Category: Nerdy Stuff

For reference and troubleshooting help.

I have no idea why it keeps thinking that Modesto California is the closest test site to me.

Another support call to Clear this weekend. This time because I was getting a signal, but still couldn’t get anywhere online. The tech support guy was actually helpful and was genuinely confused that I was somehow managing to be online and yet not online at the same time. They’re sending me a new modem to [...]

I know I watch a lot of British television and I know there are people out there who don’t have BBC America and so they haven’t really ever seen any of the things that I love so much. But now everyone, even those of you without cable, can finally see something that is absolutely fantastic [...]

Out of 460 challenges as reported to the Office for Intellectual Freedom 1. “TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series), by Lauren Myracle Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs (I just looked these books up and saw this: written entirely in text-message format. That, right there is reason enough to ban a [...]

Tonight I broke my very first needle. The wooden end of a Harmony Wood fixed circular Size 1 snapped off. I have about an inch and a half of sock leg to finish and the needle broke. “Ah, well,” I said. “I’ll get a replacement (I don’t have DPNs that small). For now, I’ll move [...]

My contract with AT&T is up at the end of August. The contract for Kitti’s phone is up at the end of December. I’m in a quandary about what to do. Do I stay with AT&T and upgrade my phone? Do I wait until December and move us both to another carrier? Is Verizon seriously [...]

Aside from being hot and miserable through most of it, at least. Accomplished the knitting of a heel in a toe-up sock. Apparently the 37th time is the charm. Actually, it’s still not perfect. The picking-up of stitches didn’t go so well, so there are gaps. Also, maybe using size 1 needles wasn’t the best [...]

Read. Specifically, spend several days reading The Alienist, followed immediately by The Angel of Darkness, and then go right into The Cabinet of Curiosities. All three are set in New York City. The Alienist is in 1896, Angel of Darkness is 1897, and Cabinet of Curiosities involves a case that started in the 1870s or [...]