Static Electricity

11 June 2009 | 18:50 | 1 Comment

Something about lightning still fascinates me.. I spent some time last night taking photos of the storm from my veranda. Sadly, I kept over-exposing a number of excellent looking lightning strikes.. by the time I got things all figured out, I had only captured two strikes that were not particularly amazing. *sigh*

Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike

I enjoyed the time just sitting outside in a chair at night too.



Sorry :-)

19 April 2009 | 18:26 | 2 Comments

“Sorry :-) ” is what the post-it read, which was affixed to the driver side door.

sorry

I suspect this to be the escalation of what was my one of my neighbors’ drunken friends throwing wine onto my apartment door. I confronted them about it and told them to clean it up, but they gave me every excuse they could come up with about how it wasn’t them, wasn’t one of their friends, must’ve been some random stranger, ok-maybe it was our friend who had wine, but it’s still not our problem.. I ended up cleaning it myself.

However on the 11th of April, I contacted the local police with a noise complaint, which almost escalated into their door being kicked down by BPD. Ultimately they got fined for the noise, were given a slap on the wrist for the bowl of marijuana, and BPD didn’t bother to ascertain anyone’s age (except for whoever claimed to be the renter of the apartment).. Go BPD!

As far as I can tell, the scratch was placed while I was out riding my bike during the day on this Saturday. The car beside mine had not come or gone for some time and still has not, so I find it difficult to come up with any other scenario for how this occurred other than deliberately. I also find the post-it note quite peculiar because of the smiley face; I can only assume it was to rub it in my face.

I’d like to open the floor to suggestions of what to do, thanks.



Burning It Up

9 April 2009 | 6:07 | 1 Comment

I awoke to a rampant beeping noise from my living room. My computer had crashed and rebooted, and the video card was complaining of me not having connected the extra power cable to it. Since I had not fiddled with the cables, I was confused. My first thought was a bad power supply (it just recently crossed the three year mark), so I started disconnecting things, and it worked for long enough to reboot and have windows get upset about the video card. Then I decided to switch connectors to the video card and saw this:

burntcable

Believe it or not, the video card still works.. *confused*