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31 Oct 2007Today’s real estate market is in a slump. What this means, clearly, is that you should be buying. If you’re willing to live in the middle of nowhere, here are a few very interesting ideas for homes: $320,000 buys this ~3,000 sq. ft. building, a former railroad station. With just a tiny bit of work, [...]
My AthlonMP system is aging. Actually, it’s aged. It’s down to 512MB RAM (the other 512MB went bad a long time ago). BIOS updates ended 4 years ago, and the thing doesn’t seem to support drives over 137 GB or USB keyboards, two things that have worked for a long time. (Hint: it seems like [...]
The other day I was feeling quite hungry and somewhat under the weather. So I headed to the convenience store on campus to grab a bite to eat and a drink. I learned that the “Amp” energy drinks are actually not that bad, although they’re ridiculously expensive. Sadly, my first thought when buying it was [...]
I’m pretty much an expert on zombies. I beat Dead Rising, and watched Shawn of the Dead the other day. (By the way, the catchy tune that is their themesong is The Blue Wrath by I Monster.) So a few comments: They’re none too smart. You can fool them by walking like a zombie. Throw [...]
I’m home for the weekend, and stopped by the Turkey Hill Cemetery. Got some nice shots, perfect for Halloween. It’s funny how much of an effect the post-processing can have… Here’s a shot in black and white, with a little glow added: And here’s a shot in color: This marks the second time, by the [...]
Posting this in the hopes that it’ll be useful to someone else, because it certainly took me a long time and caused a lot of frustration. There’s a bizarre bug that a few people, myself including, have run into when upgrading to Ubuntu’s Gutsy Gibbon release: the applications menu is blank. Some recommended deleting ~/.config/menus/applications.menu, [...]
In: Computers|Materialism
28 Oct 2007Going through the circulars, here are some more incredible deals: Office Depot has a 17″ widescreen LCD (1440×900), $139.99 after rebate. Brand-name is Hanns. If you don’t mind an eMachine, Office Depot also has a desktop with a dual-core AMD “4000+,” 1 GB RAM, 320GB disk, Vista Home Premium, dual-layer DVD/CD drive, and a 17″ [...]
Let the Democrats continue bashing each other in public, ensuring that, post-primaries, whoever wins from the Democrats already has egg on their face, thrown by another Democrat. The Republicans won’t even have to run attack ads. And Republicans, don’t worry. It seems that we’re well on way with this plan. Just sit back and watch [...]
In business, and really just life, it’s important to plan for the long-term. In a lot of publicly-traded companies, managers have incentives to manage for the short-term: if they boost the company’s numbers for the year, they get huge bonuses. The plan doesn’t account for the fact that they may well have gotten there by [...]
Kyle’s ending sentence reminded me of something I’ve noticed before: we at Bentley are not normal. Even those of us who aren’t obsessed with starting the next big company still have business on our minds all the times. The other day one of my friends here remarked, “I want a Gap T-shirt.” Or at least, [...]