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On the avoidance of being too tired to move, and the iBot

I've had more and more people asking me lately about my symptoms -- just what are they, people wonder. My guts tell me that this is not something to write about, but after 39 years on this planet I've decided that if I have learned anything, it is that Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

On not discrimniating, and on overheating an iBot

Horrendously, stupendously, tremendously off-topic!!! I do not believe in discrimination. It is I think fairly important to point out this simple fact today. You'll see why in a moment. And you might want to take me to task by the time you're done reading Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

The error is in the premise (aka garbage in, undefined out)

Yesterday, Eran asked (via the Contact link): Shalom, I apologize in advance if this is the wrong way to report this issue. I've waisted two hours trying to figure out how to use Connect for this, to no avail. Being an occasional reader, contacting you Read More...
Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments
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Search engines still don't know what it is, or more to the point where it's @

I do try my best know what it is, and where it's at, as this makes me seem more in touch with things, you know? The other day, Joe asked: A friend of mine asked me the following question and I don't know, so I thought I'd see if anyone in here had an Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

If it ain't a soup question, keep it the hell out of the room

The other day, in "What kind of soup?" is not exactly a soup question, is it? , I mentioned that I might have a technical example of the issue of Not exactly a soup question, is it? so think of this blog as me finally getting around to doing that. It Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Vegas as the safe bet

Disclaimer: I am not an expert or even an inspired amateur in the financial world, and am not claiming to be here. I was thinking about Las Vegas the other day. Not the actual Las Vegas but the one from Oceans 11, which somehow seemed more real than the Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:51 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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"What kind of soup?" is not exactly a soup question, is it?

It started with an expression. One I got from a movie. The name of the movie was Finding Forrester . This is a movie I liked a lot, though this is about one thing in particular. The relevant dialog from the movie, between William Forrester (Sean Connery) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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The Funk is no longer facile (aka George Clinton @ ShowBox Sodo)

It was supposed to be a magical night. I was given tickets for a show by the funk master George Clinton down at the Seattle Showbox. My musical tastes often confuse and occasionally frighten people, but in this case whether one is thinking about Parliament Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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It doesn't matter if those folks were gonna screw me since some other folks already did!

Nothing technical, you know the drill.... This blog is not going to be about politics. Well, not really. I'll mention politics a bit but hopefully not enough to rile up the kind of people who get riled by such things. If I'm wrong, I'm gonna ignore the Read More...
Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Is this blog safe for work? (aka Sometimes you gotta say 'What the rżne!')

Although Microsoft tries to be more transparent and give people more ways than ever to contact them, not all of those methods include the formal training of the handoff . Now the handoff is very important because in many or possibly even most cases, the Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

On not getting arrested for rolling under the influence

Very very very very offtopic. I can barely excuse myself for writing it; your reading it is simply unacceptable.... There are always multiple sides to any story. And the subject of this blog is no exception. The issue is the way that drunk driving or Read More...
Posted Monday, August 10, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

English is just another language -- so Windows 7 released all 36 at once!

In case you haven't noticed from the other gazillion blogs and tweets, Windows 7 released today. Windows has released a bunch of times, so what makes this one different, exactly? Well I could be boring and explain at length why it is the best, most secure, Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 11:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Pretty damn closer to top of the line

You may have heard that Windows 7 RTM'd the other day.... There were two machines of mine that I hadn't yet tried to upgrade as I was waiting for OEM support first. One of them was my Dell Precision Mobile Workstation, the one I mentioned in Pretty damn Read More...
Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 13 Comments
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No disassemble #5! Redux

This blog has its roots (obviously) in its predecessor ( No disassemble #5! ). In that blog I described the method I had been using to safely transport myself and the iBot all over the country. And by safely I mean safely for the iBot, circumventing many Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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Suddenly the chair looks smarter and I am the one with the control issues

Just about every day I learn new things about the iBot. Mostly it is just consequences stuff, like when I think through logically how it works I understand why this new understanding is something that just logically makes sense. And of course each day, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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