I guess I owe Sirius Satellite Radio an apology. It wasn’t them that sucked supreme so much as it was the do-the-least-amount-of-work installers at Circuit Shitty who put the unit into my truck way back after my baybee got it for me for Christmas 2004. I first wrote about them some three months after that …
So the DSL modem went into what turned out to be its death throes last night, its panel of three LEDs raging in a blinky fluttering show of red and orange and green desperation. I unplugged the thing and let it sit a bit before reconnecting it, but that didn’t help things. Then I pulled …
I don’t know how I failed to see this when I first extracted this lock from the bedroom door some months ago to successfully fix it so the door would actually latch for as long as Susan had owned the house, but when she notified me that the lock began not latching again last night …
Man but the hype for Apple’s new iPhone is getting feverish. There’s the obligatory package of articles in today’s L.A. Times, one examining how the costly device — if successful — might alter the course of history rivers time communications cellphones and the other giving tips on how to get your hands on one when …
For a (mostly) Type B personality I have certain over-preparation issues that some might say border on manic. Or at least chuckle worthy. A good example can be found in my first time camping and my first time to Death Valley, a solo trip in February of 2002. I bought a two-burner camping stove for …
Entirely frivolous, but that’s never stopped me, the above is a comp of images made goofing down in the dark basement with an LED light and the long-exposure functions of the new Canon cam that arrived yesterday and that I bought partially as a birthday present to myself and partially in protest to Olympus not …
Seeing as how Olympus has had my malfunctioning Stylus 710 for more than a month now and it’s been exactly four silent weeks to the day since I wrote them back suggesting Olympus go take a flying leap after the company wrote telling me they considered the damage to be beyond warranty coverage and weren’t …