My PS3 all of a sudden started acting up (where “acting up” means “shows nothing on the screen”). Tried different cables, different HDMI ports, and waiting for a day in case it decided to magically fix itself, but no go. After a week I took it down the road to plug it into someone else’s […]
My Hardware is Mocking Me Read Post »
Olympic fever has hit the city! This morning the torch passed through downtown Vancouver and with a little luck and timing, I managed to get a spot right close to where the torch hand off was made. More images are up on the set on flickr.
Olympic Torch Passing By Read Post »
In a fit of complete awesomeness, the Jayne Cobb hat I had custom knit for me by the most amazing @rumielf (homepage) arrived! Here’s a scary picture for you: Now granted I don’t look like this guy, but I still like it. Here’s a short video about the hat and the love of it the
Awesomeness – My “Jayne Cobb” (Firefly) Hat Arrived! Read Post »
My review of the first of the new 24 and their collection of the latest and greatest cliches. Or, a quick and dirty 24 plot generator. Jack is retired Jack is trying to get back to normal life Random un-named-but-brown-and-islamic country is on the verge of some great peace breakthrough with the USA [saluting] [bad
24 Season 8 Review (First 2 Episodes) Read Post »
Welcome to 2010. Wee…. should try to post here more than once every few months, but really nothing that interesting has happened lately. Life seems to be mostly stagnating sadly, so hopefully I’ll be able to do something about that in the coming weeks and months. Christmas and new years was great though… a week
New Year, New Post Read Post »
1am is not the time any sane person should be awake. Nor is it the time that any sane person should be wandering around in the freezing ice-rain in a bathrobe. Nor even more so is it the time that you should be blogging about why. So Firefly got some work lined up with the
Fun In The Night In A Housecoat Read Post »
What would be really awesome to have on the iPhone, and I’m sure it’s completely doable, as the device is just a little computer, is advanced incoming phone call management, like Google Voice. For example, I’d love to be able to set up my phone so that: Contacts from my “business” category are either silent
A Quick iPhone Wishlist Read Post »
Random thoughts at midnight-thirty while I can’t sleep and have to get up in 5 hours. Question: Do you ever worry about your cat getting annoyed at you for petting it while it’s trying to sleep, and it not being able to sleep because you keep on petting it? Answer: I wouldn’t worry about it.
A list, in no particular order: The rude ass in front of my and to the left who had his cell phone out a bunch during the first half of the movie. I don’t care if you’re texting or checking your email or whatever, but hide the bright white screen so it’s not shining in
So this morning I woke up and my first generation Drobo was acting funny. I rebooted it, and long story short when it came back it looks like the first 2TB partition, where all my data was stored, was gone, currupted, nuked, or otherwise unavailable. All my music, tagged over a period of months. All
My Drobo Just Lost All My Data (Updated: It’s alive!) Read Post »