Today’s shuffle derives from the act of delving into old hard drives recovered from the now deceased old Pentium 4 laptop, thanks to a couple of external IDE drive enclosures I can access via USB cables, since my new desktop machine only supports SATA drives. New technology that allows me to prolong the life of […]

<intentionaljoketag>generic blurb about how I have nothing to report</intentionaljoketag> Anyone who’s watching the mileage tick up on the left side of this web page has probably figured out that my five-to-six days a week workout has become habit, and if I don’t get it, I just don’t feel entirely right, mostly because I’m getting to […]

A tiny piece of fiction inspired by a brief real-life feeling and all the David Sedaris I’ve been reading lately: ___________________ Although the rational, date-keeping part of my brain must have known, the rest of me had almost totally managed to not realize what time of year it was. It’s not hard to do when […]

I don’t really have anything of particular note to report. That is, other than my compulsion to continue to add new prose to this space at least every few days. That isn’t to say that I haven’t been busy. It’s just that I’ve been busy with things like work and family and NaNoWriMo and reading […]

The new desktop PC arrived in the arms of the cheerful FedEx guy on Thursday afternoon. I’ve been playing with it a little bit, trying to get it to my liking…most specifically, getting a comfortable dual-boot environment going between Windows 7 (for games) and Ubuntu Linux (for just about everything else). After several hours worth […]

If I can establish reliable routines and patterns, I tend to find I’m an easier person to deal with, and am generally more upbeat about things. Thankfully, after a seriously trying occurrence of Alexander Chuck and Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day that lasted most of a week, the new job, schedule, and general […]

Just some stuff rattling around in my head; with only a few re-runs from the twitter feed: ♦ – As strange as it sounds, I am coming to believe that LEGO Rock Band is a better game than Rock Band 2. ♦ – My new favorite Southern Colloquial expression is definitely “getting down to the […]

Does this surprise me? Not in the least. Gran Turismo 5 is delayed…again. This game has been in a constant state of “delayed” for most of the PS3 life cycle now – the “totally official this time we mean it guys, really” release date was supposed to be November 2, 2010, though now, apparently, it’s […]

Not sure of the reason, exactly, but last night I was moved to pull out my bass and shake the rust off of my meager skill at filling out the bottom end. It turns out I wasn’t entirely embarassed with the results: I could still pound out the scales and runs, and didn’t fudge the […]

but what the hell, here’s a weekend wrap up. The weekend didn’t go as I expected, and things I though would be short and sweet ended up lengthy and expensive, and some stuff didn’t get done at all. However, I mostly can’t complain. Among other things, I ended up lining up a great deal on […]