Another update to my long dormant blog. And only possible because I had a vacation day on Friday and therefore this is a long weekend for me. Friday was a very bad day for me though. Fuck you, weather headaches. Lately, I’ve been using my laptop more and more. This was one I bought in […]
Yeah. What he said. I have no fucking time to myself any more. Grumble. And I had one of the worst headaches I’ve ever had in my life today. I trust you, oh reader, are doing better.
Last week, I had actually brought back my friend’s computer to work so that i could give it to her. But before I did, I asked her if she would like to have an alternative operating system installed beside Vista. I explained that she would be able to choose which one to boot when she […]
Thanks again to the intrepid Uncle Furry, I’ve found out about a great program from the makers of CCleaner. It’s called Defraggler, and if you use that steaming pile of shit known as Windows Vista, you need this program. See, since the old old days of Windows 95, Microsoft has included a utility to defragment […]
I have been, over the last 10 days or so, been fixing up a friend’s laptop for her. You see, I knew there was something wrong with it when she emailed me about great deals on Rolex watches. So, knowing that she had malware problems, and knowing that I’m a computer geek who actually likes […]
RAGE!!!! There, I feel better. So, you may have noticed that I haven’t been updating my blog every day like I used to. Well, amid all the exemplary dumbassery, epic moronitude and gobsmacked dontgiveafuckness of my blog, you may have noticed that I frequently bitch, whine, moan and otherwise complain about how much time I […]
Let’s get a couple of things out of the way as you are grooving to this strange and wonderful song. Moribund = Stagnant and without vitality or growth Burgermeister = Town councilor, ie. Mayor This song is not, in fact about this guy: Nor this guy: But that looks like one hell of a burger. […]
Louis Fucking Armstrong. The Godfather of Death Metal. Would you believe this song was recorded in the 1940s? And that the original was released on a 78rpm slate record from 1932? Believe it, or may hornets infest your toilet tank, and explode out of it with a mighty rage when you are bleary-eyed and trying […]
Okay, so I’ve listened to some of that thar Supersister I bought. And before I progress… that’s a slight pun there… I’ll emphatically state that this is NOT the prefabricated British pop girl group from a couple years ago. No, this is Robotman’s blog, dawgonnit, and I’m a gonna blabber on about obscure progressive rock […]
dBpowerAmp is a great program. It is actually a suite of applications with different features, and the ones I use the most are the music converter and the CD ripping program. Actually, I have used the CD ripping program a lot in the past and I will use it a lot in the future because […]
Just like in Windows… an update can fuck up your favourite programs. I’ve blabbed before about how my favourite CD ripping program (Grip) no longer works, and now I’d like to bitch about how the replacement I found (Ripper X) doesn’t do as good a job as it should. Let’s start with mp3 tags. I […]
Praise be to Uncle Furry, for he hath bestowed upon me a 10 year old Thinkpad with which to bask in the glory of Windows 98 SE! Hosanna! I had originally considered reinstalling one of the virtual Windows XP setups I run as a virtual OS inside Linux. As you are probably tired of hearing, […]
What a delightful little ditty! This is about as experimental and “avant-garde” as this duo of gay dudes ever got. And I’ve never actually written “avant-garde” before. I had to look it up. And now I’ve gone and used it twice in quick succession. Can you dance to this? Would you want to? I’m not […]
More 80s! And… lord help us all… KENNY FUCKING G!!!!! So… I know what you’re thinking. How does that spindly little greasy-haired bastard have anything to do with good music? I’m thinking the same thing too. But the sax solo in this song was done by a then relatively unknown Kenny G. Did you know […]
Just a dude and a piano. This pic came up for a Google image search of “dude” and “piano”. So here it is. I’ve become quite fond of Mr. Hammill’s solo music, and I even like (most) of his 80s stuff. Some of it is bland 80s pop, but at least he didn’t have entirely […]
FUCK. This is one exciting blog I maintain here, isn’t it? I mean, where else on the vast interwebs can you go to read what some random dipshit has to say about computers, old music and his perverted sexual interest in female androids? Nowheres, that’s wheres. If you want a gateway to the new “Information […]
Hoe-kay. Ubuntu comes with a nifty little screenshot application. You just hit the “print” key (your keyboard has one, it probably says “Prt Scr” over “SysRq”) and voila, a nifty little application window comes up and asks you where you’d like to save the screenshot and what you’d like to call it. Nifty is one […]
Here’s a long and uninteresting story. Kind of like everything else on this blog. Except some of this drivel is mercifully short. Anyway, I am a fan of the 1996 game Civilization II. I play it a lot. It wastes a lot of my time, actually. I’ve spent hours playing it when I should have […]
Well, here I go buying CDs again. You know, I’ve still never ever bought mp3s? I always get the feeling that if I do I’ll somehow get screwed over when I can’t go and grab the original physical CD to re-rip the music from later. What the fuck am I talking about… I’ve bought hours […]
There are many versions of this song available. There is one studio version from this album: Which has a great album cover. Sadly, Deep Purple album covers can often suck balls, so enjoy this one while you can. The version recorded on the album isn’t anywhere as near as good as some of the live […]
So, I went yesterday from reading about the worst movie ever made to the best comic book ever made. I am of course, talking about “Sexdroids in Space”. Kidding. That’s just my personal favourite. No, I mean the Alan Moore written masterpiece “Watchmen”. I had heard people say it was good, etc, and so on, […]
So, here’s 6 guys from England once again making me feel like I don’t know anything about music and I can’t play any instruments properly. Sigh. These guys were so fucking good at composition and playing that it’s scary. And this song too is kind of spooky. Not really. But the only reason I’m talking […]
Bubblegum pop. By a 90s band, right here where I live in Calgary. This was actually a fairly big radio hit in Canada. I bought the album, because, back then, two great songs from a band would make me buy the album. The other great song from these guys is called “Heavy”. Oh, why the […]
Say it ain’t so! I mean, for years, the joke has been that Second Life is full of furries… and here we have a fine full featured friendly furry who’s never even HEARD of it. This must change. Here is the link to Second Life. And here are some screenshots from Second Life: Okay, so […]
Look at him! He’s riding the turtle! Actually, it’s a tortoise. But who cares! Look at him! And like all slow rides, this ride gets you there eventually. If you’ve been paying attention to this blog… and honestly, I don’t know who the fuck in their right mind would, I mean come on. Even I […]
Are you a Canadian? Are you a member of “Generation X”? Remember all that “Generation X” ballyhoo? Piffle. But myself being a man of 22 in the year 1996, I became quite fond of a certain number of songs which were popular at the time. The Old MuchMusic television station was the source of a […]
Back when I was (by choice) unemployed (for 13 months and spending all my savings), I had the BEST year of my life. Not working played a huge part in that. Sigh. Drifting back on topic, from Summer 2006 to Summer 2007 I got into some fine progressive rock thanks to the amazing site Prog […]
It’s not often that a rap song makes it into the ranks of my favourite songs. Public Enemy and N.W.A. have some in there, but mostly my favourite songs are done by guys like this: But this song is great. Check out the actual video too, if you want to see some Wizard of Oz […]
Ah, the Hip. Canadian. Contains two guys named Gord. How could they not be Canadian? I say I don’t give a fuck about hockey, and you’ve never saw someone say THAT before. But that’s a different Trag song. I can call these guys “The Hip” and “Trag” because they are so familiar. Unfortunately, that’s because […]
If you didn’t know it already, DRM stands for Digital Restrictions Management. Criminal cartels like the RIAA and their greedy asshole cronies will tell you it stands for Digital Rights Management, but remember: corporations want to take your rights away from you so they can have them for themselves. But that’s a separate rant. Now […]
Well, I tested CivII on my other computer. Lasted, well, up to a few minutes ago. My god, I can waste SO MUCH time with that game. It’s like crack. Crack that lasts more than 12 minutes, but crack nonetheless. So needless to say, I only have time to drink some tea, read some news […]
I’ve got everything reinstalled now and aside from virtual Windows being slower, everything is better or the same as how I had it before. My grammar sucks but that is because I’m tired. So sue me. I actually spent a bit more time setting up Windows than I would have liked. Reason? Apparently Windows XP […]
Right here in Virtual River City. With a Virtual Tea and that rhymes with “W” and that stands for “Windows XP”. Apologies to Robert Preston. Theoretically, it is possible to take a virtual installation of a guest OS with you and use it on any computer that has your virtualization software installed on it. To […]
Well, my early night last night didn’t really turn out that way. I couldn’t sleep. So I went ahead and installed the new video card I got last night. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Uncle Furry for carting me around town to get that card. AGP cards are a scarce breed these days. The […]
And I sleep early. Goodnight.
Okay, apologies to Nvidia, it’s not your latest driver that’s a steaming pile of shit. It’s my video card. More accurately, the capacitors on my video card are a steaming pile of blown capacitorific shit. So I need a new video card. Meh.
Alas, my internet PC has dun gone all fuckled. I boot, she freeze. I boot, she freeze. Sigh. Tarnation! I hadn’t upgraded or reinstalled Xubuntu on this thing for a while… it was still running 9.04. And now I think I’ll have to reinstall the whole damn shebang. Now, this computer has 2 hard drives. […]
So with all the blabber I’ve been spewing about my new Roomba, I don’t think I’ve relayed just how much I like having it do the vacuuming. Now that it’s not afraid of falling through my black carpet, I can rest assured that it will keep my carpets nice and clean, and deal with all […]
Seriously? WTFOMGBBQ? I usually spend a great deal of time vegetating, and I have not done this. And now it’s freaking 9:00 and I wanted to be in bed an hour ago. At least I’m still very happy with my Roomba. It just vacuumed a freshly mopped and dried washroom floor and everything down here […]
No, not this Cliff. No, not this Cliff. Something more like these cliffs: You see, my Roomba has what are called “Cliff Sensors”. These are 4 little infrared sensors that point downward at the front edge of the vacuum. These sensors will stop the Roomba from going over the edge of a staircase, so in […]
Windows started life as a stand-alone workstation OS. Which is fine, if you don’t want any of that “networking” stuff bogging you down. Back in the 80s, when Bill Gates was actually writing code alongside his Microsoft cohorts, and when Max Headroom stuttered his way into our hearts… No one wanted or needed to connect […]
Have I mentioned yet how freaked out my cat is by the Roomba? My parents’ orange cat is rather freaked out by it too, though he’s a little braver. This is him: In spirit anyway. He is fond of biting me. And here’s a cloud that looks like a lion cub: And here’s the clouds […]
So far so good. I’ve got the Roomba all charged and I’ve settled into the habit of cleaning the bin and brushes out every 5 minutes. Supposedly, this only needs to be done at the end of every cleaning cycle, but my floor is way fucking dirty. I’m almost ashamed to admit how much cat […]
You just knew that me talking about my new Roobma would give me plenty of chances to make bad jokes and gratuitously insert pictures of sexy female robots… didn’t you? I’d rumba with her any day. Okay, let’s get to the topic at hand now. I am now the proud owner of my very first […]
Apologies, for this version cuts out most of the guitar solo in the middle. But you get to watch Ozzy being his wacky self. But you have to put up with YouTube’s slow and crappy “flash video” drivel. But it comes with a free frozen yogurt which I call “Frogurt”. The Frogurt is also cursed. […]
Anyone ever hear of a computer game called “The Sims”? I know, it’s pretty darn obscure. I bought the first version back in… oh… let’s check Wikipedia again… 2000. I remember I was reading about what a different kind of game it was. I found it appealing because I liked to design, build, and decorate […]
Here is a very interesting picture. Almost everyone (except for you Sharla, because you’re as dumb as you are gorgeous) will recognize Albert Einstein. But take a look at those names. You may recognize some others now. This is a snapshot of where modern physics and cosmology comes from… pretty much. And here’s another similar […]
After the gruelling week I just had, the only thing I can think to do with a full weekend ahead of me now is sleep. But not before I whine a little first. I just had to fill in for my boss for 2 weeks + 1 day. I’m capable of doing everything he does, […]
While surfing reddit.com, I found a funny picture: Immediately, I thought I’d have to give this “I Write Like” website a try, and so I entered in the following text from Chapter 75 (Feeling) of my own novel “H is for Heuristic“: The woman beside Byron was warm, but unyielding and still. She was dressed […]
If you, like me, love fembots, and you’ve never called one of the lovely ladies on NiteFlirt, then you need to kick your own ass. And you need to call already. Last night I had an amazing call with a pretty and plump lady, and the whole time I got to hear her sweeeeet feminine […]