Your vs. You're Rap

Thanks, Mac Lethal.  He has a pretty good youtube channel.

This is good and educational, but don't think that makes it a bad rap.  He's rapping over the beat for Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye.

Couch Surfing: Potwin, KS

I've noticed that Couch Surfing says that many people have had their last log in from Potwin, KS.  I had a surfer roll through here and asked him about it since Potwin is pretty close to Emporia.  He replied that he'd been nowhere near Potwin (not even in KS).  Ever since then, I've noticed lots of Potwin entries.  I wonder if it's something to do with placement of servers or some sort of technicality that makes it seem like people are logging in from Potwin.  Check it out for yourself and see if you can find people logging in from there.  The population of Potwin is less than 500 people, so I'm pretty sure nobody else is actually logging in from there.  There are a crapload of "hosts" from Potwin on CS but they all have 0 references, 0 friends, and no profile photo.

Is this some kind of inside joke?

I found this page on CS explaining the Potwin thing.  Apparently it's a weird thing that happens with ISPs.  You might have to click the bottom hyperlink to expand and read the explanation.

LifeSaver Bottle

The LifeSaver Bottle is an amazing invention that can help so many people worldwide.  There's a TED talk about it that could blow you away.  It's basically a high capacity portable water filter.  It can make people in the developing world way more productive or provide convenience for outdoorsmen in the first world.  It's scaable, reusable, and possibly the best solution to the clean water problem that is available today.

Damn Good Bikes 2nd Anniversary

Today Damn Good Bikes celebrated its 2 year anniversary.  I went in to the bike shop after my office hours and it was fairly busy.  It's amazing how much the business has grown in  2 short years.  The first DGB Groupon(s) were released today.  It's today's featured Groupon.  I've been saying for a while that we should do one, but now the hshop has the man power to process a lot of service all at once.

Pick #299

Yndi Halda - "We Flood Empty Lakes" on Enjoy Eternal Bliss

See Your iPhoto Files in Finder

In the process of trying to backup some pictures to an external hard drive on my girlfriend's macbook, I ran into a bit of difficulty getting to the photos in order to copy them to the hard drive.  I did a search for photos and found them in the directory /users/NAME/pictures/iphoto library/originals/YEAR, but when I clicked through Finder to get there, double clicking the iPhoto library opened the iPhoto application.  In order to open the /originals folder, I opened the terminal and typed:

open "/users/NAME/pictures/iphoto library/originals"

Then you can peruse by date (or backup everything from 2011 and 2012).  If you know what year's pictures you want to see, you can type

open "/users/NAME/pictures/iphoto library/originals/2012"  where 2012 is the year you want.

Chromebook

I just took a leap of faith in Google and bought a Chromebook sight unseen.  Since my previous Acer laptop bit the dust for apparently no reason, I decided to go with the Samsung Series 5 3G Titan Silver model because there was a used one (like new condition) for $136 off the retail of $450.

I think I might have to adapt to the new keyboard and OS and whatever else, but that should be doable.  It has a ~7-8 hour battery life and a bright/glare reduction screen.  I'll write a review on it when I have a chance to use it more.  I might not receive the thing until next Friday, so don't hold your breath.

Guess I forgot to mention that the thing that pushed me over the edge to buy this Chromebook is that my desktop stopped working again.  My roommate thinks I have a bad motherboard.  His reasoning makes sense.  If I can deduce that motherboard issues are causing all my problems, then I'll buy a new MB and rebuild my desktop.  However, in the mean time, I am going all Chromebook.  I got an update on my order just now and it says that it should arrive on Monday.