Life's Little Pleasures

Desire · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 587 Location: AK

I'm sure she will love the playset, once the weather permits!

Though one thing Alaska has taught me is that there is nothing wrong with kids playing outside or at the playground when it is raining, that is why they make rain gear. ;D (Though I would not suggest having a kid use a wet slide with rain gear on! Shocked

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Also, playgrounds when it is 30 degrees out or in the snow are just as much fun as when it is 70.

I also have realized that I can never, ever take my son to most states during the summer months or he will melt into a puddle goo.
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Atrophy Annie · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Your Mom

Yinello · Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 3463

Animecon saturday squeeeee

mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 21164 Location: under the bed

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11274 Location: PDX

eureka00 · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2068 Location: Pretzel City

Him · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 4367 Location: On edge

I built a gravity bong. Listening to Fleet Foxes and greeting the morning with a hit from the bong. Oh how I've longed.
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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

nathan · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 6316

I've never understood the wake and bake. Intellectual fuzziness shouldn't be pursued until hope for humanity is lost, and that's rarely pre-5:30 pm.
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fritterdonut · Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 1458

Went to the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire. Lots of cool stuff around, from Tesla coils to a 50 ft. robotic, hydraulic-driven snake. Spent a long time lusting after the 3D printers on display, but the $1000+ price tags on most of them scared me away. Came away with a Raspberry Pi (a microcomputer, not the baked good) (http://www.raspberrypi.org/).

And so begun a puzzling hour of trying to install things when I have 4 accessories (a USB key, a mouse, a keyboard, and a wifi adapter), and only 2 USB slots - and not enough juice to power them constantly, meaning the Pi reboots EVERY time I plug either the wifi dongle or the USB key in:

Install the wifi adapter and connect to the internet.
The wireless internet needs a password.
The keyboard is impossible to type with due to amperage issues.
>copy password to text file, copy to USB stick
>use mouse to copy the text file to the Pi, and copy paste text into wifi setup
okay, now I need an on-screen keyboard to type properly with
>use USB stick to copy apt-get commands into terminal
Now you need the keyboard to hit "return" to enter the command
On screen keyboard is installed, everyone is happy. The Pi is hooked up to wireless internet and controlled by my wireless mouse, which can also do the typing thanks to the on-screen matchbox keyboard. Victory!
Wait a second, Raspbian (the suggested OS for the Raspberry Pi, Debian-based) doesn't have native flash (SWF) support. Dicks, I wanted to stream Youtube videos.
>Someone has to have made a plugin for this, right?
All the plugins for Raspbian flash play streamed flash too slow to be usable.
Now find a new distro that has better flash support (openELEC or RaspMBC?) and do it all over again.
>Double dicks.

Overall a lot of fun though.
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