Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Brisingr, or why the heck after 3 books does the hero still annoy me? I went back and dread the first two books because I couldn’t pick the fine details from memory, and that was annoying. But I do have this to report, the book gets better around the two-thirds point. I also think I [...]

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So we’re using this thing at work called staf to trigger tests, copy files, collect results, that kind of thing. I mention this because at least my experience with it is marred. This is at least partially because I’m using it on groups of virtual machines that are resumed in the middle of their dhcp [...]

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I want to bring up something that maybe is not particularly obvious to people considering a repeatable panorama head (specifically, the 360 Precision family). I have what is now called the Absolute from them, and it’s incredibly precise. For instance. Last week we had fires burning in California and the smoke blew across the hills [...]

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I’m in process clearing out my garage/basement/laundry room/closets. But I live in modern liberal California. So even your household trash becomes cumbersome. Bateries are now toxic waste, and have to be recycled. But the recycling service you already pay for won’t touch them. And light bulbs. California power companies encourage you to use CF bulbs. [...]

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We’re out there. You know us by the mark.

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I have a deep desire to upgrade (sidegrade?) my iPod Photo 40gig to something newer, specifically to play video, and maybe more. The complexity of this problem falls in many places. I don’t mind doing a simple upgrade – the 80 or 160 gig iPods are cheaper and bigger than what I paid for my [...]

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Apple’s Boot Camp lets you boot Windows, but a couple things are left undone in version 1.4. My biggest pet peeve is that the clock is always wrong when you return to Mac OS. It’s 12:22 and my mac dutifully reports 5:22 AM, because I booted Windows on Saturday. The only suggestion Apple has at this [...]

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[10:54] daveb: there are three things I’ve learned not to discuss in open forums: politics, punctuation, and distros. [10:54] clee: daveb: don’t forget sex and religion. [10:54] daveb: bah, they come up all the time [10:54] abdulras: daveb: that is truely wise, but trolling is a lot more fun [10:54] daveb: you just can’t talk [...]

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<TreyB> I hope that the writers of Big Bang Theory can keep it up.  I really enjoyed the first episode. <daveb_wrk> i’ll have to mark that one. my wife goes to sleep with the baby leaving me free to try things she never sees. <daveb_wrk> that sounds worse than it really is. for instance I watched [...]

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I notice over the last couple days my eyes hurt soon after I take off my glasses. This is new to me, as I don’t usually have to be worried about going without them unless I’m reading (I’m spoiled by being farsighted). My guess is this is part of the aging thing, and I’m not [...]

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