We spent the day over at Disney’s Hollywood Studios to check out the Star Wars Weekend event, and it was pretty cool! The park was the most crowded I’ve ever seen it, and this time it was mostly Star Wars t-shirt-wearing dudes my age waiting in lines to meet the characters (although, to be fair, [...]
Archive of entries posted in May 2010
Full Moon Fever
There was a beautiful full moon tonight and I got some pretty decent photos with my telescope and camera: I think I found my new desktop wallpaper.
WIJFR: The Wizardry Consulted
After rescuing the world from the creatures of darkness and chaos by applying a few computer logistics, Programmer and Systems Analyst Extraordinaire Wiz Zumwalt finds himself in another fix when he is kidnapped by dragons. “The Wizardry Consulted” by Rick Cook is my latest iPhone/Stanza read. Resuming the story three years after “The Wizardry Cursed,” [...]
WIJFR: Cross Country
Alex Cross, a Washington, D.C., police detective, takes on a human monster known as the Tiger with ties to the African underworld. When the Tiger and his teenage thugs butcher writer Ellie Cox, her husband and children in their Georgetown home, Cross is devastated because Ellie had been his girlfriend in college. The Cox family [...]
Pac Man turns 30
Wow, Pac Man is 30 years old. To celebrate, Google put up a logo Doodle that was an actual playable Pac Man game, sound effects and all! What a blast from the past … I sank quite a few quarters (or tokens) into Pac Man machines back in the day. I also had the Pac [...]
Acer Aspire Revo 3610
My Dell OptiPlex Linux server was getting louder and hotter in its old age. For the past three years it has been running 24×7 as my media server in the closet. The fan in the power supply had started to whine (especially when the CPU was maxed), and I already lost one hard drive to [...]
Sears warranty repair rant
Back on Wednesday, April 21, our four year-old front-loading Sears Kenmore Elite HE4t washer broke. It was in the final spin cycle and somehow got unbalanced which caused the inner tub to spin erratically. It made a loud grinding/squealing noise and then stopped with an F06 diagnostic code. I called Sears customer support and was [...]
Leaping with the Lucid Lynx
Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) was released last week so over the weekend I completed three installs. I did a clean install (from a USB thumb drive) onto my sandbox EeePC 4G Surf that was running an older build of Chrome. Ubuntu now calls this smaller build the UNE (netbook edition) instead of the UNR (netbook [...]
Let’s go Cavs!
My Cleveland Cavaliers open up the second round of the 2010 NBA Playoffs tonight in Cleveland against the Boston Celtics. The big news, of course, other than LeBron James becoming the 10th player in history to win the MVP award two times in a row, is James’ elbow, which started giving him trouble at the [...]
