This week I had a tooth pulled (#18) that I had root canal done on some 10+ years ago. It had deteriorated, unknown to me, over the years and was not really savable (it would have cost $5k and I don't have insurance). So on Thursday morning I went in to the low-income dental shop and they pulled out a tooth. It took an HOUR... Read More
The 3D advertisements before the movie were better than the actual movie. The movie itself was pretty good considering it was a remake of a TV series/comic and contained some typical... Read More
Well I had a good birthday yesterday and made out like a bandit on the gifts.. too bad most of the gift money will have to go towards buying books and paying bills.
I finally got my Epson Stylus Photo R380 to work in Linux. Although I'm still having issues where usb_storage module tries to take control of it because it has a memory card... Read More
Why is it that when the 6 month promotional price ends with a comcast bundle that if you call in and threaten that you're going to cancel all of the services they give you a new promotional price?
So I saw this new(ish) magazine called Alt Exclusive. It's pictorial magazine dedicated to alternative art: women with tattoos, fetishes, etc. Kinda of interesting and the photography... Read More
Friends don't let friends go to Geek Squad (Best Buy)
I have a computer on my workbench from a local business. It failed to boot up on Monday morning after being turned off all weekend. They weren't sure what was wrong so they took it to Geek Squad for a free diagnostic. GS told them that the power supply and motherboard were bad after filling... Read More
I haven't posted anything for quite a while.. but the quarter from hell is finally over today! I just hope I passed all my classes. I guess I'll find out next week when grades are posted!
I am currently working on a programming project that I started several months ago (before this quarter) but didn't have time to finish it. With some of the skills... Read More
So I'm still working (in between everything else) on that laptop from the auto collision place and so far I'm not finding any malware or anything that seems obvious, but the cpu bounces between 80-100% when (otherwise) idle. Taskmanager isn't really showing what process is consuming the cpu time so I'm gonna locate and download process explorer (if it's still around) and try that. I'm... Read More
Last year my wife's truck got hit while in a parking lot and the other driver/vehicle fled (unoccupied hit and run). At the time our insurance deductible was really high and we already had a claim out for some damage to the other side (someone keyed the side of the truck and then kicked in the quarter panel). We did file a claim right away... Read More
So that hard drive I was trying to recover data from finally bit the dust. I only got 13GB of data off of it before it died and unfortunately all of it is useless. I might try sticking it in the freezer overnight and trying it again tomorrow but chances are it's toast.
So I found out today that two out of the four of... Read More
I'm trying to recover data from a hard drive for a customer that is not working. It appears that the drive overheated. The "genius" then decided to remove the sticker on the top that quite clearly says not to open because there are no user serviceable parts inside.. and took the cover off. sure enough, just like the sticker says, there are no user serviceable... Read More
I had a weird dream last night: I built a rocket that was capable of entering Earth's orbit and on-board the rocket I had included the guts from an old computer which was running Gentoo Linux. Apparently I wanted the computer on-board so I could do more advanced types of communication between the rocket in orbit and me on the ground. Well the rocket successfully... Read More
I finally finished my history paper that's due tomorrow. I took forever to get going on it and now that it's done I think it's a pile of crap.. but then I don't ever like any of the papers I write.. so who knows?
In my CS class I'm a little worried about how bad of a grade I'm going to get on the last... Read More
