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.
Today’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 of "company" is "companies". You can, if you want, use an apostrophe to indicate plurals of letters or numbers: mind your p’s and q’s, x’s and o’s, crazy 8′s, and so forth. That’s not a hard and fast rule, however; there’s some disagreement among the Masters of Grammar (such as they are).
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 to register, with mailing address being a required field. Um, no. Anyway, if you’re looking for a driver for your Uniden PCW100, it’s right here. At least until they send a C & D.
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 very much as Guild Wars did, with you cast as a soldier defending your people in a post-cataclysmic world. I thought the Guild Wars story was pretty week, so I don’t know if this one will be any better based on what I saw.
Game play gives you some very third-person shooter style mechanics. Movement is much more free than I’m used to in an RPG-style MMO. Targeting is as simple as pointing and clicking, ala Diablo, but in 3D. Skills and weapons are a left click/right click affair, also much like Diablo, which is actually not a bad way to do it.
R2 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 that these had better be bolted down securely. I’m already working out plans for (uh, legally) procuring one for Modstomp Headquarters. If any Federal-type people are reading this, Modstomp Headquarters is on Dantooine. Yeah, that’s right, Dantooine.
The 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 novelty speakers on the market for dorks. Dorks with a lot of money. Here’s a link to engadget‘s gallery.
In 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 the story in the Detroit Free Press, once Zumaya stopped playing, his pitching was back on track. Baseball/rock legend wannabes, consider this your warning. You’re gonna have to choose.
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 pants, about 7″ right in the seat. Also, the guy at the Delta counter threatened that I would be forcibly removed by the police. I did not balk. I told him to get his boss, and when he said no, I told him I would wait at his counter until he did. Stupid putz. I guess I’d be grumpy too if I was working at the Delta ticket counter at 60 years old.
Here’s a fun link if you ever want to make a fuss. Bankruptcy serves those hosers right.
Check 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 that have paid off well in the last month, the chance came to finally get one. I looked around for a few weeks before I found the one I wanted (that was in my price range). It’s not a big bike, but it suits the type of around-town sorta biking I plan to do.
I decided to go with a Suzuki Savage 650. It’s a fairly small bike as cruisers go, but it’s got enough punch to do well for city riding. It looks a lot like a McPrize compared to my father-in-laws massive Yamaha Road Star 1600, but it’s enough for me. It’s a little small for freeway cruising, but I only plan to use it a a commuter. With gas prices at around $2.20, it should save me close to $60 a month in gas compared to my fuel-hog Jeep Cherokee.
I’ll get some pics up later (yeah, right), but for now you can see what it looks like here.
