Chat Transcript With a Dell D610

Me: Dell D610, I am unable to transfer some files to my desktop machine. What's up?

D610: 10010100101110010110101010110101010110101

Me: Why is the Workstation service not running? Shouldn't that start automatically when you boot?

D610: 0100010101111010101010110100101010101

Me: It did, but then you stopped it? Why would you do that?

D610: 00101000100101011101010010101010101010111010101

Me: Okay, I restarted the service. Why did the sound just cut out?

D610: 10010101110101011010101010101010

Me: You stopped the Windows Audio service. STOP KILLING SERVICES!

D610: 10010010101011011010101011010

Me: 'I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave'. Ha ha, very funny.

D610: 010101001011011101010010101

Me: You've been acting erratically since I got you. You need to shape up.

D610: 00101010

Me: Yeah? Well $@#& you, too!

D610: 0010101010100252353452

Me: Wait, what?!

Open For Business

This Christmas I gave my wonderful girlfriend Donna the gift of Etsy. Etsy is an online marketplace where talented artisans like herself can market and sell her wares. I know what you're thinking: what a crappy present. Any moron could register for a website. I didn't say it was the only present I gave her.

Anyway, after creating some beautiful jewelry she is ready for business. To take a look at her wares, visit Originals By Donna. More pieces are on the way. Do your part to support our dreams of early retirement today!

It's All Relative

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Summer Movies in February

A bunch of movie trailers for summer. Link via Instapundit.

Facebook Is Like Pravda With A Worse User Interface

As I have said before, I am always late to jump on the latest fad. With that in mind, I recently got on Facebook. After a short time I found a recently-created group for my high school graduating class. I joined, said hello, sent out a bunch of friend requests, all that happy crap.

It wasn't until a week later that I went back through all the old messages and found the following exchange (names omitted to protect those guilty %@*!&!!#).

• "Is Jay Winkus in prison or CEO of a software firm?" (Are those the only two choices? And why did they spell my name wrong?)


• "Last time I heard anything about Jay was a visit from the FBI for some security clearance he was getting with the... Air Force...I think. That was 1991." (Hey! This is actually true! The government did a background check for my Air Force security clearance.)


• "Jay Winkus took over a small Latin American country and is serving as Dictator/Chief Head-Banger for life." (What do you mean, "small"? I'm okay with the rest of it though.)

I found this exchange very amusing. If I had read it before announcing my presence, I would have had a lot more fun with it though.

Because It's A Great Song

The Bottle Rockets' Radar Gun. The song starts about a 55 seconds in, after all the banter.

Winter Construction

Construction on the new buildings on the Microsoft Fargo campus.