FTFY

It seemed apropos, given Dennis' passing, to post it now.

Hopefully, those who might be offended will remember that imitation …

So, the day turned rainy and there is a somewhat rigorous moratorium here on desktop computing.  I decided that didn't include supervised robotics.  Full details, more pics and movie mayhem after the break.

The wee Lad and Lass contributed time, hands, materials and ideas.  I "happened to have on hand …

Think The Producers' "Springtime...  in Germany" when reading the title, it might make slightly more sense...

A friend of mine was recently posed a challenge by hir instructor in an introductory Java class.  The challenge was (sic.) "I was recently writing a program to generate usernames from the first seven …

The USCGC Mackinaw pulled into the bay this afternoon, shortly after lunchtime.  What she was doing, exactly, is anyone's guess, but she appears to be capable of tending buoys, and that seemed to be what she was doing.  After work, she still hadn't left, so I lugged the telescope down …

I snapped a shot of the new bike rack (attached) in the better light after lunch today. After a quick chat with Dad about that we geared up to go riding. There's a bike path that goes for quite a few miles around the bay, all the way down/over …

Wee lass was completely engrossed in this virtual sandbox that my brother linked to me. She made the picture you can see below or in the gallery at thisissand.com.

Who's the bitwise instruction that's in state machines on all your chips? SHIFT! Can you dig it?

They say that cat SHIFT is one bad input MUXer! (Shut your mouth!) I'm just talkin about SHIFT! (Then we can dig it!)

(Yes. I *could* do the rest. But WHY?)

Recently a few people have asked me how to open DOCX files, which are created in Word 2007 / Office 2007. I have found 4 solutions so far:

1. Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac is perhaps the canonical solution. It won't make new Office 2007 documents, but I …

Yes, it's true. Khazad-dum (Mark IV) is dead. Some sort of hardware failure. I have a suspicion it's motherboard damage, possibly brought on a by an ailing power supply. At least, that's what killed the last one.

The short version of the story is that I found some unrelated trouble …