Archive for December, 2008

Ink-friendly Font

In: Geek Finds

24 Dec 2008

Tom Root sent this our way last week.  Ecofont reduces the amount of ink used to print by “omitting parts of the letter.”  At a large size you can see the dots of omission, but at 12 point or smaller the dots are unnoticeable.  With small bits of the font missing this in turn uses [...]

From the Dumb & Doomed pile: Lenovo has released a new model of its popular ThinkPad series, the W700ds.  The “ds” stands for “dual screen.”  That’s right, the LAPTOP has two monitors: a 17″ primary and 10.6″ secodary that slides out from behind the primary.  The whole mess weights 11 pounds.  Peep Computer World’s article [...]

Watermelons Cubed

In: Good Stuff

18 Dec 2008

What happens when you trap a growing watermelon in a square box?

Works with tomatoes too!

More at Snopes.com

A recent slip and fall on some ice left a slight bruise, some embarrassment and inside a padded bag, a cracked macbook screen. The damage to the laptop certainly fell outside the limits of the Applecare warranty, so after looking at our repair options, we settled on Mission:Repair to do the job. Based on [...]

Mmm, so meaty.

In: Food

17 Dec 2008

Billie showed me this “Bacturducken” and just looking at it sent me into cardiac arrest.  That’s a turkey covered in bacon, stuffed with a duck stuffed with chicken.  Needs more meat!

Here in the IT office some of us are fans of todo lists. We’ve been using Vitalist as an online todo list but I recently found Toodledo. Though the name is not very inspiring (Remember the Milk is worse, in my opinion) it does a nice job of rolling a lot of features into a [...]

10.5.6 Released

In: News

17 Dec 2008

(Old news now, I know…)  On Monday Apple released the next update for Leopard, 10.5.6.  If coming from 10.5.5, the update is a meaty 169MB; if coming from any other 10.5.x release, you’ve got a 670MB (!) combined update to download.  The update improves Time Machine, Adobe CS3 printing, improved graphics, and a lot more.  [...]

Elph has been doing some serious spam-busting the last couple days and decided these are his favorite spam subject lines:

Let’s renew our relationships
That girl asked your number
Accidentally found you!
How come we lost contacts?
I have a plan for tonight evening.
Hello, will you visit next party?
Answer to me, you bastard!

Betty at Mail Order asked how she can email a text message.  It’s pretty easy, IT has been doing it for a while, and most carriers provide the service – you just need to know the address conventions.  We have a biz contract with Verizon, and a couple dozen AT&T users, so I knew those [...]

Did some work at the Roadhouse this afternoon and Fabian treated me to a Po’ Boy sandwich.  I ordered it with fried oysters – you can choose that, shrimp, catfish, or all three – served on a Bakehouse hogie roll with mayo, cabbage, and Cornman pickled green tomato.  Delicious!


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