Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

the mood seems a bit down, across my various feeds today; seems like everybody could use a hug.

it's hard out there, i know. but know that somebody out there appreciates you and is rooting for you.

A couple of weeks ago I brought my Dell Mini 1012 back into service by wiping the install of Windows 7 Ultimate and putting XP Service Pack 3 on instead. Amazingly, Dell not only still had the drivers on their site, but they still had drivers for this model FOR XP. An OS this model never officially shipped with to my knowledge.

Dropping the OS a couple of tiers not only improves its compatibility with software it can actually run, but also gained it 20 more frames per second on Quake.

The Devil's Machine is confiscated as evidence by the U.S. Bureau of Prohibition, unwittingly leading to the Bureau being erased in 1933 following an incident that the government has tried very hard to redact.

idea: Earthbound (SNES), except the party of Ness and his friends is replaced by Eliot Ness and his Untouchables. The final encounter with Heavily Armed Pokey ends anticlimactically as agents from the Bureau of Internal Revenue arrest him for tax evasion (for the riches he accumulated working under Geldegarde Monotoli). Giygas himself eludes arrest, but only because nobody can comprehend of his true form enough to slap the cuffs on him.

it is a lovely day and i have been to the dairy queen for ice cream. a rare treat because it takes about 6 miles of riding in total