Monthly Archives April 2006

Boot Camp? The world will never be the same.

Apple’s “Boot Camp“. The modern day apocalypse of a Windows OS running natively on a Mac. Will miracles never cease?!

I can’t resist.
I started on computers when you had to walk inside of them in order to make a repair (well almost) and I’ve been working on them ever since. With that said… [...] Read more »

Sneeze a “C” cell?

My lady turned me on to a story about the latest development in the battery improvement area. Virus built batteries.
Here’s the news article from Gizmodo

Viruses Engineered to Make Batteries
READ MORE: Batteries, Gadgets, Viruses, research

“Researchers have engineered viruses to attract metals and spin them into battery components.
Modifying viral genes so the outside viral layer would bind [...] Read more »

Cats among us

One thing I can definitely say about my life these days is that home is best possible place to be. Life with my lady is grand to say the least and just to add a bit on the entertainment side of things are the two clowns that believe they have the run of things. Our [...] Read more »

Lost in the translation

Under Reconstruction

It seems that something was lost in the trip over from blogger especially in the area of the imported posts soooo…I’m going to have to fix.
Please be patient. Like most of you, I have a day job and I’m still new at this. I barely had a chance to get a handle on Blogger [...] Read more »

There’s always a first time (once again)

A first time…(Reprise of my first post in my first blog)
Crawling, walking, talking, making sense and of course…knowing when to shut up which is usually a lot harder to do than making sense which is what I’m trying to do here.
Everybody got that? If you didn’t don’t worry, neither did I.
My name is Kirk, which [...] Read more »

Newest Hybrid (or bad genetic engineering)

Apparently there seems to have been some cross breeding (pollination?) gone awry or possibly some amateur genetic engineering going on in somebody’s basement but I received an email with a picture of the end results of this basement experimenting. Either that or the guys and gals at Burpee’s badly need a change of pace [...] Read more »

Goodbye Blogger

After many recent frustrating experiences with Blogger where my blog “Conversation Lost” is located I have decided to move the whole thing over to my new WordPress Blog “Just Thinkin”. It just plain works better and since a lot of bloggers are defecting to WordPress it just seemed to follow suit.
All the posts previous to [...] Read more »

Spring has sprung (or almost)

“Spring has sprung. The grass has ris’. I wonder where the flower’s is? ”
OK. So it’s not quite as “Springy” as the picture above might indicate but it is April 1st and it is 65 degree’s outside and a nice warm rain is due tonight and that will [...] Read more »