Archive for July, 2007

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Rock vs. Windshield.

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

On Friday morning I was driving to work, and I had pulled onto 17A in front of a speeding van full of undocumented workers.  They were far enough back when I pulled out onto the road, but within seconds it was clear they were not doing the customary 55 in a 45 that everyone else [...]

So. You thought software was expensive?

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Try seeing what you gotta do for a volume license for XP Pro.  Dell quoted me $299.99 for the 12 computers.  Total, with tax:  $3839.16.  For Office 2007….well, let’s just say that grand total was $5793.20.  So, if you add it all up..it’s nearly $10,000 in software.  We’re not including the computers.
Why did I ask [...]

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Bleh, so I think the valve in the water timer hooked to the garden hose failed sometime last night.  Low water pressure this morning, and I discovered the garden hose hemorrhaging water.  Ugh.  No idea how long it was running.  Probably all damned night with my luck.  Guess we’ll see when the next bill comes [...]

Well, um, don’t do the crime then

Friday, July 20th, 2007

I caught this story on Yahoo! News regarding the imprisonment rate disparities.  Personally, my first reaction after reading most of it was…well…if a certain demographic commits more crime then of course they’d be imprisoned more.  If all the polka-dot people were stealing cars, then of course there’d be more of them in jail than the [...]

Unlock the past!

Monday, July 16th, 2007

In 2001 I had a Compaq Presario (Presorryass) something or other that I bought when I worked for OfficeMax on a special employee pricing thing.  It was a great computer, until you tried to do anything with it.  I was still in the USAF and I was in the process of retraining from C-17 maintenance [...]

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