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I’m told people used to put these in electronics.
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I’m told people used to put these in electronics.
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One gross of Air Soft plastic BB’s. My little brother plans to shoot his friends with these today.
Think of a cleaner, yet more painful version of paintball.
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ZEBRAS! Plastic zebras. At the putt-putt range. For reasons I cannot begin to fathom.
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Wow. What a great week for this theme! First, as far as the world situation of technology goes, tech companies were showing off their newest and best gadgets at both the Consumer Electronics Show and MacWorld this week. Second, on a more personal level, my laptop died this week.
I had spent my lunch reloading the Engadget page liveblogging the Steve Jobs keynote at MacWorld. I hadn’t bothered to plug in my laptop, since I’d be going back to work after lunch anyway. So, when I got to work, my battery was just about dead.
I got to my desk, plugged in the laptop, and… nothing. The LED’s in the front did not light up. I wiggled the cord around, thinking that the AC adapter had gone bad (again). Nope, nothing. So, I plugged my iPod in, backed up everything that I needed onto it, and turned the laptop back off.
When I got home, I tested the AC adapter with the new multimeter I had gotten for Christmas. (I asked for a lot of tools this Christmas, and this was one of them.) It was putting out a constant 15 volts, which meant that it was working. The problem was the broken jack inside the laptop.
So, Tuesday night I spent an hour and a half taking apart the laptop to get to the part in question.
The pin inside had broken off inside the box. So, I set about trying to find a replacement part. Turns out that it’s a stupid proprietary part that Toshiba sells. You can’t just go to Radio Shack and buy a new one. I even tried a specialty computer repair store in downtown Spartanburg; nothing.
The average price online for this box was $40, although I saw one guy selling it for $25. That is way too much money for a little box with a metal stick in it, and since I need my laptop for work, I couldn’t wait for them to ship it to me.
So I took a friend out to lunch. Drew is a friend of mine from college who I mentioned the last time my laptop was seriously broken. I took him (and my brother and another friend) to Sticky Fingers, saving them from the terrible fate of eating in the Dining Common for lunch.
Drew was able to fix the little box, as he is much more skilled with a soldering iron than I am. After I got the part back, I was able to reassemble the laptop at home. Amazingly, it all still works. I’m typing this entry on it right now.
So, on the downside, I was without my laptop for a couple of days. On the upside, I got to work from home for a couple of days. I got to eat lunch with a couple of friends I hadn’t seen in a while. I got the experience of taking apart a laptop and putting it back together. And I got a couple of pictures for the photo hunt!
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I saw this sign on a University Business Association trip to New York City. I love the idea of buying and selling memories; that’d probably make a decent science fiction story.
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Don’t worry, it’s just salt, not cocaine.
For the record, I don’t recommend snorking up lines of salt or cocaine.
My mom wants me to play a game of Book Tag.
1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, go down to the 4th sentence.
3. Post the text of the following 3 sentences on your blog.
4. Name of the book and the author.
5. Tag three people of your own.
Here’s the quote:
You can use five-by-eight inch index cards to make your own blank schedule, or adapt it to whatever schedule format is already in your daily appointment book. Note that I’ve left you twenty-four hours to schedule work and play. This way you account for every hour, including sleep and meals.
That’s from The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil Fiore, Ph.D. Recommended to me by Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com. I’ve been meaning to read it for a couple of months now. But I’m not procrastinating, really!
I Tag:
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Annoying for her more than for me. If you click on the picture, you can see more photos of Suzy taking a bath in my flickr photostream.
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I know, I know. I’m late. Sorry. For my penance, I’ll put up two pictures instead of just one.
This inflatable guy was outside Jake’s Christmas Trees, where we’ve bought our Christmas trees for the past several years. He looks… concerned.
This is a car that Jake is trying to sell. A very nice 1964 Chevy Impala for $12,000.
| What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. |
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This is odd, since I’ve never lived north of the Mason-Dixon line. I’m thankful though; it prevents people from assuming that I’m some stupid back-water redneck. Sorry folks, a southern drawl is a disadvantage when it comes to first impressions.