Author Archives: baudattitude

I’m finally in the club.

Posted on September 7, 2008 by baudattitude

Tomorrow I get to call Microsoft and ask them how to get my 360 fixed. I’m actually GLAD this finally happened. My console has a manufacture date of 9/11/2006 and I was worried that it might survive, against considerable odds, … Continue reading →

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What IS it with Dwarves, anyway?

Posted on September 5, 2008 by baudattitude

After I finished off the spider-infested temple, and incidentally I will be sending Chris Taylor a bill for the therapy I’m going to need, it was time to tackle the next fantasy standby: The dwarven mine overrun by nasties because … Continue reading →

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Unnecessary Spiders

Posted on September 2, 2008 by baudattitude

OK, so I don’t really think there are any such things as “Necessary” spiders, at least as far as video game enemies go, but these are particularly bad, not least so because of unfortunate timing. I have been trying Dungeon … Continue reading →

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I do not often post wallpaper

Posted on September 2, 2008 by baudattitude

…and, in fact, there’s nothing particularly special about this one, it’s just another cute girl-with-nekomimi wallpaper. If you are looking for more, may I kindly direct you to 4chan? But, I saw the phrase “cat ear girl she is draw … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Software Testing

Posted on September 1, 2008 by baudattitude

I had to file a bug, a couple of weeks ago, which read something like: “Monthly reports for xyzzy corp don’t seem to work; I can see data in the DB tables but when I try to run the reports … Continue reading →

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Lifetime Coffee Table Expenditures: $30.

Posted on September 1, 2008 by baudattitude

Yesterday’s post was more than a little consumer-whorey, so I wanted to offer something up in my defense. My first apartment, when I was 19 or so, was shared with Carmen Spray, who is, in addition to an accomplished fan … Continue reading →

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The Ikea Nesting Instinct

Posted on August 31, 2008 by baudattitude

“Like so many others, I had become a slave to the lkea nesting instinct.” — Fight Club Today was our third Ikea trip this week. It started out simply, with a pair of POÄNG chairs – black frames, red cushions, … Continue reading →

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Paranoia Defined

Posted on August 27, 2008 by baudattitude

OK, so in the course of organizing the apartment, I’m looking through some boxes that haven’t been gone through in a few years. And I find a stack of 3.5″ floppy disks labeled “C: Drive Backup, 10/1/1994, Norton Backup Format” … Continue reading →

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Sad consequences…

Posted on August 27, 2008 by baudattitude

One of the things purged in last weekend’s organizational frenzy was a 24″ Toshiba TV. It’s not that it was a particularly bad TV in any way, but it was, you know, a CRT TV, and big and heavy and … Continue reading →

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Organization by digicam

Posted on August 27, 2008 by baudattitude

My wife and I have been going through a bit of a crazed organization phase recently, which has been helping enrich our local Ikea and Container Store to no end but which has also been making our apartment into a … Continue reading →

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