Too close for missiles; switching to guns….
Epilogue It’s been a couple of months now since I purchased my Western Digital My Book 500 GB Hard Drive, and overall I really like it, but it isn’t working out like I had hoped. It’s really my own fault for getting Windows Vista just so I can play Halo 2, and I probably should … Read more
It has been a week now, well almost; tomorrow will be the one week anniversary, and I can honestly say that it is nowhere near as bad as everyone says it is. In fact, I would venture to say that a fair number of those voices rallying against it (in the true spirit of Digg … Read more
This is the third card I have received now on my MasterCard account, because the account number has been compromised. I am beginning to think that I should not be shopping online at all anymore. Once The first time it happened I am unsure if initially it was an online issue, or if some unscrupulous … Read more
We decided today that we were going to start the process of clearing out Litsa’s office so we could put in the new cabinets and desk space, and paint, fix damaged walls, etc. In doing so, the only location for her computer required it be on the wireless network, and since she does online banking … Read more
The 2007 Steaming Pile Award With more than 9,000 stories featuring the words Top 10 hitting the digg front page since 2005, this seems to be the perfect venue to illustrate the ludicrous way in which information is promoted to be popular by the digg troglodytes. Not everything can be a killer of something else; … Read more
I just went to Olean and watched Resident Evil: Extinction with a couple friends and right after the movie half of the theater immediately turned on their cell phones, half while in the theater still the other half while walking out. Granted they were all kids or colleges students(still kids in most cases), but.. uh, … Read more
I’ve spent the last half hour screwing around with a dorked up install, poorly written and inadequately designed software, and all I want to do is post about my trip to Texas. That is not to be. Ubuntu stinks… There, I said it. I mean it too. Between having to resurrect my install due to … Read more
Every day it seems, someone new crawls from underneath some stone and proclaims himself an expert, simultaneously declaring that new studies have shown something that was once good for you is bad, or what was bad yesterday is good today. It’s no wonder no one bothers to listen to the Surgeon General when new statements … Read more
In general computers aren’t inexpensive, compared when the first IBM XT first made a home for itself in our living room back in the day, they are down-right free, but it’s still far too easy to pay $1,000 for a good desktop machine. So why is it that in order for us to get this … Read more
"Just because I don’t care, doesn’t mean I don’t understand." — Homer Simpson I’m working on getting my Bronco set to pass PA inspection so I can start driving it again, and I keep running into various ridiculously retarded hack job inflicted upon my rig. Wires cut just inside the firewall and left dangling, red … Read more
No this is not an exaggeration! If I were the Church Lady you’d being hearing Saaatttaaaannnn! Right here; right now. Gentlemen; fatch your computers! It started small, and ended up big; all I did was tell Apple Update to go ahead and run itself, and update my version of iTunes. Way wrong idea! I started … Read more
About 5 months ago I was reading about The Mess on Everest in Outside magazine, and it really sent me for a loop as to how damned stupid people (and at times, Magazines) can be. Being that I am way behind on a lot of the magazines I get, I was looking through the November … Read more
I used to consider myself a Type A personality, but I really don’t think that fits any more. I tend to be very detail oriented though, I try to be concise; sometimes to a fault; organized and very thorough. Why am I bringing this up? Because (in general) these are all things that Open Source … Read more
1. Get President Bush to think it’s a "grand idear". 2. Parse out 12 Billion dollars into 100 dollar bills.3. Load 1.2 million 100 dollar bills onto wooden pallets.4. Transport said pallets on a C-130 cargo plane to Iraq.5. Allow a scattered an unstructured Governing body to handle the money with no supervision. Yeah, we … Read more
I just finished reading through the September issue of Outside magazine. It states in big-arse type on the cover The mess on EverestFollowing the deadliest climbing season since "Into thin air," (1996)…. And goes on the editorialize and investigate allegations of careless guides and ill-equipped clients and weighs in on the circus like … Read more