Free Rice
Briefly reached vocab level 41 and donated 1,200 grains of rice today. Free Rice
Archive for November, 2007
Chaos and bean sprouts
On Soup Plantation (again):
Me: Want to go out for dinner tonight?
Wife: Sure. Where to?
Me: Well, it’s Kids’ Eat Free Night everywhere so the sky’s the limit! Ha! Ruby’s, Polly’s, Chick-fil-A… Oh, we have that Soup Plantation coupon.
Wife: Soup Plantation, huh?
Me: Let’s not go there though. That place stresses me out.
Wife: What?
Me: That whole place is [...]
Removing Windows from a Dual-Boot System
I’ll try to keep this brief but I wanted to post it because I couldn’t find exactly this procedure anywhere online. Here’s my situation: when I installed Ubuntu I didn’t just repartition my Windows drive—I added a whole new hard drive for it. So I ended up with Windows XP on /dev/sda1 and Ubuntu on [...]
A year with Linux on the desktop
On January 30th 2007 I installed Ubuntu Linux on my computer intending to use it as my primary operating system. I wrote about the surprises of that switch (both happy and vexing) in a four-part series (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) in March.
It’s been very nearly a year now and I’m happy [...]
Sumo means ginormous
I was recently contacted by a representative of sumolounge.com and asked if I’d like to review one of their bean bags. I’m not exactly in the market for bean bag furniture but our boy has a bean bag and I thought the kids might like another one so… why not?
They shipped me a free sample [...]
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