The movie "Hackers" gets funnier and funnier every time I see it. I'm gonna rupture my spleen one of these times I swear to God. The best parts are the bits that, apparently, aren't supposed to be funny.I only caught a couple of minutes of the movie Sunday night but that was almost enough to have me on the floor laughing my ass off -- almost.
DVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDWhile waiting for that last credit card payment to clear the bank I'll be spending the hours pouring over reviews and spec sheets for DVD players.
I have already decided that I will buy a DVD player, most likely a 5-disc changer, to celebrate The Final Payment (and X-Mas). What remains to be seen is if I will spend more money on video magazines looking for the perfect mid-range player than on the actual DVD player itself. :)
A Nation waits...I speak, of course, about my final credit card payment. The payment which was to be The Final Payment, became the Penultimate Payment when a last, spiteful interest charge was debited to my account.
Alas, it was but a few minutes after receiving the bad news that I scheduled the payment for the new, This Time I Really Mean It, Final Payment of $26.85.
Soon, the Evil Credit Card Beast will be slain, once and for all.
At least, that's the theory.
I don't understand why people bother to use Napster and it's ilk -- all you gotta do to get all the free MP3s that you can stand is put up an anonymous ftp server somewhere on the internet. Someone will find it, make a 'hidden' directory, and start loading you up. As a bonus you will also get the occasional movie and lots of pirated software.Everything will be peachy until you get the bill from your ISP, then you will have a heart attack, most likely. That's pretty much the reason that 'they' are using your server in the first place.
iBook go down in flames, iBook rise like phoenix from ashes.I attempted the "for the love of God, never try this" iBook hard drive upgrade this weekend. Do you know how many screws you need to remove to take out the hard drive in an iBook? Thirty, three-zero, 3 x 10, 2 x 15, ten and twenty!
The disassembly is relatively easy after you get the top plastic bit off. Just keep track of all those screws and their locations and your golden... or are you. Aye, there's the rub.
Well, that was fun. But I bet that now I can put all the screws in a pile and correctly identify the location of each one.
- Round 1: won't boot from CD to setup new drive.
- Round 2: still won't boot after futzing with misc. connectors.
- Round 3: trying original drive -- now that won't boot.
- Round 4: got it to boot from CD, can't see original drive
- Round 5: trying new drive again, won't boot
- Round 6: Q: What was that popping sound? A: $525 + tax.
- Round 7: put it all back together with no HD, boots fine from CD despite blown capacitors for charging circuit (see Round 6).
$525 is what a Tier 3 (motherboard/HD) iBook repair will cost you at Apple. And yes, I did have a backup (hello! doing a drive swap...), and yes, it is the company's computer.
This is a fine example of the subtitle of this web page... yes indeed. Just say No to iBook drive upgrades! (but seriously folks, a 3 gig drive... geez)
Where in Hell did I leave the frying pan?When you're single you can take your leftovers from dinner -- and the pan you cooked 'em in -- and just stuff 'em in the fridge. Nobody will know.
I-got-it-I-got-it-I-got-it-I-got-it-I-got-it!The seemingly endless steam of telephone surveys foisted upon me by Dateline NBC has given me the solution to our little national dilemma: phone poll. Kill a two hour block of primetime TV, have voters call the 900 #... yadda, yadda, yadda.
From the sublime to the ridiculousYou may have thought that Turducken was the pinnacle of party platters (only $99 at the local Byerly's!), but the fine folks over at FoodTV just clued me in to "Fowl de Cochon". It seems like those fiesty cajuns have mastered the technique -- nay, art -- of de-boning a pig and stuffing it with, well, a Turducken. (Oh, how I wish I could find a web link...)
Just think how popular you'd be if you had one of those babies at your next holiday get together! You and your 50 friends will be eating high on the hog.
In honor of getting out of credit card debt for the first time since, um... the late 80's... I'm going to have to buy myself a real DVD player. I'm currently using the DVD drive in my computer to watch movies, which is OK, but I have to boot back into OS 9 to run the movie player. (Darn beta OS with no DVD player, drat!).This may sound like crazy talk, but I think that a DVD player, the Big "Gazillion Dollar" TV and Vast Array of Speakers will make for a better movie going experience than the puny 17" Computer Monitor and Smaller Array of Speakers + Subwoofer.
Plus, with a real DVD player I'll be able to digitally capture the smutty parts of Fire on the Amazon. I'd post the pics here but my host has rules against Adult or Obscene materials.
I like "Andromeda" as much as the next guy, but how many years does Roddenberry have to be dead before he stops coming up with new shows.p.s. I think that Trance Gemini is simply the coolest character name on TV.
News you can useDon't call it a "Budget", call it a "Spending Plan."
Note to self... learn JavaScriptUntil that happens, make like a sorority girl and clique here.
Online banking is just so damn nifty I can hardly stand it.Just paid the utility bills... -click- How much? -type- -click-... done! Cruised over to NextCard and did the ClickPay thing too.
I think my record for number of NextCard payments in a 30-day period is three; i.e.: charge something, pay it off a few days later, charge something, pay it off a few days later, charge something... (you get the idea)... then the statement comes in the mail: "balance: $0, have a nice day." I can't even remember the last time that I had to pay interest to NextCard, or the last time I didn't pay the bill online before I got the printed copy in the mail. That's just cool.
Of course, having an actual income doesn't hurt.