Peer pressure strikes again. If you felt reality shift around you this morning, it may be my fault. You see, for the first time in my adult life I have gambled away some of my hard earned money. A group of my coworkers did what three days in Sin City could not, they convinced me to put some money where the odd’s aren’t. I put some money towards Florida’s voluntary tax, a.k.a.: “The Florida…
Picture Uncle Rupert shaking in his kangaroo skin boots. What can I say, he’s afraid of me.
Personally, I think he’s one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse… but that’s just me.
Well, now that we’ve gotten the pleasantries out of the way, I’ll get to what I wanted to say today. In my humble opinion, the FNN is generally full of crap. You might think that’s a funny thing to say…
No, I’m not over doing it. My little buddy made it out of surgery this afternoon and sped right through recovery. In fact, he’s out playing right now. If you really must know, he’s playing INXS.
That’s right, this is another iPod post.
I can’t tell you how crushed I was when I thought he was dead. It makes it all the more joyous to see him resurrected. I’m so giddy I’m having visions…
If your iPod is out of warranty, and nothing on the Apple support web site helps (to fix your iPod), try the following…
1. Open you iPod. This is tricky, and it voids your warranty, so I won’t explain it here (it’s a liability thing).
2. Disconnect the battery and hard drive.
3. Reconnect your hard drive and battery.
4. Reassemble your iPod.
5. Reformat your (iPod) hard drive and restore…
Things break. It can be disappointing, but it’s a fact of high-tech life. What really hurts is when the occasional breakage points to a painful truth, I’m an idiot.
Two months ago my iPod started acting funny. My keen diagnostic senses deduced that it was a software problem. However, my honed procrastinating tendencies put off any attempt to fix the problem. After all, the odd behavior…
Palm Handheld, 90 day warranty.
Apple iPod, 365 day warranty.
Broken, 383 day old iPod, bundled with a broken, 496 day old Palm handheld, worthless.
According to the Apple web site, I could send in my iPod for “out of warranty” service, cost: $249 (plus $6.95 shipping and handling), warranty: 90 days.
According to the Apple web site, I could purchase a new iPod, cost: $299, warranty: 1…
I feel compelled to blow a little sunshine, where it don’t normally, particularly after my last post, my ode to self-pity. Lets just say that the last Xbox game I bought was the best twenty bucks I’ve spent this fiscal quarter. Beth and I have been blowing away Imperial scum like a couple of Rebel bad boys. We’ve been playing Star Wars Battlefront. We’ve played it a lot, but most…
I am dreading work tomorrow, but not for the reasons you might assume. You see; work will be a welcome relief from the weekend past. Picture two days of getting over colds and no one getting along. Picture a day where Cheryl is the patient one. It wasn’t pretty.
So if the weekend was total crap, and I’m looking forward to a break from home, why am I dreading work? I’m going to have to relive…
Cheryl came home from the grocery store this week with some sweets. She always comes home with sweets, but this time she came home with sweets she claimed were healthier than her standard fare. One of these healthier snacks was a miniature, transparent silo of popcorn. There’s been a lot of talk about how unhealthy movie theater popcorn can be, but only because of the crap they put in it. I…
Last week I experimented with Folger’s Coffee Singles. Other than the coffee tasting really bad, it was a success. So, I tracked down my coffee grinder, brewing device, left-over filters, and went shopping for beans. After a trip to the mall (we didn’t just go for beans), I was ready to begin my education, as the brew-master. First I did some research. I looked into grind quality (course v.