From my Google Reader shares
- Rock Band Ottoman Stores Your Controllers, Stifles Your Dreams [Gaming]:
- Street Fighter IV – Japanese Sakura vs. Ryu Gameplay:
- Mario Recreation from Japan Takes a Turn for the Crazy [Japan]: Wow…
- Got Bugs? Many Foods Colored With Beetle Extract: Disgusting!! I dunno if I can drink strawberry milk the same.
- PSP U.S. Release Date Revision (01.12.09): Dissidia is all I’m looking forward to for PSP. Sadly, that’s 1 more than I’m looking forward to on the Wii.
- Xbox 360 U.S. Release Date Revision (01.12.09): Looking forward to Street Fighter 4, RE5, FFXIII, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
- Cat wanders in during live weather forecast: Weatherman Jorg Kachelmann, a true pro, scoops him up and continues broadcats… er, broadcast (vid): Sneaky cat wasn’t sneaky enough!
- We Screwed Up Windows 7 Beta, So Unlimited Downloads For All: Can’t imagine beta testing an OS anymore since my machine needs to be as stable as possible. But it would be cool on a side machine. I also can’t imagine a sort of first come first serve system working out for something like this, so it’s cool to see that the backup plan is, “Oh well, give it to everyone then.”
Particular podcasts in general have me thinking to myself, “You know what would be great, if I could skip to the next chapter.” Then it dawns on me, why can’t we do that? I mean, in the first place, typically mp3’s are rips of songs and when you skip, you skip file to file. But now when you have long format audio, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to skip to predetermined chapters like a dvd? I think so.
Ok really it should be like take 5. Like I said earlier, I bought a Pur water dispenser to raise the quality of water used for the tea batches. I made another standard version 1 batch but it was really sweet. Like crazy sweet. 2/3rd cup of sugar, 2.5 quarts of water or whatever that line is on the pitcher which I have yet to understand. I think there are 2 measuring lines, actual water, and ice. But anyway, it seemed like a lost hope. I imagined what I needed was sugar that was sweet but didn’t have as strong of a flavor if that’s even possible since sugar is only sweet. So in retrospect, I’m like grasping at straws to figure out what’s going on. I drank about 1/3rd of it and decided to dilute it with more water. So I added more water, and it was perfect!!! (maybe) I need to buy more reference material but I feel like what I had finally made was definitely tasting much better.
- So $19 for this tea maker
- 2 bags of lipton tea
- Fill to the pitcher to the third line
- 2/3rd cup of sugar in the pitcher for when the tea comes out piping hot
- Then dilute it with plain water after it’s been brewed
The problem is I don’t know how much I diluted it. I feel like I went down to the 2 quart line then I doubled it’s volume with plain water. Either way, it’s a great alternative to $5 a gallon!
I spent some time working with the Conky config and edited it a bit. Here’s what I came up with:
The config file is here and you can get Samurize here:
http://www.samurize.com/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=1
You’re looking for Serious Samurize.
I only took out the parts of Conky that relied on some other program to derive CPU settings (also, my CPU meter isn’t tracking useage correctly, I can’t find the right setting at the moment) so it should work out of a fresh install. You’ll have to change drive letters to track anything that isn’t your main C drive.
My config is also set on the second monitor, so you may want to edit the file and change the Design Height/Width to fit your monitor after you move the display to your main monitor.
