this video is pretty great.
guilty pleasure.
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February 29, 2008
February 28, 2008
Norwegian Doomsday Vault Has Your Seeds.
When I read The Road, I wondered why no one was setting up some sort of large scale grow room to keep the food supply coming. In the book all the plant and animal life has died off from a massive nuclear exchange and the resulting nuclear winter. I don’t know if McCarthy put much, or any, hard science into this work… I don’t think that was the point. But I thought, if you got a few able bodies around, and could stop them from eating you first, you could build a big ass grow room. There were plenty of materials and not many people trying to find uses for them.
Anyway, maybe someone up there in Norway got a hold of the book and thought more or less the same thing. Cuz they decided to build a huge ass underground bunker. You know, with dual blast doors, imbedded in a mountain near the north pole. This thing ain’t for the people, of course. It’s for the Seeds. Like, lots of them. So the official line is that it is meant to protect millions of seed samples from things like, Global Warming, Asteroids, Nuclear Strikes, stuff like that. Zombies didn’t make the list… Hmmm.
Check out lotsa stories about it at National Geographic.
No staff guards the front door, but more than a few roaming polar bears apparently do.
Diagram. Yo.
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February 27, 2008
Carter on Vashon Getting His Jump On.
Carter on Vashon Getting His Jump On.
Originally uploaded by ToFuGuns
I went with Carters class to Vashon today. We went to Wolftown, a wildlife preserve on Vashon Island. They help Wolves. Apparently some people think its a good idea to keep a 200 lb Wild animal as a pet. It’s not.
After Wolftown we went to the beach on Vashon Island. I took a ton of pics of the kids jumping. I didn’t want to post pics of other peoples kids but the shots are pretty great. My flicker account has a set called jump! that has shots of me, carter and darren (carter’s teacher).
Jumping is fun. You can see my underwear and white belly.
Enjoy.
Oh Yeah. This is Tofuguns post number 100. I started posting to the blog on July 22nd. Works out to roughly a post every 2.2 days. So if you are reading this, check back in 2 days.
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February 25, 2008
Sad Sad Stormtrooper
I found this via a facebook contact via a another facebook contact. I don’t know what slide is, but I love the pic.
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No, I Won’t Fix Your Computer – Troubleshooting 101.
Hey Joe Sixpack. Don’t read this. It’s boring. You don’t care.
A couple of weeks ago our main pc died. I looked at this a mixed blessing. The system was about 3 or 4 yrs old and getting a little long in the tooth for the Vista. It was a 3.2ghz hyperthreaded Intel chip, 2 gigs of ram, about a terrabyte of harddrive space spanned across a couple of SATA drives, ATI PCIe video, a couple of ntsc tuners for Media Center. Not a horrible system, even today, I suppose.
So first things first. I got online and went to Dell. I am writing this on an Intel Core2 Quad 6600 with 4 gigs of ram. I flattened the Dell image and threw on x64 Vista clean. I pulled the Data HD from the old box and didn’t loose anything. Nice.
Anyway, here is how the old system died. A couple of weeks ago it decided to reboot on me. I rebooted the system and Nada. Zip. I rebooted, it would get past the bios and then, just black. No beeps. No lights. Nothing. Hmmmm. No beeps. No error codes. The bios sees the hard drives.
- Power Supply? Trip to Frys for a new Power Supply, $30. New Power Supply, reboot. Nada. Same thing.
- Video Card? Tried a PCIe card I had laying around. Nope. Same thing. Trip to ComputerStop. PCI video Card, $14. Nope. Same thing.
- Processor? Ram? I didn’t have an extra proc laying around, but I did swap the Ram.
- I popped a install CD into the drive at some point. When I did this the system actually asked if I wanted to install from the CD. Hmmm. Farther.
- HardDrive? That would be weird… I plugged the SATA primary drive into a different SATA slot. Same thing. Hmmm. I also had a 20Gig IDE drive laying around. I threw that drive in, dropped in a Win2K install CD. Win2K Baby!
- TaDa. The machine installed in about 45 minutes and I could boot to Win2K.
I plugged the SATA drive (the old primary OS drive) back in and can explore it, Kinda. It errors out after digging for too long. I tried to run the Disk Chk utility on the drive and it won’t complete on me. Weird. Hope I didn’t have anything important on that drive. Later this week I am going to pick up a copy of Windows Home Server and a SATA drive to fix it for reals.
So that is what it takes to fix your computer. I am not nearly a big enough nerd to actually enjoy that process, too much. Occasionally when we hire new testers in our group we walk them through a scenario like this in the interview. We want to see how the candidates troubleshooting skills are, we are pretty Hardware heavy team. When something like this happens in real life it just sucks. I just don’t think Joe Sixpack can walk through this process.
It’s kinda funny that I can’t change the oil in my car.
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February 24, 2008
Domokun VS Kitty
Originally uploaded by ToFuGuns
Claire came into our bed last night cuz she had a dream about “50 pound spiders”, there were 50 of them. The spiders had 100 eyes and 100 legs. Damn. I would wanna sleep with my mommy and daddy too if I had that dream.
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February 22, 2008
Centurion Labor Union for McCain
SUBMIT! How could a million crazy robots bent on killing all human life be wrong?
Centurion Labor Union for McCainOriginally uploaded by Tubes.
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My group is moving buildings. I’m loosing my window office.
Originally uploaded by ToFuGuns
I have a pretty great view of the Cascade Mountains out of my office window. My group is moving buildings and I am not going to have a window office… for the first time in 4 or 5 years… Oh, well. Space is at a premium to begin with at Microsoft and I’m certainly not going to whine (too loud) about loosing the window. We are pretty spoiled at Microsoft so I should be able to live with no window. At least i’m not doubled up, or in a cube farm.
Pic out the window.
Oh Yeah, what up Eric’s Mom?
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February 20, 2008
REM has new album, Accelerate, coming in April
I bought Fable of the Reconstruction on vinyl in 1985. I bought every album since then. Even when brain told me I shouldn’t, I bought them. Like in 2004. My brain said give Around The Sun a pass. But, you know, I really like REM. I thought it might be last REM album I would buy.
So it’s been 4 years and I think those REM guys might have made a rock album. Really. Like with guitars, like with distortion. I love distortion. There is a new video on youtube that has embedding disabled… Click this HERE linkie link to watch the video for the first Accelerate single Supernatural Superserious.
Looks like i’m gonna buy another REM album after all.
Discography:
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