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January 31, 2007

My Quiet Life » DoD Hard Drive

Filed under: Computers — anton @ 2:48 pm


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 login”.

This is screwed up in more ways than I can say.

via: Blogitude

January 30, 2007

Dark Roasted Blend: Good Clean Star Wars Fun

Filed under: Humor, Movies — anton @ 10:46 pm


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.

January 29, 2007

Gung Haggis Fat Choy

Filed under: General — anton @ 7:58 pm


Gung Haggis Fat Choy!

It’s an event organized by one “Toddish McWong” that takes place at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and pays homage to SFU’s Scots roots and sizable Chinese student population.

January 27, 2007

links for 2007-01-28

Filed under: General — anton @ 7:34 pm

bookofjoe: Ray Earhart’s Floor Desk: Way cool — and you can make it yourself

Filed under: Computers, Furnishings, Health — anton @ 10:05 am


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.

January 25, 2007

links for 2007-01-26

Filed under: General — anton @ 7:39 pm

HowTo: Make Your Own Juggling Rubber Chickens (FuzzyCo)

Filed under: General — anton @ 2:38 pm


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.

January 24, 2007

links for 2007-01-25

Filed under: General — anton @ 7:56 pm

Smoking Pot with an IP Address aka DIY Big Green Egg

Filed under: Food, Hacks — anton @ 12:32 pm


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.

Paper Robots 1999

Filed under: Art, General — anton @ 12:29 pm


paperrobots1999.com

Cool paper robots.

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