Yes, there were two entries here a couple of days ago that are no longer present. I figure its best to not whine about my insecurities when I’m going to unexpectedly get MetaFiltered the next day and have thousands of people (and not just the few who already read this weblog) looking at the site.
I picked up another Linksys WRT54G tonight ($59 at Wal-Mart). Got it home, put the latest Sveasoft firmware on it (well worth the $20/year for access to pre-release versions), and spent a half-hour getting WDS set up. After all the work, the ‘54G in the music room is now functioning as both an access point and a wired-to-wireless bridge for the Mac mini.
This is a group called “Hurra Torpedo” (photo gallery) from Norway.
From an appearance on a SNL-type show called “litle saturday” in 1995, their cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (everyone knows the original version by Bonnie Tyler).
You can watch the video: Google Video 1, Google Video 2, direct download (WMV).
UPDATE 11/8/05: Hurra Torpedo now has their own Web site, and I’ve updated the links here appropriately.
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With XM Radio increasing their monthly fee to $12.95, adding “features” that I don’t want nor need, I’ve decided to cancel my service next week. I only listen to the 80s channel anyway.
Finally found a good 80s station here in Houston. I can’t afford (or justify the price of) a Bose Wave Radio, so for 1/4th the price, I picked up a Tivoli Audio Model One. I’d looked at them on Amazon, but found a local dealer and bought it this morning.
Edit: I put up some pictures of the Model One.
I had a check written on Wells Fargo Bank that I wanted to cash (versus just depositing into my bank account). I looked up the closest location on their website and headed down there.
The lobby was closed, so I had to go through the drive through. “Yes, I’d like to cash this check.” “Sorry sir, we can’t help non-account-holders in the drive through, you’ll have to go to the in-store location at the Randalls at Voss and San Felipe.”
I headed down there. “I’ll need two forms of ID, and there will be a $5 charge to cash this check.”
What the hell? First, they won’t let me cash a check written on THEIR BANK, and then they want $5 for the “convenience”?
Screw you, Wells Fargo.
The work-provided Mac mini arrived today, so I’ve spent the morning rebuilding my work environment on it.
Surely I can’t be the only OS X user who arranges icons in their Dock by shape…
Finished my first real piece of chainmail jewelry tonight, a “box weave” bracelet made of shiny silver and gold anodized aluminum. Pictures here. Took about three and a half hours total, after a few days of practice with the less-expensive dirty aluninum you see in one of the pictures.
I successfully got work to approve the purchase of a Mac mini for my desktop instead of Yet Another Dell Box Running RedHat. While waiting for it to arrive, I took my personal mini in and have set it up on my desk. Of course, all of my coworkers came by to ooh and ahh over it.
Yesterday, my boss came by and dropped a 500Mhz iMac DV SE (circa 2000) on my desk. “Doctor Bill, can you do anything with this?” I pulled out the Apple service guide and said “Sure”. An hour later, we had it up on the network and updating from OSX 10.1.4 to 10.1.5. Apparently the RAM had been ripped out of it, the HD unplugged, and it had sat in a closet for three years. Today I’m installing OSX 10.3 and iLife ‘04, and giving it back to him so he can become one of the Apple Faithful.
My chainmail supplies from The Ring Lord arrived yesterday, so I’m spending the evenings learning how to make mail with the eventual goal of producing some jewelry. I’ve found that working with “raw” aluminum rings turns your hands and work surface black; I need to get a jewelry cleaner and run all of those rings through a couple of cycles.
I’m lusting over the Jewelboxing stuff for organized, indexed archives of all my movies and music. I just wish I could justify it to the accountant who runs the books at home..
The toilet in the blue bathroom sprung a high-pressure leak in the “filler pipe” just below the floater-ball shut-off valve on Saturday. Ten minutes of water spraying everywhere and flushing every 10 seconds (to keep the tank from overflowing), I managed to get the fifty-year-old cutoff valve handle moving and shut the water off. I’ll have to go to Lowes in the next couple of days to get parts to rebuild the “guts” of the tank. It seems the previous owners had left the cutoff valve wide open, providing a lot more water pressure than was needed.
A week ago, I got work to approve the purchase of a Mac mini as my new UNIX desktop system, instead of Yet Another Dell. The 512M memory module for it arrived today, but the system is backordered on Amazon. After some back-and-forth with our purchasing guy, he’s going to go to the Apple Store at the Galleria later this week and just pick one up for me in person. He rocks.
Feeling much better today than I was yesterday (at least, I’m not throwing up today).
