Tagged: geek
times are still good
I’m still workin on the highs and lows of the beach vacation post, but since returning things are getting back to normal, but Jenifer and I are both eking out as much of the “beach feel” as we can. As...
RIP: “Scotty”
CNN.com – James Doohan, ‘Star Trek’s’ Scotty, dead – Jul 20, 2005 LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series and motion pictures who responded to...
yay, another extension…
House Extends Highway Legislation Again A two-year struggle to come up with a new federal highway spending bill was extended for two days Tuesday as an agreement continued to elude House and Senate negotiators. Hurrah, really. I certainly wouldn’t want...
do I have to leave?
The beach is lovely, wireless is spotty. We are actually in a resort managed 2-bedroom condo with den. The resort, Sea Colony, has a private beach, exercise room, pools, jacuzzi, it’s great. You have to wear little colored badges to...
hacking the motorola v265
I’m sure I mentioned how Verizon is the anti-christ before, and when I was going to buy a v710 with bluetooth, I stopped because Verizon decided to cripple the phone’s best selling point, full bluetooth capabilities. I went with a...
Damn this game!
I’ve recently found Sudoku and it may help the drive down to the beach feel shorter.. or a lot more frustrating. Nice way to spend a good 15 mins… or over an hour.
txt msg flubs :p
When using the predictive text feature, “effective” and “defective” are the same keypresses. I was sending Will a note and nearly said that this snow storm is effective. So not what I wanted to say. My manager was just tromping...
Fairly non-notable weekend, actually
I’d decided to devote the weekend, or large parts of it, to playing my City of Heroes character Starchilde as she was at level 39 and was long overdue to reach level 40, so I managed to do that… fairly...
Speaking with the dragon…
I just downloaded Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 8 tonight and I must say that I’m very impressed with it. So far after a very short setup of the program is already understanding just about everything that needed to say including some...