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• Computers, Fun!, Geek

  Stupid Computer Trick — VNC Echo

  05.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  At work I’m messing around with setting up a new machine running Leopard… I was having trouble figuring out how best to access network shares and a helpful guy on the Apple Support Discussions Board pointed me to the Columns View in a Finder Window. When you click on the icon for a machine on […]

• Fun!, Just Stuff, Old Things

  Be a Good Do-Bee — Romper Room

  04.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  My Mom, bless her soul, was a true packrat. She saved everything. Maybe it was that she grew up during the Great Depression (if so, what’s my excuse?)… No matter; I’m grateful for some of the things she saved and was able to pass along to me. One of them is a packet of stuff […]

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  So THAT’S Who Is To Blame!

  03.31.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  So today is March 31. It’s supposed to be springtime, and it’s supposed to be nice outside. But instead we wake up to a couple of inches of fresh snow on the ground, and more to come throughout the day. Expecting about 6 inches total.
  And I think I figured out who is to blame: […]

• Fun!

  The Infamous WKRP Turkey Drop

  03.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  MentalFloss had a post yesterday about Marvelously Misguided Promotions, and I couldn’t help but think of the Infamous WKRP Turkey Drop. I laughed at it back in the ’80’s, and I split a gut with it again yesterday.
  “The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!”
  Classic. Just classic!

• Fun!

  Insane Video Editing

  03.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here are two YouTube videos that involved a bit of video editing.
  I first saw the John Holland video through a post on Neatorama, and one of the commenters pointed out the Lasse Gjertsen video. I think Gjertsen’s is probably the better of the two because he plays neither the drums nor the piano. I’m […]

• Fun!, Just Stuff

  Flying Dreams

  02.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m just a little disappointed. But I guess but not terribly surprised.
  Last night I dreamt of flying. It doesn’t happen often, but often enough that I look forward to it. In my dream, it usually happens that I’m walking down the street or sidewalk or wherever, and usually feeling frustrated that I don’t seem […]

• Cars!, Fun!, Gadgets

  Wilcraft Ice Fishing Machine

  02.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I saw an ad for this thing on tv tonight; the Wilcraft ice fishing rig. “Because trucks don’t float.”

  The ad aired during the Kent Hrbek Outdoors Show, and made me laugh out loud. I mean, a purpose-built $10,000 buggy made for rapid deployment for… ice fishermen?
  Roll this bad boy off your trailer, drive out […]

• Fun!, Just Stuff, The Deep

  Plane on a Conveyer Belt

  01.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  BoingBoing.net ran yet another post on the stupid “Plane on a Conveyer Belt” question:
  Imagine a plane is sitting on a massive conveyor belt, as wide and as long as a runway. The conveyer belt is designed to exactly match the speed of the wheels, moving in the opposite direction. Can the plane take off?
  Of […]

• Cars!, Fun!, Old Things

  Metropolitan Minnesota

  01.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here’s a funny photo I found on eBay… It was on an auction for a 1959 Nash Metropolitan, in Minnesota. Dairy country, no doubt!
  I’ve been looking half-heartedly for a project car; kinda thinking ahead to Ian getting his license in a year or so. It’d be fun to pick up something that needs a little […]

• Fun!

  The Million Dollar Chicken

  01.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Once there were three sons — Milton, Marvin and Melvin. When the boys came of age, they each left home, went out on their own, and prospered.
  Later in life they returned to reunite in the planning of their mom’s 75th birthday, and they each tried to outdo each other with an extravagant gift for […]

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