My work PC went kaput. It didn't turn on. I hadn't used it for several days. I turned it on and nothing happened. I think it's the power supply (again) but I'm not sure. It made a clicking sound with it plugged in. When I detached the motherboard from the power supply and plugged the power chord back in the clicking stopped. That worries me because it makes me think it may be the motherboard and a more expensive repair. If I need to replace the motherboard and CPUs (how do you know if the RAM and CPUs aren't fried?) I probably won't get something as high-end as I have/had. Of course, it's a few years old so I won't have to spend as much to match its performance.
I probably won't do anything to it until I get paid for a freelance job I did for the University of Virginia. I was going to use that money to pay down debt, not repair equipment. At least I'm not doing any work that requires me to use it at this moment. If work like that comes along, I can install my productivity software on my entertainment PC though it doesn't have as much RAM as I'd want for serious graphics work. I could also use the computer I'm using at my old room mate's house. I'm not worried about it... just bummed out.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Friday, January 12, 2007
Cool driftwood sculptures
http://www.jansch.freeserve.co.uk/
Horses made out of driftwood. Looks cool.
Horses made out of driftwood. Looks cool.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Monday, January 08, 2007
Friday, December 15, 2006
phone - eek
Last night our internet connection was flaky and I decided to use my cell phone to call a dial up internet number I have use of. I have unlimited evening and weekend minutes so that's not an issue. It's a really slow connection (slow like the modem I was using in 1994) but all I was doing was Instant Messaging. Well, I finished with the internet and closed my laptop, plugged my phone into the charger and went to bed.
This morning after I got to work and looked at my phone for some reason. It was still connected from last night. The display said it'd been connected for 10 hours. Eek. That scared me breifly. I called the phone company and double checked the hours for the evening and weekend calling. The normal day rate starts at 6AM. I accidently burned 220 peak minutes. The plan I have shares 1000 minutes between my wife and I. So far this month we've only used 47... up till this morning. Our plan resets on the second of the month so that leaves us just under 750 peak minutes to use. :D
This morning after I got to work and looked at my phone for some reason. It was still connected from last night. The display said it'd been connected for 10 hours. Eek. That scared me breifly. I called the phone company and double checked the hours for the evening and weekend calling. The normal day rate starts at 6AM. I accidently burned 220 peak minutes. The plan I have shares 1000 minutes between my wife and I. So far this month we've only used 47... up till this morning. Our plan resets on the second of the month so that leaves us just under 750 peak minutes to use. :D
Friday, November 10, 2006
ramblings
It's after midnight and I'm not terribly sleepy yet. I'm getting there though.
I just took the trash out front to be picked up tomorrow mornight. There were no clouds in the sky and the temperature was actually nice. I was out in khakis and a t-shirt. Just last week we had lows in the 20s. It's odd like that here in central VA.
Capital One bit me today. Last month, October, the due date was the 11th. I had marked on my calendar that CapOne gets paid on the 11th. Only, this month it was due on the 6th. I got slapped with a $35 late fee and for some reason the minimum due went up by $100. In looking at the statements available online, October is the only month in the last 5 that end on the 11th. The 11th was a Wednesday. grr. It looks like they aren't jacking up my interests rates though. That's a good thing though if they did, I'd just move the balance to my American Express. I wish I could pay them off. I'd been out of credit card debt for a few years, but then I bought a house that needed fixing up. Oh well.
I was going to ramble on about something else. I can't remember what that was though.
I just took the trash out front to be picked up tomorrow mornight. There were no clouds in the sky and the temperature was actually nice. I was out in khakis and a t-shirt. Just last week we had lows in the 20s. It's odd like that here in central VA.
Capital One bit me today. Last month, October, the due date was the 11th. I had marked on my calendar that CapOne gets paid on the 11th. Only, this month it was due on the 6th. I got slapped with a $35 late fee and for some reason the minimum due went up by $100. In looking at the statements available online, October is the only month in the last 5 that end on the 11th. The 11th was a Wednesday. grr. It looks like they aren't jacking up my interests rates though. That's a good thing though if they did, I'd just move the balance to my American Express. I wish I could pay them off. I'd been out of credit card debt for a few years, but then I bought a house that needed fixing up. Oh well.
I was going to ramble on about something else. I can't remember what that was though.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Sold!
Well, it's official. I am no longer the proud owner of a Modified 1997 Suzuki GS500E. I sold it to some guy from Baltimore. He's a mechanic and sounded like he's had several bikes. I guess he thought the price was good because he brought cash and didn't try to negotiate on the price.
I thnk the bike has a good new owner. Now we just need to figure out what to do with the money.
I think I might miss the bike, but I haven't been riding it much and we needed the cash more than I needed the bike in the driveway. Besides, the bike cover I had is in tatters. Now I don't have to figure out what to do to keep it covered this winter.
I thnk the bike has a good new owner. Now we just need to figure out what to do with the money.
I think I might miss the bike, but I haven't been riding it much and we needed the cash more than I needed the bike in the driveway. Besides, the bike cover I had is in tatters. Now I don't have to figure out what to do to keep it covered this winter.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
insom
it's after one A.M. and I'm a little too restless to sleep.
Outside the sound of an owl hooting rises above the thick blanket of insect chirps
once in a while a car will pass by, its tires making a hushing sound on the road
i'm going to go back to bed to hopefully go to sleep.
Outside the sound of an owl hooting rises above the thick blanket of insect chirps
once in a while a car will pass by, its tires making a hushing sound on the road
i'm going to go back to bed to hopefully go to sleep.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
An unfortunate name for a cool little program.
The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator
This website has a program on it takes an image you upload and "rasterizes" it so you can make posters and murals on your printer. It takes the brightness (and optionally color) information from your image and makes a large image made up of round dots. This image is then broken up into the number of pages needed by the output size that you set. It then makes a .pdf and sends it to you.
There also is a stand alone application that you can download.
This website has a program on it takes an image you upload and "rasterizes" it so you can make posters and murals on your printer. It takes the brightness (and optionally color) information from your image and makes a large image made up of round dots. This image is then broken up into the number of pages needed by the output size that you set. It then makes a .pdf and sends it to you.
There also is a stand alone application that you can download.
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