Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
I’m listening to The Pogues “Streams of Whiskey” all the way through for the first time. I’ve listened to individual cuts once or twice. I swear, you could use this in a Public Service Announcement commercial on the dangers of alcoholism.
“Pogue Mahone” – This is your talent
“Streams of Whiskey” – This is your talent ruined by chronic alcoholism.
Any questions?
My favourite computer accessory store, FrozenCPU.com, now sells PolyGFX Case Skins to customize your case. Even better, they’ll let you submit your own imagery and they’ll print you up a custom case skin.
I’ve never been all that tempted by some of the “Pimp My Box” stuff like cold cathode tubes or water cooling systems, but I’m sorely tempted by this. My gigantic Linux full tower sits up on my desk to keep it from getting clogged with dust, but it’s sort of overwhelming there.
I’ve been playing around a bit with Photoshop Elements to make a couple of candidate images. Here are a couple of small copies of the huge images I’ve made: Early morning departure and Clouds
The originals are 49 inches by 17 inches at 300 pixels per inch, so they’re pretty damn huge. I’m not going to stress my cable modem by putting links to them here.
I grabbed the highest resolution satellite images I could get off of Terraserver, and stitched together a mosaic, and colourized the water, so now I have an Irondequoit Creek Map. It might be useful to carry this around on the river.
After my very positive experience with the VCP Avocet RM, a couple of people suggested that the VCP Skerray RMX might be better for somebody of my advanced weight. It’s a bigger boat, with higher displacement, but similar lines.
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