displaying:

• Their full name
• What they like to be called
• How we know each other
• Their birthday
• The name(s) of their spouse/partner/kids/pets
• WHAT IS INAPPROPRIATE TO JOKE ABOUT
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HP: invent

Windows is loading files...

(C) Microsoft Corporation

X:\windows\system32\cmd.exe - startnet.cmd
Please wait...

[Something too fast for me to see]

[Hourglass]

Repeat.

The computer still has the same problem(s) it did on my last blog entry. My plan at this point: make a list of all the programs I use, then copy my documents, photos, MP3s, email-everything of worth-over to the iPod. Then, I restore the laptop to its factory state.

Anyone see anything I'm missing here?

A test from my laptop, which seems to be possessed. Trouble started Sunday. Hard to even say what's wrong. My dwm.exe messes up on startup, among other things. Some programs don't work, such as Google Earth and Explorer, while others do, such as Firefox, Outlook, and Semagic (which I am using to write this). I can't make my "Start" button work, and ( Read more... )