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I need an external hard drive. I have a MacBook Pro. I already have one that serves for a Time Machine. I need one for archival purposes--photos and such. Recommendations? |
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Dear tech-friends:
Please explain. My fiancee and I are sitting on the couch, each with laptop in lap. Both my hands are on my computer. One of her hands is on hers. With the other, she runs the backs of her fingers along my upper arm and can sense a distinct--vibration? A hum? A buzz? Not when the fingers are still--only when they move. When I take my hands off the computer, it goes away. If she takes her other hand off her computer, it goes away.
I presume this has something to do with, I dunno, completing circuits? I tried the same thing (rubbing her arm with one hand on my computer, while one or both of her hands are on her computer) and the results are the same.
What's going on? WHAT CAN HAPPEN? |
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Sep. 5th, 2008 @ 06:57 pm
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Dear Clever Fellows:
I don't speak Latin, and it's a pity. I learned a few Old English declensions, but the grammar just freaks me out. So I'm asking you people for help. The last section of my soon to be written dissertation chapter on Encyclopedias will touch on Google and Wikipedia, and I want to give a nod to Immanuel Kant's "What is Enlightenment?" by gesturing towards the phrase "Sapere Aude," or Dare to Know.
Following the very old fear that books eroded memory and made information available at the expense of true knowledge, I plan to address the revitalized fear centered around the interweb. I would like to call the section the Latin equivalent of "Dare to Google." Can anyone figure out how to do the appropriate declension on Google for me? Is there an ending that can be tacked on? Or is such not necessary?
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Iron Man = Very Good.
Theatrical trailer for the new Batman flick = Awesome.
May. 10th, 2008 @ 09:37 am
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I finally saw Juno. If anyone here could possibly tell me what all the fuss was about, I'd like to hear it. It wasn't dreadful, but it certainly wasn't outstanding--not even close--and I'm damned if Diablo Cody doesn't turn out something of a salted mine.
May. 3rd, 2008 @ 01:32 pm
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Apparently this is a list of books likely to be owned in order to make you look clever. I was told to put in bold those I have read, and to italicize those I own but have not (yet) read.
I am particularly ashamed of Middlemarch.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
May. 1st, 2008 @ 11:49 pm
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Anyone out there speak Japanese? I have something I need translated...
Mar. 14th, 2008 @ 06:33 pm
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This is my haven't-seen-it, won't-see-it, don't-need-to-see-it-to-know pre-release review of "One Missed Call." It's stupid. Don't see it.
OK, maybe it's fine for what it is. In case you've missed the commercials, it works like this: "you get a voicemail. You hear your death. Then you die."
I'm just glad to see that Death, demons, what have you are reaching out to teens through technology. First, death came on VHS with "The Ring." Then it moved up to sending emails in "Pulse." Now it leaves you voicemail! But it's EXTRA spooky because the call goes direct to voicemail...even if your phone is on. Nefarious powers of the damned!
Next year: "Text Deathage: U R DED"
This is just an impossibly stupid premise catering to impossibly stupid people whose cellphones are ever so slightly too much a part of them. Does Death leave a message because it doesn't want to waste minutes? Why doesn't Death just call after 9 or on weekends? Can I call back, or does Death have a blocked ID? Am I in Death's five?
What the fuck, Hollywood. Nothing--NOTHING--with the words email, voicemail, text-message, IM, or any other damn thing related to something I can get at Radioshack or have a monthly plan for is or ever will be scary.
Dec. 20th, 2007 @ 07:27 pm
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