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FILTER IS ON: You are browsing articles with the tag. Turn this filter off. Introducing the Starbucks Splash Stick There will always be a great big place in my heart for no-tech innovation. Tackling the problem of drink spillage, this simple device is smart, reusable, and works with any drink lid similar to the one manufactured by SOLO® that Starbucks uses. Oh, and they hand them out for free (if you aren't offered one, just ask).
Export your Facebook Photos to FlickrWow. This is a pretty handy tool. You're required to have accounts setup on both Facebook and Flickr before you can use it.
Somewhere along the wayI remember, in the days before the Internet became so commonplace, sitting around for hours listening to music on my tape recorder… stopping, rewinding, playing, stopping, rewinding playing… trying to decipher the lyrics, and writing them down. My tape recorder was small, for the time period it existed in. By today's standards however, it was monsterous. It could easily have been used, if needed, to gain a clear advantage in hand-to-hand combat. The thing was heavy and would most assuredly have cracked a human skull if swung with enough force. But despite its capabilities of being a tool of death, I sure loved that thing. No pictures exist, sadly. But I scoured Google Images for about 30 minutes before I found this picture, which admittedly bears a pretty strong resemblance… all the way down to the sturdy handle.
Somewhere along the way, I suppose it got thrown away.
Checking out oneselfThe self-checkout lanes in stores are never a sure thing. For one, you are at the mercy of the collective intelligence of the shoppers ahead of you instead of the intelligence of the sole cashier at the counter. Furthermore, things always go wrong. Assistance is often required, especially for the purchase of practically anything that could get a bored 16-year old high. And I am bothered by the calm, female voice that is emulated by the machine as you are scanning your items and progressing with your transaction. For it is only a matter of moments before you make some sort of mistake, and the woman puts on her deeper-voiced husband/brother/supervisor who belts out a threatening, commanding phrase like: "Please remove stray item from the bagging area." or "Down on all fours! Prepare to be entered…"
Slide into public viewYes! I finally have a new cell phone. The old one I've had for two years, and it started deteriorating over the last six months. I decided to go with a Kyocera. It's a nice improvement. Now, if only it would ring. (hint hint)
greetings from non-spaceJust to let the world know… I have no Internet connection at home at this time. I screwed up something with the wireless networking in the apartment and can't get online. Any network savvy individuals in the Tallahassee area are encouraged to contact me so I can beg you over the phone, in-person or by email to please come over and fix it for me. Much love, Shawn
TechnoviolenceLately, the Internet has been treacherously slow. It frustrated me earlier, because I didn't know what the problem was. I became so angry! I usually take out my computer anger on the computer, because anger displacement is never very healthy. Since this usually involves immediate banging of the mouse and keyboard, it really fails to accomplish much of anything. Oh, I scream and curse a lot too. Well, my wireless network card was receiving a great signal from the router, so I had no choice but to blame my ISP. So I called them and since it was Sunday, I had no other option but to yell into their answering machine. So fed up, I walk into my roommates room and shoot them both in the head. Now I'm just waiting for the smell to worsen and for the police to come knocking. So I walk into my roommates bedroom, my laptop under my arm, and plug in the network cable connecting my computer to the router. Still nothing. So I unscrew the coax cord connecting the router to the wall and I screw it into the other jack on the wall, the jack that is apparently inactive and serves no purpose at all. After all, this was a desperate moment. Nothing. I don't know what prompted me to do what I did next, but I did it nonetheless. To understand, please look at this rough diagram of the network in our apartment.
I swapped the cord that runs from the splitter to Phil's TV with the one that connects the splitter to the cable modem. And the fucking problem is instantly fixed! I don't understand it! Obviously, we must have a bad splitter; bad in the sense that the signal is not split evenly between the two channels. Perhaps it is because the splitter is made by a company with the stupidest name imaginable.
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