Taxing your Tip
We had a very good brunch at Coastal Kitchen, but because our party was 6 people, they automatically added in 18% tip. No biggy except they charged the tax after the tip.
For Sale
PS2 Games:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Like new (never played, but opened)
GT3 A-spec – used
Devil May Cry – Like new (never played, but opened)
Metal Gear Solid 2 – Unopened
DragonBall Z Budokai – Used
Robotech Battlecry – Used
NBA Street Vol 2 – Used
Capcom vs SNK 2 – Used
Spy Hunter 2 – used
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – Used
Grand Theft Auto:San Andreas – used
Tiger Woods PDA Tour 2003 – Used
Transformers (Atari 2004) – Used
R-Type Final – Used
SSX On Tour – Used
SSX Tricky – Used
DDRMax – Used
DDRMax 2 – Used
Time Crisis 2 (with gun) – Used
Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance – Used
Lord Of the Rings: The Two Towers – Used
Lord of the Rings: The return of the king – New (unopened)
PS2, model ?? with network adapter
Dreamcast Console ($30 w/ original controller), with network adapter ($100), 4 controllers (1 original, 3 Astropad Performance), RCA cable, AC Adapter.
Dreamcast games:
Jet Grind Radio – New, unopened
Soul Calibur – used
Sonic Adventure – Used
NFL Blitz 2000 – Used
Virtua Tennis
Web Browser CD
Dreamcast Accessories: Memory card, Rumble pack.
SNES Console, 2 controllers, RCA and S-Video adapter, AC power.
| SNES Games | Approximate Value |
|---|---|
| Killer Instinct | |
| The 7th Saga | |
| The Legend of Zelda: A link to the Past | |
| Super Metroid | |
| Super Return of the Jedi | |
| Radical Rex | |
| Toy Story | |
| Mortal Kombat 3 | |
| Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island | |
| The Ren & Stimpy Show: Veediots | |
| Super Mario World | |
| Bubsy 2 |
Mac OS X
So I have a MacBook Pro from work. I\’m a noob to OS X (though I\’ve used unix for some time, cmd line).
I\’m sure that most of my hang-ups are related to the fact that I\’ve been using windows since 3.1, so my brain is used to think in a specific way.
Someone suggested I read:
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/
Nothing terribly useful (that I didn\’t already figure out by just looking). Really for super noobs.
Gonna see how useful this is:
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/
Obervations:
1. Copy/Paste is very weird for me. I\’m very used to control+c, control+v, while on the mac its apple+c, apple+v. Very weird to change my habits.
Blackberry 8700c
I\’m trying out a Blackberry 8700c for work. My first time using a Blackberry device/OS.
Going to list some Pros/Cons and compare with my WM5 device (i-mate K-Jam).
| 8700c | K-Jam | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | Con | Comparison | Pro | Con |
| x | Dialing speed – When I push buttons, the bb dials. Not so on the KJam, which has serious lag. | x | ||
| x | Alarm – the bb alarm options are very limited: daily alarm: on/off, time, snooze, active on weekend: yes/no. Where as the wm deive has 3 alarms, each with checkboxes for each day so you can pick and choose when you want each alarm to work. | x | ||
| x | Navigation: Touchscreen really kicks ass. The wheel on the BB is pretty nice too, but selecting text is damn annoying. | x | ||
Helios
1 APEVIA X-Pider ATXA2XPW-BL/420 Blue Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case 420W Power Supply – Retail
1 PLEXTOR 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Beige SATA Model PX-716SA/SW – Retail
2 HITACHI Deskstar 7K250 HDS722512VLSA80 (13G0253) 120GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive – OEM
1 AMC 8 inches 4-Pin Power Cable Splitter Model Y Power Cable – OEM
1 ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard – Retail
1 Leadtek PX6600GT TDH GeForce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card – Retail
1 mushkin Green 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model 991145 – Retail
1 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester 2.0GHz Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BIBOX – Retail
1 Verbatim DataLifePlus 4.7GB 8X DVD-R 50 Packs Disc – Retail
1 Microsoft Windows XP HOME Edition with Service Pack 2 – OEM
Zeus
Gateway 6400
I added another CPU and it currently has 896MB of RAM.
Two 40 GB IDE HD.
GeForce2MX
Live!Value
CD-RW of some sort
Dying Hard Drive?
What is this noise?
clickingNoise.wav 177kb
I hope the clicking (near the end) is not a sign of my hard drive dying.
What is it with me and hard drives? Why do they die around me? What am I doing that causes them to keel over?
My machine usually has WoW running … nearly 24/7. Usually at the login screen.
Saturday, May 19th, I logged into WoW to play. After a few hours of play, I heard the clicking noise and my machine would pause for a few seconds, while clicking, and resume normally after the clicking.
Then, one clicking session did not end for 3 or so minutes and I shut off the machine. I haven’t turned it back on yet.
It’s a girl!
We’ll be having a girl: Julia Misura, in August.
The ultrasound tech said it’s a girl.
The doctor said it’s a girl.
Jawbone
My latest Bluetooth headset Jawbone
This one is pretty darn good, with new noise cancelling tech.
My mom didn’t know I was driving my car (which is usually very obvious because my car makes a lot of noise at 60 mph).
Unfortunately, I’m told that I sound metalic or robotic.
It does a pretty good job of staying on ear. However, even with 4 different ear buds, none of them fit me “well”. Wearing the default/smallest one still causes my ear to hurt after 1+ hours.
The over-the-ear part is spring loaded so it helps hold it in place, but it is contoured for right/left so you can’t easily swap ears. You have to swap clips.
The button to answer is rather hard to push. The volume button is in a strange place, and it cycles through instead of having an up/down.
Seems my phone has developed an annoying buzz when I answer. I don’t hear it, but the people who call me say “ouch” when I pick up because its rather loud.
The charger uses a non-standard connection so it can’t be shared with other mini-usb devices.
Motorola H670
This headset was ok, but shortly after putting it on my ear, it would shake loose.
It would end up very far from my ear drum so I couldn’t hear very well.
Returned this one.