The pool table got delivered unexpectantly Thursday. John and I assembled it today and the box really wasn’t lying when it said it was easy to assemble. It really was. Besides, all the screws and all, it also had glue included that I put on all the underside stuff. It was basically Elmer’s glue. hehe

Anyway, after the glue dries, we’re gonna flip it over and get it going. Soon after that, I’ll have the billiards cam up and running.

I know I’m still young, but I can still feel myself getting older… the fact that I don’t stay up til all hours of the night, and now I find myself listening to the talk radio-type stuff in the morning on the way to work sometimes, instead of immediately popping in a CD.

Well I think I solved my computer lockups that have been plaguing my PIII as of late. I have a two monitor setup on it.. which is absoulutely sweet for things like Photoshop and just for the fact there’s more desktop room to spread out the apps on.

Anyway, recently, any time I left the computer idle for too long, the right monitor turned into these gray and black rectangles and the computer had to be rebooted. I updated both sets of video drivers and so far, so good.

Now if I could figure out why my work laptop on bootup, starts up HomeSite, WS-FTP, IE and Opera, I’d be set. I already checked the startup folder (for all users) and the registry… it’s so weird!

I just gotta say I’m a new fan of Google… never used it before this past month or so. Latest example — I have a sweet Sony digital camera and love it to death, but it didn’t seem to have a timer function. I even **gasp** looked in the manual. In the index, it would be under “T” for Timer or “S” for Self-Timer? Nope.

So I go to Google, type in the model number and find it within a page or two. Turns out that it’s in the manual under “U” for Using the Self-Timer. Makes perfect sense, right?

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20001/006/26/locking_up_the_web/index.html

As long as I’ve used the Internet, this has been one of my biggest complaints/pet peeves:

I use various newsgroups and am on various mailing lists. Obviously these lists mean people have some interest, occupation, hobby, etc. in common.

A lot of times, that seems to be superceded by these attitudes, lack of manners, etc. It really annoys me! You’ll get someone who’s just subscribed to the list, or just doesn’t have the hours in the day that some of these people do to read and study each and every message. If this person happens to post a question or whatever that’s already been posted, people jump down his throat.

What really made me mad the other day was that it was the moderator of the web desiger’s list I’m on!

I did a paper in school senior of college about the lack of social skills and inability for the common computer geek to interact on a normal social level. Every day, I come across more and more examples of this. **sigh**

Found a cool Japanese car info site… has about upcoming cars and all, including a little piece about the new Toyota Supra, the Celica convertible, the S2000 hardtop and hte S2000 4 door. Check it out:

http://www.j-cars.net./home.htm

Here’s a funny, but true checklist for today’s Web designers:

http://www.ovumdesign.com/deepfreq/chklist.html