My Quiet Life » DoD Hard Drive
I had some repairs done on my laptop today — the extended support plan is gonna expire soon, so I had them replace the LCD, keyboard and hard drive (the old one was yielding frequent IDE channel resets). So, the Dell rep shows up and goes to work, and all goes well. As he’s walking out the door, he says “by the way, it looks like the hard drive they (Dell) sent you wasn’t a new one — I fired it up just to make sure, and it booted up Windows 2000 with a Department of Defense loginâ€.
This is screwed up in more ways than I can say.
via: Blogitude
Dark Roasted Blend: Good Clean “Star Wars” Fun
With “Star Wars” epic coming again on big screens (this time in full 3D) sometime this year, lets look again at the film that started it all “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” - and reconsider the story in the light of films I-III
Some funny images in there. Wish that I had a larger version of this poster. It’d look great at the office.
bookofjoe: Ray Earhart’s Floor Desk: Way cool — and you can make it yourself
Ray Earhart’s Floor Desk: Way cool — and you can make it yourself
This does look way cool. I wonder if the wife would approve of computing in bed. I’m guessing so as long as I build her one too.
HowTo: Make Your Own Juggling Rubber Chickens (FuzzyCo)
The first thing you need, of course, are rubber chickens. I got three from Oriental Trading for about $8 a piece. (Oddly, they call it a “Realistic Chicken” when it’s one of the fakest things I’ve ever seen.) Now, you could just juggle them right out of the box, but the floppiness of the neck means it’s kinda hard to get the right spin on the chicken, and overall the chicken feels a bit light. So I wanted to stiffen up the neck and add some weight to the chicken.
Need to make a set of these for the office to go with the dozen or so sets of balls and the juggling pins.
The Sect of Rama
This afternoon I gave the homemade smoker v2.0 a run with something relatively quick: smoked chinook salmon. If you haven’t read my earlier entry, v2.0 is basically the gutting of the electric internals, and replacing it with charcoal and a Stoker system. It worked *remarkably* well!
Cool and somewhat cheap DIY smoker.
