S’getting cold out there already. Really starting to feel like Winter, which is weird, ’cause Vancouver doesn’t really do Winter. We get maybe two or three days of snow a year, and it usually melts into slush the same day. Smells like it, though. Arwen was working today in Point Roberts, and I gotta say…
Category: Hardware
NaBloPoMovember: Day 11
Posting this from RockMelt (which is an interesting spin on Chrome, embedding Facebook and Twitter into either side of the browser window). Okay, no, it WAS being written in RockMelt, but then I bailed on it ’cause the screen framing didn’t wrap properly on my tiny 1024×768 screen, which meant the word “embedding” scrolled off…
Two(ish) things.
HelLO, and welcome to another episode of “I’ve Reflanged the Barkolounger” with your host, Rupture Q. Throngboggle PhD, PTSD, NPC. Tonight to change thing up not at all, I’m going to tell you about some surfing I did. One of those things I do all the time is try to figure out how to get…
You Down With LHC? (Yeah, You Know Me.)
The Large Hadron Collider is this most amazingly technical thing, and yet I have absolutely no idea what it does. I mean, I get that it’s a thing that catches particles and whips them around in a gigantic circle (27 kms or something, right?) and then they… uh… measure the… trails… um… with the uh……
Self-Applied Roadside Assistance
That’s not as sexy as it sounds, let me assure you. So, I rode to work yesterday without incident, but I need to invest in some of those slightly hilarous booties for cycling, ’cause here in Raincouver on Canada’s Wet Coast, we surely do love ourselves some rain, I tell you what. So this means…
Pedaling My Butt Around Town (Reloaded)
Warning: This (freakishly long) post is about me, my bike, an omelet, and my mom. If you’re looking for geekery and music stuff, skip this post. Middle of last week, I had a terrible ride home. I had driven a CAN car back to Rupert station, which is outta my way by quite a bit,…
Ny Fangers Are Spre.
Warning, geekery ahead, and not the fun “hey, press this button and blow up your computer” kinda way that I often think about, but just some nuts & bolts thoughts about New Jobs, and Units of Work, and Things. Rambliness. So, we’re into week four of the New Job (or is it week five?) and…
Hey Vancouver School Board: Need A Hand With That Virus?
Anyone who knows me knows I enjoy chasing viruses through the darkest recesses of a workstation, and learning what weird and wonderful new way things are hiding themselves (or reinstalling themselves), and I know it can go sideways and get scary really really fast. And then you move up and up in the ladder of…
What happened? Did that just happen? Hello?
“Boom, headshot!” {Something the gang at EAC IT used to yell out whenever someone was terminated that we didn’t particularly care for. Something I was tempted to yell out when I was laid off last year. Given what’s been going on in the gaming industry of late, you’ll forgive me a little gallows humour.}
If this keeps up, I’m going to end up vegan and running a Mac
So, after much kvetching and grumping about how it was all going to work, and how was any of this possible, Arwen happily let herself be convinced by a telemarketer to move our phone service to the same company that handles our television. Unlike my recent excursion into the deep waters of RRSP transfer and…