Had a great flight, arrived in the evening, and the hotel is beautiful.
Category: Home
Items from around the home. Hobbies, random thoughts, etc.
Choose Password
My website server insisted I create a new password, but it set up all these RULES about what password I could use. It couldn’t be too similar to my old one, couldn’t be too short, had to be of a certain strength, couldn’t contain my user name… Reminded me of this little sketch from UCB Comedy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcG7ftYMObA
Hard Drive Relationships
While working on my godson’s laptop, backing up his data (just in time, his hard drive clicked loudly a few times then died) I noticed that the cradles on my external hard drive dock are labeled “mother disc” and “son disc”.
Why not match the genders and label them “father disc” and “son disc” or “mother disc” and “daughter disc”? Or just “parent disc” and “child disc”?
Still, I guess it’s more PC than the hard drive terms I grew up with – “master” and “slave”.
The Great Hard Drive Consolidation of 2012 – Part 02.
Dang it – I was eleven drives into my hard drive consolidation – then I found five more. Big ones too. Will it never end?
Meat
One of my favorite short short stories. Meat. http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html If you search youtube, you’ll find at least two film adaptations too, though they all seem to make the same mistake of using human “meat” actors for the aliens. I would like to see what an animator could do with the story.
Cinefex on Prometheus
I’m reading the current issue of Cinefex, and the article on Prometheus is interesting reading. I still think the film was bafflingly awful in parts, and a bit disappointing overall. But as the Cinefex article confirms, the film contained cutting edge visuals. Great VFX craft.
Androidified!
I used the app Androidify to make an android version of me.
The Great Hard Drive Consolidation of 2012
The Great Hard Drive Consolidation of 2012 begins: sorting through sixteen hard drives to back up their contents to a single network drive and a backup drive. It’s going to take a while. Some of the drives have dead power supplies, some have faulty enclosures, some are bound to have errors. I recently bought an All In One docking adapter do I could finally start this often-postponed job. If you’re one of the several people waiting for me to copy data from an old job for you, I’m working on it!
Thunderbeam is Go!
I have backed a few kickstarter.com projects, but the Thunderbeam project (a retro game for the iPad) is the first to deliver me a physical object. It’s a button mp3 player with the game’s musical soundtrack on it. Groovy!
WordPressing from Android
This is just a test to see if the WordPress app works. Can I post to my never-used blog from my Android phone?