Chorination for the gene pool??

On one paw, I feel bad about the guy (and his girlfriend), who managed to get killed and eaten by Grizzly Bears up in Alaska.

On the other paw, after reading this article in the Anchorage Daily News, I'm forced to conclude Mr. Treadwell was a Darwin Award waiting to happen.

Not only would he get up close to bears to chant "I love you" in a "high-pitched, sing-song" voice, but he had said several times that he would "prefer to die as part of a bear's meal" and would be "honored to end up in bear scat".

Looks like you managed to get your wish dude.

(Shakes head in disbelief)

Chorination for the gene pool??

On one paw, I feel bad about the guy (and his girlfriend), who managed to get killed and eaten by Grizzly Bears up in Alaska.

On the other paw, after reading this article in the Anchorage Daily News, I'm forced to conclude Mr. Treadwell was a Darwin Award waiting to happen.

Not only would he get up close to bears to chant "I love you" in a "high-pitched, sing-song" voice, but he had said several times that he would "prefer to die as part of a bear's meal" and would be "honored to end up in bear scat".

Looks like you managed to get your wish dude.

(Shakes head in disbelief)

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Gothic Lolita

Leave it to the Japanese to come up with this interesting fashion twist....

Elegant Gothic Lolita

Gothic Lolita

Leave it to the Japanese to come up with this interesting fashion twist....

Elegant Gothic Lolita

Pismo rebuilds

Project: To get six Powerbook G3 "Pismo" laptops rebuilt by May, 2004. This is to be done using parts scavanged or traded for from old laptops here in the institute, with some upgraded parts purchased.

Constraints: (other than money). Two should have Japanese keyboards. Two should have either a high end G3 or a G4 processor. One should have either a DVD/CD-R drive or a DVD-RW/CD-RW drive. All should have at least 20 GB hard drives. 4 should have Airport cards.

Status:
Pismo #1 - 500 Mhz G3, Currently lacking 20 GB or better hard drive, Airport Card. Otherwise functional.

Pismo #2 - (Which will eventually be mine) 400 Mhz G3, Currently lacking 20 GB or better hard drive, Airport Card. Plans for this one: Maybe a Japanese keyboard. DVD/CD-R or DVD-RW/CD-RW drive, either 900 Mhz G3 or 550 Mhz G4 processor, largest laptop hard drive possible. Otherwise functional.

Pismo #3 - Currently lacking processor card, hard drive, battery, DVD drive, Display, AC Adapter 50% complete

Pismo #4 - Currently lacking Top pan, AC/Sound Card, Japanese Keyboard, Logic board, power board processor card, hard drive, battery, DVD drive, Display, AC Adapter. 25% complete

Pismo #5 - Have Japanese Keyboard, no other parts.

Pismo #6 - No parts available yet.

Main reason I'm doing this, (other than to provide a couple of friends, and Little Bit's two older siblings with Laptops for school and home), is to teach myself how to repair and rebuild laptops. It's a skill that should look good on a resume.

Pismo rebuilds

Project: To get six Powerbook G3 "Pismo" laptops rebuilt by May, 2004. This is to be done using parts scavanged or traded for from old laptops here in the institute, with some upgraded parts purchased.

Constraints: (other than money). Two should have Japanese keyboards. Two should have either a high end G3 or a G4 processor. One should have either a DVD/CD-R drive or a DVD-RW/CD-RW drive. All should have at least 20 GB hard drives. 4 should have Airport cards.

Status:
Pismo #1 - 500 Mhz G3, Currently lacking 20 GB or better hard drive, Airport Card. Otherwise functional.

Pismo #2 - (Which will eventually be mine) 400 Mhz G3, Currently lacking 20 GB or better hard drive, Airport Card. Plans for this one: Maybe a Japanese keyboard. DVD/CD-R or DVD-RW/CD-RW drive, either 900 Mhz G3 or 550 Mhz G4 processor, largest laptop hard drive possible. Otherwise functional.

Pismo #3 - Currently lacking processor card, hard drive, battery, DVD drive, Display, AC Adapter 50% complete

Pismo #4 - Currently lacking Top pan, AC/Sound Card, Japanese Keyboard, Logic board, power board processor card, hard drive, battery, DVD drive, Display, AC Adapter. 25% complete

Pismo #5 - Have Japanese Keyboard, no other parts.

Pismo #6 - No parts available yet.

Main reason I'm doing this, (other than to provide a couple of friends, and Little Bit's two older siblings with Laptops for school and home), is to teach myself how to repair and rebuild laptops. It's a skill that should look good on a resume.

Pissed Gund

You know, there are times when I think the idiot wankers I work for can't possibly piss me off any worse.

This is, of course, the universe's way of insuring that they do.

Case in point. Last thursday one of the researcher started to have a problem with getting her email. Outlook Express (Macintosh) would return a error code 1402 and a screen full of HTML garbage. Upgrading her to Entourage wasn't a go, same problem. Creating whole new accounts, no go. Finally, I installed Eudora on her machine, and it retrieved the email with no problems. I imported all of her email and contacts from Outlook/Entourage, and figured I'd take a crack at it when she goes on her two-week vacation today.

However, it seems that the idiot lab manager assumed I was spending my time sitting on my ass playing solitare, because she called in the guy in CS we work with on problems, (who used to have my job before escaping to a better one), to look it over, and specifically repeated to him a list of problems that, if she had bothered to fricking *ASK* me, I could have told her.

So he askes me, (at least someone did!), and I go over every single thing I've checked on it. At which point he goes back to say that I'm on top of it and Jackass Lab Manager needs to ask me before calling him in, because there's nothing he can do that I haven't already done.

This is just another example of the undercutting and ignoring crap I deal with on a daily basis.

Pissed Gund

You know, there are times when I think the idiot wankers I work for can't possibly piss me off any worse.

This is, of course, the universe's way of insuring that they do.

Case in point. Last thursday one of the researcher started to have a problem with getting her email. Outlook Express (Macintosh) would return a error code 1402 and a screen full of HTML garbage. Upgrading her to Entourage wasn't a go, same problem. Creating whole new accounts, no go. Finally, I installed Eudora on her machine, and it retrieved the email with no problems. I imported all of her email and contacts from Outlook/Entourage, and figured I'd take a crack at it when she goes on her two-week vacation today.

However, it seems that the idiot lab manager assumed I was spending my time sitting on my ass playing solitare, because she called in the guy in CS we work with on problems, (who used to have my job before escaping to a better one), to look it over, and specifically repeated to him a list of problems that, if she had bothered to fricking *ASK* me, I could have told her.

So he askes me, (at least someone did!), and I go over every single thing I've checked on it. At which point he goes back to say that I'm on top of it and Jackass Lab Manager needs to ask me before calling him in, because there's nothing he can do that I haven't already done.

This is just another example of the undercutting and ignoring crap I deal with on a daily basis.

Oh. Dear. Gods

There are some perfectly decent Bridal gowns, Bridesmaid dresses, and prom gowns.

These aren't them.

http://www.uglydress.com/

Oh. Dear. Gods

There are some perfectly decent Bridal gowns, Bridesmaid dresses, and prom gowns.

These aren't them.

http://www.uglydress.com/