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Roomba
It's the size of a simon machine, and beeps like simon, therefore it is a duck. Unfortunately, it picks up as much dirt from the rug as a simon as well. It's not doing well with the bare floor and rug makeup of my house. I think it's supposed to learn the pattern of the room and clean all spots, but when it keeps getting hung up with one wheel not running right as it gets stuck going onto the rug, it seems to get in cycles where it just cleans one corner over and over until the battery dies. The battery only lasts for 40 minutes so far, not quite the 2 hours promised. It does fit under the couch which makes me very happy...if only I felt it was likely it would clean while running around down there. The instructions are woefully inadequate - for instance, it does not state whether duct-taping a steak knife to the front of the machine is a good idea or a bad one. I'm thinking spin the bottle with a knife-weilding robot has higher stakes.
Firefox fail
Trying to use firefox and failing. Unlike chrome, firefox did import bookmarks. Adblock keeps kicking out all of my passwords - each time I refresh livejournal it wants me to re-sign in. If I got to a comment or any page from my f-list, it logs me out. I don't like cookies on my computer from places I don't invite, and the firefox interface for that issue is horrible. On ie you can just click the eye icon and see who was blocked, making it easy to pick who to let in. Firefox and ad block show you what loaded fine, but then make it annoying to try and accept this cookie, but not that one...I'm also not seeing any difference in number of ads. I am noticing many pages take longer to load in firefox. I'm probably not going to use it for long at all. One advantage is that it is spell checking my awful spelling, but I think ie does that and I just turned it off.
Laptop
I love my new laptop, love love love. For $350 the 2ghz dual core, 2gb ram (I just bought 4gb for it which will be $10 after the $40 mail-in rebate, even though it'll only read 3gb since...well shit, $10), 160 g hd, 14" 5.something lbs (even the power converter weighs less than the old one), wireless n...seems wonderful. Even with shared video It's lightning fast compared to the dell inspiron 1100 (is a 7 year old laptop steampunk? Not quite?) It seems like it cost and weighs as much as micro, but is equipped like a mid-15".
Workout crap
Today I did a different run - usually I can't help but run up to the max I possibly can, and keep just below hyperventilation. Today I just ran right at a comfortable pace where I was breathing heavy but not tired - like an old-man job. I ran 4 miles but could have gone much more. Running or doing cardio every day I'm finding my knees are a bit tired. Lost another lb and looking forward to that hot fudge brownie sundae - look out turbogrrrl! Was flattered that last night Rikk noticed the new definition in my lower back.
Gay dance club night fell through last night, but it was wonderful seeing so many people at spellbound for the show - plus Steve & Donna went more into the acoustic sounding electronic music which was nice. With the ice on the way I skipped out on Voltaire. Funs were had.
Yeah dull, but I'm kinda happy.
Roomba
It's the size of a simon machine, and beeps like simon, therefore it is a duck. Unfortunately, it picks up as much dirt from the rug as a simon as well. It's not doing well with the bare floor and rug makeup of my house. I think it's supposed to learn the pattern of the room and clean all spots, but when it keeps getting hung up with one wheel not running right as it gets stuck going onto the rug, it seems to get in cycles where it just cleans one corner over and over until the battery dies. The battery only lasts for 40 minutes so far, not quite the 2 hours promised. It does fit under the couch which makes me very happy...if only I felt it was likely it would clean while running around down there. The instructions are woefully inadequate - for instance, it does not state whether duct-taping a steak knife to the front of the machine is a good idea or a bad one. I'm thinking spin the bottle with a knife-weilding robot has higher stakes.
Firefox fail
Trying to use firefox and failing. Unlike chrome, firefox did import bookmarks. Adblock keeps kicking out all of my passwords - each time I refresh livejournal it wants me to re-sign in. If I got to a comment or any page from my f-list, it logs me out. I don't like cookies on my computer from places I don't invite, and the firefox interface for that issue is horrible. On ie you can just click the eye icon and see who was blocked, making it easy to pick who to let in. Firefox and ad block show you what loaded fine, but then make it annoying to try and accept this cookie, but not that one...I'm also not seeing any difference in number of ads. I am noticing many pages take longer to load in firefox. I'm probably not going to use it for long at all. One advantage is that it is spell checking my awful spelling, but I think ie does that and I just turned it off.
Laptop
I love my new laptop, love love love. For $350 the 2ghz dual core, 2gb ram (I just bought 4gb for it which will be $10 after the $40 mail-in rebate, even though it'll only read 3gb since...well shit, $10), 160 g hd, 14" 5.something lbs (even the power converter weighs less than the old one), wireless n...seems wonderful. Even with shared video It's lightning fast compared to the dell inspiron 1100 (is a 7 year old laptop steampunk? Not quite?) It seems like it cost and weighs as much as micro, but is equipped like a mid-15".
Workout crap
Today I did a different run - usually I can't help but run up to the max I possibly can, and keep just below hyperventilation. Today I just ran right at a comfortable pace where I was breathing heavy but not tired - like an old-man job. I ran 4 miles but could have gone much more. Running or doing cardio every day I'm finding my knees are a bit tired. Lost another lb and looking forward to that hot fudge brownie sundae - look out turbogrrrl! Was flattered that last night Rikk noticed the new definition in my lower back.
Gay dance club night fell through last night, but it was wonderful seeing so many people at spellbound for the show - plus Steve & Donna went more into the acoustic sounding electronic music which was nice. With the ice on the way I skipped out on Voltaire. Funs were had.
Yeah dull, but I'm kinda happy.