Friday, May 24, 2013
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Are you sh!tting me!?
So for some reason I've been getting these calls from some tech worker recruiting company or whatnot. The first guy I blew off and told him I wasn't interested. This past week while waiting for some other call, I got a lady calling about some similar thing - maybe from the same company as before - about some job about a client in Canfield? who needs 2 workstations "refreshed" and if I was interested to return their call - a long distance not toll free number.
I also got an EMAIL about the same thing. One of the requirements was in regard to equipment they expect you to have.
1. A Laptop - No, I don't have one. I work on this stuff here at home. So unless you're willing to bring the systems to me... you should have one working system I can get to the outside web and look up what I need to solve.
2. an iPAD. - ARE YOU SERIOUS?!? If I'm working on a computer, I DON'T NEED AN IPAD.
3. A Cellphone with a camera - Well, I guess my Tracfone fills that requirement.
I still can't get that iPad requirement out of my head. iPADS SUCK. Maybe they meant an Android tablet, but seriously forget you.
I have more brains than money and I know to work on a computer, I don't need an iPAD. If they are wiping hard drives for whatever reason, I have a Boot CD that has a utility that can do it.
I wonder why the hard drive needs wiped - are they doing a reinstall? Why is the reinstall necessary? I rarely need to do one. Are they getting rid of old equipment? Yes, wiping a hard drive is a good idea there, but why not just keep the old drives? Use them until they fail or something. Get your data off first!
I also got an EMAIL about the same thing. One of the requirements was in regard to equipment they expect you to have.
1. A Laptop - No, I don't have one. I work on this stuff here at home. So unless you're willing to bring the systems to me... you should have one working system I can get to the outside web and look up what I need to solve.
2. an iPAD. - ARE YOU SERIOUS?!? If I'm working on a computer, I DON'T NEED AN IPAD.
3. A Cellphone with a camera - Well, I guess my Tracfone fills that requirement.
I still can't get that iPad requirement out of my head. iPADS SUCK. Maybe they meant an Android tablet, but seriously forget you.
I have more brains than money and I know to work on a computer, I don't need an iPAD. If they are wiping hard drives for whatever reason, I have a Boot CD that has a utility that can do it.
I wonder why the hard drive needs wiped - are they doing a reinstall? Why is the reinstall necessary? I rarely need to do one. Are they getting rid of old equipment? Yes, wiping a hard drive is a good idea there, but why not just keep the old drives? Use them until they fail or something. Get your data off first!
Monday, April 22, 2013
Eternal Sailor Moon figure kit finished
Nobody on Foosebook seems to have seen these photos yet, or if they did they forgot to "like" them.
Finally finished Eternal Sailor Moon. This kit had a lot of things against it.
1. Broken pieces - either already broken when I got it, or by me after I got it. The bottom edge of her skirt in one place had to be repaired with filler putty!
2. Missing pieces - the red thingy that's I guess a red ribbon that hangs down was not included. So I cut a red plastic coffee stirrer in half lengthwise.
3. Both of her feet needed to be anchored to the stand, otherwise she would fall over.
4. The example image I have of this kit in the Replicant magazine I have from 2001 (Page 11 of Dec 2001 Vol.9 Replicant, in fact) has her standing straight up, while my kit sorta hunches over, as if the staff she's holding is a little heavy and she's about to take a step with it. Maybe that gives it some character.
5. The pin striping on her sailor top thingy is very teeny tiny. A detail I have a hard time doing.
6. And finally - the top of her staff had a ring piece that when I got this kit last year I had no idea where it went and only last week did I figure out what part it was!
Finally finished Eternal Sailor Moon. This kit had a lot of things against it.
1. Broken pieces - either already broken when I got it, or by me after I got it. The bottom edge of her skirt in one place had to be repaired with filler putty!
2. Missing pieces - the red thingy that's I guess a red ribbon that hangs down was not included. So I cut a red plastic coffee stirrer in half lengthwise.
3. Both of her feet needed to be anchored to the stand, otherwise she would fall over.
4. The example image I have of this kit in the Replicant magazine I have from 2001 (Page 11 of Dec 2001 Vol.9 Replicant, in fact) has her standing straight up, while my kit sorta hunches over, as if the staff she's holding is a little heavy and she's about to take a step with it. Maybe that gives it some character.
5. The pin striping on her sailor top thingy is very teeny tiny. A detail I have a hard time doing.
6. And finally - the top of her staff had a ring piece that when I got this kit last year I had no idea where it went and only last week did I figure out what part it was!
Monday, April 15, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
I always wondered what happened to them
I decided to take some time to find out whatever became of Jimmy Richardson and his wife Emma after seeing a couple more buildings knocked down in Kensington today. Mrs. Richardson was my 1st Grade teacher. I found she passed away Sept 11, 2012. She was a grand 90 years old. It doesn't say when she retired from teaching after doing it for 30 years.
Then I had to look but I found an obit for James M. Richardson in the Alliance Review, where it mentioned he passed away in October 2008 and had owned and operated East Rochester Hardware for 40 years. But it doesn't say when he gave up the business. He was a grand 95 years old.
So it makes sense that between 2008 and some time in 2011 that the building was torn down. Emma would have been able to make the decision if she was still able - her obit does say she passed away in her home. Still, it makes me wonder what happened to the place and why it got so dilapidated and got filled up with stuff. I wonder who now owns the patch of property it stood on.
Probably a way to find that out, but I don't feel like doing it right now. I'm sure I could find out.
Then I had to look but I found an obit for James M. Richardson in the Alliance Review, where it mentioned he passed away in October 2008 and had owned and operated East Rochester Hardware for 40 years. But it doesn't say when he gave up the business. He was a grand 95 years old.
So it makes sense that between 2008 and some time in 2011 that the building was torn down. Emma would have been able to make the decision if she was still able - her obit does say she passed away in her home. Still, it makes me wonder what happened to the place and why it got so dilapidated and got filled up with stuff. I wonder who now owns the patch of property it stood on.
Probably a way to find that out, but I don't feel like doing it right now. I'm sure I could find out.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Sometimes the Dell scares me, other times its the POS I'm driving
Last Friday I booted up the system to do some picture editing so I could make a post somewhere. However, during the editing the system was updating AVG Free when it suddenly locked up. I didn't know what was going on. Maybe it was the recent USB device usage (I took the SD card out of the digital camera to grab photo files off it with my card reader) that messed it up. I've had the audio suddenly stop working until I had the system shut down, and then suddenly Oh I'd get to hear the shutdown sound.
At any rate, for the next half hour or so, the system kept acting up. Ignoring mouse and keyboard input for some reason. So I took the chance to unhook the Dell, open it up and blow out dust. Made sure connections on the motherboard were in place. Made sure the RAM modules were seated OK. And install that Sony DVD burner that I've said for a while I would put in so I could burn disks with Mom's system again. I upgraded the RAM 3 years ago, and finally it's got a burner drive better than the one that came with it and was flaky from the first few times we used it but generally worked well enough.
I have no idea what helped, but the system stopped locking up and stopped ignoring the mouse and keyboard. I tried a system restore only to tell me that it made no system changes. Eventually I ended up with a working system and AVG Free flipping out, so after enough scans and no problems I made it update itself and it ended up actually installing an update properly as well as setting down.
At any rate, for the next half hour or so, the system kept acting up. Ignoring mouse and keyboard input for some reason. So I took the chance to unhook the Dell, open it up and blow out dust. Made sure connections on the motherboard were in place. Made sure the RAM modules were seated OK. And install that Sony DVD burner that I've said for a while I would put in so I could burn disks with Mom's system again. I upgraded the RAM 3 years ago, and finally it's got a burner drive better than the one that came with it and was flaky from the first few times we used it but generally worked well enough.
I have no idea what helped, but the system stopped locking up and stopped ignoring the mouse and keyboard. I tried a system restore only to tell me that it made no system changes. Eventually I ended up with a working system and AVG Free flipping out, so after enough scans and no problems I made it update itself and it ended up actually installing an update properly as well as setting down.
