Author Archives: Randy Peterman

Milk

This morning we discovered that we were out of milk with the exception of about 3 millimeters at the botton of the whole milk jug. So, I hauled my close onto my body and my rear-end to the King-Soopers to buy milk and eggs.
Query:
Who in the heck came up with the name ‘King-Soopers.’
Answer
Someone with the whitty intellect to also come up with ‘Krispy Kream KDoughnuts’ or ‘Medicine Shoppe*.’

I think I have a a low tollerance for odd spellings or blatantly wrong spellings for words. That being said I’m the purpotrator of ‘StatTraq,’ but that is paying homage to my French-Canadian rue-ts. *

For the record I’m not French, Canadian or Roots; I’m white.

* note: I worked at the Medicine Shoppe in Carson City in High School. It is now not a Medicine Shoppe pharmacy.

Can I get Two?

If you look closely at the picture of the display on this page you’ll notice several things: it’s kind of dark and hard to see what’s going on. The other thing you’ll note is that the display is three (3) ‘monitors’ wide. This is the bombdest display and I’d seen pictures of it somewhere else and then lost track of them. So, here it is, the coolest display I’ve seen for a computer. Imagine playing a first person game where you’re surrounded completely without a break for multi-monitor games.

On a business level, think about having Word, Excel and FireFox open at the same time (if you think I was actually going to say Internet Explorer you must be crazy), all within view and being able to drag and drop between applications even easier than you can with multiple monitors.

Thirdly, think about how expensive it would be to buy this. It makes the Mac wide displays look small.

Informative Descriptions

I just discovered that Windows XP wants to install several updates. What is the description for three of the four?

A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

Really helpful, huh? Makes it easy to know what is being changed. Nice to know that my machine may be vulnerable to an outside attack, but I don’t know what software or part of the OS renders me defenseless.

No Camera. Day II

Dear Camera,
Today I saw the case you normally ride in. It was empty and I missed you. I wanted to take you out and shoot something with you but there were no objects to shoot and there was no camera to shoot with. I hope that the nice people at FedEx Ground are taking good care of you. The man that packed you up sounded like a nice guy and he seemed to know what he was doing, but I hope that he’s not a mentally-sick fellow who wanted to hurt me because I was wearing a reddish-maroon sweatshirt with the word ‘Hoosiers’ on it. I wonder if he misread it and thought it said ‘hosers’ on it and therefore thought I was making fun of him. If that’s the case you’re doomed – I’m sorry for wearing the ‘hosers’ sweatshirt now because it may have put your fragile little lense in danger.

Of course maybe he was just a really nice guy just charging me for breathing FedEx-Kinko’s air. I hope that the air that is in the bubble wrap that he was going to use was from outside of FedEx-Kinko’s so that I could not have to pay for that air, too.

Greenwood Village is a little overcast today… wish you were here.

Technology Vs. the Lawyers

So the music industry is slowly warming to digital content distribution (MP3’s, WMA’s, and “live” concerts with Ashlee Simpson). However, the Movie industry is now cycling in about 5 or more years late. They’ve got their lawyers out en force working on suing the peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. What is so amazing is that companies like Microsoft have developed digital rights management software and Tivo uses some similar controls to limit what or how things can be recorded. However, people can get things recorded digitally all sorts of other ways. Limiting the P2P networks seems to be short sighted and it really isn’t going to stop them. Sharers will jump to other networks or other methods.

This kind of reminds me of the Boston Tea Party: the colonists didn’t like getting caught for smuggling – and when the Brits closed in, they went off and of course you know what happened next: they polluted the ocean and the environmentalists in Britain revolted to let the United States get formed to help save the fish.

I don’t know where I was going with that, but there you go!

Bye-Bye, Baby

So today I sent in my Nikon camera to the factory to be fixed. The speed flash stopped working so I had to send it in for repair. I took it down to my local FedEx-Kinko’s where they’re reportedly going to ship it. I paid extra big money to have it wrapped carefully, shipped in a box 6 times it’s size full of peanuts and carried by ballerinas on their tip-toes. I also paid to have the guy behind the counter breathe as well as talk to other customers. In fact, the whole experience felt like FedEx was billing me for my time in their store. There’s something magical about that extreme form of capitalism called ‘Shipping – Copying – Printing.’ It makes you feel like a useless slave bound to their rules. Therefore, I’m going to start RandyEx where I’ll ship copies of your printings for 3000X profit and become independently wealthy after only 7 weeks on my new diet plan.

I hope my camera comes back OK.

The Tree

Yesterday I went and collected the yearly tree due to the help of my brother (in Christ) Craig. He’s got a long car with the ability to throw things on the roof so he kindly hauled the branches and bough to our apartment. Unfortunately the diameter of the tree was greater than the (crappy) hoop that came with our tree stand. So I had to cut, whack and hack at the bottom of the tree to get it into the hoop. In the end: we’ve got a tree, but 90 degrees is not quite the angle it’s at. Maybe I can talk Craig into firing up his saw to make some wood bits for me to balance the stand out because the tree is not moving in that ring.

You see, Craig has got a miter saw. It’s slick and I watched him use it with (friendly) envy. It’s quite the saw and I think that when we get a house next year we’ll have to buy one shortly after so that I can cut random pieces of wood with great precision. Enough of Craig’s great saw.

Abby will be joining us in tree decoration shortly and I expect that to be quite, um, intersting 🙂 I’ll post pictures later.