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I sincerely hope you have some plans for moving forward. Maybe it's 'cause I'm living in 15%+ Unemployment-land, but right now I have to think a steady paycheck is worth a hell of a lot of aggravation. One way or the other, I hope stuff works out for you. I'm pretty sure my own job isn't going...

I did say "apparently." Presumably it's a bug they'll work out at this point.

That seems like a lot of money and a lot of work. What I found out when I got my system noise to satisfactory levels was that there was nothing I could do about the noise from my fridge, from the road outside my apartment or from the train tracks a few blocks away. Also, since I've had a...

Also the new version of Skype apparently supports group video chats.

I do some work with Polycom telepresence systems. They're really, really nice if you want to put something together that's more serious than a $60 webcam and a copy of Skype. Entry-level camera setups are maybe $1000 but Ebay has them for more like $300. On the other hand, a $60 webcam can look...

Best Buy is offering the EVO for a flat $199 with a contract signup. No rebates or crap to fill out. And yes, I am, and there's no way it makes financial sense to give it up, jesus phone or no.

It's not my fault that Adobe is gunning for status as the worst technology company on Earth. Those twunts really, really, really need to get some religion on the idea of making secure software. It needs to happen yesterday, and then they need to perform an apology in the form of a single-stroke...

Anyone think it's possible that they'll release those beasts at a sub-$250 price point?

The Sprint EVO will be out on June 4th. I spoke to a couple of Sprint CSRs to be sure, and they're basically mandating that anyone who is not on a service plan that is currently offered by Sprint move to a current service plan, plus pay a $10 surcharge on top of that, purportedly for access to...

I bet you could get a proper Thinkpad for that.

My network connection appears to be throttled at 384kbps. RDP is unreliable and it's looking like I get at most maybe 10 HTTP requests at a time. Tomorrow is election day, so the state office where I'm working will be closed. I found out there's a Six Flags amusement park and I got all excited...

I stopped when I went off to college. Honestly, it was just because of one person's shitty comment. But I haven't ever felt like I needed to go back to it, either. The place where I live is not very bike-friendly. My brother probably gets run off the road every other week or so and he's been...

I don't really do wild. I'm taking 1.5 TB of videos and ebooks and I guess I'll watch some of the stuff I've been dutifully copying for years. I guess I can vpn if I need anything else, assuming the hotel wireless doesn't suck.

I thought it was hilarious that "horse porn" had like 10 page views. You know, if you guys are THAT hard up I can send you all a little 2.5" drive full of regular naked women. The kind without horses. Unless you wanted to see the horse part. In which case I can't help you.

They're getting to the point where they're truly inexpensive. I realize you value resolution over size, but there's something to be said for surface area as well.

Avatar looks really, really cool on a big TV in 1080p.

CoX is historically not a game that scales well to the multi-GPU setup. I don't know if I want to buy another $500 video card, either. Of course, I could always turn off the effects, but given the system I'm using I can't believe I have to turn down anything for a six year old game.

City of Heroes just did a major revamp to its graphics engine, to support more world detail. My ATI 5870 went from being able to deliver 60fps@1920x1200 100% of the time to only displaying 12 - 25fps. And now I want a faster graphics card.

Nope. Perhaps I will take to eating them every day in an effort to drown my sorrow over having to spend May in the land of no shoes and very few teeth.

I have a lot of Noctua 900rpm fans.

It's not about agreement at this point. We all know Flash is a pile of suck. Anyone who doesn't make a living kneeling in front of Adobe's collective zipper knows this. However, in this case, Apple devices are losing out on a lot of functionality they really should support, and that's a...

Two more for the chainsaw rape machine.

There is nothing else that can be done to, for or with Western Digital drives than bash. Another company on my list for a jolly good chainsaw raping.

er, wait. You CAN'T report monitor issues through the web site. Derp.

Dell monitors should all be advance replacement. The more fun part of the problem is getting connected to the right department to initiate the RMA. You can only report monitor issues through Dell's web site; they don't have some code or other that's on other Dell products that is required for...

As far as photography, I've come to the conclusion that it's not worth the effort.

I actually know a young woman from there. I'll probably meet her and her boyfriend one night. But other than that, I'm not seeing anything that seems any more entertaining than spending a great deal of time in a hotel room.

I was taking pictures of the Wrigley building in downtown Chicago. A city cop got exceptionally belligerent about the fact that I was taking pictures of a building. Honestly, that's the experience that soured me most. I like buildings and people. People get all paranoid if you take pictures of...

You have hot Swedish chicks to whom I would be a exotic foreigner. :-) Hm. Actually my friend is very interested in Scandinavian fabric arts. We kind of tossed around the idea of taking a trip to the land of reindeer and Ikeas at some point in the future while she was visiting the weekend...

I had some bad experiences with taking photos so I kind of gave up on that. I'm not interested in the outdoors at all really, or in bourbon, horses or guns, and that's pretty much all Louisville seems to have to offer. Even worse, I'll be away from other work I could be doing.

I'm teaching classes in New Albany, Indiana, right across the river from Louisville. The classes are only four hours long, so I have metric buttloads of free time, but from what I can see there's not much of anything going on down there that I'd be interested in doing. Guess I'll just take a...

I hafta go spend Sunday through Thursday every week for a month in Louisville, Kentucky. Ugh. Need games that will run on my Thinkpad 'cause near as I can tell there's not a damned thing in Louisville I want to actually do.

I think it's hilarious, too. Yes, it's a 4GB card with four GPUs, but it's not like there won't be something that's better in every way available by September.

It's limited edition, duh.

That's really funny 'cause XFX sent me an email on Friday that they were missing serial number 68/1000 of their 5970 limited edition product and distributors, retailers and customers should consider it stolen.

time, can you come talk to my brother about his speaker wires?

I'm under the impression that nVidia's current design is kind of a brute-force-just-keep-adding-transistors solution, where ATI has made some more elegant design choices that led to a smaller chip.

More correctly, all PDF readers have a built in javascript interpreter, which is most assuredly what I meant. I'd been awake for about 20 hours when I wrote that. Anyway, when Adobe is swept from the Earth like the plague that it is, we will hopefully be given some better format for our...

Apparently, there's still a little life left in OS/2 after all. eComstation is releasing a major revision to its product in the next couple weeks. I'm not sure what the point is, other than supporting newer hardware for existing OS/2 installs, but I am impressed that they're still making an...

I'll get the champagne if someone else gets the party hats and streamers.

It's even more retarded than that but the net result is the same. The users wound up with their Internet Explorer icons changed to point to K-Melon, and ClamWin for AV and they've been given instructions to just leave their computers on and locked, rather than shut down. Of course, there's...

I have a pair of somewhat expensive Sennheisers (I don't remember the model, 550something, I think) for the infrequent times I need headphones at home. I also have a pair of in-ear noise canceling cheapies (CX400s) that I generally only wear when I know I'm going to be spending a lot of time...

I have a lot of female friends whom I know through another forum I belong to. Some of those I've bought off-color prank gifts for, including a size extra-small thong and a rubber ducky vibrator in a bondage outfit. Now, I probably order something or other from Amazon at least twice a week, and...

At this point, yeah. PDFs need to be considered suspect. My dad got one of the 1,001 variants on XP Antivirus a couple weeks back from looking at home design blueprints in PDF format. PDFs have a built in javascript interpreter, and Adobe has fuck-all interest in providing secure products, so...

I can't stand the guy on a personal level, but there's a social obligation involved so out of all my customers, he's the one guy I couldn't ditch even if I wanted to. And yes, he really is that tight. He's not putting money in these machines, either, 10 minute startup time be damned...

And FYI, Windows 2000 will run on 48MB RAM. It checks for 64MB at install, but it'll run on 48MB.

They don't have licenses for 2000. Nor are RIMMs readily available from any source I'd trust.

They need two functional computers. Specifically, they need two that have a licensed copy of Office 2003. The cost of obtaining new hardware plus Windows plus Office is prohibitive for them right now, whereas the existing systems already have licensed software on them. That would be...

Slashdot says one of the iphone devs ported Android to a 1st. gen. iphone.

Little known fact: Aliens and Blade Runner seem to take place in the same universe, based on subtle hints like the fact that characters in each smoke the same brand of fictional cigarettes.