A clever blogger for diylife.com has posted a really nice how-to for adding analog gauges to your PC, including the needed USB hardware and some great advice for finding old gauges to work with. If that’s something of interest to you, check out the full post for all the details.
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Grammar for Bloggers: Possessive or Plural?
Published by January 16th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsToday’s article comes from Autoblog. Here’s the line that prompted a post: The economy appears to be swooning, and before we land softly (or crash hard), company’s have begun to circle their wagons and reduce unnecessary spending. Leaving aside the questionable sentence construction, let’s address the apostrophe problem in the word "company’s". The correct plural [...]
A company that limits access to driver downloads is a company that doesn’t appreciate its customers. Today, I was trying to find a simple driver for a little USB 801.11b network card to patch a hole in my network. Couldn’t find it anywhere. I finally had to go to Uniden’s website, where I was forced [...]
Guild Wars + Third-person Shooter. Those are my first impressions. And you don’t have to aim, really; just hit your mouse button, and you’re shooting at the enemy. I like the mechanics so far, but I’m not sure of a few things. The story so far is pretty much “Guild Wars in Space”. It starts [...]
Speaking of Star Wars in every aspect of life. . .
Published by March 15th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsR2 is now willing to accept your mail. Lucas et al are getting together with the USPS to celebrate thirty years of Star Wars. As many of you know, both Rudeboy and I predate Star Wars, but only barely. Thus, the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars kind of reminds one of one’s age. Rudeboy commented [...]
Don’t just watch Star Wars – Watch it in STYLE
Published by March 14th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThe guys at engadget had a post on these funky TIE Fighter speakers, and I thought they were just the thing for your home theater if you happen to be George Lucas. I’d like to see a few more models than just Darth’s TIE Advance, but it’s nice that people finally realize there aren’t enough [...]
Warning: Guitar Hero Can Hurt Your Baseball Career
Published by December 14th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsIn addition to the impact Guitar Hero has had in all our lives, it also found a way to impact the ALCS during this past year’s baseball playoffs. Turns out Tigers pitcher Joel Zumaya was suffering from a strange forearm inflammation, which happened to be more consistant with guitar playing than with pitching. According to [...]
My report is on Vancouver. Vancouver is in Canada. They are a different country. My Dad went to Canada once. They don’t take normal money. Cars can’t go as fast, and gas is twice as much money. It’s rainy. Yep, I’m in Canadia. I made the whole journey with a rip in my Dockers cargo [...]
An awesome hippie adventure could be yours!
Published by September 17th, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsCheck out this sweet hippie vacation package! Working for eBay has its perks – you get to see all sorts of stuff like this. Only in America does something like this get $4k (and counting). Here’s hoping it keeps going!
With a little arm twisting and a lot of (empty) promises, my wife let me get a motorcycle. Probably a bad idea on her part, but I wasn’t about to let the opportunity slip away. I’ve wanted a street bike for some time now, but have never really persued it. But with a couple investments [...]