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Luke Cage took me longer to watch because it turns out that sitting comfortably was a bit of an issue this weekend. Stupid nitpick, right off the bat: The President of the USA in the MCU in 2015 is named Matthew Ellis, so named in Iron Man 3 and Agents of SHIELD. Barack Obama's name kept coming...

Best guesses are fondness for diet coke and peanuts. I like peanuts because they seem harmless given the parameters of my dietary needs and I've used diet coke as a harmless treat that incentivizes walking someplace to get it and to satisfy cravings for something sweet and acidic. Sugar is...

By all means, go look up what's involved in a stent through the urethra. Or just cross your legs and contemplate good fortune. The stone did pass last night. It was easier than the first one, probably because I knew what was happening and not because it hurt any less. All my cats, who normally...

Outpatient. They just went ahead and did it.

Today. It was not fun. The thirteenth sign is only used for 10 days at the beginning of December. I tell people I'm that sign just to stop them from talking about astrology. Them I have to explain what it is and why, but at least it's a more interesting conversation.

No conversation that starts with "So we need to make your urethra bigger..." is going to go in a happy direction.

The only ones I've bought this year are UX303s, which are fairly pedestrian i5 / 250GB / FHD systems, rather than the discrete graphics / QHD models. I can usually resell them for a couple hundred bucks over what I pay for them. But I certainly wouldn't expect the Pro models to be any worse.

There are about a dozen applications in my library where I have some Windows tool or other where the author yanked the a freeware version or added bundleware to later installers, such that I'm glad I kept old installers. Other times, there are things where I keep an installer because getting it...

Handy, Zenbooks have been my go-to consumer notebook recommendation for a few years. I re-sell four or five a year and they're well built with nice screens and keyboards. The only reason I've ever opened one is to upgrade an SSD, but even that speaks highly of them since I've not had to swap a...

I have no way to determine the state of your hardware.

Personally, I'm wary of gaming laptops because they usually fuck up the thermals in ways that lead to shortened life for at least some components, but the GTX960 may not be enough of a power hog to warrant the gaming designation in the first place. That's probably the main thing I'd research, if...

I should. I really should.

I'm moving. Maybe Tannin will sponsor me for an Aussie visa. I'll be his goddamned computer fixing slave so he can go take photos of fanged, stinging birds and Jellyfish that walk on land and whatever other miscreations of nature are in the Outback.

I do. On a related note, I know exactly one unmarried human female under 40 with a college degree who is unmarried but I can find hundreds of women whose dating profiles include phrases like "Biblical living" and which also indicate that they are divorced. Correlation does not equal causation...

Well there are still two screens devoted to "Sausage Party" (which FWIW is mildly amusing and probably insanely funny if you're stoned while you watch it) and four screens showing Suicide Squad, but definitely no Kubo. I know I can watch it as an illegal stream, but that's the sort of movie I'd...

I have a Quantum changer connected to a similar LSI controller that I use with a Windows Server 2012r2 machine. I'm sure the software side of your config is fine. Tapes need to go in cases. You don't want them contaminated by humidity or air pollutants. Keep them out of sunlight and at...

Probably half porn and half pirated games. The full version of Doom was, like, 30MB.That's a lot of naughty JPGs. The machine I had in 93 - 95 was a dual (yes, really) 486DX/50 and the other thing I can remember about it was that the first time I encountered an MP3, which was probably the...

Did you try to run the StorageCare Diagnostics for your drive? Tape drives do fail and it's also very possible to get bad tapes, especially if they were stored improperly. My guess is you need to drop back and try LTO3 instead of LTO4 media, regardless of what Windows says.

Medical care here in Indiana is not what I would call affordable (my state government sabotaged the ACA as much as it possibly could) and anything I have done would be out of pocket. I may yet go get medical imaging but I'd have to go to Chicago to have the pulverize thing done, were that...

Nifty tidbit I just discovered: The USTV Now add-on from Kodi's Fusion Repository allows free, legal streaming of over the air broadcast network TV (CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, PBS, CW) for US citizens. It's meant for expats, but it seems to work just fine within the USA, even without a VPN. It's also...

Didn't a lot of Siri stuff only work in a few countries at launch? Could've been that. There's some talk at The Verge of the A10 CPU in the new iPhone besting some (older) Core i CPUs for single thread execution in GeekBench, but I have no idea if the Geekbench mobile CPU benchmark is...

There was puke involved, though I promise I was awake for the whole damned thing. I've basically been sleeping ever since. Today is the first day my side isn't killing me.

Did Kubo and the Two Strings even get a theatrical release in the USA?

I passed a kidney stone on Thursday. It was a healthy 4mm.

Chris Pratt assures that it will at least be charming, even if it doesn't have the star power of the 1960 version. Also, if it gives any visibility at all to the Kurosawa films, that's only a benefit to the moviegoing public. A better question in my mind is who in the hell thought an IMAX remake...

This is for a kid who specifically wants a tablet. I feel like it's really short-sighted to buy a new device that only has 1GB RAM, particularly if you are someone who plays games since it sucks pretty deeply to find that the OS auto-closed your game so you'd have enough RAM to open all of your...

Amazon has the Shield K1 back in stock at $200, but only for Prime members. I wonder if they got the end of someone's supply or if there's a new product on the way. I'm having a really hard time finding a good-fit 8 - 10" tablet suited for what probably amounts to a dedicated Minecraft device. I...

Ghost Rider looks a lot cooler than I thought he would on Agents of SHIELD. He's also got a pretty cool Bear McCreary leitmotif, something that hasn't been done much on that show. Also, nine days to Luke Cagemas.

The proposed new forum software looks really nice. I like the fancy previews.

I wore my pirate hat and eye patch but no one got it. They just thought I had problems with my eye again.

I'm under the impression that every printer manufacturer screws with non-OEM cartridges at least a little. The big issue with Brother (laser) printers seems to be shorter indicated life on generic toner cartridges, for example.

Probably. At least Hangouts doesn't require a Google account. I've had people tell me, with a straight face, that they had to buy an Apple device because of Facetime.

Arrr you ready, kids? I cant Hear you!

The major issue with music curation by ID3 tags is the fucking Album Artist tag. That is a dumb tag. Album Artist is most often used for performer and duplicated in the Artist tag, while systems often ignore the composer tag or don't deal with a mismatch between those three fields very well.

Well this got a laugh out of me. And then I thought about it and, yeah, that'd probably make them a lot cooler, if you're in to that sort of thing.

I have at least four ways to access music in my home so I can stream it, but Plex is ALSO hopeless with metadata for my music, even when I tell it to prefer ID3 tags over online data. Basically the only way I get fully correct information is by browsing a filesystem and playing stuff directly...

There also needs to be a dividing line between what's personal and what's professional. One of the reasons SMSes piss me off (besides the fact that everyone thinks I want to be married to my phone for always and forever) is that I don't want to get them from customers. I don't want to give out...

The BD Extra on Civil War is fantastic, for what it's worth. Oh wait I guess this isn't on the BD. Oh well. Just watch it. It's funny. Luke Cage launches in two weeks by the way.

If you go in to Settings, you can give Windows a 12 hour window in which it will not reboot or install updates. Unfortunately, you can't give it less than 12 hours when it CAN.

I've also seen Homegroups get really slow but ony when they're actually using the Homegroup namespace for the data transfers. Never seen it impact normal SMB.

I'm guessing you'll see sub-$200 1TB drives around Xmas 2016, but this is technically an Enterprise drive, and those don't usually come so cheap.

First thing is that this does not sound familiar, but have you tired running SFC or swapping in a different NIC and/or the network port the thing is running on? I'm guessing that if you're using a desktop machine for a file server, you don't have anything too serious going on with the network...

It's widely used here too, but I have no idea why, since data plans are ubiquitous and a sizable fraction of messages will be either longer than 160 characters or contain binary data.

I don't think the value proposition for $10/month for commercial-less Youtube (which I already have anyway) + 20% of the uploaded music makes as much sense. The overall cost of Prime + Prime Music is about the same but the value is skewed massively in Amazon's favor with all of the crap-ton of...

I have a fully integrated Google Voice number. My carrier is Sprint. I can have that. However, in a wider point, I don't think anyone else should use SMS and I'm doing what I can to discourage it.

Yeah, but compare that to the Nexus 7, which was the game changer precisely because it was a quality, affordable product. If I'm going to blow $500 on a high end tablet, it's going to at least come from a company that hasn't been allergic to external storage for the last four years.

I broke down and added Prime Music to the list of crap I'm paying Amazon to have. It's $2/month vs $10 for Google and I'm OK with that part. I'm also OK with the 250,000 song limit. Here's what's not OK: 1. Like Google, Amazon uses its metadata instead of mine. This, again, is terrible and...

And just a follow up to my comments about the Shield Tablet: The cheapest ones on Amazon are now $350 with some knobs wanting up to $700 for one. There was a post on Slashdot this weekend that Huewei is planning to build a "Nexus 7 replacement" but ALSO that Google is dropping the Nexus...

Palemoon is a thing that exists.

I have my emails filtered so I get appropriate notification noises on my devices and can IFTT things if need be. I really don't want to break that.