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Hmmm. This thread had some ideas on my MacBook disconnect problems. I’ll try them out later and let you know what the deal is. DD-WRT Forum :: View topic – Random disconnects with Airport on a MacBook Pro [tags]DD-WRT,Macbook,Wireless[/tags] Addendum: I changed some settings that was suggested in the thread above, namely setting the wireless […]

I’ve still been having some difficulties with my MacBook and my home wireless networks. When running on battery power, as well as more infrequently when on regular power, my MacBook seems to lose its wireless connection, and will not automatically reconnect: I have to do do so manually, which is a bit of a chore. […]

I’ve given the weekend’s baseball a day or two to sink in, and now I think I’ll take the opportunity to wrap up. The Detroit Tigers utterly destroyed the A’s, but to be honest, the home team was clearly outgunned in every arena. The Tigers pitched better. The Tigers hit better. The Tigers were coached […]

Dan Lyke pointed me at a website which could tell you how many other people had your name in the United States. Below you’ll find my results: HowManyOfMe.com There are:0people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? At this point, I’m left wondering why I pay taxes!

It’s been a while since i had anything music related, so here’s one from the Make blog for Tom: My homebrew pipe organ [tags]Music,Pipe Organ,Make[/tags] This reminds me of a discussion that I had with Tom on pipe organ construction. Hey Tom, if you are reading this, can you remind me of the title of […]

An interesting project that took 2nd place at the Yahoo! HackDay that I went to, but unfortunately incredibly sparse on any details as to construction. This box is cheap (target price $10) and displays a variety of feed-ish information to your TV (at least, until your TV stops handling NTSC). YBOX [tags]Ybox,Yahoo! Hack Day[/tags]

This hasn’t been confirmed yet, but apparently the small plane which crashed into a building in a Manhattan today wasn’t flown by terrorists, but did carry Yankee pitcher and former Oakland Athletic Cory Lidle. Another unidentified person is reported dead, and maybe two others in sporadic and confused online reporting. Lidle last pitched in Game […]

I feel like the Knights of Ni sometimes. I get to hearing certain words, and they just make me crazy. It isn’t really the word itself that ticks me off, it is usually that it is used in a particularly inane (and usually increasingly popular fashion). This new rant is with the same word that […]

I was trying to dust off some music for Halloween and remembered that I had used Timidity to produce a free version of Bach’s Toccatta and Fugue in D-minor that you could use as spooky organ music on Halloween. Well, skip that. Surf to the link below and get an excellent free performance of the […]

The news is alive with the announcement from North Korea that they successfully performed an underground test of a nuclear device. Seismic monitoring stations recorded an earthquake registering 4.2 on the Richter scale. I fired up Google Earth to see what is at the epicenter. It’s pretty bleak out there. I can’t help but think […]

Even if you don’t understand the physics of superconductors (and I don’t) this still looks pretty cool. YouTube – Amazing physics If you want to learn more about the underlying physics on your commute, you can try listening to the final chapter of the best of the Feynman lectures as an audio book. I did. […]

The Yankees are out. Detroit is in. The team that lost three games against the Royals to drop out of first in their division on the final game of the season, dropped one to Yankees, and then just flat out destroyed them. The Tigers pitchers were phenomenal. I think if the A’s don’t bring their […]

I had tickets for Saturday, but looks like I don’t get to use ’em: the A’s completed a sweep of the Twins today at McAfee. Coming into the game today, the A’s were 0-9 in games where they could have eliminated their opponents, but today they reverse the trend and make it 1-9 to proceed […]

Tonight is the premiere of the new season of Battlestar Galactica. I found this picture on flickr, and it made me chuckle, so I thought I’d share.

I’m tempted to act like a shill and mindlessly repeat “I live for this!”, but it seems a little bit over the top. Still, the postseason has already given the fans some awesome post season moments. I thought I’d recap. FIrst of all, Oakland leads the Twins 2-0. Two awesome games, two solid pitching performances […]