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It’s been a year since I acquired a new toy, but this one is quite cool. It’s an Apple IIe “Platinum”, with monitor, HUGE RAM card, DuoDisk w/controller, and some generic 3.5″ w/controller. I’m way behind: I still haven’t added my last new toy to the Computer Museum, and I got that a YEAR ago!

Also, through a comment I found this place: great art, good story. I spent 3 hours tonight reading it, and suggest anyone reading this to go read the thing like right now. If you like epic stories, and good artwork, you’ll like it. Oh, go read her other stuff, too.

Now that holidays are over, I can finally start paying attention to the throngs of people clamoring for support for Inanis Glass, especially those who have found bugs. I should be free this weekend to work on these issues and I will do my best to get caught up, most especially on the Embedded-Objects-are-broken issue.

Thanks for your patience, and Happy Holidays!

So, here’s some weird random crap from my phone cam…

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I am in Maryland for a week for vacation. A whole week of doing nothing work related. WOOT!

In a related topic: what is with the road construction on I-79 in Pennsylvania? There are three construction zones between Washington PA and the WV state line on I-79 that have been under construction for 4 YEARS! What the heck could they be doing for 4 years?

One of the zones has never had anything going on in it. Its just a place where they close one lane of the road for a mile then reopen the lane. Like clockwork, there is a police cruiser somewhere along that one never-worked-on section.

The other two sections have either had nothing going on or they rip up one whole lane for 5 miles just to drop in some concrete in a couple of 5ft x 15ft wide chunks, like once every 600 feet or so. What the heck!

Oh well, on to enjoying my vacation.

I haven’t gotten anywhere with the Mac project I noted on before. It’s basically ready to go, but I haven’t gotten around to implementing it yet.

I was planning on setting up a development server for Inanis.net so I can make changes offline without upsetting the website. With that, I had an idea for rewriting the inanis.net theme to look even more Aero … but who knows if that will ever get done. I have too much crap to do that doesn’t involve computers.

I updated my WordPress plugins recently to newer versions. How mundane.

I also wanted to set up a LiveJournal account, or perhaps a feed, and crosspost this blog with LJ so I could be involved in a “community” without having to manually update multiple sites, and I would still have control and ownership over my content (i.e. if LJ ever disappears, Inanis.net will still be here with all the content). That probably won’t go anywhere.

The raspberries are good. I made ‘em up into a syrup and put it on cakes and icecream. Yum.

Myspace is stupid.

I’ve been playing around with a Lenovo ThinkPad R61i that a customer returned because it was BSODing. I think it’s problems were due to the hard drive shock protection feature’s drivers an management application being out of date… oh, and the setting was turned up to Shock-Nazi - the thing would completely lock the drive if you so much as metabolized air, let alone actually move. I saw it lock the drive sitting stationary on a table. I turned that down and updated the software and I have yet to see it have a problem. Not sure what I will do with it at this point … shop laptop or resell it at a steep discount to get rid of it.

I stated a long time ago about a merger between my company and another company. That merger is complete. My company not only does computer repair and networks, but now also printers, ink/toner, office supplies and office furniture. It’s got me stressed out - too much work and not enough people. Blah. It has doubled our profitiblity, however. It’s been a year in the making and has been a good thing for the company.

*yawn*

Why is it that 99.999% of anime created in Japan, overdubbed into English, and then released for consumption in the US has the vocal parts dubbed so the characters sound like they are having way too much “fun”?

Whenever the artist is trying to convey a silent emotion in a character, the overdubbers insert grunts and air puffs and various sundry that make the characters sound like they are engaging in some sort of very pleasurable excercise somewhere past the over-scan where you cannot see it. Instead of being what it should be, it becomes something entirely different.

Please, take a look at my rough translation of real events into their perverse counterparts:

• Friends talking about a shared experience = lewd fantasy (mm hmm, yeah, hmm)
• Solitary person in soliloquy = pocket pool (eh, eh, huh ah!)
• Two people fighting to the death for the sake of the entire human race = group sex (GRRRR, MMMM, EH, EH, MMMMM, AHHHHH!!!!!)

I like quite a bit of anime, by no means a fan but a passive consumer, so maybe there is some sort of Code of Anime I’m just not getting. Oh well.

Oh, and Naruto? Yeah, that pretty much sucks. Wanna fight about it?

See the Wal-Mart picture in this Consumerist article? That is in my hometown. What a neat find. I was just surfing one of my favorite pages and noticed something familiar about that Wal-Mart. I know they all look the same, but the building’s surroundings were unique.

Neat. Stupid, but neat that we get recognized on a nationally (globally?) recognized consumer activist blog, even if its only one of their “Flickr finds”.

The Consumerist

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