Monthly Archives: February 2006

So that’s what airbag smells like.

According to the tow truck guy, we had a bit of a “fender bender” on the way to take care of Badmovie and Lunar Geography’s cats tonight. According to the insurance guy, if the airbags go off in a bug, that likely means it’s totalled. I think the truth lies somewhere between the two.
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Operation: Barbie!

Did I mention the new comic? Well, there’s a new comic. That’s about it.

Are you a hero?

Semi-serious question: Do you think you’ve got what it takes to be a hero? By which I mean, would you accept a quest from a total stranger dressed as a wizard?

Come fly with me…

Your results:
You are Wash (Ship Pilot)

Wash (Ship Pilot)


80%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)


75%
Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)


70%
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)


70%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)


65%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)


50%
River (Stowaway)


45%
Inara Serra (Companion)


40%
Derrial Book (Shepherd)


40%
Alliance


30%
A Reaver (Cannibal)


20%
You are a pilot with a good
if not silly sense of humor.
You take pride in your collection of toys.
You love your significant other.

Click here to take the Serenity Firefly Personality Test

Redecorating

After seeing these rooms I’m tempted to try redecorating my house…

Oh dear.

So.

I’m working on repairing a co-worker’s laptop. Seems he ran a disk utility to defragment the drive, and it didn’t update the catalog file correctly. Part of the OS got overwritten. Then the catalog file got overwritten. This is a bad thing.

Normally, I’d do up a post at this point warning folks off and recommending against that particular software. Unfortunately, he doesn’t remember the name of the utility, apart from it being “Disk Something”.

So here’s my warning to you all: If you find a program called “Disk Something”, DON’T USE IT. It will eat your hard drive.

Hey! I’m mostly plausable!

An Imaginary Friend
Your score was 50 in Unbelievability!
You are your author’s imaginary friend, but you’re not really the type of character fiction writers should aim for.

You’re more than a little out of the ordinary. You might have had some really crazy experiences, or have an unusual talent or two. Maybe you were even born with a tail. Whatever it is that makes you unique, it does the job well, because there are very few people like you on this planet.

A novel with you as a character would be a guilty pleasure to read. It would be considered intellectual junk food, of course, but damn fun to read nonetheless. Even if many people didn’t want to pay actual money to read about you and your exploits, surely it would be checked out from the library at least… once every couple of months.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

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You scored higher than 48% on Implausibility
Link: The Are You a Plausible Character? Test written by coldrose on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

New Comic friday

There’s a new comic up and it’s all true. Horribly, horribly true…

Heat Sink

My Wife made up a batch of soup stock last night. We were trying to figure out a good way to cool it off, other than overtaxing the fridge by putting in a pot of recently-boiling tastiness. I realized that the combination of winter temperatures and a lockable garage meant that we basically had access to a gigantic fridge called “out there.”
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