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captcha Originally uploaded by jrishel. got this captcha today when filling out a webform… I misread it at first.
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Beowulf 3D: Almost Out Of The Uncanny Valley?
As a late birthday present Gail and Bryon watched Cory for Meg and me last Saturday. We took the time to go see Beowulf in 3D. The way the actual Anglo-Saxon text was integrated into the songs and the speech of Grendel was well done. The additions to the story line to make the story [...]
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Colorblind Synesthete experiences colors his eyes can’t see.
Synesthesia is a neurological condition where a certain sensory experience is mapped or overlaid with another sense. The most common form of this is Grapheme (numbers or letters) to color synesthesia. What’s really interesting is most synesthetes can easily differentiate a grapheme’s actual color from it’s “synthetic” color. This all gets really weird when you [...]
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Blue Man School
I can’t decide if this is awesome, or insane: 2 out of the 3 original Blue Man Group are starting a pre-school. But after you’ve spent fifteen years spattering audiences with paint, pounding drums and pipes, spurting goo out of your chest, and spitting chewed-up marshmallows onto canvases, what’s next? For Goldman and Wink, married [...]
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OMG WTH
OMG WTH Originally uploaded by jrishel. still doesn’t beat “TOBLAVE”
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neat intro-level article on LOLcats in the wall street journal that links to lolpresident. (0)
mysqld failing to load after changing default locations
I just solved a problem at work that google was no help with. I’m posting this in hopes some other poor soul who has the same problem finds this post. After an OS re-install (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4) we were changing the default location of data used for application into a different filesystem [...]
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Ubuntu from Dell “Day 2″ impressions
As mentioned earlier, Meg’s new computer is a Dell with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. Overall, we’re still happy with the system, but I wanted to mention a few “gotchas” i’ve found since being able to poke around the system a bit more. First, Meg’s system came with a widescreen monitor. X windows was only configured with [...]
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region free DVD player hack
The portable DVD player we’ve been using on the upstairs TV hasn’t been dealing with the heat lately, it kept locking up and it has been having trouble reading discs with my other player reads without problems. We decided to replace it with some of our remaining Target gift cards. I found a small (but [...]
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Ubuntu from Dell, first impressions
I order a new computer for Meg as her IDE controller appears to be flaking out. I decided to order one of the new Dells with Ubuntu pre-installed. On first boot up, I was asked to agree to the Terms and Conditions. This was before even the OS loaded, must be a BIOS thing. Once [...]
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