outlander dragged me contra dancing tonight, and it was fun! Exhausting, and hot, but fun. There's a contra dance every Thrusday night in Concord. I think I'm going back! I'm glad the partners I had put up with my complete and utter clumsiness and inability to tell left from right. I had a lot of fun. It was also very dizzying.

Sitting at home and being thrifty is an amazing way to re-watch old series you loved. Also, to remember what a complete nerd you we(a)re...

Originally published at Desinformado.com | Gadgets and Technology News . Please leave any comments there. While the world perception about Windows Vista is that it has been the major failure...and the Halo Effect will help, but not as quickly as needed, Microsoft will invest all the money it can to get Vista to the same level of reliability of Windows XP to appease its users.

::dancing around:: We haz tickets! We haz tickets! And look, I actualy get to use my Mythbusters icon for something actualy Mythbusters related! ::dancing:: While watching the 1am repeat of the...MYTHBUSTERS LIVE!!!! ::twerling about in sparkels and sunshine:: (...And no, I have no idea where the prose came from...maybe post-DS_Match Panic? OMG Six hours until the first post!

WARNING! OFFENSIVE VIDEO UNDER CUT! [Unknown LJ tag] Geekipedia for those who need it You'll be hearing Godwin's Law a fair bit if you try to discuss this with anyone. It pertains to the increased...else...... Stargate inspired robots/replicators Because bringing evil robots from sci-fi to life can only end well. Where do I sign up for one of the newer models of cylon? P.S. new ico

Originally published at Random Geekage You can comment here or there . …My new laptop has arrived in one peice. No problems at all. The carrier at the end of the day was UkMail, thankfully not a... just select all the files and folders I want (remembering the hidden files), copy and paste then reboot once all the patching was done. Easy as pie. This was definatly a good choice of laptop.

Hah!

I've figured out why I'm not a world-famous open-source programmer. It's simple, really; I don't have many itches to scratch. Most of the software I have with me pretty much does what I need it to do.... You'd think after the third time they'd have boiled it down to a single command. And my command function is smart enough to append the semicolon if you forget!) See? I'm offended. It must be fixed

Сейчас искал свою недавно купленную 16ти-гиговую флешку в кармашке для флешек, и вытаскивал оттуда буквально в историческом порядке: — 64-метровую. Это моя первая флешка, мне ее отец подарил. Стоила она... кому я отдавал ее в руки, весело ухмылялся, "Элвин, почему твоя флешка называется IRINA?" — а мне было влом переименовать. Надо бы уже отложить хотя бы часть на полку. Не актуально. Но забавно. :)

Today sheikyarboutisoft shook the Internets to their core with the release of "Sparkletwobot," an Adobe AIR application that has absolutely nothing to do with Twitter. In other news, our correspondents...expect the recent cold snap in Hades to end "any time now." Seriously, who's using Adobe AIR to write anything but Twitter clients? Is it the Hello World example application or something?