pages from the book
Can I just mention how addicting this hobby is? I’ve already started contemplating quitting my day job to start an aquaponics firm.
Sylvia Bernstein has started an online Ning community for Aquaponics, where I’ve met and seen pictures of lots of people’s systems, at many different scales, and lots of people who have done this for [...]
I have always grown up having a garden. Living in Texas and the Midwest, these were easy to maintain, and I always managed to have bountiful crops and lots of herbs at my disposal. I tried to continue this tradition in Arizona, only to find that my green thumb turned a horrible shade of brown [...]
So I realized that I forgot to give an update as to what happened with the pitiful external hard drive.
“TS” took the HD to a local disk repair shop, who (after some confusion) opened up the case to discover that when the drive landed, it grounded out in 3 places. This means that there were [...]
On my About Me page, under my Disclaimer Stuff, you might have noticed that I reserve the right to “edit, delete, and block any and all inappropriate or unnecessary comments on this blog, as I see fit.” I generally reserve this right because there are those people out there who like nothing better than [...]
What do you do when your back up crashes? I’ll tell you what I did.. Freak out! Most of my crap stuff are backed up on DVDs and my .5 TB MyBook external. Had I known how crappy fragile the MyBook was, I would’ve jumped on my annual back up a [...]
I updated the favourites icon (FavIcon) on the EmaCartoon.com page last week. I told a friend subsequently thereafter, and was promptly thanked on behalf of all System Administrators.
What? Why? How could a measly 16 pixel x 16 pixel image have such an impact to be thanked on behalf of all SysAdmins? So I did what [...]
I for one am not a big fan of politics, and as such, decided to keep most political comments to myself. This is mainly because I have strong opinions that don’t follow the main-stream of the blue-haired majority, and I don’t necessarily enjoy opening myself up to “trolling” and the like. However, there are a [...]
So, James, tell me… Do you like coffee?
I have silly dreams. I call them silly, but they’re really exciting and generally remind me that I have an overactive imagination.
Take last night’s dream for example. Studying under a “master,” I fell in love with a fellow apprentice assassin (James) whose master kills my master because she [...]
On January 11, 2006, NASA released their new high-res images of the Orion Nebula to the public. The above image (available in a zoom-able format here) is the sharpest image of the nebula taken by the Hubble Telescope. Cool, yeah?
Well, now look at the image as a whole. Follow from the belt [...]
I’ve been asked about Orion a couple of times. The general answer that I give people is “I figured that if I had to create a boyfriend, I might as well create for myself a Greek God in the process.” This is why he’s a StarMan.
I recently had a dear friend of mine [...]
