So I did my Sunday trip to the Altamont Fair – ostensibly to see if my picture had claimed the People’s Choice award (it didn’t, a photo of a snowy squirrel did)… And I also made a pilgrimage to the Arts and Crafts building, which I did not do on Tuesday, to see if there…
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Computer Answers saved my bacon … one more time!
So last week, I was working on a project … and I dropped my power drill. I dropped it – and it landed on the floor. Well, it didn’t land completely on the floor … it landed on something that was already ON the floor. It landed on the back of my laptop. Oh crap.…
Read MoreAdobe Photoshop – you don’t own what you own
Way back in the day, years and years and years ago, I knew people who had acquired illegal, pirated versions of Adobe Photoshop. They offered to make me a copy for my own personal use. I said no. I don’t use illegally pirated software. Eventually, though, I did purchase my own personal copy of Photoshop…
Read MoreRemoving an electronic brain
Last Monday, in all my running-around errands, I took a personal moment for one final duty. I had its memories removed and preserved. And as soon as I receive a special part from Amazon … I’ll restore the memories once again. No, Chuck is not channeling his inner mad scientist. I was not cruising the…
Read MoreComputer Answers really does have the answers!
Ten years ago, I cobbled together a desktop computer tower. Rather than go to the local CompUSA and buy a tower off the shelf, I ordered all the component parts and jiggered them together. The tower survived a couple of hard drive crashes – one in 2010, another in 2015 – as well as an…
Read MoreWhat I did with my World Tavern Trivia winnings
Last week at this time, I was celebrating with my friends from the Stir Crazy trivia team. We had just won the 2017 World Tavern Trivia championships, and each of us received a share of the $5,000 grand prize. Now I don’t know of any bank that still takes these gigantic checks … you know,…
Read More“Lazarus, it is time to boot up.”
A few months ago, I had a computer crash that crippled my custom-built computer tower- and in the resulting crash, one of my hard drives froze up. Thousands of photographs and music were trapped on that hard drive as well. I tried a few different techniques to resurrect the data, including swapping out the motherboards,…
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Walmart Math: 16g @ $7.97 = 64g?
Follow along with me on this. A couple of weeks ago, I had to purchase some USB flash drives for a project. Figured I’d pick them up at Walmart, since Walmart sells flash drives. Heck, Walmart sells everything. I needed flash drives with lots of storage, not the cheap ones that only store about one…
Read MoreThe Lazarus Syndrome and an old hard drive
In the mid-1970’s, “The Lazarus Syndrome” was a made-for-TV movie (and later, a single-season medical drama) based on the premise that some doctors were gifted enough to cure nearly everything – including death. So now I have to hope that death has not claimed one of my computer hard drives. Background. A few months ago,…
Read MoreThoughts while driving to Syracuse
By the time you read this, I’ll be on the road with a precious cargo – six of my best photographic artworks – for “Drop-Off Day” at the New York State Fair. This seems to be part of an all-encompassing “drop-off-3-day-weekend” with my three entries for the Big E shipped yesterday, and my four (5)…
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