I volunteered to setup the public address system for a magic show this past weekend with only a few days notice. Panic, right? Wrong. Musicmaker Rentals totally saved my ass. I don’t want to know what they are smoking over there, but they were totally cool to me. They made sure I got exactly what I needed and were willing to throw in nice extras like a backup battery for the wireless mic and extra long cables. The price was right, and all the equipment worked flawlessly!

Anyway, it was such a nice experience I wanted to make sure they got some love out here on the t00bs.

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I remember when I first saw a gigabyte drive. I freaked out. “The future is freakin’ here!”, I said.

Today at Best Buy I saw this external terabyte drive. I guess the future is still here.

To be fair, this is a case with two 500 gigabyte drives in it, but still. My first hard drive was an external 30 megabyte SCSI drive for my Mac Plus. It cost me $450 dollars (I was netting about $100 a week at the time!). This drive has more than 33,333 times the capacity. It’s likely 100 times faster. And it’s cheaper by quite a bit when inflation is factored in. Not bad for 17 years of progress.

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I was trolling around Wikipedia looking at stuff about runes because of my current favorite album (Gothic Kabbalah by Therion) when I found this article about the letter ‘thorn’.

Thorn - Wikipedia

I always thought that “Ye” was some Old English way of saying “Your” or something similar. WRONG. “Ye” is really a short hand for “The.” Basically “Y” was used as a thorn (which sounds like ‘th’) because the printing press type fonts did not have a thorn. You can see how the “Y” is a loose approximation of a thorn.

But anyway, “Ye” is just “The” and pronounced the same as “The”. It’s cool to learn something new!

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I moved my blog to my own host. This will let me do whatever I want instead of working within the limitations of wordpress.com. Let’s see if I actually do anything

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