MAKING DOS USB IMAGES ON A MAC
I needed to run a BIOS flash utility that was only available for DOS. To complicate matters, the server I needed to run it on doesn't have a floppy or CD-ROM drive. I figured I'd hop on the Internet and download a bootable USB flash drive image. Right? Wrong. I found a lot of instructions for how to make such an image if you already have a running Windows or Linux desktop, but they weren't very helpful for me and my Mac.
Read moreTAKEN TO THE CLEANERS BY ABE'S DETAILING
I read a nice newspaper story a while ago about Abe's Detailing in Norfolk, NE. When I wanted to have Jen's minivan detailed as a present, I thought I'd give Abe's a try and made an appointment for the $45.99 "express detail". When we picked it up later, the van looked nice, but they wanted to charge us for the $159.99 "presidential detail" that they performed instead. I told the employee that I'd ordered the cheaper package.
Read moreGUEST POST BY GABBY CRAZY SQUIRREL
I was at grandma's house last weekend, and there was a power outage.Turns out, it was a squirrel chewing on the power lines, and got electrocuted.We found out when my Uncle Brian came in saying,"There's a dead squirrel that was chewing on the power lines."When I heard that I fell on the floor laughing!That squirrel is nuts!Or at least was nuts…
GUEST POST BY GABBY IT SNOWED
It snowed!I went outside today and played! bet I would have stayed out there if it had snowed more and if my feet didn't freeze, I would have stayed there longer!
GUEST POST BY GABBY SMOKING
You know dad's blogs about Ramoda?Well I know something he forgot!About half the people working there smoked!I sat down at a table to eat my muffin, and I smelled smoke.I look over my shoulder,and what do I see?some people that worked there smoking!Ewww….And I hope everyone that DOES work there sees this!
JUST GET HOME ALREADY
While waiting for Jen to return from a conference, I thought about calling her to get her estimated time of arrival, or her ETA. I realized she might be might be pretty far away still and thought I better ask for an estimate of the accuracy of the estimate, or meta-estimate: her META. Hey, neat! META can be a recursive acronym for "meta-ETA", so it also references the nature of the acronym itself, sort of making META a meta-acronym, which truly makes it both meta and META.
Read moreGUEST POST BY GABBY THERE HERE
Grandma and Grandpa got here yesterday!My camera is working again to!I took a picture of a mirror,and when I saw the picture I saw me and my camera flashing!Anyways,I am very exited!They're staying 2 weeks!
OPEN LETTER TO KCAU TV
As of mid-August, I can't watch the local ABC affiliate TV channel over my satellite dish because they tried to jack up the rates they charge Dish Network for carrying their channel. Never mind that their advertisers pay them by the number of viewers, regardless of whether that's by antenna, cable, or satellite. Dish Network could almost get away with asking KCAU to pay them for the task of handling all the transmission details.
Read moreGUEST POST BY GABBY I WENT TO THE LAKE
We took a trip to Grandma's house on Thursday last week, and on Saturday we went to the lake.A couple hours before we left we went boating.It took a long time for me and my friend to get off the tube. And when I did get off the tube I asked the boat driver if we could stop the boat and swim fora while. When we left the lake it was a long drive back to grandma's house, and I almost fell asleep!
Read moreDROPKICK MURPHYS THE MEANEST OF TIMES
This is kind of a hard review to write. Short take on the music: it's brilliant. If you like Irish folk or punk, you'll like "The Meanest of Times". However, I just can't get past the awful recording quality, and by awful, I mean truly, utterly terrible. As though the music industry didn't have enough problems to deal with, such as the string of lawsuits against its customers, the major labels have been busy with something called the "loudness war".
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