Author Archives: David Crampton

Smatterings from my Friends’ Page

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On Christmas, I was lucky enough to be included in the BigPop ritual. This was much appreciated, .

Why are these things still circulating?

People get verbose on New Year’s. I just got drunk. ;)

Substantive post coming soon. I promise.

Accomplished today:
– Got to class on time. This 9:10 AM stuff is going to kick my arse.
– Discovered that I am the auto-teacher’s-pet in McKinley’s ritual process class. This should not surprise me.
– Mailed out the textbooks that I sold on Amazon’s used site.
– Caught up to only 280 entries back in my Friends’ page. This is under a week, but my eyes are all weird now. Heh.

Twisty

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So, I’ve finally got all of the preparatory steps completed to finish the homework for my CSS/Web Publishing class. Bring the 3.0 up to a 4.0, that’s the goal, people.

Macromedia Dreamweaver‘s trial edition is installed on the good old iBook (named Magnus, BTW). Word processor is waiting and ready. My own semester project, which I am supposed to reflect upon the creation of, is loaded in a Safari tab.

Aaaaaaand…. nothin’. I feel like there’s something I want to say, but it, like Neo, it’s waiting for something.

So, I’ve caught up on email. I’ve caught up on my daily webcomics. Still, nothing. So, I’m going to read a bit of friends’ page goodness, and then make the attempt on paper. Hard copy, ladies and gentlemen, is such an odd (yet wonderful) kick in the pants.

Tech Projects Update

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Compaq Presario 1622

– Damn Small Linux : failure
– Knoppix : failure
– Ubuntu : failure

After Ubuntu couldn’t even access the floppy drive, I got suspicious. Re-loaded Windows, and got the same exact memory error that started all of this off. So, this all points to a slow, but sure, motherboard failure.

Kinda like my desktop.

Anyway, I’ll be parting it out. Old laptop RAM, the battery, the PC cards, and the chassis/motherboard/screen/wossname for parts. eBay, unless I get a local offer. Anybody interested? ;)

Compaq Presario from Work

I don’t have it in front of me, or I would have posted the model number.

Due to errors on the hard drive, the Windows XP partition could not be re-sized. So, I wiped the whole thing, created a 15 gig partition for each OS, and easily loaded Windows XP and Ubuntu. Ran a file-checker in each OS to mark off the bad sectors of each partition.

It’s all packed up and ready to be given back to Tom. Yay for field laptop!

iBook
– Wallpaper : procured
– USB mouse : procured and installed
– USB Hub : procured and installed
– Printer : switched over to USB, connected to USB hub, and installed.
– Scanner : Tossed the old parallel port Mustek in the trash. It was dead, and I had the ninepence. Anyway, connected the new HP ScanJet 3500c (thanks to Jody, the mother in law, for that xmas gift!) through the USB hub, and it installed smoothly.

To Do
– eBay off the 11 year old Presario’s parts.
– Gut the old desktop and eBay the extra sound card and RAM.
– Procure internal-to-external conversion kits. I want to turn both 30GB hard drives and the CD-R/W to firewire, and connect them to the iBook that way.
– Figure out what in the blazes is wrong with this wireless/wired combo router from Netgear, and get that installed.

Crap. I did not intend to type this much. I’ve gotten some writing done today, but I’ll wait to update on that. Sleep calls.

Horoscope for 28 Dec 2005

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“The task of genius, and humanity is nothing if not genius, is to keep the miracle alive, to live always in the miracle, to make the miracle more and more miraculous, to swear allegiance to nothing, but live only miraculously, think only miraculously, die miraculously.”
-Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “We live in a world with too much music,” writes Joe Nickell at Missoulian.com. He’s bothered by the fact that everywhere he goes, there are tunes pouring from cell phones and mp3 players and TVs and radios and live bands. As far as you’re concerned, though, Nickell is utterly off-base. In 2006, you should take advantage of the profusion; you should immerse yourself in music more than you ever have before. To do so will be instrumental in helping you accomplish your top assignment in the coming months, which is to feel deep, rich, interesting emotions as often as possible.

Everything’s shiny, captain.

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The technology gods and I continue to have an interesting time of things. :)

I’m posting this from my brand new (used) G3 iBook. It’s so white… and calling out for an Autobot logo somewhere on its casing. I was able to get the Cuthulhu for President sticker off of it, as well as the remnants, with some Goo Gone on Christmas Day.

Needless to say, is still the mistress of gift-giving. I can’t believe so many people kept this secret, especially ! I don’t even know if was in on it, as this was his laptop before it began its trek into my hands.

Of course, I didn’t do too badly myself. I picked this up for , and I’m continually assured that I did well. ;)

The tech gifts have rained from the sky, or, uh, from under the Christmas tree, and so I have more and more and more technical projects to work on. This makes me happy and challenged (which seem to go hand in hand lately). However, there are enough to equal my writing projects, which I have most definitely not given enough time to.

I think I’ll post about gifts and/or projects as they come up and/or get finished. And/Or. Xor. z0rz. Over and out.

Horoscope for 21 Dec 2005

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Happy Holy Daze, Taurus! I’ve been meditating on the perfect holiday gifts for you. What symbolic items might inspire you to take maximum advantage of the cosmic currents in 2006? And the answer is: several full-length mirrors that you can arrange in such a way so as to study what you look like from behind and from the side as well as from the front. What’s my reasoning? I believe you should get to know yourself much, much better in the coming months. You should gaze into your own mysteries far more frequently than you ever have before, and try to see yourself with as much compassionate objectivity as possible.