Shopping! (2011/07/21)
Went shopping today. Got:
[read more...]CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR (2011/07/20)
So, what with one thing and another, we decided it was about time to consider replacing the 1992 Subaru station wagon that’s been in the family for the last 19 years. (It was originally my dad’s. I think it has belonged to both my mom and stepmom at one time and another, and currently I think it’s legally mine but I honestly don’t even remember.)
[read more...]Power is hard to get (2011/07/18)
Someone on Usenet made a partial list of reasons that various power technologies were unsuitable. I have cleaned it up.
[read more...]This may be the best of all possible worlds, but not the most awesome. (2011/07/16)
Our world: A Victorian lady would rarely be seen outdoors without her parasol.
[read more...]What an exciteable boy (2011/07/15)
I’m pretty exciteable. I will drop everything because I suddenly realized I could make a hobbit hole in Minecraft. Gone are my rigidly square stone buildings; now I have a wooden doorway in the side of a dirt hill, with a little glowy window a few squares over. It looks lovely. And because this is new to me I got all excited about it. I get excited about everything, though. When my kitty is cute, I’m excited about that. When food is delicious (which it very often is), I’m excited about that. I had to run around telling people when I finally comprehended the relationship between RGB and CMY color spaces.
[read more...]Problems with PostgreSQL 8, and PHP 5.2, on Mac OS X (2011/07/14)
For future reference:
[read more...]I believe in ESPs (2011/07/13)
So, there’s a category of business which I am by default not much inclined to like, which is businesses which do pretty much nothing that isn’t focused on sending email. You might call such businesses “spammers”. But there’s a subset of these businesses which, I am now forced to grudgingly admit, reduce the amount of spam I get.
[read more...]RYGCBM color space. (2011/07/12)
Okay, so. Light lets you assemble colors from R/G/B. Ink uses C/M/Y. So, for instance, R+G light = yellow.
[read more...]Just for my own reference... (2011/07/10)
Long ago, I got sick of silly backgrounds for WoW characters. I decided to treat it not as a thing I disliked… but as a challenge. Reposted here since I don’t have easy access to it elsewhere.
[read more...]Why RIFT is not a WoW clone. (2011/07/01)
This is partially a response to a forum poster on the RIFT forums asking whether someone could write an explanation of how RIFT is different from WoW without using the word “rifts”. To some extent, I think that’s unfair; after all, the rifts are a significant difference for me. But okay, let’s see.
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