From my Twitter stream:

tue 08:49am	So, at what point do YOU go to the doctor, when the only real symptoms are a nasty cough and lots of mucus?
tue 09:19am	Why would you paint a delorean red?
tue 09:19am	@pinguerin: ok.. friday then. it's clear.
tue 09:45am	@nastrus: yeah, I was looking at one on ebay, from a ferrari dealer, talking about how it was painted ferarri red. but STILL. WHY?
tue 03:21pm	Onion for Pisces: Your failure to follow last week's horoscope has resulted in the loss of thousands of innocent lives.
tue 05:30pm	Waiting for pizza from Giannoni's

From my Twitter stream:

mon 01:23pm	@spinnerin: finally read the comments on your post. wtf is "unbenevolent" supposed to /mean/ there? geez.
mon 01:25pm	@spinnerin: and this jeff-the-apparently-great seems to have some reading-comprehension difficulties. very sad.

Huh.

So, Amazon had a big home and patio sale last monday. I was tempted to buy a refurb Dyson DC16, which they had for $80, on sale from $100. I didn't buy it.

Woot just put them up, at $70. Plus $5 shipping.

$75. As opposed to about $88 ($80+tax, free shipping). s'not bad.
So, I bought one.
And now you see why I wanted an outlet in the closet.

From my Twitter stream:

10:03pm	Pom.
10:11pm	@woot: I feel like this new shirt needs 'In Soviet Russia..." prepended.
10:11pm	Fuck I hate this house sometimes. Livingroom/bedroom/bathroom breaker just popped again.
04:21pm	fuck fuck fuck. Just popped the /mains/ breaker for the house. Shut every thing down, and it re-closed. Back up now. No tv, no dishwasher.
05:05pm	Here's what it boils down to: I'm not willing to pay money for an iphone app before I try it.

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From my Twitter stream:

11:02am

Spent the morning helping @nastrus with his server. Now reading comics and coughing a lot. Must go buy A/C unit for office soon, then code.

From my Twitter stream:

10:16am	@spinnerin: it's never too early for fruit juice! it's just.. you know.. too /late/ for fruit juice.
10:20am	How many awesome spam subjects am I missing out on because I can't read japanese or russian?
11:53am	SCL's already having power problems with A/C. Some buildings (I know of 1 so far) are having to turn off HVAC systems.
12:33pm	I think I may be developing a sinus infection. or have developed.
12:33pm	@jfew: L's building has had to do so.
12:34pm	@jfew: I suppose it's possible it's just that one substation. But it doesn't bode well.
12:40pm	@nastrus: where're you guys eating?
01:48pm	I'm told the downtown substation is at capacity. L's company's being sent home (except the NOC, who, I guess, have to suffer w/o hvac)
03:03pm	Attempt to turn Feige on, after it's been sitting for a couple months, resulted in loud popping noises, and the scent of magic smoke. owell.
03:38pm	Extracted Feige's dvd uberburner, hard drive, and video card. Left the ram, proc, and parallel card as, frankly, 'scrap'.
03:38pm	Makes me sad. That was a near topline processor when I built the system.
04:42pm	They're bumping HP6 until NEXT YEAR?
05:35pm	I have /got/ to get around to that name change.
07:55pm	Countdown tells me that Julia Child was a spy. Huh.

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We put the air conditioners in on wednesday night.
A rollaround in the dining room and another in the living room, plus a small window unit in the bedroom.

We found out that all of the outlets in the living room, and all of the outlets in the bedroom, are on the same circuit. And that the two air conditioners plus the tv equals popped breaker. It /appears/ however that subtracting the TV lets both A/Cs run, so that takes care of nighttime, and when the TV's in use, the bedroom A/C can be off.
Every little thing that happens with this house's electrical system makes me more and more convinced that when I eventually build a house, it /will/ have at LEAST one dedicated circuit for EVERY ROOM, lights separate. And that includes closets and bathrooms, damnit! (yes, I'm actually thinking that it would be convenient to have an outlet inside the hall closet.)

Meanwhile, my office is currently at 88.5°. It feels like C, not F.
Yesterday I put up the 'curtains' I bought in portland. Just some cloth with celtic-ish symbols in black with purple tie-dye. Similar to one I already had, but different pattern. I need to get one or two more, as I still have windows uncovered.
I think we need to put reflectix in the windows again, and/or buy an in-window A/C for up here. We've got one that kinda-sorta works in loree's office, but it's REALLY HEAVY and lacks proper brackets to prevent it from falling /thru/ the window during installation, so I'm always afraid it's going to make a 1.5 story drop to the yard. Also it doesn't do much good for the bunker, where a lot more heat is being generated.
I need to find something that can churn a lot of BTUs but fits into 23x11. I think perhaps I may suffer costco tomorrow.

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In other news, my iPod is NOT broken, but USB is. So, Algol, the mac mini, lives in the NE corner of the living room. The Tower O' Crap, the shelving unit on which we stash our keys and other leaving-the-house carriables including iPods and phones, is in the SW corner. USB cable length limits prevent a single line connection from point A to point B. So, a cable runs from algol across the fireplace to a hub. From that hub around the corner to another hub. From that hub to the powered hub that sits on top of the Tower and into which the ipods are plugged.
Well, that /first/ hub out of Algol WAS plugged in, but the second wasn't. I realized that, hey, it isn't supplying much power to anything, so it doesn't really NEED to be plugged in. So I unplugged it. And then Meson III wouldn't sync. The iPhones were fine. My gen2 iPod was fine. But Meson3, the iPod Classic, would show up in itunes, itunes would say it can't read the device, and insist I need to restore. But then would fail during the restore. The iPod, for its part, didn't notice any of this, and happily retained all data and settings.
I realized today that these problems started the same day I unplugged that hub. I plugged it back in. All is now well.
Apparently the power passed thru hub1 to hub2 isn't enough to properly power hub2, so hub1 needs to be powered so it can power hub2. hub3 is powered on its own and so was happy. Dunno why the Classic is the only one that cared, but there you have it.

I need to remember to call the dentist's office on monday so I can take him his ipod.

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Remember how I've been talking about writing an integrated con-management system for.. oh... 10 years now? The first step is currently under development. Maybe I should spend some time this weekend shopping for some server rails and then imaging some of those spare 1Us, while I flesh out the data model a bit.

From my Twitter stream:

04:29pm	@nastrus: that sounds like a most excellent euphemism.
07:13pm	Oh FUCKING AWESOME. My BRAND NEW iPod is already broken. iTunes couldn't sync it, then said to restore, and now can't restore. FUCKING FUCK.

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From my Twitter stream:

06:59pm

@firesign3000: HOW? HOW? TELL US HOW!?!

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From my Twitter stream:

09:15am

@opacity: traffic hates you and wants you dead.

From my Twitter stream:

11:54am	@JosieNutter: *gasp* You've been cheating on us with OTHER weirdos?!
02:24pm	Amazon home+garden sale. They have the Blendtec TB-621-BHM for $360. I'm tempted, but that's still a hell of a lot for a blender.
02:24pm	...even if you CAN blend consumer electronics in it.

Bearing in mind that there's significant convenience behind my computer and my access point being made by the same company, and being able to manage the access point using software that comes with my computer... Does anybody have an 802.11N access point they would recommend /over/ a current-model Airport Extreme? And why?

So, because I don't always successfully connect A and B in my head, I bought a MyVu Solo from the last wootoff. New ones go for $250, and woot had it for $50, so sure. But what didn't connect was that A) this one /only/ works with iPod Gen 5, NOT with Classics and B) I just got a new Classic and am planning to give away my Gen5.

So. Assuming my dentist has not replaced his ipod on his own - I called today to make sure, before I drove out there to drop it off, but the office is closed until next week - I will have no use for this device. Does anybody out there have a gen5 ipod that they habitually watch video on and would care to offset part of my cost in exchange for being able to watch their shows in private while looking like a dork?

January 2007: 736
May 2007: 778
Dec 2007: 786
Apr 2008: 698
Aug 2008: 836

I think it helps that the Chase mortgage shows closed but the BECU mortgage doesn't show up at all yet. ( Marty replies to people who aren't there... )

If this credit report thing wasn't free, I would totally not bother. I think I may stop buying the credit score add-on. Cheap tho it is, it mainly just serves to remind me of how completely head-up-ass broken our whole economic system is.

From my Twitter stream:

11:08pm	@nastrus ......
03:35pm	@firesign3000: ... what would they sell, napkins?

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Am I the only one for whom logging in via the navigation strip does not work? It rejects my login every time, but using the same password (I'm copying and pasting from my password manager just to be absolutely sure!) from the login-failure page works just fine.

Found enough ipod cables to connect everything. This is every ipod device in the house EXCEPT the ancient Gen-1, which I had installed linux on, and can't get to connect to itunes well enough to even run a restore. I think we can call that one dead.

In order, we have Meson, my first ipod, a 40gb gen3(?), which I stopped using because the hard drive was having problems, but which I've currently got all of our audio books synced to, in case we should want it. Next is Meson II, a 60gb gen5, which has just been replaced and is going to my dentist (his was stolen, and the music in his office hasn't been as good since). Then Meson III, a 160gb iPod Classic. Then Monkeyphone (loree's 4gb iphone gen1 courtesy of josienutter), MonkeyPod (loree's 60gb gen5), and MT&T iPhone, which is my 8gb iPhone gen1. Other iPods that have known this house are the afore-mentioned LPod, the gen1 sent to me by maribou, and PopPod, a gift from PopCap on the occasion of the launch of our games on ipods, which was a 30gb gen5 I gave to beaq since I didn't need it.

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From my Twitter stream:

06:09pm	@spinnerin: route thru the stereo! or buy a switch. or buy the hd outputs for the consoles
06:30pm	@spinnerin: are you routing audio and video thru the stereo, or video direct and audio to stereo?
06:40pm	@spinnerin: might look to see if it does. Also make sure stereo isn't applying any effects or anything; can cause delay.

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