Sometimes when you look at the picture your camera took, all you get is white. I always thought it was because it was positioned too close to the subject or I had something obstructing its field of view. But I recently had a use for it that proved this isn’t the case. The flash just seems to flash brighter sometimes. My church had some kind of a critter loose in it. I volunteered to trap it in a humane trap…
Allured by the promises of belonging to Amazon Prime, I just signed up for my free trial. They tell you: Free Two-Day Shipping Free borrowing from their Kindle Library Free Streaming of Videos The last item is the least important because I don’t think we have a computer beefy enough to be able to stream effectively. But I do borrow eBooks from the library, so the free Kindle loan was tempting. At the moment, I’m really into the Discworld books…
I belong to a lot of forums, and I’m always really frustrated at their search functionality. Sometimes I want search for a word in just the title, but they don’t offer that as a choice, even in the advanced setting. Sometimes I want to search for something, but it tells me that the word is too common and won’t let me. (That might be true if I’m searching in any post content, but there shouldn’t be that many instances in…
I have to admit that I’m pretty new as using my Kindle. I just discovered something called Project Guttenberg that has a catalog of something like a million free books. But their webpage is a little convoluted. I finally waded through all the text to find directions on how to get the books on my Kindle. So here you go: This step you just have to do once. Open your Kindle web browser by doing the following: Press Home Press…
My brother and I got my mom a DVD player for Christmas a few years ago. All of a sudden, it just wouldn’t turn on. Don’t know what I ever did without the internet, because Google revealed that it’s a common problem with a simple fix. You just have to replace the capacitor component 316. I was very intimidated by the words capacitor, board, and solder, so I left it to my brother to fix—the MIT grad. But MIT grads…
I’m starting this post even though I don’t know the outcome of my search for a dog door yet. We have a traditional dog door in place that our dogs have to push open. Louie has no problem with it, but Bobby has never figured it out in over a year. If he really wants to go out, he’ll push it open without thinking about it. But he has never gotten the hang of pushing it to come back in….
So from my very brief tour of YouTube speed cubing videos, I’ve decided to try to learn the Fridrich method. This seems to be what most speed cubers use, including Feliks Zemdegs, the current world record-holder. Her method is also known as CFOP which stands for Cross, First two Layers, Orientation, and Permutation. More on that in future posts. Let’s just say that the first thing she does is create a cross pattern on one side. Most people by convention…
So, ok I’ll admit it, when Rubik’s Cube first came out in the 80s, I was really into it. (When my mother told my husband that I used to grease my cube, he called me a nerd). I remember buying a book on how to solve it (it was called Jeff Conquers the Cube in 45 Seconds. You can still find used copies on Amazon). My fastest time ever was about 27 seconds if I recall correctly. I even went…
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