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Triple, Quad Layer Blu Ray

by crazyskills on Jul.17, 2010, under uncategorized

blu ray
Yes yes. Quad layer blu ray discs (BDXL) are coming! We’re talking about 128G on a single disc. The only real problem is that conventional players will /not/ be able to read them!?

More @ slashgear.com

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beer ;)

by crazyskills on Jun.05, 2010, under stream of consciousness, uncategorized

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it’s better to be thoroughly sure.”
-Czech Proverb

“The government will fall that raises the price of beer.”
-Czech Proverb

“Mmmmmm. Beer.”
-Homer Simpson

“Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chambers of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.”
-Edgar Allen Poe

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”
-Dave Barry

“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.”
-Humphrey Bogart

“People who drink light ‘beer’ don’t like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot.”
-Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

“No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.”
-John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough

“Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
-Winston Churchill

“If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.”
-Jack Handy

“Everybody has to believe in something…..I believe I’ll have another drink.”
-W.C. Fields

“Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.”
-Dave Barry

“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
-Ernest Hemmingway

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.”
-Martin Luther

“He was a wise man who invented beer.”
-Plato

“God made pot. Man made beer. Who do you trust?”
-Restroom in The Irish Times, Washington DC

“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.”
-Frank Sinatra

“Work is the curse of the drinking class.”
-Oscar Wilde

“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
-Frank Zappa

“24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?”
-Stephen Wright

“I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.”
-William Shakespeare

“Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers.”
-Cliff Clavin, of Cheers

“A quart of ale is a dish for a king.”
-William Shakespeare

“There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.”
-Willie Nelson

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
-Oscar Wilde

“I work until beer o’clock.”
-Steven King

“Beer, it’s the best damn drink in the world.”
-Jack Nicholson

“I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.”
-Babe Ruth

“I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.”
-Charles Bronson

“If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they’re full.”
-Dave Mustaine

“Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.”
-Thomas Hughes

“Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.”
-Arnold Schwarzenegger

“My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.”
-Casey Kasem

“The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they’re the ones falling down the most.”
-Jay Leno

“You can’t drink all day … unless you start in the morning.”
-Gary Larson

“To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life’s problems.”
-Homer J. Simpson

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Digital Ins

by crazyskills on Aug.30, 2009, under uncategorized

Note to self (and anyone else interested):

Though the Creative Labs X-Fi Elite Pro has both optical and RCA digital in jacks, they are not intended to be used simultaneously. Having devices plugged into both of them will cause you a world of “Where is that distortion coming from?” even if you are not moving data through them at the same time.

I was wondering why I was having occasional distortion problems and rebooted machines, tried different cables before I realized maybe using them both together might not be a wise plan. Use a 1/4″ stereo - RCA adapter in one of the front input jacks on the breakout box for the lesser device.

So there it is. FYI.

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919

by crazyskills on May.31, 2009, under uncategorized

Seems I can get away with about anything as long as it is done in HTML mode. “Punctuation!” seems to be a problem with posting in Visual mode, but seems ok here.

We’ll see how this all works out. If I need to write for the craszyskillsbloginitiative using only the HTML layout options, that is fine. Strange how Visual stopped working a few days back and strange that changing my template didn’t fix it. I wonder if other users of donetblog are running into issues with being able to post as I am.

Third paragraph, “quotes” punc tu ay’ tion. . . We’ll see.. If this works, we have found a workaround.

It does now appear that this is working properly, so it is an issue I am experiencing in the Visual mode. For the time being, this workaround will do.

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Oh, You Know

by crazyskills on May.11, 2009, under uncategorized

I was just surfing around and came across the best word / phrase on urban dictionary (love that site):

urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=big+sandwich [urbandictionary.com]

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DNA Evidence

by crazyskills on Apr.18, 2009, under uncategorized

“…a search for a female serial killer, whose victims were in Austria, France and Germany, was ended recently, when police discovered that the DNA of the suspect belonged to a women who packaged the cotton swabs used for testing.”

http://tinyurl.com/cxg7qh [google.com]

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The Single Best Piece of Software - Ever

by crazyskills on Apr.10, 2009, under uncategorized

As a developer, I could not do my job without it!

www.iconico.com/colorpic/

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Nonsmokers Live Too Long

by crazyskills on Apr.08, 2009, under uncategorized

the story [ap.org]

“WASHINGTON (AP) — Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too - by living longer.

“…smokers die some 10 years earlier than nonsmokers, according to the CDC, and those premature deaths provide a savings to Medicare, Social Security, private pensions and other programs.”

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Human Achievement Hour

by crazyskills on Mar.28, 2009, under uncategorized

“The Competitive Enterprise Institute plans to recognize “Human Achievement Hour” between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on March 28, 2009 to coincide with Earth Hour, a period of time during which governments, individuals, and corporations have agreed to dim or shut off lights in an effort to draw attention to climate change. Anyone not foregoing the use of electricity in that hour is, by default, celebrating the achievements of human beings.

We salute the people who keep the lights on and produce the energy that helps make human achievement possible. “

http://cei.org/human-achievement-hour [cei.org]

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Never Before Released Star-Trek TNG Episodes

by crazyskills on Mar.14, 2009, under uncategorized

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We recommend An Uneventful Day [jandrewedits.com]!  Enjoy!

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