I think the rise of home computing has a lot to do with the way the crime rate has dropped.
- 13 June 2011
Bento BookNice!
11 May 2011
Google's Chromebook is out.
06 May 2011
Raspberry Pi
Game dev David Braben has made a usb-computer that costs pennies (just about), with an HDMI port in one end and a usb port on the other. It runs Linux, and his goal is to have them provided to children at no cost.
06 August 2009
The Card Has Arrived
(in a big box delivered by UPS)
The Card Has Arrived
(in a big box delivered by UPS)
The computer men have been called
(and they said they would call or email me back)
I've become weirdly accustomed to this borked machine
(and my brain now automatically compensates)
I've been doing graphics because I can't help it - I have to work
(but God alone knows what they'll look like "for real")
Yesterday I was reading a New Yorker
And caught myself compensating for picture distortion
That wasn't there
Pretty soon if it isn't fixed
My brain will start compensating for the look of reality.
(in a big box delivered by UPS)
The computer men have been called
(and they said they would call or email me back)
I've become weirdly accustomed to this borked machine
(and my brain now automatically compensates)
I've been doing graphics because I can't help it - I have to work
(but God alone knows what they'll look like "for real")
Yesterday I was reading a New Yorker
And caught myself compensating for picture distortion
That wasn't there
Pretty soon if it isn't fixed
My brain will start compensating for the look of reality.
Labels: Combuderz
08 October 2008
Return of the Prodigal SOB
Old Pal: :D
Osprey Therian: WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
Old Pal: hahah
Osprey Therian: WoW?
Osprey Therian: or Spore?
Osprey Therian: lol
Old Pal: i quit wow like
Osprey Therian: EVE?
Old Pal: 4 weeks ago
Old Pal: and yes i have been plaing spore
Old Pal: haha
Osprey Therian: Me too.
Osprey Therian: I'm a bit bored now tho. (after two days)
Osprey Therian: Space is lind of boring to me.
Old Pal: same
Osprey Therian: *kind
Osprey Therian: I liked cities
Osprey Therian: I had a big airforce
Old Pal: i feel like they should have made civ mode more expansive
Osprey Therian: yeah
Old Pal: it was good but like not command and conquer good
Osprey Therian: heh
Old Pal: omg my computer blows ass nowadays
Old Pal: its a good game tho
Osprey Therian: You sticking around in SL now?
Old Pal: sl rapes it
Osprey Therian: yes
Old Pal: im about to
Old Pal: i miss it haha
Osprey Therian: SL needs a new puter every 2 years.
Old Pal: yeah haha
This old friend was a beta player who got banninated very early on, then came back but missed the beta atmosphere so much he moped around and finally left... a couple of years ago. This bears out what I always say - people return when their lives have room for SL. Sometimes it just needs them to become old enough to understand it. Once the pathway is known people come and go as they wish - it isn't necessary to tie them to a prim in order for them to count, any more than a person walking out Starbuck's door can no longer be counted as a Starbuck's customer.
Labels: Combuderz
27 July 2008
Most electrical appliances now are far from energy efficient which is obvious if you compare them to the human brain, with its approximate power consumption of just 20-40 watts. What a great deal we can get out of those few watts!
Labels: Combuderz
04 March 2008
I knew I SHOULDN'T but I was tempted, so I asked Candide to yell at me, which he did. So now I'm not going to build from the burned wreckage (shorted-out mb) of my old, beloved computer, but will just wait until I want another one and buy afresh.
It started to seem like a GOOD IDEA to not have a backup when I realised I was so tired I'd welcome a rest (but not arrest).
Au revoir, my old friend.
Labels: Combuderz
25 February 2008
Some people are entirely one with their physical selves and other people have some kind of essence that is apart from physicality. Maybe some people are more expressive in the physical realm. I used to be that way and in fact any still image of me seemed kind of untrue because I was always moving and leaping and dancing. At least I always leaped up stairs two at a time and jumped down them up until I got sick and couldn't anymore (late 30s) so I didn't waste it :D
John packed my trusty old computer into Sha* and I'll drive it in to the computer builderers tomorrow. Will be nice if it doesn't cost a lot, but I suppose what will be will be. The problem is this: Due to, presumably, cost-cutting corporations providing crap components I was plugging a speaker into the audio jack in the soundcard when the andle came orf in me and. No, I wasn't doing anything weird. Then I didn't turn it on for a few days but did as I needed to get something. Just then Frank rang in emergency mode, causing me to fly out of the house in a rush. No, I hadn't forgotten an appointment - he'd given me the wrong time. I made it there in 20 minutes which is very fast. When I came home that computer had turned itself off due to overheating, information it related to me ominously in a special freak-out screen upon start-up, a screen that looked just like a ransom note. Although closely linked by time the two events could be unrelated.
I want to get it mended so I can take this one in and have them fix the sound issue I've been having, which USED to be that I couldn't get a mic to work, as well as that the audio interface switches between Intel and Sigma Tel ("You don't have Sigma Tel." - quoth one of my computer fellows who is confused.) This is the first computer I've had where I got talked into using the onboard sound. Them: "The integrated sound thingies are goooood now." Me: "No zound card?? Eeeeeeeeeek." Them: "Dun wurry id will be fine." Me: "kk" But I couldn't get a mic to work, then last week the computer leapt to attention and reported: ZOMG joo have new hardware led me get the speegers werging four joo. I was scratching my head as the speakers were fine, but gave it its head and plugged in the mic as I reasoned it might now see it, which in fact turned out to be the case. So perhaps it's just needing to be reseated.
Having a tough day, so am not doing much. I made a new character so I could interact on Human Age 1 with Enjah. After I made him the site went down and has not come up. Uhoh. *whistles innocently* I dun borked Human Age. My new caveman is a Caribou Sniffer :( I'm going to switch to the Egg Head tribe as soon as I can get on. I have total clan loyalty.
*My car, named Little Sha by an Assiniboine and Sioux friend as I was driving her and her family to a pow wow. "Sha" is red in Dakota, she explained to me.