Provision us up!

Source is Mike’s Place, a restaurant in Kent, OH. You can see the barrel of Acme X-wing Fuel to the right. There’s also a catapult on the roof that’s aimed at the Bob Evans across the street. There are a bunch of “rules” on the menu that include: Mike is always right. (just don’t ask […]

How to remove CD Spin Doctor and/or perform a clean Install of Toast

This information is from Roxio: To perform a clean install of Toast. Please follow all of the instructions below: Please go to the following folder locations:BE SURE TO REMOVE THE FILES FROM BOTH LOCATIONS Macintosh HD> Library> Preferences Macintosh HD> Users> your username> Library> Preferences: trash the following files: * com.roxio.Toast.plist * Roxio Toast Prefs […]

Twitter is still down… And it’s my problem..

Well, I’m communicating with the author of the Twitoaster package, to see if we can isolate what is causing the failure of the package…  (It’s probably something related to my wordpress configuration…) Twitoaster, automatically posts the wordpress posts to Twitter, but it also allows the Retweets, and Tweetbacks, to show up in the posts on […]

Dragon Age: Origins expansion Awakening announced

‘Dragon Age: Origins — Awakening,’ is a real thing. This morning, EA and BioWare announced the expansion, confirming several details leaked days prior, thanks to an odd European retailer listing. The expansion appears to take place after the events in the core game, tasking users with rebuilding the devastated Grey Warden ranks in a place […]

Hard drive making a weird noise

My Samsung hard drive is making some weird noises. Sometimes, the noise stops but then starts again within a few minutes. It’s warranty is out of date, so I am worried that the noise may indicate an imminent failure. First,….. Backup your data. Now. Please, Back it up… Back up your data if you even […]

The Left Hand Knows Not What The Right Hand is Doing

Last weeks’ top Antarctic AGW story was : Antarctic ice melting faster than expected due to CO2, of course. This week the #1 story is : Antarctic ice spreading but the increase in size is due to “stratospheric ozone depletion” which is of course also caused by man-made gases. So Antarctic ice is disappearing faster […]

Boomer Watch – Flexing muscles made of carbon nanotubes

I just ran across a article on ArsTechnica regarding artificial muscles made out of carbon nanotubes… Can Boomers now be far behind? Okay, so we still have to work on the entire Artificial Intelligence bit, especially where they randomly go on a rampage for no apparent reason… But still, artificial muscles with that density was […]