After seeing these rooms I’m tempted to try redecorating my house…
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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.
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| 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. |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Are You a Plausible Character? Test written by coldrose on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
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There’s a new comic up and it’s all true. Horribly, horribly true…
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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We’ll have to see how long it stays like this, but the link to this article from CNN.com’s front page currently reads, “Dominatrix Beats Manslaughter Rap”.
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Hey! Tomorrow is your chance to damage your liver with the 2006 State of The Union Drinking Game!
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On February 3, the crew of the International Space Station will “launch” a new project. They’ll be jettisoning a space suit equipped with sensors and a radio transmitter so that amateur radio operators can track it while it falls.
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An elephant never forgets his wife’s birthday…
This music video has been getting some circulation from various folks on-line. Enough so that I can’t remember where I first ran into it (Fark? Wil Wheaton? Andy Ihnatko? Decafbad?)…
Anyway, the video for Keith Schofield and Wintergreen’s song When I Wake Up gives a brief history of the abysmally bad Atari 2600 video game based on the movie ET. The tune is pretty cool. The sight of a bunch of hipsters digging up a desert landfill in search of old video game cartridges is quite chuckleworthy too.
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