These guys are pretty funny
Albi
Hiphopopotamus vs Rhymenoceros (*edit: contains some mild bad language in case kiddies are around)
Jenny
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Zoom It!
I found this really awesome little program called ZoomIt. If you ever do presentations on your PC, run this little puppy (only 100K or so), and it lets you zoom in on your screen and break into draw mode, so you can draw on your screen with your mouse.
Check it out
Check it out
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Agua de Coco
Folks,
If you ever get tempted to try some Agua de Coco, or Coconut Water...take some advice from your good buddy Wbobth. DON'T!!!!!
I had been intrigued for weeks by seeing the cans of coconut water on the shelves of the Hispanic section of the supermarket. Finally I gave in to the temptation, and bought myself a can of Coconut Water, which I assume that people actually drink as a beverage for enjoyment.
Some of the main ingredients are:
Young coconut juice
Sugar
Young coconut pulp
Not knowing what to expect, I poured myself a glass.
It looked like when the kids eat some white bread, then decide to take a sip of my water. Or it looks like when you leave milk in a glass too long, let it solidify, then pour hot water on it in an attempt to loosen the congealed milk on the bottom of the glass.
Anyway, strike one for Agua de Coco for looking nasty.
Strike two for Agua de Coco for being horrifically nasty. The kids actually took a sip before I did, but I was not persuaded by the nasty face they made since anything new they try is automatically nasty.
The flavor is not quite coconutty, but like nothing I can describe.
The only thing I can recommend is for you to buy a can of Agua de Coco yourself just after I told you not to.
If you ever get tempted to try some Agua de Coco, or Coconut Water...take some advice from your good buddy Wbobth. DON'T!!!!!
I had been intrigued for weeks by seeing the cans of coconut water on the shelves of the Hispanic section of the supermarket. Finally I gave in to the temptation, and bought myself a can of Coconut Water, which I assume that people actually drink as a beverage for enjoyment.
Some of the main ingredients are:
Young coconut juice
Sugar
Young coconut pulp
Not knowing what to expect, I poured myself a glass.
It looked like when the kids eat some white bread, then decide to take a sip of my water. Or it looks like when you leave milk in a glass too long, let it solidify, then pour hot water on it in an attempt to loosen the congealed milk on the bottom of the glass.
Anyway, strike one for Agua de Coco for looking nasty.
Strike two for Agua de Coco for being horrifically nasty. The kids actually took a sip before I did, but I was not persuaded by the nasty face they made since anything new they try is automatically nasty.
The flavor is not quite coconutty, but like nothing I can describe.
The only thing I can recommend is for you to buy a can of Agua de Coco yourself just after I told you not to.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Computer Maintenance 101
A few days ago our computer was experience some massive problems. It was experience really bad lock-ups. By a bad lock-up I mean the screen just froze. No mouse. Not CTRL-ALT-DEL. No Blue Screen. The clock even stopped. It would happen between 10 seconds and 5 minutes after the computer started.
At first I feared a virus or worm. Then I feared hard drive failure, or bad RAM. (Of course it has to be the hard drive...I haven't backed up for a few months...)
So I started in safe mode to rule out and bad device drivers. The computer didn't crash after an hour on, but the fan was going like crazy. We have one of those temperature sensitive fans that turns on when it starts to get hot.
Wondering whether or not it was hot, I rebooted into BIOS mode, and went to the section that told me the CPU temperature. Almost 70C (160F). I did a quick search on normal CPU temperatures, and I found the normal range was 30 to 50C.
I shut the computer off, and looked at the CPU fan. I could not see the cooling tower for all the dust.
I took the fan off, got out the vacuum, and vacuumed off the eighth inch carpet of dust from the CPU cooling tower (being careful not to touch any components inside the computer)
The computer has been fine ever since.
At first I feared a virus or worm. Then I feared hard drive failure, or bad RAM. (Of course it has to be the hard drive...I haven't backed up for a few months...)
So I started in safe mode to rule out and bad device drivers. The computer didn't crash after an hour on, but the fan was going like crazy. We have one of those temperature sensitive fans that turns on when it starts to get hot.
Wondering whether or not it was hot, I rebooted into BIOS mode, and went to the section that told me the CPU temperature. Almost 70C (160F). I did a quick search on normal CPU temperatures, and I found the normal range was 30 to 50C.
I shut the computer off, and looked at the CPU fan. I could not see the cooling tower for all the dust.
I took the fan off, got out the vacuum, and vacuumed off the eighth inch carpet of dust from the CPU cooling tower (being careful not to touch any components inside the computer)
The computer has been fine ever since.
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