ALDI
Huh.
ALDI’s brand of Raisin Bran is just as good as any other I’ve had, and at $1-something for a 16oz box.
Also, the $2-something frozen gourmet-ish pizzas from there are good.
Thus far I’m pretty impressed with the store.
Huh.
ALDI’s brand of Raisin Bran is just as good as any other I’ve had, and at $1-something for a 16oz box.
Also, the $2-something frozen gourmet-ish pizzas from there are good.
Thus far I’m pretty impressed with the store.
Server is back up. In short, I was using so much bandwidth that Waveform flipped my link back to 10Mb in an effort to cap bandwidth, then when that remained wholly saturated (nice to know that the to-internet link can saturate that, eh?) they turned off the port.
See here for a graph of it all: https://secure.nuxx.net/bandwidthd

Ah, I finally ordered a lock picking set. Southern Ordinance’s Outlet has blemished 14-piece (MPXS-14-O) set for just over US$30 after shipping.
Now I can stop screwing with bent paperclips, T-pins, and screwdrivers when playing with lock picking.
Digital ICE on the Nikon Coolscan V ED works rather well.
For example, here is a single frame scanned both without and with Digital ICE, set to remove dust and scratches. The negative wasn’t removed from the scanner between scans, the option was simply turned on and the frame re-scanned:
· Without ICE. Note the dust on the mountain, and small scratches on the house at the right side of the frame.
· With ICE. Aforementioned dust and scratches (and other bits) are just simply gone.

Here’s the lazy mushroom and cheese quiche I made today. Here’s how I made it:
· Chop an onion and some garlic.
· Put 3 tbsp of butter in a pan, along with the onion, garlic, and a good size pinch of oregano and basil. Add some black pepper.
· Sweat things together until the mushrooms are just beginning cook. Pour it all in a strainer over the sink to allow the liquid to run off.
· Whisk together four eggs and 3/4 cup of 2% milk. Add a tablespoon or so of Clancy’s Fancy and some salt.
· Put the mushrooms and such in a thawed, docked pre-made pie crust. Stir in a handful or so of shredded cheddar cheese.
· Pour the egg mixture on top. Add a bit more cheese.
· Bake in a ~375°F oven for ~45 minutes, or until the top is just beginning to brown.
· Remove from oven and allow to cool down before cutting and serving.

Just another photo of Molly and Tobi playing, as they had been doing yesterday.

Two hours, twenty six minutes, and sixteen seconds (2:26:16) after starting the Apple Hardware Tests, my machine can finally be said to have received a RAM upgrade. For the last three years I’ve been running it with 1.5GB of RAM, and that had been enough. Until I tried to work with 4000dpi scans of 35mm slides.
I must say, things run much better now. Especially with my compliment of other apps running, including Safari, Mail.app, Adium, SSH Agent, iTunes, Xjournal, Obsession (LJ Checker), Terminal, Gallery Remote, Vienna, and a few others.

What an excellent afternoon snack on a day when I returned from a rather lengthy lunch, only to be told that I can leave if I want.
Now I’m sitting here waiting for 2GB of RAM to show up for the G5 so that I can scan negatives. I was able to scan the 110 slides with the 1.5GB in here now, but it was pushing things. Opening the 45MB TIFFs in Lightroom with the current amount of RAM causes the machine to chew on the disk for 2-3 minutes per image. This needs to change before I tackle ~1000 full-frame 35mm negatives.
Also, my site, any I host, and email is down right now. I’m upgrading MySQL, so it’s not currently running, making things which are backed by it not work.
Email is still coming in, it’s just being queued up. Once MySQL is back up things should be back to normal.
UPDATE @ 09:43 EST: MySQL upgrade done. Email and sites working again. Time to do the PHP upgrade, which will break all websites for a while. Sorry.
UPDATE @ 11:16 EST: All updates complete. Everything should be back to normal. Let me know if it isn’t.
All previous speakers returned, original speakers reinstalled. Played with the amp enough to realize that the ‘High Cut’ setting is not a low-pass filter as I would have expected, but is instead a high-pass filter. Therefore, having it set too high basically keeps appropriate bass from going to the speakers at all.
I’d had some difficulty adjusting this previously, but after replacing the speakers and retuning things, everything is MUCH better. I’ve got the filter letting everything possible go to the rear subs and the missing bass is now there. The rear levels have also been adjusted at the amp to be appropriate, although these may need a wee bit more tweaking. This remains to be seen, though.
Other tasks I have successfully completed tonight:
· Returned both pairs of crappy Pioneer speakers.
· Acquired Thai food.
· Ate Thai food with Belgian beer.
· Watched Frontline’s A Hidden Life
· Balanced my checkbook.
· Washed my sheets.
I guess that’s a plenty full night.