one-third as forgetful as before
Help! I bought more memory for my computer, but the BIOS seems unhappy with it. Is there a switch somewhere on the motherboard (Asus K7M) that I have to flip?
Later: So I called the shop that built it. (Oddly, the office number on the invoice is bad, but a toll-free number for the workshop, which I jotted two years ago and iirc never used before, is still good.) A voice said no, there’s no switch, if your BIOS is unhappy the card is no good.
Rats.
Later still: I traded it in for another card. My box is happy now.
it’s somewhat like working
Well, well. The firm where I temped for one afternoon in October – where I did exactly one task, and then spent four or five hours enjoying hi-speed Web access – wants me back for holiday week. I wonder what I did right.
Moore’s law applied to marketing – of movies?
I understand that all three parts of LotR were shot together. I wonder, though, whether a producer of an effects-heavy series might think it wiser to make the parts in order, so that the last part won’t suffer by comparison with other films that appear in the same year but use somewhat more advanced effects. (I noticed some differences in effects quality between the two Potter chapters.)
it’s only a sitcom — it’s only a sitcom —
Last night I watched Red Dwarf series VIII, and was struck by an injustice that nobody seemed to notice: Captain Hollister blamed Rimmer and Lister for the dinosaur, created by Kryten’s clumsy use (encouraged by Kochanski) of the time-wand – of which Rimmer and Lister were entirely ignorant until after the fact.
