So, today I picked up a movie Ratchet. This guy:

I am inordinately happy about this. I always had Transformers, but just the Hot Wheels-sized ones… this thing is comparatively huge. Will be a great addition to my desk at work (I’ll be so popular!). Think it’s time to clean up, though… There’s a limit to how many awesome things fit on one guy’s desk.

In other news: Two months to Fedora 8!

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Disclaimer: This in no way resembles my own job

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Just a heads-up to anyone who uses headphones with their PC very much.

This is a picture of the laptop I use 99% of the time:

See how the headphone/microphone ports are right next to a pair of USB ports? With nothing between them?

I was distracted just now while plugging in my headphones. Managed to miss the hole, and stuck the plug in my USB port instead. BAM, computer was immediately hard-shutdown. Not sure what got shorted out, but I would have lost any unsaved work. Luckily, on rebooting everything seems to be working fine.

Now to dig out one of my old beater desktops and see how many “mistakes” like this it takes to do permanent damage

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