Geek Habitat

The Blue Peter badge?

And you say it has been awarded to Brad Pitt?

That’s the funniest.thing.I’ve.read.all day!

BTW, neither link is PG-13 or worse, although I would feel weird if I found out my 10-year-old nephew read this. Thankfully, I’m 99.99% certain he doesn’t, and won’t until he’s old enough that it’ll be tame in comparison to what he’ll hear in the halls of high school!

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Sorry for the continued Wikipedia-inspired posts. Wikipedia has supplanted WoW in my hierarchy of things to do while feeling sick, tired and uninspired to do anything except surf or sleep.

I’d been tucked in bed and sleeping soundly since 8 PM or so, still fighting off the ick.

Our neighbors hail from New York City, NY (and before that, Cuba), so it shouldn’t have surprised me that they lit a huge string of firecrackers 38 minutes ago as NYC ushered in 2006. We still have another 1.5 hours to go, here in San Antonio, Texas (Central Time Zone).

Waking up to firecrackers twenty feet from your bedroom window? Just a tad jarring, let’s say…

Things not to read on Wikipedia when you’re sick and taking OTC cold remedies…
Why? Because they each seriously mess with your mind, that’s why! Deep thoughts are best reserved for when one isn’t sick, tired and a little loopy!

Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

• What is reality?
• What is anti-psychiatry? (Hint: It’s more than a glib “Tom Cruise” answer! ;))
• What is Scientology (this, alone, leads to a whole host of tangents!)
• What do I (probably not) know about the autistic community?
• What do I (probably not) know about electroconvulsive therapy?

I have all the hallmarks of a sinus infection. Fever (99.4 °F), intense sinus pressure and pain, drainage, a sore throat, sinus headache and overall “ick” feeling. I played World of Warcraft all … day (definitely a sign of something physically wrong with a person! ;)) I’m now tucked in bed with my laptop and my “guard cat”, Blanco, who tucked himself in by my left hip — he always seems to know when Justin or I need extra TLC.

I haven’t left the house the entire day; I haven’t talked to anyone except Justin. And I feel just bad enough that neither of those things bother me in the least…

I’m now in the process of trying to figure out how to color calibrate across my dual 17″ LCDs. We have a ColorVision Spyder Pro (supports CRTs -and- LCDs) and both monitors have been run through the “standard” (rather than “precision”) calibration mode… at night… with no ambient light (including any other monitors) in the room during calibration.

My birthday present second 17″ Dell Ultrasharp LCD monitor arrived today, and all I can do is say the same thing here that I text messaged to Mom and my brother –

“Omg! Dual monitors ROCK!!!”

Hehehe… it’s surreal when you first drag and drop something from your primary monitor to the secondary sitting next to it. It’s seamless and very, very addictive! Photoshop will be a lot more usable, finally… and iTunes can have its own window when I’m just surfing around on the web (like now).

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Moore Clan, December 26, 2005 –