Archive for January, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-30

  • January 30th, 2008
  • Posted in chatter

Boot truck today. I am still not quite sure if I should risk my $80 allowance on Sketchers or stick with the proven Magnum boots. # Powered by Twitter Tools. [ READ MORE ]

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-29

  • January 29th, 2008
  • Posted in chatter

That was brilliant. I just took a hammer and tried to whack a rod into place. And shattered part of it. I hate it when I’m this stupid. # Powered by Twitter Tools. [ READ MORE ]

Double check your answers

  • January 29th, 2008
  • Posted in chatter

Mr. Rom, 8 years old, is rather displeased with me right now.  He’s been working on his homework since I got up this evening and I am not letting him “be done” with it until he double checks his answers for the math homework. I don’t think he has really even confronted the idea of double [ READ MORE ]

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-28

  • January 28th, 2008
  • Posted in chatter

Usb is too slow. 58 minutes to copy a DIR from one drive to an external. # In a stunning turn of events – Zune software doesn’t like having ONLY 128megs! # Powered by Twitter Tools. [ READ MORE ]

Happy Born Bro

  • January 25th, 2008
  • Posted in chatter

Today is my second youngest brother’s birthday.  Which means that he is now old enough to drink.  And old enough, hopefully, to be responsible about it. I’m going to have to give him a yell later.  The last time I talked to him, he was planning on moving into the dorm… and that didn’t work out [ READ MORE ]

The other other Barracuda

  • January 23rd, 2008
  • Posted in chatter

A few months ago I, sucker that I am, picked up another pair of “gaming” headphones.  This particular pair is from Razer, the same company that makes all the gaming mice and my personal favorite pair of earbuds (m100.)  I was pretty impressed with the Barracuda HP-1 and their purported 5.1 surround sound… although my [ READ MORE ]

Huckabee : For the lose.

  • January 18th, 2008
  • Posted in chatter

The other day I ran into an article decrying the myriad of perversions in the video game “Mass Effect.” The author, one Kevin McCullough, is a fear-mongering deluded lier and, it turns out, a supporter of the presidential candidate Huckabee. [ The "Sex-Box" Race for President ] I’ve been following the Republican primaries with such [ READ MORE ]

Apple breathalyzer for Microsoft

  • January 18th, 2008
  • Posted in chatter

A story from CNBC via Engadget has the following quote from Steve Jobs regarding Robbie Bach (Microsoft) saying that the Zune was an iPod alternative: “Was he inebriated? Do you even know anyone who owns a Zune?” Wow.  How very catty of Jobs.  [snert]  And a valid point to boot.   I have at least [ READ MORE ]

Iron Man in a box I

  • January 18th, 2008
  • Posted in chatter

Forget the glasses for a HUD, how about contact lenses containing your “super” eyes and heads up display?  Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. So far the lenses have been “successfully” [ READ MORE ]

Doing the right thing doesn’t make it funny

  • January 16th, 2008
  • Posted in chatter

According to an article over on TechCrunch, DreamHost accidentally overcharged for web services for the next year or two.  Oops. For once, a company quickly owned up to its mistake and made things right… right away.  This isn’t like Microsoft waiting something like a year to acknowledge that there was something wrong with the Xbox 360 [ READ MORE ]

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