Least Loved Bedtime Stories v. 2.0

Update: problem solved with the purchase of a bigger monitor. See the comments.
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I have been reading various websites on the subject of blurry text and LCD monitors, and what I am reading is not encouraging. Apparently this is a problem with a lot of different LCDs, larger ones too not just this little one. All […]

Update on my monitor situation, for those who care: I can’t stand the blurry text, so I’ve decided that I am going to take it back to Compusa, to either trade in for another of the same model, or if I don’t like what their demo model looks like I’ll get store credit and trade […]

Aren’t computers fun? I went to Compusa today (yes, today, the notorious Day After Christmas, when tens of thousands of people hit the stores to take advantage of bargains, return those unwanted items, etc.) and bought a new 15.4″ monitor by Norwood Micro. It was the cheapest one in the store that I could get […]

OMG I want this give it to meeeee!!!
The device, called the Mosquito (”It’s small and annoying,” Stapleton said), emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that, he said, can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30. The sound is designed to so irritate young people that after several minutes, […]

“Hey, guess what?” I am informed by a coworker as I came in. “Today is supposed to be the busiest online shopping day of the season!”
SHIT.
Let’s just say my efforts to order a refurbished IBM laptop was a fiasco and I will count myself lucky if I get this even though they took my money […]

For all those homeless street bums with pets, a “pet stroller” with all-weather gear.

I look around at the Goodwill rejects that I call my posessions and it occurs to me that half the moving/storage/where-to-fit-shit problems in my life would be solved if I had never fallen in love with the idea of “component systems.” You know what those are: they became popular among the general buying public sometime […]

I know you’ll all be real excited about this. Anyway, I’ve decided what to do re my laptop wants and needs. I’ve decided to go after a refurbished IBM Thinkpad. They seem to have everything I need in a laptop, depending on how much I ultimately want to spend, and are more […]

Dang. There’s an old Elvis movie on tv (Live a Little, Love a Little), and everyone is driving all these really cool sixties cars up and down the streets of Hollywood. Sigh.

Well finally, they’ve invented the video game for me.