Gotta love gadgets and gizmos. I got my tax return Thursday. Most of it needs to go to a new car, but I decided I could spend a little of it. Best Buy has been calling me. So now I have a new digital camera. It’s the cheapest one they had, but it’s a Fuji […]
Quoting from this site: A plot doesn’t have to be new. It just has to be new to the reader. In fact, it doesn’t even have to be new to the reader. It just has to get past him. (It helps if the story’s moving fast and there’s lots of other interesting stuff going on.)
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whee! I got a trackball to replace the full-size mouse. This is fun! I’m not sure it’s going to work because the thing is even larger than the full-size mouse, but it’s definitely fun! And the motion is different, so we’ll see. Bly wanted to go to Office Depot and Borders today. Office supplies and
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Okay, so I figured out I have text messaging on my phone, I should use it. Incoming messages are free, and out-going only ten cents. I can enjoy it without feeling like I’m wasting my minutes that I might need later. Then I figured out that the manual for my phone is online. Since I
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So you don’t want to talk to your next door neighbor or your dog as you grocery shop? You don’t want to try to look important while you ignore business people or restaurant workers or others completely deserving of a bit of politeness? You’d rather not have everyone in your life able to reach you
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Quoting from this site: Scientists have developed artificial, super-strength muscles which are powered by alcohol and hydrogen. And they could eventually be used to make more advanced prosthetic limbs, say researchers at University of Texas. Writing in Science, they say these artificial muscles are 100 times more powerful than the body’s own. They said they
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You can’t fool me with that gadgetry. Computers run on gremlins, or leprechauns, and every once in a while that mischievous need of theirs comes to the surface, and you are so screwed. Lucky for me, it was only a minor event this time. I’m hoping my personal gremlin takes most of its obnoxious moods out
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