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Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Sunday, May 07, 2017

Overloaded

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The past month and a half has been a blur of obligations, medical issues, and no energy to do much else so the blog has been neglected. No p...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

It Sounded Good at the Time

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Oh gosh, it has been far too long between posts, yet I don’t feel guilty about it this time. Too many things have been going on in too many ...
Thursday, February 02, 2017

2017 and I’m Still Catching Up

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While intentions to post were good, I failed to get anything written during the past month and a half. A great deal has happened that while ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Modifications

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I find myself in the middle of December of 2016 wondering where the year went. Of course much of the elapsed time was spent being ill, yet ...
Thursday, August 06, 2015

Great Video on CG in Modern Movies

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I have been known to complain about poor computer generated special effects in movies and also films that seem to exist only to bombard the...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Snow and Other Discomforts

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A short guide to configuring a LG 27MP33HQ monitor for a better picture follows after an account of how I ended up having to do so. Not wha...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Knowing Is Better than Not Knowing

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Time for an update on what is going on with my father’s battle with cancer. With the last chemotherapy infusion cancelled at his request, th...
Friday, January 24, 2014

BBS Memories

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After reading an article at Ars Technica reminiscing about calling dial up bulletin boards with a 2400 baud modem, I’ve been trying to reme...
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Thursday, October 31, 2013

A Frightening Innovation in Malware?

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It may be Halloween and a time for spooky tales from the dark recesses of the imagination, but real life has more than enough frightening th...
Monday, September 30, 2013

And So It Goes

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Life hasn't returned to normal at the Boonedocks, but it is getting closer to what passes for it. My father continues to recover and aft...
Monday, August 26, 2013

A Sound Decision

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Little did I know that I’d end up with some quality headphones within a few days after my last post. Research had led me to AKG’s K 240 bein...
Friday, August 09, 2013

A Ripping Good Time

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An adventure into audio featuring: Sound! (an Asus Xonar DSX) Action! (CD ripping) Thrills! (swapping an op-amp with an OPA2111KP) W...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Building a Better Beast

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I mentioned awhile back that I’d built a new computer and would write more about it. Now that the origin of the post is dispensed with, on t...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Going for the Hat Trick

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I said I wouldn’t build or buy a new computer until it was possible to get three times the performance of my upgraded old warhorse. Opportun...
Friday, June 28, 2013

An Excellent Video on Film Aspect Ratios

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Perusing Blue’s News this morning I ran into a link to a must see video on why movies are shaped like they are. Ever wonder why older movie...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Summer Has Arrived

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Hot and humid weather has at last arrived in southeast Minnesota. Hopefully it will help the late planted crops, but a lot of farmers in are...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Real versus CGI Special Effects

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Over at BoingBoing I ran into this great post and discussion on old school special effects and what's been lost in changing over to CGI...
Thursday, June 06, 2013

Technobabble: Video Card Style

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There is nothing quite as infuriating as troubleshooting personal computer issues and it can reach exponential heights when nobody else has ...
Friday, May 03, 2013

Nook HD to Get Google Play!

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This is very good news for owners of Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets . Barnes & Noble is not doing well and there was talk of spinning the ...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Defeat and Victory

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If there is one thing that can be said about high technology is that when it works it is like magic and when it doesn’t it feels like a curs...