So, as noted before, the computer worked just fine, including piggybacking on random people's wi-fi. So my plan went ahead. Yet when I got to the Indy airport the next day and was ready to send the explanation, I couldn't seem to find any connections. I just assumed that they didn't have wireless there. However, this seemed less convincing as I ( Read more... )

I hadn't gotten around to posting about it, but there's another Comic YuriHime this month (c. 2011.01.18). Does anyone want anything else, just to save on shipping? You should note that I've added another couple of good ones to the list of stuff I have to spare, and I really should get rid of this stuff. (Considering how much a pain in the ass this ( Read more... )

I'm considering getting a laptop for portable Wi-Fi capability. With a cursory glance around, I found the likes of this and this, both appearing to have more than I need of everything, for a fraction of the price I expected. Is there some catch I'm missing? Also, is there some reason I should pick a particular model ( Read more... )

Has anyone had trouble with people not receiving his emails? I have. I've heard that some places refuse to accept mail from free accounts due to spam problems, so I've thought that they might be flagged as spam. (This would, of course, not be a problem if the recipient also would use gmail, since he could just look and see whether any of the spam ( Read more... )

-AARON SORKIN, screenwriter of The Social Network, acknowledging that the film, which purportedly tells the story of Facebook's founding, is sexist toward women because he was trying to depict a "deeply mysogynistic group of people" (Verbatim in TIME, 2010.11.08 ( Read more... )

It recently occurred to me (thanks to people who actually know about culture) that trolls attract a lot of flames-in D&D and other games that copy that part of the rules for regeneration, such as Warhammer.

So, within a few weeks after getting the new computer, something seems to have gone odd with the Japanese IME. It's turned to the setting where each keystroke inputs an entire half-width hira-gana, and I'm far too lazy to memorize the configuration of where each character is on a QWERTY keyboard. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to change it ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I decided to check Ancestry.com on a whim to remind myself about the specifics of my national origins. They apparently don't allow looking things up without an account, so I took a two-week free trial. Nationalities aren't listed (or easy to find), but judging by places of birth, my white half consists of Danish, Scottish, German, ( Read more... )

It also occurred to me that even those of you who read my LiVEJOURNAL may not always be logged in for security reasons. I just have too many secrets to make open posts. I'm still working on building relationships with Japanese contacts (who are less openly hateful), but I've only got access to (a) people who are too busy to deal with anything that ( Read more... )

Continuing the method from last quarter, it's time for me to ask if anyone wants anything from amazonIncidentally, since there's way too much on my backlog for me ever to fit in a room, I've decided to work more on prioritizing. Lately, I've been running into a lot of comics with (male) voyeurs and rapists and the like, so I'll have to be a bit ( Read more... )