Not bad for 30 Bucks! this is my second load. hopefully this will do the trick.

Here we go! well on our way to Newark first. but you get the picture!

Apparently the game machines at Buffalo Wild Wings run Linux. i caught this as the one at our booth crashed and started a reboot.

Did you buy a shiny new LCD monitor from Dell? If you did, the best advice I have for you is SAVE YOUR ORDER NUMBER! Make sure you can get to it. These puppies usually come with a pretty good warranty (my Mom’s had a 3-year on it), but if you don’t have your order number, there is absolutely nothing they can do. In keeping with the theme that these strange arduous tasks always fall my direction, here’s my experience with Dell over the last few days.

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We’re OK. I’ll start with that, since there are probably alot of people that aren’t OK. We made it through the storm alright with some minor damage — nothing like the reports from further south near Galveston or Bolivar. Mainly, we got some roof damage, a few leaks, 3 trees down (small), and our garage ceiling will probably need replacing.

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More later when i get power back.

That’s what we’re supposed to do. Hunker Down. Yep - that’s the official stance. Anyway, I got everything on the back patio put up or tied down (I hope) in preparation for Hurricane Ike. This time it really is headed right for us. Should start getting some serious wind/rain by this afternoon, with landfall around midnight tonight somewhere near Galveston.

I’m highly impressed with StormPulse, a really cool website for tracking storms. It’s flashiness is pretty addictive and it has a lot of options. Ah well, I suppose I’m ready — I just hope we aren’t without power for a long time (and I don’t lose tons of roofing tiles).

Everybody else in the area, take care.

This one makes me really upset. The men’s final of the US Open was scheduled for Sunday, but because of bad weather in New York it got pushed back to Monday. No problem — I’ll just record it. They clearly stated that it would be broadcast on CBS on Monday from 5-8 Eastern. Great. I set my DVR to record our local CBS station from 4-8 just in case.

The problem is when I got home, I found out (thanks to Lisa) that it was recording Oprah. No, I assured her, Oprah was scheduled for the 4pm timeslot, but Tennis was on in its place. Not so! Our local CBS station decided to play Oprah and the local news instead of the crown of American Tennis. This wouldn’t happen with football, baseball, basketball, soccer (OK they would probably screw soccer, too — and that would make me just as mad.)

Apparently I could have seen it in glorious non-high-def on local channel 55, but I had no way of knowing that, so I just streamed it off the web from usopen.org in a little grainy window on my PC. The main problem was by the time I got home from work and figured all this out, the match was nearly over.

So Thanks CBS, you really dropped the ball on this one.