Okay… I found a new site that I’m pretty interested in:  Instructables.   Basically people come up with ideas and provide some detailed instructions on how to make something.  They’ve got a pretty wide variety of stuff though.   Some really kooky stuff sometimes, but a lot of actually interesting things for people that like a little DIY.

Instructions on everything from food to home projects, to garden projects, etc…  take a look around or keep an eye on their RSS feed just to see what is being posted…

So this one caught my eye… Hungarian Shelves.  What a cool idea.  Basically I would put a vertical board on every stud across a whole wall, and then put shelves all the way across.  Some nice simple notching, no stupid “L” brackets, etc…  What a good idea!  That is if you have a ton of books I guess.

I have an issue with book shelves… I never have enough of them.   I put up what I thought at the time was a ton of shelves… by the time I got my existing books onto the shelves I was already out space and the books have already overflowed into a cheap 2 shelf bookcase (2 deep) and onto the ground in front of the shelves and the nightstand and dresser.  I like to read… a lot.

Here is the progression of my issue…

When we first moved in

So then I got these cool sort of end brackets from ikea and made myself what I thought was a ton of space… turns out i just barely fit what I had!

Brand new shelves! Look at all that empty space! Oh.... wait...

And now I’ve gotten even more books so they are piling up by the bookcase

The cup runneth over...

and into another small shelving unit

and over...

and onto my dresser (these are just my most recent ones that haven’t made it to the study yet)

and over!

So this doesn’t even include all of my wife’s books that are on two more 4′ high shelves in our closet…  I think the next house will have to have a whole lot more shelves for books.   Maybe I should just build a little library in our next house…

Okay… something about windows really really pisses me off. Today I have a service that gets stuck in a status of “stopping” but it won’t allow me to kill the process so that it can be restarted. So I am stuck in a state that allows nothing to work.

I am logged onto the machine as administrator. There is no higher level of permissions. I want to kill this task and it continues to tell me “Access Denied.”

Look…I’m on as the f’ing administrator… I should be able to kill anything on this system I want. I should *NEVER* **EVER** see the words “Access Denied.”  Tell me that someone has the file open and warn me… but damnit if I need to terminate something I should be able to terminate it. That is why I am the ADMINISTRATOR. If I screw something up then it is my fault… that is really the whole reason to have different accounts with elevated permissions.

<sigh>

I’m mentally preparing myself for a huge leap in how manipulate human genes…

First… I saw that you can now get a home test to look at traits, potential diseases, and also to trace your lineage by paternal and maternal genetics.  With a home kit for $399.   Awesome!  23AndMe.com

Second… I saw that someone had done some genetic modification on marmosets (which are apparently pretty genetically close to us humans.)   So they glow green under ultraviolet light…   Awesomer! BoingBoing

Third… These marmosets had babies… and the genetic modification actually passed to the children.  It was a permanent genetic modification.  Awesomest! Reason.com

Of course some stiffly stiffersons really don’t care for this sort of work.

“We should never do it in humans,” Chan said. “We don’t want to change our evolutionary path. That would have a profound impact on the next generation.”

Well… doesn’t basically everything we do have a profound impact on the next generation?  Burning fossil fuels?  Drinking pops? Cooking on teflon? Fluoridating  our water? etc…  I think it is a little short sighted to say that we should never do something.  Results of this could have a HUGE positive impact on the human race… let’s not make ridiculously sweeping statements before we even know what is possible or HOW it could be used.   The evil is never in the tool, but in how you use it.

“Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right” – Ani Difranco

Okay… this weirds me out….

Thank god it is on sale!!!

http://www.buy.com/prod/radio-control-interactive-alive-chimpanzee-wowwee/q/loc/20269/202504705.html

Two great posts about the abuses suffered when someone wore a Pen’s jersey to a home Flyer’s game.   hahahha

Tales of horror from Penguins Fan

More on Morons

My opinion as a Flyers fan?   Screw these assholes, Go Flyers!!!