It’s just occurred to me that I’ve been wearing headphones for the past half hour with nothing playing. … Cue Electric President. And Electric Skychurch, for the sake of efficiency. Efficiency with efficacy. I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean, but it’s alliterative and that’s really the point anyway.

Illness sweeps the campus. And, consequently, the cafe staff. Which is perfect, you know, given the amount of food and drink that we handle and distribute. There’s a little mono tossed into the viral pool, and I’m really hoping I don’t end up with that. Should probably be more careful who I’m making out with. >_>

Angst-laced jests aside, we did figure out a new way to clear out the drainage lines of the espresso machine. The solution involves some plastic tubing, a tank of compressed nitrous oxide (why we use that for whipping cream is beyond me) and liberal amounts of duct tape. My only regret is that the stuff isn’t easily incinerated.

you can’t speak, but I hear you calling
and I’ll come back for you

Fix one computer, and they start lining up. (Even at a tech institute, which surprises me.) A guy down the hall wanted to try Ubuntu. We subsequently bricked his laptop in much the same fashion as I’d done with mine. The fix should therefore have been fairly simple, having been already established. The trick: it had a sata hard drive. The XP boot disc doesn’t come with drivers for that, and the Vista dvd loads crcdisk.sys the same way that the installed os does. Surprise. The solution: ubcd4win. Worked beautifully.

But yeah, I have a tablet sitting on my desk with a hd hanging out the back. It won’t get past the bios with the drive plugged in (“opop”? what?), and apparently sata drives aren’t as hot-swappable as they’re supposed to be. The difficulty with this machine is that one can’t specify that it try to boot from usb before the hard drive. The boot order can be changed, just… not that part. I don’t know why. PXE is the only thing left to try, and if that fails, it shall be declared a dead hard drive. So sorry. Next.

Aww, you can’t reset your Windows password?

Today’s photos are from a dying ventilator in this floor’s garbage room. I just realized (idiot, idiot, idiot) that my monitor doesn’t have the colors tuned quite the same as my laptop screen, and that one (or both) is (are) off from the norm. … I have no idea which one is more likely to show what you the viewer are seeing. Therefore, if the colors attack you, I am sorry. It was not of malicious intent, and I probably meant them to be less voracious.

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Three Panel Soul. Go there.