Dead ViewSonic P815

Five years, almost to the very day. That’s how long it’s been since I’ve had my ViewSonic P815 Professional Series monitor. This once very expensive piece of hardware chose this afternoon to take its last, dying breath.
It had been acting wacky for [...]

At last that trip is complete! It actually went pretty well, but took a bit longer than we thought it would. Having a 1:00 p.m. appointment at the INS office apparently means you’ll be allowed to begin your three hour wait at 1:00, instead of 6 a.m. like everyone else. And here [...]

Back in 1996, a little company in Garland, TX called 3D Realms released a game that would change PC gaming forever: Duke Nukem 3D. While the technology behind Duke3D is dated at best by today’s standards, the addictive gameplay has rarely been duplicated since. And so it was with great amusement (and much [...]

So tomorrow I’m not going in to work—yay for me, right? Except for the fact that the reason I’m not going is because Apple and I are going to the INS office in Miami instead. Booooo. Well, fortunately, the INS has smartened up since we last saw their smiling faces—now, you can [...]

Come 2005, I don’t want to get stuck paying for a new car with a six- or eight-year loan. Committing yourself to that much debt for that long of a period is always something you want to avoid. So, the general idea was that we would buy (not lease) a new car to [...]

I’ve spent the last several years of my life feeling sorry for General Motors. The much-maligned conglomerate of American auto manufacturers has always turned out some of my favorite cars on the road—particularly anything under the Pontiac arrowhead badge—and I always felt they were unfairly criticized. Every car I’ve owned has been a [...]

Well, the site is finally online. And as of this afternoon, I’ve added a third style sheet to the list of selectable skins—another light-on-dark style, it mimicks the mostly violet style sheet I used to use on my old site. I’ve called it “Moonlight Knight,” in another symbolic method of linking it to [...]

It’s up. It’s 5:37 a.m. and I have to get up for work in less than an hour and a half without any sleep whatsoever, but it’s up.
If anything is broken or missing, please let me know. For now, I’m going to bed. I’m starting to think I hear noises coming from [...]

Well, perhaps this expensive lesson will teach GM to be more careful about selling rebadged Korean crap buckets: GM tells dealers to stop selling new Aveo entry-level car
The Chevrolet Aveo, a Korean-built, entry-level compact that conjures up lucid memories of the Daihatsu Charade (yes, that was the car’s real name), was part of Chevy’s big [...]

Such are the problems of a web designer. We’re never satisfied with our own blasted sites. In looking at the Oddball Update, I really don’t like what I see. Not that I ever did. When I initially put this site together, it was more out of a desire for a change [...]