"Oh it's such a perfect day...."
Jun. 27th, 2004 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tyggerjaiWeekends are never long enough. I say that all the time, of course, but it's still true. Often, they're never long enough because I spend most of them lazing around reading or geeking, but this weekend I did a little bit of *everything*, and it still wasn't long enough.
Stripped the paint back from the external CD-ROM case for the biscuit PC case mod. Mental note to self - even worse than reading Gibson and cruising case-mod sites is reading Gibson, watching _The Fast And The Furious_, and cruising case mod sites. I suspect the common dubious factor is the case-mod sites. Too many ideas, too few cases. And, of course, not enough time. That does remind me, though - geek question. Some random person on an IRC channel once mentioned the possible existence of a hardware mod to convert an Amiga keyboard (ala the Amiga500/1200 all-in-ones) to PS/2 - presumably it just trapped and remapped key strokes. Anyone know of such a device? Because then the mext mod is to put a mini-itx board in the amiga 500 case. In any case, after watching TFATF, the new case is definitely getting a cold cathode . And nitrous.
Took the CBR out, too, down the St Kilda Esplanade to Black Rock. Wierd ride. Way too much traffic - on the way out, the temp gauge was starting to creep up over halfway, which is unusual when the bike is moving at all. Worked out why when I turned around and was very obviously riding *into* the wind - temperature gauge dropped right back to barely-in-the-operating-range. And I couldn't feel my legs.
Somehow, miraculously managed to bring cake back from Acland St unharmed. I like St. Kilda. Wouldn't want to live there, but it's a nice place to visit from time to time.
Geeked, also. On Friday, bazza persuaded me that the best way for various workmates to arrange lunch (and we should start inviting other people occasionally, or they'll start calling us the Gang of Four. Actually, I doubt anyone at $ork has that much Chinese history, except for Girly Asian Manager, but still) was via IRC. SInce I happened to be running an IRC server, and even had a bot kicking around, we fired it up. But perlbot does very little out of the box, so I started a couple of more useful plugins - mostly an RT plugin to poke us when we need to update our bugs. This is, of course, a far better way of doing it than actually paying attention to the bugs :)
So, in all, I need longer weekends. Roll on Christmas, say I.
sol.
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Stripped the paint back from the external CD-ROM case for the biscuit PC case mod. Mental note to self - even worse than reading Gibson and cruising case-mod sites is reading Gibson, watching _The Fast And The Furious_, and cruising case mod sites. I suspect the common dubious factor is the case-mod sites. Too many ideas, too few cases. And, of course, not enough time. That does remind me, though - geek question. Some random person on an IRC channel once mentioned the possible existence of a hardware mod to convert an Amiga keyboard (ala the Amiga500/1200 all-in-ones) to PS/2 - presumably it just trapped and remapped key strokes. Anyone know of such a device? Because then the mext mod is to put a mini-itx board in the amiga 500 case. In any case, after watching TFATF, the new case is definitely getting a cold cathode . And nitrous.
Took the CBR out, too, down the St Kilda Esplanade to Black Rock. Wierd ride. Way too much traffic - on the way out, the temp gauge was starting to creep up over halfway, which is unusual when the bike is moving at all. Worked out why when I turned around and was very obviously riding *into* the wind - temperature gauge dropped right back to barely-in-the-operating-range. And I couldn't feel my legs.
Somehow, miraculously managed to bring cake back from Acland St unharmed. I like St. Kilda. Wouldn't want to live there, but it's a nice place to visit from time to time.
Geeked, also. On Friday, bazza persuaded me that the best way for various workmates to arrange lunch (and we should start inviting other people occasionally, or they'll start calling us the Gang of Four. Actually, I doubt anyone at $ork has that much Chinese history, except for Girly Asian Manager, but still) was via IRC. SInce I happened to be running an IRC server, and even had a bot kicking around, we fired it up. But perlbot does very little out of the box, so I started a couple of more useful plugins - mostly an RT plugin to poke us when we need to update our bugs. This is, of course, a far better way of doing it than actually paying attention to the bugs :)
So, in all, I need longer weekends. Roll on Christmas, say I.
sol.
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Date: 2004-06-27 05:49 pm (UTC)Case modding. I will just stop now to cross my arms over my chest and emit some of those highly judgemental 'tsks.' Two of them, even.
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Date: 2004-06-27 06:23 pm (UTC)Tsk'd at by a man who thinks the combination of fluffy flammable material and candles is a good idea....
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Date: 2004-06-28 04:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-28 05:51 am (UTC)Wasn't one of your shonky ebay deals, was it? ;)
And by PSU I presume you mean inverter?
The interesting thing is going to be seeing if I can run both the biscuit PC *and* the cold cathode (and the fan) off the power supply in the CD rom case. I have no idea how many watts it can pump out. Actually, I have no idea if I can even run the biscuit PC off the internal power supply for the case, so I may wind up using the external supply that I already have for the biscuit PC, and devoting the case PSU to tha bling-bling.
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