Day: September 16, 2005

  • Keeping My Nerd Membership Fresh

    The Netflix genre page for Star Trek says the following: “Whether you’re into James Kirk or Jean-Luc Picard (or even Kathryn Janeway), grab one of these titles and you’ll feel like you’ve hopped aboard the Enterprise to fight Klingons and Borgs.” Notice anything wrong with that sentence? If you’re a big enough Trekkie, you’d want…

  • My DSL is Fixed – Or, Why I got a B in Electronic Circuit Applications

    “Sir? We’ve traced the call. The problem is coming from inside the house!” ::splattery death:: A Covad technician has been here for the last hour, poking at my DSL with various tests, tone generators, and the like. He fairly quickly determined that the problem lay with the (rather messy) basement wiring. More to the point,…

  • Best Use of Netflix

    Watching movies that came out when I was too little to see them, my parental units saw them, but they’re weren’t good enough to see again with me when I was older, or the sorts of movies I would see with my friends. Think most okay action/dramas from the early ’90s. Thanks Jed for the…