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Stand By Me from David Johnson on Vimeo.

So I’ve been trying to branch out a bit.

Last weekend I went to a techno dance club.  Never done that before.

Yesterday at dinner I left the pickles on my burger.  I still don’t like pickles that much, but I have to say it does change the taste of the burger a whole lot.  It wasn’t unpleasant.

I am a new man.

I played it for a grand total of three hours.

Kotaku reports that Disney has slated a new Tron movie for 2011, and it will be in Disney Digital 3D.

I have watched Tron at least one hundred times in my life.  When I was a kid I would beg my mom to rent it every time we went to Video Station.  It is probably safe to say it is one of the reasons that I grew up to like computers so much.

So I just got back from dropping off some of my old computer stuff at Goodwill.

It was not the experience I expected.  I thought maybe I would get a thank you.

What I did not expect was to be berated after hesitating when I was told to just throw my 80 pound CRT monitor into the bin.

“They pull them all apart and just recycle them”, they said.

“But it still works fine”, I said.

“So?  No one uses those old dinosaurs anymore, and I’m not going to be the one pulling that heavy thing out of the bin either.”

Next time I’ll just give my stuff away on Craigslist.  Hopefully then it will actually get some more use, which I thought was the whole point of Goodwill in the first place.

Ed forced me to do this typing test. The way they do scrolling is infuriating though. During the last 10 seconds it scrolled the line I was typing off the top of the page.

Here’s my results:

Number of words typed: 245
Test duration: 3 min
Speed: 81.6 words/min. (408 keystrokes/min.)
Error penalty: 0
Accuracy: 100.0%

Take that Ed!

My faithful computer of five years died a horrible death last week. I’ve tried all I can and it still won’t even post bios. A dead motherboard or CPU on a five year old computer means only one thing.

Time for an upgrade!

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