Month: August 2019

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Earning my duntz cap award for the year, I’m not sure what bothered me more. That most of my first aid kit is probably dated between 1980 and 1990 or that I was out of all purpose flour.

Couple minutes after reaching into a nearly entry can and thinking “Gee, I should know better”, my one for the year was achieved. Always reach for a spoon or something instead. Fortunately dinner was not bloodied in the process and the wound settled down by the time I finished eating and changed the bandaid.

Also note to self: don’t bother checking that first aid case unless you need a dressing big enough to wrap in duct tape. On the flip side, if more than Neosporin and a bandaid is required it’d probably be time for a medic.

In my case trying to stop the bleeding was making me wish for a stypic powder. Which I suppose in this day and age has been replaced by Neosporin and the like unless you’ve got fur or feathers.

Now if only knowing better didn’t mean I sometimes so stupid things 😂.

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When I walk outside in the lovely 50% humidity and think about how nice a walk in the sun feels, sometimes I just blame home.

Georgia experiences it’s worst summer weather around this time of year. By contrast where I grew up, I sometimes wonder if hell would have been a milder climate at any point on the calendar. It’s been at least twenty years since my family left south Florida but the side effects related to near constant spirit crushing humidity and temperatures suitable for frying an egg on your forehead, probably last a lifetime.

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MSPoweruser: Dell may be working on a Surface Studio-like monitor.

While it will probably be well beyond what I’d be willing to pay, I kinda want to see this and more displays like it.

All-in-One PCs are an interesting concept but for my use cases they’ve traditionally been too limiting even when you pay the big buckaroos. Advancements in laptop hardware and a thing called Thunderbolt give me a little hope that might change someday.

But I’d much rather have a display that could function as both a typical monitor and suddenly become like a drawing board, that can be connected to whatever device can drive a touchscreen monitor. Because a really great display tends to last until it gives up the ghost. The same is not always true of computers.

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In Battlestar Galactica ’04 there is a reoccurring greeting between Adama and Starbuck that goes something like this:

What do you hear?
Just the rain.
Then grab your gun and bring in the cat.

Watching s04e13 The Oath, when Galactica defends into mutiny there’s a scene where Kara saves Apollo’s ass, showing up with a pistol in each hand as he’s being led away by a hit squad.

I may have recalled this greeting and pictured Lee with whiskers….lol

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I remember coming across various wallpaper worthy images from Is This A Zombie? and adding them to my collection.

Seeing my desktop select this one of Eu out of its random rotation of wallpapers, I was rather surprised how well this one works on a 1080p display.

These days most of the wallpapers I’ve collected over the past eon, I see on my tablet screen. Because that’s the computer I use most often. At work, usually SFW stills are statically set. At home though, I still keep my PC’s set to a random rotation.

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Catching up on my backlog of Fruits Basket, I’m kind of glad to see episodes 16 and 17 tell some of Uotani’s story.

Uotani is a very nice supporting character. Despite the gruff personality that comes with her rendition as a delinquent, there’s also a kindness that balances the character out well. Long before this part, you can see how Uo and Tohru could end up great friends. As usual, Tohru’s late mother is a source of wisdom.

Most often the strength of a story rests upon it’s characters, and I’d say the characters make this series far more than the concept.