Tag Archive for 'What Eats My Time'

Thu
Apr, 5
2007

Ever wonder if you could sell shit on ebay?

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Well not real steaming shit but stuff that might as well be shit?

I have a 7 year old laptop that died on me 2 years ago. I tried to find replacement part for it but the part I needed was discontinued and I wasn’t about to visit ebay every day for weeks to find it so I just bought myself a new laptop and tossed my old one up on a shelf.

I finally decided last week to try to sell it on eBay for parts and I sortof expected that I’d get 10 bucks for it if anything. I set the opening bid at 99 cents (that’s a penny short of a buck).

Imagine my surprise when now 3 days before the auction is to end the bid is at $45. My god it’s crazy. Not that $45 is going to buy me a vacation or anything but $45 for a carcass of a laptop that doesn’t include harddrive, memory or power cable?

Jeez. They must be planning on selling the components separately.

It’s got 4 watchers and with 3 days to go I know that’s going to increase. I wonder if these bidders know how to read the fat letters that say DOES NOT WORK.

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Tue
Feb, 13
2007

Why I love Star Trek

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It’s scenes like this that sum it all up for me.

Tuvok is in his quarters playing Kal-toh. Ensign Kim ‘knocks’ on Tuvok’s door.

Tuvok: “Mr Kim, can I help you?”

Kim: “Uh, that’s kal-toh, isn’t it? Vulcan chess?”

Tuvok: “Kal-toh is to chess, as chess is to tic-tac-toe.”

Kim: “I should’ve known, Uh…”

Tuvok: “What is on your mind, Ensign?”

Kim: “Tuvok, I need your help. I want to eliminate emotions, like Vulcans do.”

Tuvok: “Mr Kim, it is a lifelong process.”

Kim: “I realise that, and I also know that Vulcans use certain techniques.”

Tuvok: “The t’an s’at, the intellectual deconstruction of emotional patterns.”

Kim: “I’m willing to learn.”

Tuvok: “May I ask why?”

Kim: “I have feelings I don’t want to have.”

Tuvok: “That would seem to be self-evident.”

Kim: “I’m in love and I don’t want to be.”

Tuvok: “I see, and who is the object of your affections?”

Kim: “Marayna.”

Tuvok: “I’m not aware of anyone on the ship with that name.”

Kim: “She’s not a member of the crew. She’s a character on a holodeck.”

Tuvok: “You’re in love with a computer subroutine?”

Hilarious.

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Mon
Feb, 12
2007

Surfing mad

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..as apposed to raving mad? har har Anyway… For the last 48 hours I have been watching video clips nonstop. I do spend a lot LOT of time online. Like every waking hour. But I rarely surf pointless sites that have video and click on play 8 dozen times in one sitting. It’s a wonder my kids got fed.

Well two days ago someone intro’d me to a free amateur porn site. Let’s just say I’ve watched enough balls flopping, butt cheek flapping, tit swinging to last me half a year.

Yesterday started out on liveleak.com watching clips of soldiers in iraq getting blown to bits and I soon went from there to youtube and watched a few clips of some comedian I can’t find now who makes up songs on the fly and plays a guitar. Pretty freakin funny dude.

Then towards the end of my shift (yes, i surfed youtube at work all day yesterday - it was slow) I found this chick who is an amazing singer. She video tapes herself singing to caraoke cd’s and the posts them on youtube.

Here’s one of my favorites from what I’ve watched so far.
Mambo Italiano - Redux

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Thu
Feb, 8
2007

Vista / bluetooth woes

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Why didn’t a certain someone let me know that SP1 was still in beta and a good 6 months away from it’s final release?!

I installed Vista last week and I gotta say it’s real purty. :) very pretty and I like it … alot. But I also enjoyed my ability to sync my ipaq to my laptop over bluetooth. I can still sync with Vista using the cradle but that’s just a major pain in my arse. Who wants to have to pull out the damned usb cradle EVERY DAY. It’s a laptop, a mobile device, and the less wires the better.

I’m still trying but I’m damned near ready to throw in the towel on this one and just accept the fact that I’ll have to use the friggin cradle until SP1 comes out. This is assuming that SP1 will fix the problem, of course. At least it seems that the only people who have posted on forums saying that they’ve been able to sync over bluetooth are MS partners testing out beta software.

I’ve downloaded and installed Windows Mobile Device Center at least 5 times. Uninstall / Install / Uninstall / Install. I’m fed up with it. A nice event log would have been nice!! If at least to say “you tried, we failed”. I’ve even been taking my laptop into work with me so I can slave over this little problem ALL my waking hours. It was also nice to see that vista can’t handle flashing the rom on my ipaq. OK, I should have known better. But I ended up completely obliterating all data on that damned thing. And how long did it take me to install all that shit on there? Well here we go again…

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Thu
Jan, 18
2007

del.ici.us is bumming me out

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C’mon yo! What’s up with my del.ici.us rss link roll, yo! It ain’t working.
:(

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Thu
Dec, 14
2006

Vacation day #6: needing a day off

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I woke up today again too early and feeling lazy as hell. It’s no help that it hasn’t stopped raining. It’s amazing how much time it takes to get two kids up from bed, changed and fed. The little bit of time I had to sit on the couch with my laptop kept getting interrupted by either one of the kids or my own conscience telling me that I still have a lot to get done. I have one (1) load left. It’s in the dryer. I’ve started picking things up around the house but I still have so much more other stuff to do. Xmas cards, printing photos..

Jesus, it’s no wonder sahms become very bitter, uninteresting women if they’re not careful. Nothing to think about other than housework or diaper changing. I haven’t even had time to read the blogs I like. Not one. Every time I start that freakin voice in my head says “you gotta pick up those dishes and declutter the house!”. Dennis owes me when he gets back. I’m going to need me time. Alone time.

I finally decided on a domain name for a family website and registered it last week, but I haven’t had the time to do anything with it. I also decided today that I’d love to have a “fatblog” or “fatlog” to help keep me motivated but I’m not sure how or where. I guess it’d be a second level domain of digsite but I certainly don’t want to have a second blog to maintain. One is enough. Well, there’s the photoblog but that’s just an after thought. I just updated it today, btw.

I know what I want it to be but wordpress just can’t do it. My only alternative would be to have a second install of wordpress, second database, copy all the plugins and theme over and make a link from the top to it like I have for the photoblog but that would mean I’d have to login to a second install to make posts. Oy! I dunno what this site is going to turn into if I do that tho. Some huge conglomeration of me. A mismatched summation of all my parts. LOL! My worry is that it will kill this blog not for me but for whoever visits it. If I go to a site and there is too much to read, I’d probably not read any of it.

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