Author Archives: Joel

And it’s a zippy thing! Plus I can actually see the screen. Unca W spent about four hours loading Linux Mint and associated apps on it, moved all my email archives (a good thing since buried in there are a … Continue reading →

If you can watch this video without fondling your AK47, it’s possible you don’t understand the situation. H/T to The Smallest Minority EDIT: Best Comment Ever – “New lyrics, ‘The Green Police…are buried under my shed…’”

I know…It happens to me all the time. I put it down for just a second, thinking about something else, you know, and then just can’t seem to remember… Hey, but I’m a piker. The state of Florida can’t find … Continue reading →

Attention, South Carolinians! Ever feel like controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, of South Carolina or of any political subdivision thereof? Better pay the 5$ registration fee. H/T to WOG.

Global warming er…Climate Change isn’t selling so well has been solved by our beloved masters, so but a New Global Crisis Looms! Know Fear! …world soil, including European and British soils, could vanish within about 60 years if drastic action … Continue reading →

No, no. Literal horseshit. My neighbors that I shovel goat shit for are planning to reduce their goat flock, possibly getting out of the business entirely, and concentrate on horses. They’re buying two more mares, so rather than a quick … Continue reading →

Despite rotten weather, the boys and I took a really long walky this morning. They were deprived yesterday because I had to work, and then I was feeling kind of puny all afternoon so the late walky was pretty short. … Continue reading →

Courtesy of David (Don’t call me Dave) Codrea’s Gun Rights Examiner, this oddity: Setting aside the unlikelihood of Walt Whitman being happy to find his poem used to sell blue jeans, we have the further incongruity of Levi Strauss, a … Continue reading →

Moved this morning’s walky time up a bit, though it was still pretty cold for poor old Uncle Joel. We’ve been getting quite a bit of snow, most of which melted yesterday, which means your choices are to walk on … Continue reading →

So the boys woke me up a little early, hydraulic pressure painfully squeezing them against the lair’s door. I let them out, watched them bullet toward the slope, and settled down to the construction of coffee & ciggie. Boot up … Continue reading →

On the subject of my question from a couple of days back about how to compress .avi files from a digital camera. Regular reader The Grey Lady contacted a friend who goes by “Andy The Chicken” … no, I didn’t … Continue reading →

On the subject of my question from a couple of days back about how to compress .avi files from a digital camera. Regular reader The Grey Lady contacted a friend who goes by “Andy The Chicken” … no, I didn’t … Continue reading →

I’m sorry – the more I think about it, the less I’m done pontificating on the subject. Bear with me, or just skip over this one. Maybe ten years ago, in the course of a Usenet (that’s “proto-internet,” for you … Continue reading →

A few days ago W and I went into town. I stepped into the market for some sandwich stuff, noticing as I entered that there was this older (IE, about my age) guy I didn’t recognize standing around the checkout … Continue reading →

Gods help me now. The new ‘pooter’s on its way. Micron Transport T2400 – Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66 GHz – 2 GB RAM – 80 GB HDD – 15.4″ Display – DVD / CD-RW – WiFi – Dock … Continue reading →

This is some first-rate snark right here. When “cry like a little girl” becomes an inappropriate expression because the little girls are handling it better than you are, you know you really do need to put on your big-boy britches.

My sentences do get kind of long and convoluted at times.

…on the kindness of people who know what the hell they’re doing. At least in computer-related matters. My own competence in such matters has never risen to the level of the abacus, and I’d rather be tortured in a secret … Continue reading →

WTF? But you know…it kind of almost works. It’s probably a good thing Freddy Mercury is dead, or this would kill him. Or…maybe he’d approve. Never met the man. H/T to WRSA.

…an affordable (free) way to reduce the size of an .avi file? I’ve been playing with the video feature of this cool digital camera, but even a second or two of video goes ten meg and I can’t upload or … Continue reading →