more photos.

more photos shrunk and uploaded. the "set" (as flickr likes to call them) begins here.

pix.

so i only got 6 photos uploaded and flickr told me i had used 58% of my monthly upload capacity. whoops. gotta get photoshop installed so i can shrink the rest of them down.

but anyway, here's a link to the first few. also, i always forget flickr reverses the order in which you uploaded them, so scroll down partway to start at the beginning of the sequence. it starts at "high water line." more pictures coming, i promise! enjoy :)

flooded out.

i am home from work today because the east branch of the perkiomen creek has flooded out most of perkasie, and they have blocked the bridges i need to get over to get to the office. i've been hearing sirens and helicopters all morning. there's another one overhead right now. according to my office when i called, they're effecting an evacuation of the apartment complex across the street, which backs right up against the creek.

the sun has finally come out however, and i think i'll to try to walk down that way in a few hours and hopefully get some pictures of the destruction *grin* unfortunately by that time the water will have gone down probably (ooo...future perfect!), but i'm not a good enough photographer to snap pictures while firemen are waving at me to go away.

happy summer.

it has come to my attention that i forgot to wish everyone a happy summer on the solstice last week. so. happy summer.

if you can find any in all this rain.

packet loss.

i have nothing to say. but at least we are no longer losing 40% of our packets so i can inform everyone of this.

liquid crystals.

ever since he bought his powerbook, he's been wanting an external widescreen LCD for it. so when a friend pointed me to a deal on 19" widescreens, we figured, hey, why not?

i found out why not. Viewsonic 1912wb LCDs do not scale. at all. if you want to display any resolution other than the native, you're pretty much screwed. this is a problem for me, because as far as i'm concerned, the purpose of having a nice monitor is to play games on it. and i don't want to play games that are all stretched and smudgy because viewsonic has decided to not even allow the monitor to process the signal from the video card.

it has been RMAed and replaced with an Acer AL1917, which can scale, but isn't widescreen. i'm not used to widescreen anyway, and i don't really need it. and this monitor has a more normal resolution, and it scales DOSbox perfectly. no more stretchy badness.

only one problem remains: i can't balance my monitor dragon on top of an LCD.

[edit 11:43PM: no, the dragon is not my zodiac animal. i just thought it looked cool. also. there appear to be no dead pixels! ^_^ ]

also, it's been three weeks since we quit smoking. yay!

cat!

will you please stop chewing on plastic shit??