Paid Up

I finally had enough money in my PayPal account to pay for my copy of the beautiful Traife Buffet deluxe edition of Greetings from Lake Wu that danjite gave me in advance ("saves on shipping") back a few weeks ago.

Payment was delayed further today when the DSL failed. I don't think it was a problem at our place, but instead some failure on the AT&T Pacific Bell end, because I tired pinging a neighbor's wireless network that was left open, and it couldn't reach the internet either. After about a three hour service interruption, we were working again.

Good think I wasn't working on anything that had to be done that instant, or I would have had to drive to my office.

Why My Fellow High School Students Hated Me

Ganked from gridlore, nitroace, and others.

( I think I missed the religion question )

I'm a little disappointed; I thought I had a shot at a perfect score on that. The area of a triangle is 1/2bh, isn't it?

But I Are A College Graduate

On a similar subject to the last one...

( I thought I'd do a bit better on this one than I did )

Some of those questions were quite difficult.

Welcome to Mission Control

The occasion of cherylmorgan getting a new desktop computer prompted us to clean up the computer desk -- a six-foot folding table shared between our computers, including three power strips, a telephone, and the DSL modem, router, and several external storage devices. The desk was very dusty and the cables badly snarled up, so we undertook to disassemble stuff, remove obsolete pieces (like the now-unused docking station for an older laptop), dust, re-run cables, and generally clean things up.

It was quite a struggle at times. The worst part was when, while moving my monitor around to get at the rat's-nest of cables, I knocked the anti-glare screen to the floor, where it shattered. I would have felt worse about this, but the screen was Menlo surplus -- I picked it up when they were tossing out pieces no longer in use because most people now have flat-panel monitors.

After an hour or so of fighting the Cable Monster, we got things to the point where Cheryl could install her machine. I'll leave it to her to describe how that went.

Things are somewhat cleaner, all right. But boy, do we have a lot of hardware in here. I've suggested that we look into buying a UPS for this. I'm a little concerned that we're over-taxing the electrical circuits in this room, with three or four computers (not counting the out-of-service machines) and sundry other hardware running through three power strips and two sets of outlets.