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Posted on entry Open Thread 99 ::: January 11, 2008, 12:22 AM:
So I bought myself a birthday present two days ahead of the date, I now have a new laptop, with not only a touchscreen, but a built-in webcam, too--and a clip of me cursing at Microsoft, Vista, and Steven Jobs and his ancestry... unexpurgated live reaction commentary on doing -some- of the system reconfiguration to something less annoying that the stock user interface.... NOT for G-rated audience--no sex, no violence, but it is full of foul language! (It also included me trying to divide by 1280 by 800, out loud, for the purpose of trying to figure out if the ratio is closer to 4:3 or 16:9 [it's 16:10, but it would be way too easy for the stupid software to actually show typical resolutions and let the operator pick amongst them... and I forgot anyway was the resolution is, and then tried to go look it up on the machine... but Vista doesn't have the display control information in the same place that previous versions of Microsoft environments have them....])

I was testing the webcam.... the location it's at of course is designed for someone whose torso is much longer than mine is, so it shows lots of space above my head with the laptop on my lap....

Posted on entry Home ::: July 05, 2004, 05:35 PM:
During the fireworks there was an IDIOT flying around in a small plane or helicopter, circling around the fireworks display. I saw the flashing beacon moving that indicated air vehicle going west to east behind the fireworks, and snarled, "there is an IDIOT flying around!" Ted Atwood though it was Medevac, saying that that was the flight path for Medevac helicopter flights, and a few minutes before there had been ambulance noises. But then, the vehicle turned south and kept going and turned west and kept going and turned north -- circling the fireworks. IDIOT.

I hope the idiot got caught and got grounded for a long, long, long time. Flying around in the vicinity of a fireworks display....

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