Author Archives: Susan

BLOGGING: More on Commentary

I was going to integrate this into the prior post on Commentary (in response to Steve Ersinghaus’ post on Comments and Additive Expression) but tried to instead focus on the particular points that Steve raised. Sometimes though, some reasons and … Continue reading Continue reading

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REALITY?: A Vicious Cycle

The heater broke and I am freezing here in the shop.   So I drink hot coffee.  The hot coffee does two things; warms me for a little while and two, makes me need to go.  Aided by the cold as … Continue reading Continue reading

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BLOGGING: Graphically Incorrect

Time for a new logo design.  The new pc makes this one look particularly yucky-colored.  The other thing is the widescreen leaves a lotta space either side of that carefully planned-out 800 pixel view.  Does anybody need the 800 anymore?  … Continue reading Continue reading

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BLOGGING: And Commentary Quality

This really is not a post directed to my regular readers here at Spinning, but rather in pursuing further some points brought up at this site regarding the post and the comment purposes of a weblog.  Steve says: I’m not … Continue reading Continue reading

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TECHNOLOGY: Winding Down

Have almost all the software in and working properly on the new pc, even installing new drivers for the monitor, upgrading to the latest Quicken program, getting Media Player back up to version 11 and installing the Nvidia encoder so … Continue reading Continue reading

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TECHNOLOGY: Solitaire and Speed Testing

One of the primary uses of Microsoft’s Solitaire is to visually note any increase in computer speed after the addition of any RAM modules in an upgrade. I have  2 Gig of memory in this new machine, but according to … Continue reading Continue reading

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REALITY?: Susie Icicle

After fiddling around for five days about the missing ‘M’ in my name on my credit card, Home Depot finally approved shipment of my propane stove for the shop.  This morning’s email confirmed shipment and an estimated delivery date of … Continue reading Continue reading

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REALITY?: It’s a Small World

Sometimes ‘out of the blue’ means it comes from a logical but unlikely source.  Today in the frameshop my sales rep from one of the moulding companies came in and since we’re the same age and hadn’t talked in a … Continue reading Continue reading

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TECHNOLOGY: Ease and Satisfaction

Aside from the fun in problem-solving and learning new things, there is great satisfaction in building something that works.  Sometimes it’s a computer.  Sometimes it’s a pie, or squeezing grapes or peaches into wine. As you can see from the … Continue reading

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TECHNOLOGY: Learn as You Go

Had I known that the software side of the new pc was going to go so well, I would not have put off this building of the main pc for so long.  I’ve never had a problem with the hardware … Continue reading Continue reading

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TECHNOLOGY: Houston, we have contact…

The Dell monitor–not too thrilled with the clarity unless I can adjust something or put in the video card as added help to the integrated graphics, but it only weighs 12 pounds… And this is neat, a glow-in-the-dark PC: Not … Continue reading

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TECHNOLOGY: Progress

For the first time in all the years I’ve been building computers the hardware gave me grief and the software didn’t.  Of course, I’ve still got to activate Win XP and that’ll take another phone call to Microsoft to explain … Continue reading Continue reading

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TECHNOLOGY: Not every engineer was at least a C Student

I have never had the trouble with the hardware that I’m having with this system.  The case has four bays for CD units or the like, and six bays for the hard drives and floppy, but where do you have … Continue reading Continue reading

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TECHNOLOGY: Building Structure

Finally got back into the rebuilding of the main PC and was a bit upset to realize that the motherboard has only one plugin for an EIDE hard drive while it has two for the SATA.  I hadn’t even thought … Continue reading Continue reading

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REALITY?: More PC BS

More and more I want to cut ties to humanity when I see how it’s determined to dumb itself down. Australian Santas must change "Ho-ho-ho!" to "Ha-ha-ha!" to accommodate the idiots who believe this is degrading and offensive to women. … Continue reading Continue reading

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