December 2009
17 posts
How Dollhouse fans will rewrite history
dustindeckard:
Let me admit this first: I am a Whedonite, meaning I love everything that Joss Whedon’s pudgy mitts get within 10 feet of. In fact, aside from my boyfriend, Firefly is my favorite thing in all the world. I love Buffy, Angel, Dr. Horrible, Fray, Astonishing X-Men, Joss’ episodes of The Office… and yes, even Dollhouse.
But I am not an idiot, and I don’t have bad taste in...
chrysee:
a few years ago, before i moved to my current apartment in june of 2005, i had this comic strip on my computer monitor. chmod 700 * is quite useful if others are on your box, but if you’re like me, you keep accidentally putting the wrong number in the first field and locking yourself out of your own damn directory (which i did more than once; while i couldn’t remember not to do it, i...
God damn, computers are cheap.
Last night, a friend of mine asked me for help ordering a new computer, so I fired up Newegg.com and tossed some inexpensive components into my cart. The total (hardware only) came out to about $350. Not that long ago, that would be an insanely low price for a computer.
I decided to spec out two different machines today: one machine with fantastic specs that I would probably build for myself if I...
There are six legitimate installments of Star Wars...
A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Caravan of Courage, The Battle for Endor, and The Star Wars Christmas Special.
Microsoft RemoteApp is awesome...
…but I’m pretty sure that it’s overkill to have a RD Gateway cluster with RemoteApp at home. On my virtualization server. At home.
I’m relatively sure this is not what normal people do with their spare time.
carlyj:
inmyopinion:
Today I met with a Jewish matchmaker for my upcoming dating article. (Quick note: I’m not Jewish.) It doesn’t bode well that someone desperate to date in Charlotte has resorted to using non applicable matching services. Soon I’ll be going to AA meetings to break my Diet Coke addiction. I learned two things from my pseudo matchmaker (she can’t actually match me with...
