You know, there’s nothing that quite matches the sinking feeling of plugging a new hard drive in laptop and having your OS installation software report that it can’t find any hard drive. Yick.
Now, see, I’m a software guy. Let me be more specific: I am a web developer. Which means hardware problems leave me feeling [...] Read more »

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I have so many pictures to post, but for now I am settling with these five. New in the gallery: “my cat even sleeps strange”:http://www.thudfactor.com/gallery/. Read more »

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Let me just say that Alton Brown is a genius. I cooked a pair of New York Strip steaks to perfection yesterday in under ten minutes (mine to medium, Sarah’s to medium well). This used to be a relatively arduous task involving two days of marinating and tense handwringing as the steaks broiled.
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I scored 66%, which is not bad considering I only started listening to popular rock music in 1988. (Before then it was all 60s and country.) The quiz is time-intensive but fun, especiallly for the comments. Blogless Mike will likely score 100. Read more »

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While I try to catch up on my word count for NaNoWriMo, you should go read Glen’s take on “Republican definitions of historical accuracy”:http://www.art-machine.org/archives/003320.html. Read more »

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