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SS,DD

Oops. Misplaced comma. Should be SSD,D : Solid State Drive, Damn!

This weekend, I swapped out my PC's boot drive for a solid state drive (Samsung 980 Pro, 256G). Used the software included with the drive to clone the existing drive, then pulled the HDD and dropped in the SSD. Took a while to do the clone, and took almost as long just to find a way to hook up the SSD to do the clone (my crappy little Dell only has a single internal SATA connection, so I had to repurpose my external SATA drive's enclosure - lots of those little drive mounting screws rolling around on the floor, which attracted our new floor cleaning robot). But it went pretty smoothly otherwise.

And, the results: well, I forgot to time the HDD boot, so I can't give actual numbers. But, it really does boot almost instantly. The PC is up and ready to go a couple of seconds before my wireless mouse connects to the transceiver. It comes back from hibernation instantly. Programs launch super-fast, now.

Very cool!

Makes me with I had the cash to buy one for all my PCs!

Aaiiieee!

Even listen to Solsbury Hill through headphones?

Holy crap. There's this quickly spinning, shimmering stereo effect that's almost unbearable. Makes me nervous!

Hopping Mad

Adrienne So, at Slate, writes:

That’s when I realized that I had a problem. In fact, everyone I know in the craft beer industry has a problem: We’re so addicted to hops that we don’t even notice them anymore.

Damn straight. And, enough is enough.

Whenever I go looking for beer to buy, it seems that all I see are IPAs, beers with "hops" somewhere in their name, fruit- (or vegetable! .gag.) flavored monstrosities, the old standbys that I got sick of (and on) back in college, or the Belgian-style stuff. But the ultra-hoppy stuff seems to dominate, and increasingly so. And that's fine once in a while, but it's far from what I want in an everyday beer. So, I've been drinking a lot of the Belgian stuff, which can be hoppy, but doesn't use hops the way Emeril uses garlic. It's also expensive, if it's actually Belgian. And it's usually got a big load of alcohol in it. Which makes it less than ideal for an everyday beer.

I hop (hah. err... hope) that brewers get off their hop kick soon. Bring back malt! Bring back sweetness! Bring back every day drinkability! Viva la balance! Don't make me go back to Rolling Rock and Newcastle!

Nobody Could Have Predicted

A man who police said had a second job as an “armed security officer” was being investigated after he accidentally shot a student Rangeview High School in Aurora, Colorado on Monday.

According to KMGH-TV, a school employee who also has a second job as a security officer had offered a student a ride home at the end of the day. The gun discharged, hitting the student in the leg, when the school employee tried to secure his weapon in the glove box of the car.

Landscraping

This AM we had some landscaping put in: trees, shrubs, etc..

Mrs just now IM'd to tell me that the house wifi wasn't working. I asked if the cable was working. And the answer was... no.

$10 says the fuckers cut our cable. And probably our neighbor's, too.

The landscapers were supposed to be there at 8:30 this morning. And I was going to show them where the cable was buried. But they were late and I couldn't wait any more, so I left.

There are no caps big enough to express how MOTHERFUCKING DONE WITH OWNING THIS HOUSE I am.

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Landscapers say they called the cable co 2x to come and mark the location of the cable, but it never got done.

FUCKCUFKCUFKCIFUICKCIFKCXJKL:J!@!#&*(@#*()&@!

Whatever You Do...

Do not do a Google image search on "atari breakout"... unless you have a lot of free time.

When you're done with that, it's time for a history lesson:

They had an idea to turn Pong into a single player game, where the player would use a ball to deplete a wall of bricks without missing the ball on its rebound. Bushnell was certain the game would be popular, and the two partnered to produce a concept. Al Alcorn was assigned as the project manager, and began development with Cyan Engineering in 1975. The same year, Alcorn assigned Steve Jobs to design a prototype. Jobs was offered US$750, with an extra $100 for every chip fewer than 50. Jobs promised to complete a prototype within four days.*

Jobs noticed his friend Steve Wozniak—employee of Hewlett-Packard—was capable of producing designs with a small number of chips, and invited him to work on the hardware design with the prospect of splitting the $750 wage. Wozniak had no sketches and instead interpreted the game from its description. To save parts, he had "tricky little designs" difficult to understand for most engineers. Near the end of development, Wozniak considered moving the high score to the screen's top, but Jobs claimed Bushnell wanted it at the bottom; Wozniak was unaware of any truth to his claims. The original deadline was met after Wozniak did not sleep for four days straight. This equated to a bonus, which Jobs kept secret from Wozniak, instead only paying him $375

Always the hustler.