I went to work on my uncle's computer today and when the power button was depressed there was no power. But there was the smell of electronics oxidizing. An all too familiar and bad smell to have. I tracked to the power supply and when I moved the tower about I heard a rattle. Well since the supply would never work again anyway i decided to take the case apart to survey the damage. There was what looked like mouse fur and some metal ribbon kind of crumpled up. The rattle turned out to be the outer shell of a capacitor, It took me a few minutes as there was no bones or anything of that nature to figure out the the fur that was scattered all over the inside of the supply was in fact insulation and the ribbon was the coil inside the capacitor. It had literally exploded and shorted out the supply in the process, it also sent a surge down the line and fried the motherboard as well. It is about a 4 year old pc so the board was only 25.88 to replace. I can honestly say I had never seen a capacitor in that configuration before, and there would be pictures but my P800 is still broke and shall still remain that way until I find work so that I can afford to fix it. Till my next disaster, later.
January 2005 Archives
I spent the weekend at the farm which of course always leads to the coffee house. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but we do seem to go a great deal. In fact when I walked up to the counter the conversation went alarmingly like this:
Barista: Hey, Hot Chi, got it, coming right up.
Me: Ya, (I look at don) we have been here way too many times.
Don: Yes thats what I said when she did the same thing to me.
The above is a sign that your barista knows your face at least and knows your order when you come into the door. I am pretty sure I am scared and yet not real sure why.
I got to see the new Apple Mini Store in the Galleria mall and it was so so bright. very stainless, very white and the way it is light makes the entire rest of the mall look like a dungeon. Also hooked up in the store was an apple cinema display hooked up to a mini. This is only noteworthy because the display was more then twice as much as the mini driving it.
There was good mexican had for dinner at the farm on sat and most of the rest of the weekend went by without much effort and really was rather relaxing, now back to looking for work again.
I shall now return you to your regularly scheduled web surfing.
I know most won't notice and all the work was behind the scenes. I did break the bookmarks that people had setup because I used a different set of IDs for passing the picked comics to the rendering script. The page went from two files totaling about 1100 lines with all the info stored in those files too two files of a total of 110 lines with the info stored in the database, the advantage to this is now i can finally setup an admin page so the script can be better managed. I also now don't have to scroll through 500 lines to make a 1 character change. On the front end the page title changed and the comics are now alphabetical other then that not too much, so re-bookmark and enjoy your daily image.
and still i can find a way to be bitter
First the pretty women part I am at the St. Charles Coffee House and there is a string quartet here. Four young pretty woman who happen to all be sisters, two violins a viola and a cello and they are both pleasant to the eye and the ear.
Second the bitter part.
The top 10 rejection lines given by women.
10. I think of you as a brother. (You remind me of that inbred banjo playing geek in 'Deliverance')
9. There's a slight difference in our ages. (I don't want to do my dad.)
8. I'm not attracted to you in 'that' way. (You are the ugliest dork I've ever laid eyes on.)
7. My life is too complicated right now. (I don't want you spending the whole night or else you may hear phone calls from all the other guys I'm seeing.)
6. I've got a boyfriend. (I prefer my male cat and a half gallon of Ben and Jerry's.)
5. I don't date men where I work. (I wouldn't date you if you were in the same 'solar system', much less the same building.)
4. It's not you, it's me. (It's you.)
3. I'm concentrating on my career. (Even something as boring and unfulfilling as my job is better than dating you.)
2. I'm celibate. (I've sworn off only the men like you.)
1. Let's be friends. (I want you to stay around so I can tell you in excruciating detail about all the other men I meet and lay. It's the male perspective thing.)
And I am gone......
Sorry folks but thats the way it is I know some people came here for a little bit of humor and all the jazz, but now i am with my parents and on dial up and there is just not enough time for me to find things to post until i get a job and get broadband somewhere in civilization. If you want to check once a week that will be more then enough I am sure. I will try to maintain the comics page as best as i can from putty here. So if you additions send em and i will edit them in on my coffee straw of an internet connections. Hope to find something somewhere soon. later for when i have more speed and time. Bye Bye for a while.
~matt
