Turns out we're idiots...

...turns out that Thanksgiving isn't next week. It's the week after. We had reserved room in two different hotels, my out of office time, as well as arranged boarding for the dog. Not to mention having tonight made the dough for pie crusts.

Really glad we had that conversation with Peter and Cheryl, otherwise, we'd have found ourselves on the road to a thanksgiving that was still a week away!

Happy days from artard central.

The 50 Skills Every Feek Should Have

http://gizmodo.com/5078829/the-50-skills-every-geek-should-have

(Items in bold are ones I have accomplished.)

1. Install a hard drive in a laptop


2. Perform a clean OS install on a machine with two OSes


3. Swap out the battery on your iPod/iPhone


4. Jailbreak an iPhone


5. Wire your house for Ethernet and Coax cable


6. Use BitTorrent and RSS to automatically download new shows from trackers


7. Use an A/V receiver to its fullest capability (every port is taken)


8. Calibrate an HDTV without the manual


9. Use a DSLR in full manual mode


10. Hack the encryption and mooch your neighbor's Wi-Fi


11. Solder cleanly enough to get around a circuit board


12. Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point


13. Shove the guts of a modern game console into a retro game console


14. Design a webpage in HTML by hand that features a picture of your cat


15. Use Photoshop to imperceptibly doctor a photo


16. Abstain from buying extended warranties


17. Know where to buy cheap cables and accessories


18. Fix your parents' computer over the phone without looking at a computer


19. Enter the Konami code


20. Comment on Gizmodo from your phone


21. Type quickly using T9 texting


22. Program a universal remote


23. Contribute code to the Linux kernel


24. Hide porn from your significant other


25. Avoid DRM on everything


26. Know how to back up your data to networked storage—and actually do it


27. Watch TV shows on the internet for free


28. Edit together digital video ripped from YouTube


29. Play any SNES game on your computer through an emulator


30. Reset expired trial software by messing with the registry


31. Hackintosh your PC


32. Download pre-release movies from Usenet


33. Hack the Wii to play homebrew games


34. Get around web content filters on public computers


35. Get into a Windows computer if you forgot your password


36. Securely erase your data so it can't be recovered


37. Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network


38. Build a fighting robot


39. Write your own Firefox plugins


40. Navigate and reorganize the files on your computer in DOS


41. Get something on the front page of Digg


42. Get through to executive customer service


43. Rip a CD to V0 quality MP3s


44. Rip a DVD to DivX


45. Build your own computer from parts


46. Swap out the hard drive in your DVR for a bigger one


47. Get an NES cartridge working again by blowing in it


48. Calibrate a 7.1 surround-sound system


49. Play downloaded games on a Nintendo DS

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