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Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . May 29, 2009 . 9:59PM

• One season away from finishing Boston Legal. Then, oh, prolly Star Trek: TNG #
• vzw makes an epic gaffe http://bit.ly/E6j0q #
• @giovanni I’d make a case for winmo (treo pro) before bb anymore, if social apps/web browsing is your #. Can’t speak to sprint where you are #
• i’d like a pretext to buy http://bit.ly/j33dy
  one of these. i’m accepting reasons #
• @jdotames sleeps like I obsessively watch teevee shows. #
• I’m not pleased with the Eagle’s 2009 schedule. No NFC East games till week 7. #
• On hold with Sprint care – this is my 4th transfer. #
• zomg zune HD looks as good as the (supposed fake) leak from last month! #
• Of the 408 books in the house (not counting Jenny’s), I’ve read 304 of them. #
• Humid/crap weather like this makes me drink copious amounts of wawa raspberry iced tea. #

[Homeserver] Looks like too many sheep, not enough rams.

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . May 24, 2009 . 8:03AM

Sooo, when my HP Mediasmart server was running on full (empty, if you’re counting free space) I jumped on the ‘egg and got to looking at hard drives. I’ve been purposefully putting this off due to hard drives getting bigger/cheaper/GB – then I got to thinking about RAM. The HP-Flavored Windows Home Server install is pretty sluggish with the pre-installed 512MB of RAM. The newer servers, the ones with Intel processors, use 1GB of RAM while using the same system software.

This lead to the obvious conclusion: I get to take apart another computer device in the house.

After picking a quite affordable 1.5TB drive for $119.99 to add to the mix, I got to looking at some NAS blogs and came up with this stick:

This stick, 2GB of RAM with 4-4-4 timings works quite well with the platform. And after some wrangling while following this excellent tutorial, I have a much larger capacitied, and snappier-responding media server box.

And the sticker/decal it comes with is fantastic! If you’ve been waiting on undertaking the task, I’d recommend giving Newegg the twenty-something bucks and make it happen. It makes the whole experience, especially moving large files, a lot smoother.

Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . May 22, 2009 . 9:59PM

• if my amazon wishlist had its say, i’d have a lot more stuff to charge at night! #
• i’m really tired of the whole ‘legalize pot’ thing on digg every 3rd article since the election. #
• New Burn Notice soon! Glee #
• I betcha my girlfriend would love if I signed up for mint and used it. #
• Another day, another math class. I spend more time on septa than in the classroom now. #
• My gff, @jdotames is wierd for going to the movies by herself. #
• I love walking by the Bally’s next door and watching everyone preen – its like nobody wantsa work out. #
• this strikes me as pretty important http://bit.ly/fmgIK #
• I unfollowed @dalecruse for the same reason I’d unfollow anybody: being proud of your work is great, but I will not have you selling ads. #
• I am mothafuckin flabbergasted at the Senate voting against funding the closure of Guantanamo. #
• oh, thats what happened to uncov http://bit.ly/xYLFx #

Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . May 15, 2009 . 9:59PM

• Finally! I’m done dealing with the post office. Also, Star Trek was fun. #
• what now? Michael Arrington said something stupid on techcrunch? That’s like a monkey slipping on his own bananna peel, but more on purpose. #
• based on my google analytics, people come to plagiarize my oscar wao paper #
• I <3 mom. #
• First generation Windows Home Server – where and how is the mac support? #whs #homeserver #
• dude, I *really* like the sanyo 2700. Wish it was sold in black. #
• if i like http://blog.inexactitu.de/archives/138 what else would i like? #
• 1 in 5 japanese citizens own a nintendo ds. #
• Finals/work has left me brainless, watching reruns of boston legal instead of moving world domination plans forward. #
• Thinking arthouse-ey movie tomorrow. #
• Two people just walked by wearing adidas, nike, puma, the north face, and reebok – nice to see them spreading the consumer love around. #
• dear twitter – you are boring me tonight. try harder tomorrow. #
• Drug treatment people arguing about “obama raising their ssi” is funny because I don’t wanna be sad. #
• Whoops, look like I suck at college. #
• wow at&t good job with that whole unlimited-prepaid for $3/day. oh, wait… that’s not a good deal. #
• Spent 3 hours on city busses/trollies today. Lots of parenting fail going around today. Also, smellies. #
• My local target store’s all kmart today. #
• palm sent me an email (my personal email) saying I could enter to win a pre. Made me sad, since I am utterly inelgible and all that. #
• i want a good mmo for consoles, because my friends are too cool to play computer anymore. #
• whoever found my blog by googling “packing peanut porn” – i wish you luck #
• I’m going to try and play more video games with @jdotames. Diablo II was fun with her. #
• http://bit.ly/czEhf
  is a great wikipedia article that i love just the way it is. #
• was google down today? bfw. #
• as i get older, i start liking the earlier bonds more than the moore ones, especially. #
• house season finale was a big-arse bag of MEGATONS #
• I disapprove of taking pictures of yourself at a sprint store. Unless you’re selling a phone to testman. #
• @derekpulsan I had googanalytics tell me some search terms sent me zero visits last week. Go fig. #
• Then-mayor Gulliani’s Nextel i1000 that was used on Sept. 11th is on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. #

Super-Quick Reviews of Last-Last Semester’s Quasi-Textbooks

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . May 13, 2009 . 6:58PM

I took a (somewhat scandalously named) Third World History Class and a class dealing with race and politics in the United States. Two texts from these classes are books I would of read on my own, and are recomended as such:

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao

Has already been covered in an earlier post. One thing I failed to mention, though, is the presence of what I consider the “core story” of the constantly-shifting narrative, which was originally published in the New Yorker in 2000.

Chain Reaction

This text, which seems to be littered all around college bookstores for $5, describes the birth of the modern Republican brand, including: family values as subtle racism, the concept of “realignment,” and how these themes shaped politics from Reagan to W. Regardless to your personal politics, it’s an interesting story of a political party in flux, and gives quality scholarly research and annotations that might springboard further research.

Any new good music?

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . May 10, 2009 . 7:50PM

I’m kind of into a rut, music-wise. What’s good?

Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . May 8, 2009 . 9:59PM

• Completed the Mass Effect gametape last night. Have to say, I’m really impressed with how much “non-plot” stuff they put in there. #
• There’s been a pint of half and half in my backpack for the last 22 hours whoops. #
• I get to go home for lunch. This is impressive as I do not work from my home. #
• “…the fatal mistake was breaking out the accoustic guitar and singing the complete Air Supply songbook. That just pissed God off.” #
• oots is getting good, too! #
• thinking creative labs for new cheapie mps player – anybody have a thought? #
• As a side effect of getting death and dying class email (sent as d&d), gmail always wants to sell me dungeons and dragons stuff. #
• Time to title my history paper: The Charge of the light brigade: A Rope Of Sand. For those who really know me, you are lawling right now. #
• The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand. – Fred Allen #
• You are not on a grid, you are not on the Internet. You are in public somewhere, not paying attention. Hope you’re on the clock at least. #
• I’ve been spam-barded by pornbots on my twitter. oh, and its SWD. BFW. #
• i’m worried about WWDC/Pre Release date. I keep thinking Dreamcast/PS2 #
• am i too stupid for a subscription to lapham’s quarterly? @hotdogsladies EVERYTHING BAD IS GOOD FOR YOU. #
• hi, network stack on my macbook pro – cant help but notice that your head is stuck up your ass. tell me who did this to you! #
• oh crap, this card doesn’t support cable tuning, which is understandable. but it sucks i forgot AFTER i ran the wire. #
• looks like the one i need: http://tinyurl.com/cfrtvt #
• watching numb3rs lately and it is just full of dexter, the wire, and other cop drama alums. #
• i take advantage of Beaucoup Fish by Underworld extensively when I write. Best thing out of the UK since The Spice Girls. #
• I never have good metics on this: I read Hell Riders: the true story of the charge of the light brigade this week and liked it a lot. #
• eh, i ought to post that paper i wrote. #
• This is my occasional reminder to all Philadelphia Sprint customers that I’m here to help. Send me a DM. #
• @jdotames I’m saving the economy. #
• @jdotames cmon now, when have I ever wasted any of your time? #
• @jdotames listen, I will pay you back with something awesome! I have a plan. #
• Today’s ill-behaved, unsupervised children’s choir selection: gasolina by daddy yankee #
• want a touch diamond 2 http://bit.ly/Y1Cfo
  #7 please. #
• 399 British pounds = 601.2531 U.S. dollars
  crap that’s expensive. about as much as a HTC touch pro from a carrier. #
• thanks @wigu now i’m laughing at sites like raptureready.com #
• things to do with a kinda crappy time machine http://blog.inexactitu.de/archives/135 #
• If I elect vigilante as judge – does he have to change his name? #

Things to do if I’m ever stuck in a crappy time machine.

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . May 5, 2009 . 6:58PM

You know, a time machine that can only go back to post 1800 and doesn’t have wi-fi.

2001 – Take Amy Winehouse to an Orbital show. Cause I don’t think taking Lily Allen to an Underworld show in 2003 would have the same ending.

1854 – Bitch slap Lord Cardigan and take his sweet sweater – thus making cardigans stankiewiczes. Also, I’d re-write those orders so even Lucan didn’t send a bunch of aristrocrats to die pointlessly. I’d still advise him to get into cattle, though.

1890s – Think of a better name than “concentration camp.”

1994 – Steal Kurt’s shotgun, replacing it with a 2 ft wawa hoagie (thinking turkey).

early 2009 – put that cable splitter I keep on moving, and subsequently lost, somewhere obvious.

May 1, 2009 – No point in tempting fate, just leave my iPod Touch at home that day.

1944 – Put sugar in Rommel’s gas tank, get knighted.

2007 – Buy 2 sets of Shure e2cs for $40 each, instead of 1.

1996 – Not throw out that IBM model M keyboard.

2007 – Buy 2 Tivoli Model 1′s for $50 each, instead of 1.

2007 – Slap myself for thinking of buying a Averatec laptop.

2006 – Duct tape my 4th generation iPod to my past self when on Greyhound.

2005 – Pick up that discontinued minidisc player. It was only $30 for chrissakes.

1989 – Make my parents take me to pre-revival Times Square.

1994 – Buy an extra copy of Chrono Trigger and Earthbound, keeping them in a minty-fresh box for future sale.

Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . May 1, 2009 . 9:59PM

• Wowza – I can’t believe how cheap amazon has the classic super break backpack for in the gold box. Perfect piece of design – I bought one. #
• Obligatory weather tweet! #
• Gonna play me some Mass Effect over this weekend. #
• We’re discussing how Bush is the chupacabra. #
• i think i got “the idea” for this summer waiting in line at the bank today! #
• oh whatthecrap valleywag’s saying that Portfolio’s dead, too? That’s too bad: I found the writing just inside-baseball and swarmy enough. #
• They sure set the bar low for who’s allowed to draw in bathrooms. #
• Speaking of bathrroms, did I ever tell you about the time a squirrel came into the men’s room at Temple? No? #
• Final Fantasy V on the GBA is the best version, ditto 4 and 6. Remembered why I love my game boy micro. #
• Is keno fast lottery or is the lottery slow keno? Or, are they both 1-dimentional bingo? #
• @veronica’s #firstcd was green day’s dookie. Mine was mellon collie and the infinite sadness by the smashing pumpkins #first2cds double ftw #
• So the charge if the light birgade didn’t have anything to do with the sepoy rebellion? Clark Gable lied to me 75 years ago. #
• How am I supposed to play all these video games, read all these books, work full time, and pass college? Sorry last two things, ima busy guy #
• I’ve been late to 3 of my 4 classes today. #
• @wigu if the first time you notice a domain you bought is the expiration notice, you might be a drunk. #
• Oh, I forgot why my neighborhood is wierd. Ever have a van pull up and ask “hey bud, you need a home theater?” #
• Oh god, now were going have 8+ months of guessing who the Obama’s supreme court nom is going to be. You could make a baby with that time. #
• Last Math class! (For two weeks, two days.) Thanks be to jesu. I know math is important but I have no talents in this dicipline. #
• Goddamnit in line as usual. #