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Michael has been working on a flaming sword. He’s really got the thing dialed in very nicely! Custom welding, some custom machined parts, a novel filling mechanism, a safe pressure vessel, butane powered. Win all around!

Today is a good day. I am cooking bacon. That is all.

Ugh. My computer has been getting slower and slower over the past few weeks. I think I figured out why. I am told by the CrystalDiskInfo program that the hard drive has a lot of uncorrectable sectors. She is dying.

I ordered a new laptop last week, it’ll be here in a week. So I decided to not write anything important to my desktop computer, wait for the laptop and make it my primary computer. I’m a bit freaked out at this. Change can be hard. Hell, I still have a land line phone.

Last week my beloved AG Neovo monitor died. I’ve had it for about 10 years. I had it repaired for $150 a couple years ago but it would be silly to spend another $150 on fixing an old 19″ monitor when I can buy a new on for about the same price.  Now this week my desktop computer is dying. It’s I don’t like it one bit.

I considered doing the following: get a small (128GB) SSD drive, a large (1TB) physical drive, reinstall XP, go from there. But why do it, really? I’m not a computer professional any more. My phone almost is as powerful as my desktop computer. I tell ya why I’d do it. Because I’m comfortable with it. It works. But the times, they change.

At XFF I donned video goggles and was asked to walk a maze. The camera was above our heads so it felt like I was playing Pac-Man with my body. Very cool.

Check out the OuterBody Experience Lab! It is fun!

The force behind OBEL is Jason FeKaylius Wilson

I got to meet more of my childhood  heroes at the XFF event. Here is Peter Conheim of Negativland and in wigglevision!

Performing at XFF:

local version:

:-)

Here’s a glimpse of the SRL Hovercraft by day (Hi Tad!)

And some SRL bedlam by night

We’ve got a great new postcard flyer in the Kinetics Department at the Crucible

That’s what I’m talking about!
Learn something awesome!
Bring a friend!

I just logged on for the first time to my entirely online Sociology class. This is one of the first things I saw:

So which browser should I use? How far back should I go?
Ah, I found mention that it won’t work with Firefox 10. But Firefox 9 was last built December 2011. Gulp.
Moving on…

I was looking for someone’s phone number today. I had the hardest time finding residential 411 service, you know, where they ask “What city and listing please”. I finally found my number. You might find these services useful. None are perfect but here we go:

Most useful directory service first:

• http://wp.superpages.com  (from Free, see comments)
• http://www.anywho.com/whitepages
• http://www.corp.att.com/directory/
• http://whitepages.com
• http://www.spokeo.com
• http://www.instantcheckmate.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-1-1

Also maybe useful

• 888-247-2425 Tellme/Bing
• 1-800-FREE-411

It was curious that dialing 411 on my landline and my cell phone both landed me with weird, unhelpful services.

Oop, I did it again. I hired a company to clean my fictitious rugs!

I’ve gotten about 5 robocall telemarketing calls from Carpet Care, 510-699-6152. I tried “press 9 to be removed from our list” a few times to no avail.

So I said “Yes, come clean my rugs!” They should be here tomorrow between 1 and 4.

I should be getting an angry human calling me tomorrow at 4:30 or so. At which point I believe I will be able to remove myself from their list.

I did this once before to hilarious (and effective) result.