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pseydtonneI have this luxurious bed as my prison. I'm tired of sleeping. I'd rather have visitors come over and talk to me. However, I'll simply pester everyone by phone instead because no one really wants this flu.
I get to play with two electronic devices today (other than this laptop and either of my phones... sheesh, I have a lot of communication devices). The first is my digital thermometer, which told me a few minutes ago that my temperature is 100.3F. Since I usually run 98.0F, this is enough to give me hope that the buggies are being killed by my body heating up.
The second toy just arrived from Hong Kong. A smuggled bride? No, a USB 2.0 to IDE cable! This thing lets you plug in a 2.5" hard drive (the kind you find in laptops) and power it straight off the USB port. It also has a normal IDE port on the opposite side of the dongle, so that I can plug in a normal desktop hard drive, CD-ROM drive, burner, DVD-ROM... you get the picture. You have to plug in an external power supply, but that came with the kit as well. Dude! This rocks -- I can get a drive set up for an older machine without having to shut off the bigger machine that will set it up. I can test drives for defenestration in seconds rather than minutes.
Okay, too much excitement. Back to sleep for me. The geek stirred but the energy wasn't there.
-klonk, Dante
I get to play with two electronic devices today (other than this laptop and either of my phones... sheesh, I have a lot of communication devices). The first is my digital thermometer, which told me a few minutes ago that my temperature is 100.3F. Since I usually run 98.0F, this is enough to give me hope that the buggies are being killed by my body heating up.
The second toy just arrived from Hong Kong. A smuggled bride? No, a USB 2.0 to IDE cable! This thing lets you plug in a 2.5" hard drive (the kind you find in laptops) and power it straight off the USB port. It also has a normal IDE port on the opposite side of the dongle, so that I can plug in a normal desktop hard drive, CD-ROM drive, burner, DVD-ROM... you get the picture. You have to plug in an external power supply, but that came with the kit as well. Dude! This rocks -- I can get a drive set up for an older machine without having to shut off the bigger machine that will set it up. I can test drives for defenestration in seconds rather than minutes.
Okay, too much excitement. Back to sleep for me. The geek stirred but the energy wasn't there.
-klonk, Dante
