Posts Tagged geek

Steam/Half-Life/Left 4 Dead on the Mac

It appears, via a very interesting viral marketing campaign, that Valve will be releasing Steam, Half-Life, and Left 4 Dead on the Mac sometime in the immediate future. I’ve finished Half-Life 2 on the Xbox (one word: FANTASTIC), and they’ve only released the follow-up episodes on the 360. So I will be seriously considering a [...]


CS4=Crashing Shit 4

I was really beginning to enjoy using Photoshop CS4, up until the point it started crashing randomly. This has been twice in one day. That’s twice more in one day than CS3 managed in the entire month of December.


Successes.

Saturday afternoon, while Finn was down for a nap, I decided to try something I’ve meant to do for months. After having left it alone in disgust since early January, I finally went back out and straightened up the side porch last weekend. All of the extra bales of pink fiberglas got stacked in one [...]


Upgrade.

I answered another Craigslist ad this morning, for a piece of hardware we’ve been dreaming about for years: a tabloid-sized color laser printer. Now, some of you may recall an earlier post where I’d bartered some services for just such a beast, and you’re thinking, doesn’t he have one of these already? What an idiot. [...]


Welcome to the 21st Century.

We’ve been getting mail from the phone company for the past year offering an upgrade to FIOS, and the idea of paying for it didn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense until our cable signal went completely digital and everything dropped out except for all of the local channels.
It’s a symbol of just [...]


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