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Our little princess

matte — Fri, 20 May 2011 03:11:51 +0000

Penny wearing a little tiara a friend at work gave her. That’s MY work, not Penny’s.

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Thought these were tights at first

matte — Sat, 14 May 2011 19:00:26 +0000

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Really Netflix?

matte — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:32:40 +0000

Picture kinda says it all? On the Netflix website you can’t use the word “Netflix” when writing a review of a movie.

I was reviewing the copy of The Sound of Music that Netflix rents. Cathy hasn’t seen it (I KNOW!!!) and so I rented it. It’s a crappy 4:3 cropped version with a bad transfer. It’s not the 40th Anniversary copy in beautiful 2:35:1 Cinemascope. Guess I’ll have to find it somewhere else.

Because two photographers in this house aren’t enough

matte — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:41:44 +0000

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They don’t make beer cans like they used to

matte — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:28:44 +0000

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This label makes no sense

matte — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:00:02 +0000

So you can either remove this label after installation of the large metal control box it is affixed to OR leave it on so people know that it’s top-heavy and dangerous to open without precautions. Hmm. The universal question. Safety or aesthetics.

And how comprehensive is the "Large Enclosure Handling Manual"? Does it, say, cover handling a Boeing 747? Because that’s a pretty big enclosure. How about Dolly Parton’s bra? That encloses some pretty large items.

I’m very dissatisfied by this warning label. Heh.

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Safeway does not want you to be buying more than one

matte — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:44:47 +0000

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I’m not sure what I should be feeling about this

matte — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:56:01 +0000

Are they trying to tell me something?

How to fix the Windows desktop context menu after installing Samsung MagicRotation

matte — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:21:33 +0000

With the new computer setup I have at work, I needed to have one of my monitors rotated 90° so it would fit until a better solution was attempted. The desktop wasn’t rotating though because I hadn’t installed Samsung’s MagicRotation software. So I did.

After doing so, I noticed that the context menu on my desktop was way screwed up. All the text had shifted over to the right and was unreadable.

See? WTF? The “MagicRotation” ~~spam~~ branding is pushing the text to the side. Luckily the solution was already on the web. Thank you megacorp search engine starting with a “G”

Turns out if you are running TortoiseGit and/or TortoiseSVN then you need to turn off the icons by adding some registry keys. These are safe additions but as always, backup your registry before attempting to mess with it.

Just add a DWORD entry at either “HKCU\Software\TortoiseSVN\ ShowContextMenuIcons” or “HKCU\Software\TortoiseGit\ ShowContextMenuIcons” depending on the programs you are using. It should have a hex or decimal value, doesn’t matter which, of “0″ (zero).

After that, just wait a few seconds and your context menu should be readable again, but without the icons for those programs. A small, and IMHO welcome, compromise that I can live with

Stoli enjoys some wine

matte — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:41:15 +0000

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