sweeeet

So I was just looking over the todo list thing I made, and I noticed that I've completed a few of the things. yay!

Wheee GPS

So for some reason when I was sitting here installing debian in VMware, I looked over and thought "hey, I should try and install my GPS software and see how it works in vista!" 30 seconds later I had it installed and was plugging in my GPS, only to remember that the window by my desk has a metal screen in it (thus blocking the GPS signal from the satallites) so I moved the R over to my bed where ansel was napping and put the reciver up on the window sill. Soon enough it had a signal from several sats and all was good. Eventually harly strolled in and hopped up on the bed, so I just had to take a picture.

http://i32.tinypic.com/2i6ewbr.jpg

Awww!

test post or something

Ok, I just found a neato plugin for ff3b5 called "scribefire" which more or less adds a litte text box and formatting features to the bottom of your web browser screen, though it is expandable.

It's like, super fast blogging without dealing with going to the blog page and signing in and stuff, and it supports all the same formatting features (if not a few more) than the normal web based shenanigans.

Ok, my VMware download is done, bai!

Yay, RAM!

So I finally got some more RAM, which is fun. Cost me $35 shipped from newegg, 2GB DDR2 667MHz SODIMM. I must say it has spiced up vista quite a bunch, it's actually really nice and fast to use now that it isn't swapping like something that swaps a lot.

Here's some pictures!

Ok, so when I opened the way to big newegg box, and dug through the unnecessary sea of peanuts, I found this:



I made sure to note this specifically, very handy considering the laptop I'm putting this in *is* running vista:



Here's a closer look at the front of the stick:



A removal of the battery and power cords, and four screws later, I'm pulling off the palmwrest:



And lo, it's off! My my, it even looks like there might be an open slot in there...



It is! Yay!



Press down lightly... and.... *click*



Now lets reattach the battery and all the cables, and boot vistuh!

[no picture due to the boringness of it's bootup sequence]

Ok, ~20 seconds later, I'm logged in and noticing it's much faster. Lets recalculate the WEI, shall we?

http://i28.tinypic.com/wia4k3.jpg

It's a whole .5 higher than it was! Craaaazy!

Here's some more detail:

http://i25.tinypic.com/1zppd9s.jpg

Yeah, I had to make those two external links. Too wide for the blog format apparently.

interesting...

25

I so think I could do double that, I mean seriously, split the kids into groups and the bribe them with candy. They practically fight themselves!

However, when you get to the last of them, and they realize you have no candy, be prepared to bribe with tickets to disneyland or run like hell.

bored at the library

Since Mom has started working out in Terra Ceia again, and we've only got one car, after classes on Tuesday and Thursday mornings I've had to wait at the library until she's done. Usually around 3pm is when she can come out to get me. I get out of ENG111 at 9:15am, so that means I'm at the library for about six hours or so. For the first... hour or two I can usually get most of my eng111 work done and get some lunch at the library cafeteria, but for the rest I'm just bored, listening to music every once in a while, if I remember to bring headphones. At *least* I can get wifi on the R here, in linux, so I can do stuff on my own machine.

It's 1:30 now, so only 1.5hrs left to go, hopefully.

At least hardly anyone is here later in the afternoon, so it's not too bad.

Spinny kitten of goodness

So as of recent the kittens (jane and ansel) have taken over my rather nice paddedy chair. Instead of forcing them to move (I'm so nice) I slid over the chair and put my old beat up one in it's place. One day while I was sitting waiting for something to load down, I noticed jane was sleeping rather peacefully, so I gave the chair a quick spin and she seemed to enjoy watching the world twirl around her, so I did it a bunch more and made a video of it.

Amazingly she still likes to sleep there...

Video!