>We were watching the 1971 movie Andromeda Strain (based on a Michael Chricton Book) in HD on demand, incredible quality for an old movie. When they’re speaking to one of the patients, they notice a high quantity of methanol and ethanol, they ask him “So you’re a Sterno drinker, eh?” I had to look it up, and while you’re at it, check out the rest of these incredible concoctions: Sterno – Canned Heat Ever need to just hand something in so you don’t get an incomplete? Me neither, but it’s amusing.Essay Generator
>Battlefield 2142 Demo
> The Battlefield 2142 Demo just came out on Friday. It took all day Saturday to download, and finally got a chance to play it on Sunday with Matt. I installed it on both computers and though it was pretty buggy, it was a lot of fun. It’s similar to BF2, less skills, less weapons. Grenades aren’t standard, nor are mines. Assault merged with Medic. The extra items you can unlock are EMP grenade, extra ammo, and I believe mines as well. There are now mechs to drive, and though they’re not quite Mechwarrior worthy, they’re a force to be…
>Fast Cars, Alley Cats…
> Fast Cars, Alley Cats, Aligators… What the Heck?!! (for the robots)2006 Subaru Legacy GT modificationSPT Intake & Heat Shield I installed It was the SPT (Official Subaru Performance Parts) cold-air intake and heat shield in my car on Saturday.I did it, I used tools and everything!! I removed the whole air port, air box and put in the new intake in about an hour or so. It went well, it certainly improves the performance of the turbo. There’s virtually no lag now, and Nicole noted it throws you back in your seat harder as well. It feels lighter, but…
>Oh gee, there goes the domain.
> Every once in a while I like to let the domain lapse to make me realize what it would be like to not have a website.I don’t like it! I tried to get a link, find my auction, and modify a setting on a subdirectory… and couldn’t find anything because the site wasn’t there! Thanks to those who let me know it was down. I was trying to get the domain picked up by a different registrar, but apparently I have to renew first, then transfer. Go fig. I’ll remember that for when I’m actually doing this for customers.…
>Intel Back on Top?
>Oh the woe. I really wanted AMD to powerhouse Intel out… they had their 15 minutes.Again, I was with AMD when they got ahead of the trend back with the K6-2… then PIII came along and whump’d em. They really better come back with some killer technology before I have to build my next PC. Price Speed BUS Cache 64-bit Dual Core Intel 965 2.9 1066mhz L1: 32kb+32kbL2: 4M shared EMT64 Y AMD 725 2.8 2000mhz (HT) L2: 128kb+128kbL2: 1M each AMD64 Y Take a look for yourself:Intel Core 2 DuoAMD FX62
>Ozone Oddity
>I just read this article on the increasing hole in the ozone. You’ll notice at the end it states “The CFCs have decreased since most countries signed a treaty in 1997 to reduce emissions”. This is the Kyoto treaty. A well intentioned agreement between the world powers, of course it actually ammounts to no more then a .7% (I’ll dig up the actual # so I don’t miss-inform) reduction. I just needed to comment on this very large stretch of an aticle. I realize it’s a sensitive subject when people are thinking you’re saying “the environment isn’t worth saving”. That’s…
>XBox 360 Laptop by Ben Heck
>I’m putting this on the main page because this is one of the most indepth conversions I’ve ever seen. This guy knows his shit, and dang if he didn’t do a bang up job. If he could mass market these it would be big, real big. XBox 360 Laptop by Ben Heck
>Windows Vista & URGE
>I installed Vista RC1 last night, you can find the ISO here. You’ll need to be a customer preview program member because it needs a serial #, but if you got Beta 2 when that was released you should be all set. RC1 installed much more smoothly, and has all the features, but is still missing some polish. It was a great preview and it’s usable until 5/31/2007 (I’m assuming release date for Vista?) Along with Vista came URGE, which after hearing the following advertised on Howard this morning, is apparently a new trend in media services – the internet:…
>9 11 2006
>I went looking through my archives to see what I was doing that day. I remembered that I didn’t have a blog at that time. Blogs were still relatively new, and I had just heard about it when I started the year before. I didn’t start one earlier because I felt I just didn’t have anything to say — it just comes when you’ve got an outlet. I really wanted to express myself that day, and didn’t have an outlet, which led me to creating it later in the month. Here are several 9/11 posts which don’t really seem to…
>MapMyRun / Google Earth of Our Bike Ride
> Last month Nicole wrote about the tour de Holyoke:http://www.mapmyrun.com/rss.php?u=65742cafb273e12fc7bb968b5fca065e That’s the link to the RSS for my runs, any trip I take that I can map I will, and the RSS will update, so add that to an RSS feed to automatically get them! You could also go old school “run of the mill HTML”http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_route.php?r=b290555aa918078b42b1001e877c1a8e note, they are both split into two lines, combine them to go to the right site.It’s so I don’t mess up the blog formatting until I can get somewhere to edit the hyperlinks
>TunnelVision.biz rambling
> I’ve almost finished TunnelVision.biz for Nicole’s brother. Once the main page is done, updates and additional info pages are quick to come. I want to make sure he’s happy with the main page – then I’ll add the others. Too many times I’ve created the whole thing, then after changing the template I’ve had to go back and re-do each minor change manually throughout the rest of the site’s pages. There’s one minor finishing touch I’ll bring attention to: the translucent box to the left of the blog needs to go down a little further to match the bottom…
>CT River Brew Fest This Weekend
> SATURDAY SEPT 9, 20061:30 PM Wayne Morphew3:30 PM Drunk in July 5:30 PM SPF-47:30 PM Angry Johnny & the Killbillies AJ&tK is kickass, Ali went to one of their shows in VT last year and brought back some CDs which I was fortunate enough to rip. It’s good stuff, all should come and have brews and fun on Saturday!
>Camping Trip (August 26th)
> Well it’s been a while. I went on vacation the 24th and apparently I disapeared.We headed up to Vermont on Saturday to go camping at Ed’s. Green River Resevoir may be next year, but we had a blast creating our own path up a mountain.We camped up on top of Armstrong Mountain in Fletcher/Cambridge. It’s not my brother’s property, but real close by. It was higher then our previous site, and quite a bit more difficult to get to but it was a great spot. We were up on the top of the mountain, and after packing down the…
>Fun with verizon
> post from mail: (no hyperlinks allowed) DSL: It sucks nowhttp://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8JL2LK80.htm?sub=apn_tech_down&chan=tc I kept my DSL for 3 reasonsA) It’s a faster pingB) I expected the Universal Service Fund to go away due to federal deregulation of DSLC) They told me I would no longer require a phone line.It costs me $29.99 a month for DSL with a $12 phone line.When I called Verizon they said I could change my service to “Dry Loop” which would mean I would no longer have to have a phone line.“Great! Can I do that?”“Yes, I do show that you qualify for that service, however…
>Gnarls Barkley
> Any idea why Gnarles Barkley is so infectious? (DJ) Danger Mouse.If that sounds familiar – how about the Gray album, the blending of The Beatles: The White Album & Jay-Z: The Black Album He blended the albums, and released them to P2P. He mixed them so well they became a sensation. I thought it was great, he’s a really talented guy. He’s now part of a group: Gnarles Barkley, so if you haven’t given it a chance – do it.
>Shocking!
>I love my UPS. We had a massive lightning strike last night, power died so I ran into the computer room to turn everything off. I shutdown the computer, unplugged the monitor and then *WHAM*POP* BZZZZZZT EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! The UPS was making a constant loud noise. I turned it off, not sure what had happened. I didn’t get a chance to actually test it until this afternoon. My 1000AMP/600W APC UPS took one for the team. I plugged everything into the wall and it all worked without issue. Not so much could be said for yon UPS. I called up APC,…