she flew to albuquerque, with her left blinker on all the way.

I’m an aviation nut and gadget hound, but even I think that this is a terrible idea:
The Terrafugia Transition, the world’s first car/plane hybrid.
Look, the carnage on our streets should give you a hint why it’s not smart to have the same idiots taking to the sky as well.  I mean, the third or fourth [...]

stolen from the desk of frodo.

So the new computer arrived today. In a fortuitous feat of good timing, the Brown Truck of Happiness came up the driveway right after I got the kids squared away for their naps, and I was able to spend my lunch break putting together the barebones kit I had ordered.
The new system is an nVidia [...]

what i did over lunch today.

I made this:

Robin needs to get her mouse closer to her arm for health reasons, so I shopped for some mouse platforms online.  There’s stuff available commercially, but the affordable stuff is terribly unstable-looking, and the solid-looking stuff is ridiculously expensive.  So I looked around for some scrap wood, and rigged up this little [...]

it’s all that slovakian midget porn.

Here’s what the salesguy said to me when I bought my 120GB iPod:
“I don’t know anyone who can actually fill up an iPod classic.”
Here’s my current iPod status:

Dear Steve Jobs: Please to be making beeger iPod, kthxbai.

that book you bought? we’ve decided to un-sell it to you.

Reason #2811 I’m lukewarm about the Kindle:
Amazon deleted previously purchased copies of Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 after the publisher changed their mind about offering an e-book version.
That’s pretty ballsy.  Like the article states, it’s like Borders or Barnes & Noble sending someone to break into your house, take a book you purchased from them [...]

assorted offerings from the big box o’ gun junk.

Today, bargains abound here at The Munchkin Wrangler!
This morning, I was looking for something in my boxes of gun stuff in the attic, and I decided to weed out a bunch of stuff that’s been sitting unused for several years now.  I may be able to use all those fabulous things in the future again [...]

our new heatolator 3000.

Check out what was installed at Castle Frostbite today:

That’s right—a new pellet stove.  Enough BTUs to heat over 2,000 square feet, which will be enough to turn our two living rooms into Arizona in August, even when the snow is two feet deep outside.  We bought it used from friends, and paid [...]

a bleg.

Does anyone have an older Mac they’d like to turn into some ammo or beer money? 
I need one that has at least a factory-equipped Firewire port, which is the base minimum to run OS X 10.4 “Tiger”.  The oldest machines that fit the description are the slot-loading CRT iMacs, 350MHz and faster.  I don’t [...]

"holds 900 bytes of information."

This is amusing:
eBay auction for an Amazon Kindling…a laser-etched plywood knockoff.
The “Questions from other members” and answers from the seller are hilarious.

time for a new difference engine.

The time draws near once again for the trickle-down upgrade cycle of the computer hardware here at the Castle.  The lord of the manor is still quite content with his Core 2 Duo-powered magic elf box, but the lady’s Pentium 4 system is definitely showing its age.  The CPU in it came out of a [...]