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August 04, 2006
Geek time!
I am an IDIOT. Our computer, Janine Kishi (which I named back last August, before I even got onto this big BSC kick), has been having problems for awhile. In March, she started shutting down randomly. The problem was, at the time, I was flying back and forth so much that there wasn't one chunk of time long enough to bring her in to be repaired. The shutting down issue stopped, but after that, she kept getting very hot and making loud whirring noises she hadn't made before.
Anyway, our warranty on Janine runs out in two weeks, so this morning we finally brought her in to get taken care of. I backed up everything on her in March when the problems started happening, and then backed up everything new in June before we moved. The other day, I burned myself another disc with everything new since June.
And then I proceded to bookmark six more great things for future links posts last night. Oops. Luckily, I managed to remember where to find two of them, but the rest are lost for the week, and possibly forever.
Anyway, so here I am jumping back and forth between our two emergency laptops, and I'm going to post the links that I do have. They'll have to do for now.
I absolutely have to lead off with these instructions on how to make your own digital picture frame. Basically, you frame the LCD from an old laptop and hook the power button and wireless card up on the back. Then you use Slickr, the flickr screensaver, to display your pictures. Looks simple enough that even I could do it. It does, however, seem like it would be quite heavy, as well as a little big. So if that deters you, or if you're lazy, you can just get this wireless/flickr using frame from thinkgeek, or this one, which uses the memory card from a digital camera rather than linking to flickr. I don't know which way we'll be going, but you can bet that we'll be doing one of these things.
I've now discovered the most pointless geek-toy ever. Do you remember those cheap 50 cent toys from childhood where a little figure was standing on a box, and if you pressed down on the box, the figure collapsed? Well, now you can attach one to your computer and rig it up to your favorite friend on a messaging program so that every time your friend is available, the little guy stands up, and when he or she is away, the little guy collapses. Stupid and pointless, yet highly entertaining.
On a much more pathetic-but-amusing note, a waitress in the town where Lauren and I spent a lot of time this past year carded someone and saw her own face looking back at her. This probably wouldn't have amused me if it hadn't taken place in Westlake, the same place where we once saw a wealthy woman wet herself at dinner and a drunk girl pull her skirt over her head and do cartwheels in the street.
I think it's been made pretty damn clear that I love organizing my books. My love of LibraryThing knows no bounds. But now I can turn my book collection into an actual library. Seriously. With a little date due stamp for the cards and everything. And I can do the same for my DVDs or my CDs, too. This would have been my dream birthday gift when I was 8 years old...
It's taken me so long to get around to this entry that by now, everyone has seen this, but I just don't care. Watch what these guys did with 8 treadmills! It's really amusing and makes me feel like I'm back in 1997, which is a very welcome feeling. I feel a little dirty because I'm pretty sure this is the same band that's featured in that new JCPenney commercial or whatever, but it's too enjoyable not to include it.
Last night I had an away message up that said (roughly--I don't remember because my away messages are yet another thing I forgot to back up), "I hate Jell-o. If God wanted peaches suspended in midair, he'd have filled them with helium." My friend Mel asked me where that was from, and when I told her Sophia said it on Golden Girls, her response was to tell me that Golden Girls is an oft-watched show for lesbians. She gave me that link, but I also did a search on the terms "lesbians", "reruns", and "golden girls" and found a lot of quick summaries that explain it more simply. Really, who woulda thunk? Do us lesbians really love Dorothy that much?
And finally, an attempt to answer the 25 most important questions in the history of the universe. Many are boring. A few, though, like "Who's the voice of the 'you've got mail' bite?" and "Which is most likely to win: rock, paper, or scissors?" are worth reading.
That's it for this week. Fewer links, but longer explanations. Until Janine gets back, the rest will have to wait.
Posted to Links at August 4, 2006 12:55 PM
