matt | December 27, 2003
Wednesday I went over my parents' house and then to my grandmother's house for Christmas eve dinner with that side of the family. Thursday I went over my parents' house for brunch and presents, and then to my other granparents' house for Christmas dinner. Friday I ran some errands about town, up in Warwick, and [...]
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matt | December 23, 2003
This job is going to kill me. I had 2 nosebleeds today. One lasted 20 minutes. I had another one last friday. I think the stress is getting to me. Oh, and engineers shouldn't care about End User Licensing Agreements (EULAs) on the software that they write. Shut up and do what you're told. It's [...]
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matt | December 22, 2003
Remember that joystick thing? Arcade machine cabinet – $1099.95. I could build one for like $100 + time. I think I will, given the space and time.
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matt | December 22, 2003
Do NOT get in your car while pumping gas and then get out and touch the gas nozzle. Apparently, the largest cause of fires while pumping gas is electrostatic discharge, which arcs a spark from you to the car and starts a fire. Make sure to touch something metal on the car first to ground [...]
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matt | December 21, 2003
So, Liz gets me a Playstation 2, right? I have oodles of CPU power and Graphics hardware. What do I buy? Midway Arcade Treasures of course. Classic, old school arcade games, including Gauntlet (Warrior is about to die…) and Rampage! I think I need some of these and a multitap (1->4 player converter box). The [...]
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matt | December 20, 2003
Liz is going to her parents' house for christmas, and I am going to my parents' house as well, so we decided to have our own little private Christmas day today. I got Liz the bits to make a Strawberry Shortcake Lunchbox PC. As the name implies, this is a conversion of a metal lunchbox [...]
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matt | December 19, 2003
A federal appeals cour overturned a previous decision, resulting in a verdict that says that the RIAA can't compel an ISP to provide the names of people at given IP addresses. Also in there is stuff about how the ISP is not responsible for traffic on their network, bringing them in line with telcos (phone [...]
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matt | December 18, 2003
PETA's new flier campaign targets children Because, you know, killing animals is bad and stuff. Anyone want to go to Beef & Spud for dinner in leather boots and fur-lined parkas?
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matt | December 14, 2003
Thursday the 18th is the last “Thursday night hang out and chat” meeting before break. It is also 193's last day. People should come and hang out.
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