Archive for the ‘Items in the Pensieve’ Category

Nethack avatars?

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

This is what I envisioned my Female Valkyrie might look like in nethack.

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To create your own avatar check out the site here.

New toys!

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Gifts coming early. As you can see Pekoe could not wait to investigate.

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The Phoenix rises

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Ok, so this has been a very bad seven days for me and my hardware karma. In a span of seven days, I had two machines at work die with bad power supplies, one system cpu die, my Large data drive on my mac mini start singing off key, my server’s motherboard at the colo take a dive.

I finally have everything back online. Fortunately everything was under warranty, but it was scary there for a moment. I am hoping this weekend will provide me with a better karma.

A new toy for the wish list.

Monday, March 27th, 2006

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It turns out that Denon has a unit that has everything I wanted:

1080p HDMI
XM radio
Ipod connector
Network Jack
Support for playing MP3’s
Multi-zone

The unit is not out yet, so I don’t know what the street pricewill be.

Back From the Dead

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Well I am on the road to recovery. I have been sick all week. I never knew how much your body can store, because all of the crud that came out of me sure as heck didn’t go in me over the previous two days.

So I ventured out today to return my broken printer. It has not worked from day one. I was reminded of this fact when Best Buy mailed me a renewal for the extended warranty. So I figured, “hell” let them fix it. After waiting in line for 30 minutes, I finally got my claim check and I might get a fixed printer in 3 weeks. We will see. I bought this printer to print on CD/DVD media. I learned today about Laser Scribing. CD/DVD burners that will actually put the image on the DISK. The problem is that there is no device that supports the Mac that I have found so far.