JHM: What’s the price on those, please? Employee: We have three-packs for $8.99. We also have large bags individually for $2. JHM: Individually they’re $2? E: Yeah, but they’re larger. JHM: Then it … kinda sounds like the individual bags are a better deal, yeah? E: [nervous laugh] I didn’t want to say that. Read more »
… but always Shinola
From Stephen King’s novel Bag of Bones: There’s something oddly comforting about talking to a legal guy once the “billable hours” clock has started running. You have passed the magical point at which “a lawyer” becomes “your lawyer”. “Your lawyer” is warm. “Your lawyer” is sympathetic. “Your lawyer” makes notes on a yellow pad and [...] Read more »
Love means never having to say you’re schizophrenic
Being interviewed by a social worker today, because I’m applying for disability benefits, I was asked to “define love”. “Huh,” I said. “I left my Keats at home.” No reaction. I thought for about thirty seconds, and then said, “A relationship in which one cares about another’s well-being more than one’s own.” Then she asked [...] Read more »
So when he woke up the next morning he was dead?
A science fiction movie just explained an insect eradication technique to me: Expose males to sterilizing radiation. Then when they have offspring, the offspring will be sterile, and after a few generations the species will be extinct. A … bit of a reasoning gap there. Now, messing up their genome so that their offspring were [...] Read more »
My recycled tweets for 2010-02-18
My #laptop runs hotter than #HalleBerry in bed with #IreneJacob. New power supply might help(?). # Powered by Twitter Tools Read more »
Underpowered AC adapter causing overheating?
When the used computer place sold me a refurbished Dell Latitude D810 notebook PC, they included a 65W power supply. This is apparently not the correct one: it gives me a BIOS warning that this underpowered model would not give optimal performance. Also, unless I throttle the 2.13GHz CPU speed back to 1.33GHz or lower, [...] Read more »
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