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Persistence pays

Don — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:26:14 +0000

It only took about 6 hours of looking, spread across 2 days, but I finally found the correct cable and adapter so I can hook up one of my older laptops directly to my TV, for Amazon Prime viewing. And I actually got a couple of boxes worth of un-sorted stuff put away in the process, so the exercise was more productive than I make it sound at first. On the other hand, halfway through, I realized a potential efficiency improvement for my outlet-splitting situation, but still can’t remember where I saw the key component for the new vision. It’s somewhere in the place, I’ve seen it within the last 7 days, I’m sure of it.

I’m also sure I accidentally buried it while questing for the VGA male-to-male adapter. d’oh.

Dave Richmond – Movin’ Along

Don — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:31:23 +0000

Another never-knew-I-had-it-random-find, Dave Richmond – Movin’ Along.
A little 70′s folk-rock-synth-y bit of joy, if you aren’t whistling the chorus, you might as well go back to bed, you’re just too depressed for the rest of the world.

Goliath Awaits (MR)

Don — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:42:36 +0000

I love the internet, most of the time.

Like when it can supply me with not just the name of a half-remembered tv-miniseries, but the entirety of it. Mark Harmon has had a long career, even if I don’t realize it sometimes.

The film is just as over-the-top-silly as I remembered it. Caricature villains, a rigid social structure under autocratic rule offered up as a impossible utopia to the messiness of a real world under democracy, doomed by the frailties of human ego.

And yet, it still manages to age remarkable well. It helps that 90% of their time is spent on a liner built during WW2.

Most annoying plot hole is the whole “it’ll never work” rigmarole over the heat exchanger. What exactly did the script writer think the difference was between a heat exchanger based on lava, and a scotch boiler based on oil? Pointing out that simply generating more oxygen doesn’t remove carbon-dioxide would have been more believable. Whatever.

Finally Found

Don — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:34:39 +0000

Finally found the right search terms to find another childhood book series I only half remembered. Turns out it was “Danny Dunn“. I could really only remember two stories’ plots, and that only pieces. One was a robot dragonfly, and the other was a cold ray that they used to cause rain, IIRC. I was about ready to spend an askme, but for once, there really was a previous question that applied to my current question, and the answer was revealed.

happy happy, joy joy

Found Video

Don — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:43:00 +0000

I bought a Flip Ultra HD, a little flash-based 720p camcorder. It was the last one in stock, so it was the floor model. It had an amusing video of some of the workers proving a bottle marked “non-flammable” was in fact, quite flammable.