In case ya ain’t heard, our place as usual.
workbench
Originally uploaded by farrisgoldstein.
My new workbench in the garage. Still playing with the layout. I really like the second monitor where it is in the picture, but even with it angled down as far as it will go, I’m slightly outside of the optimum viewing angle. I’ve moved it to the lower surface directly below the MacBook for now. Having it down there also hides most of those nasty wires.
In case I didn’t mention it here, my awesome Garmin navigation unit was stolen several months ago.
In case I didn’t mention it here, my current employment is coming to a close. Probably looking for a new gig in December, definitely by January.
In case I didn’t mention it here, I like playing with toys, and breaking them apart and doing shit with them.
Regarding mention number two up there, I might be getting a really nice adjustable, powered, well-lit, heavy-duty workbench.
And I bought one of these:
I also ordered a touch panel to add to it, one that’s been used for a lot of EEE PCs. As far as I can tell, nobody has yet succesfully added one to a Dell Mini. Yay for trailblazing.
I ordered a tiny USB GPS unit that I’m going to tear apart and solder onto the motherboard of this sucker. I also have a mini PCIe 3g card I’m putting in it. I still haven’t decided what software I’m going to use, but once it’s all setup I should have a nice, 8.9″ car PC with a touch screen that I’ll be able to use for media, speaker phone, navigation, mobile intarwebbin’, and whatever else one might do with a tiny crappy Dell PC.
To Whom It May Concern:
I just wanted to express my strong dissatisfaction with both the product and the service I received with this order. I understand that Florist Express, a preferred partner of Pro Flowers, relies on a network of florists and delivery services, and thus the finished product will not always come out looking exactly like the arrangement on your website. I was a bit disappointed that the vase I received was clear glass rather than the cranberry glass depicted on the site, but again, I knew this likely had to do with availability.
I am, however, very annoyed that my delivery was delayed twice. Again, I realize that this has to do with your supply chain and outsourced logistics. However, after paying a $14.99 “Standard Delivery Fee”, and both an “Expedited Delivery Fee” and “Same Day Surcharge” to insure they were delivered by 1PM, I received a call late in the day Thursday informing me that they would not be delivered on time. So I was asked if I’d like to reroute them to my home, where my wife would be after work. This seemed reasonable. However, I received another call even later saying that they would be delivered first thing in the morning, to my wife’s office. This was a little discouraging, but still acceptable. I then received a third call after noon on Friday saying that, again, the delivery would be delayed. Again, I informed the caller that my wife would already be gone from work, so please deliver them to our home.
It wasn’t until I placed a call to customer service again at 4:30PM that calls were made to ensure that the delivery would be moved up, even though my wife was now out of the house for the rest of the afternoon. The delivery was made just before 5PM. So now I’m sitting at home, looking at this pretty, but not quite right, floral arrangement and wondering if I should replace the hand-written note, complete with my wife’s first name MISSPELLED by the florist (I double-checked the receipt, and I did indeed spell it correctly on the form.), or leave it all as is so that I can have a laugh with my wife when she gets home rather than the amorous feelings and subsequent intimate activity I had intended the flowers to elicit. Maybe I’ll just eat some of the chocolates I purchased with the flowers, as it seems the “complimentary upgrade” for my inconvenience translates to one or two more (probably nut-filled; I hate nuts in chocolate) truffles instead of a prettier floral arrangement.
In short, I’m not going to get laid, I’ll probably get fatter, and it’s your fault. I would like you to consider refunding, at the very least, the delivery charges. I believe this might cover the cost of the pornography and personal lubricant this situation has forced me to consume.
Sincerely,
Farris J Goldstein
This is what happens when Farris buys a new toy the day before he’s supposed to get some work done at home:
My boring-ass live cam feed of debate watching is better than yours
September 26th, 2008 in Potpourri. CommentsNext monday, October* September 29, at 8:31 post meridian Central, tune into the return of GentleNews Live! It’s been almost 2 years since we did the show, and we miss it like hell. We’ll do the live feed through Ustream so you can see exactly how unprepared we are this time around.
FSM-willing, there’s some cool stuff in the works. My beautiful wife is revamping the show’s site, and if I finally get off my ass and do it, I’ll be posting the “lost episodes” that we aired but never put up for download.
Jim wrote a much better bleg for the show’s return here, and if you click through to it you can treat (ha!) yourself to to some choice snippets from those lost episodes.
So tell your Mama, tell your Pa… We’re gonna send you back to Arkansas.
* Yes, Farris doesn’t know what month this is.
Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes. Don’t fix your hair. Just take a picture. Post that picture with no editing. Post these instructions with your picture.
Don't stare too long
I’m not usually one to jump on bandwagons or soap boxes, aside from a few specific issues. B has been interested in playing Spore, and I myself became a little intrigued. However, after reading some things about both the gameplay and the DRM I’m pretty sure I don’t want to “buy” it.
If this fails, I’ll just revert to doing it myself, but since pizza cooks so quickly (if done right) I’m going to set everything up so that people can make their own pizzas if they want. I’ll have some basic stuff already cooked, but leave the ingredients and dough for people to make whatever they want.
If you have anything special or odd or interesting you want to put on a pizza, bring it.
