Things learned at work today:
There is no need to add the suffix “-palooza” to anything involving database mechanics unless you want your co-workers to snort coffee out their noses.
Especially when a similar effect can be achieved with the slightly more time-tested suffix “-O-Rama”.
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We found a couple old 3/4″ video tapes at work that needed converting to something a bit more.. modern. Fortunately, we have a big ‘ol 3/4″ player which someone was just going to throw away. It worked great once the cobwebs were vacuumed out and the play head was given a good scrubbing with 99% isopropyl alcohol. I was able to hook it directly to a MiniDV camcorder and transfer things directly to digital tape.
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For those of you who have been under a rock for the past week or so, you might have missed Mr. Bush coming out in favor of teaching so-called “Intelligent Design” in schools.
Personally, I’m surprised he’s waited this long before taking a swipe at evolution. It’s pretty obvious that he’s in a serious state of denial about his uncanny resemblance to a chimp…
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What do you get if you take all of the bizarre ranting posters you can find on lamp-posts and park benches in New York City and collect them in one place?
You get this website.
I’ve only read a few of them and… Wow. Just wow…
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Helped out a friend with a problematic iBook on Sunday. We commandeered his kitchen table and tore the whole laptop apart, stem to stern, all to replace the display cable and the internal hard drive. Got the whole thing back together too. And best of all it seems to be working… I’d left before the backup of the old drive had been fully restored, but it was booting up in target disc mode and the screen wasn’t flickering on and off randomly.
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Posted in case anyone else out there is having trouble figuring out a good way to do it:
.hang {
text-align: left;
text-indent: -3em;
margin-left: 3em;
}
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For those of you who aren’t familiar with phishing scams, the basic idea is that they try to trick you into sending them your financial information by pretending to be from a company you do business with. Basically, if you get an email from a bank insisting that you confirm your account details under threat of suspension, don’t believe it.
So, I just got a phishing e-mail, purportedly from Paypal. Thing is, whoever sent this one didn’t do a terribly good job.
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A couple days ago I had a brief flash of a scene from a movie which doesn’t exist yet. I dunno if it’s gonna be a buddy-movie or a comedy or what, but I figured I should write it down somewhere. So why not here?
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Over at Turtle Services they’ve got a huge collection of old 78 RPM records converted to mp3 format. There’s something strangely appealing about the idea of using an iPod to play a song originally released on a chunk of shellac. Some digital restoration has been done to the songs, but they are still obviously in glorious monaural sound.
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