Bricks, not ceramic tiles

Ceramic tiles?!?!?!? Don't these folks know anything? If you're gonna put some thing in a disk drive box other than a disk drive it's tradition to use a brick not ceramic tiles. I saw an article called, "Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive", on slashdot where a consumer claims to have bought a disk drive box with ceramic tiles in it. Here we go again...

Laptop vs. Desktop Computers

I used to think that a good desktop computer was the way to go. They're cheaper, more powerful, more easily expanded if desired, and have way cooler peripherals. But I think I'm changing my mind and may start replacing my desktop PCs with laptops. The Santiago Canyon fire is close to us, very close. Close enough that we've packed the cars just in case. So, when you're preparing to evacuate what do you grab? The important papers, the jewelry, the pictures, the wedding album, and the really expensive stuff - at least until your car is full. But wait a second, the hard drive is full of pictures that were never printed and all sorts of important paperwork that never got backed up. What about that stuff? Well, I got most of the My Documents folders onto a portable hard drive but did I get everything? One computer was copying files for several hours and was only half done. We wound up disconnecting it and throwing it into the car as well. A laptop would've been so much easier. Couple that with a networked hard drive running regular backups and you got something that is a lot easier for the grab and go. Time to upgrade...

New Goals

I was cruising the Internet wasting time and I found these two ideas in the How To Wiki that I must try out. They'll be added to my 43 things.
The first is carbque-ing. I hafta do that some day just to try it out. My engine runs nice and hot in the Expidition so I'm sure it'll cook fast, if I can get to stay on the engine.
The second is a lasagne in the dishwasher. I have to try that out as well. It just sounds like too much fun to do. Let's do dinner, lasagne, at my place.

Woot!

I really don't like it when this:

becomes this:

I think I have a Woot addiction. I got a few things in the Woot Off! tonight. I was really hoping for a Big Orange Creamsicle but I didn't see one. :-(

Fishing

A few weeks back G. and I and some other folks went fishing out at Irvine Lake to try to catch some catfish. We never did catch a catfish but we did convince a few blue gills to get stuck on our hooks. I think this is G.'s first fish - I'm not really sure. This one came home and got eaten. A few weeks later we were out with Dana Wharf Sport Fishing in Dana Point for a twilight trip and got a few more fish. We just bought some deep sea gear to go out again.

SleepTracker?

This headline came across my PC from Crave: 'SleepTracker' watch knows when to wake you so I just had to track this down. The website for the company that makes the watch is at http://www.sleeptracker.com/. It's an interesting concept, give the watch a 90 minute period window in which to wake you and it will go off at the optimal time. You're supposed to wake up refreshed instead of groggy. If this really worked it'd be pretty cool. Do you have any personal experience with one of these things? Should I get one?

How 'bout them Rockies?

Colorado Rockies baseball team that is. Playing the San Diego Padres in a an extended season one game playoff for the National League Wildcard. They played 162 games in the regular season and now they've played another 9 innings and none of it counts. Extra innings for game #163. It's down to a sudden death overtime situation and a single inning, the 13th inning. Wow! Yea Rockies! The Padres played a good game, gotta give them an appreciative shout as well. Yea, Padres!

The Rockies are heading to Philly.

I would've liked to see this be a 2/3 series as any team can win any game on any day and a three game series would've really settled the idea of who is better.