| By Dwip | January 28, 2009 at 8:31 pm |
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Via here, a 1950s tale of 1950s societal conformity gone horribly…amusing.
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| By Dwip | January 28, 2009 at 1:21 am |
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One last brief commentary on computer upgrading, and then I swear to you I will talk to you about something that isn’t my computer – squirrels, or snow, or something. If you’re well and truly done with computing, go check out the lengthy political discussion at Samson’s blog. For the rest of you, a couple [...]
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| By Dwip | January 25, 2009 at 5:53 pm |
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In case you ever find yourselves wanting pepper steaks, but can’t find Durkee’s black peppercorn marinade, and instead think you should just sub in the better part of a bottle of ground black peppercorns, I encourage you not to do this. The outcome is wildly unoptimal. You have been warned.
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| By Dwip | January 25, 2009 at 3:28 pm |
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Brought to you by this picture here, which is a movie of a bear frolicing in water as my Windows Vista background: One more story in the continuing saga of computer death and rebirth, as discussed here, here, here, and here, and in the tradition of the upgrade stories of yore here, here, and here, [...]
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| By Dwip | January 22, 2009 at 6:30 pm |
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In the continuing computer upgrade saga, I present you the following picture, displaying the ruins of my computer, completely disassembled, next to the pile of boxes that contain the parts I will soon use to rebuild it to be bigger, faster, and stronger, now that I possess the appropriate technology. Except for the DVD drives, [...]
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| By Dwip | January 18, 2009 at 1:10 am |
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So I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop, 2004 vintage. Great machine, had an HD death once upon a time but has otherwise been rock solid since I got it. It is, however, not my as-of-right-now-dead-and-in-pieces desktop, which is bad. Which brings us to several related issues pertaining to my new desktop upgrade plan, which will [...]
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| By Dwip | January 16, 2009 at 7:47 pm |
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Re: That whole issue with nothing happening for me to talk about – About 10 minutes after I posted the nice picture, my desktop decided to brick itself. Surfing along happily, bam, dead. I’ve got fans and a power light and that’s it. On the plus side, at least I really wanted to upgrade my [...]
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| By Dwip | January 16, 2009 at 2:18 pm |
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In absence of actual content, which is coming, I promise you, but not, I think, just yet, I offer you this picture, which may be slightly contextualized by my telling you that my kitchen doesn’t ever really get heated: Yes. I am wearing my NINJ4 hoodie with bright yellow dish gloves. I am l33t. Or [...]
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| By Dwip | January 8, 2009 at 7:35 pm |
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| By Dwip | January 7, 2009 at 7:17 pm |
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With a nod to the glory days of shwi and my desire to read the whole thing through again now that it’s being written again after a 3 year hiatus, and so I can not go digging through the hell that is the Google Groups interface: Empty America Parts 1-36 Dictionary posts (read before Part [...]
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| By Dwip | January 7, 2009 at 12:06 am |
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In talking with Jason about his having repeated dreams about werewolves, never mind zombies, I made mention of the fact that I myself am pretty prone to having dreams about some pretty crazy shit. Since I tell Sarah about these, because they amuse her, I figured I may as well amuse the rest of you, [...]
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| By Dwip | January 4, 2009 at 3:49 am |
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In which I assure you, dear readers, that I have not actually fallen off the face of the planet, simply that I have been snowed in for most of the last three weeks, and there’s little to talk about. Or, more precisely, little to talk about that I feel like sharing. To run down the [...]
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