I guess the DampRid ultimately did the trick.

Anyone purchase a laptop in the past year or so and care to share their evaluation?

Fittingly, I discovered this worm tonight. I’ve seen all sorts of insects in my house over the years. This is the first worm. I’m guessing Herman picked up in the backyard. Anyway, I let the worm out on the front porch. I can’t harm a worm.

Toastie: I work in IT.

Oh, so you fix people’s computers?

Toastie: No.

My two-year-old HP Pavilion laptop developed a crack in the screen hinge. I lived with it for a couple of months. I could have tried to send it in under the two-year warranty I had. But I didn’t want to go without it for a few weeks. I’d live with it. Well, a couple of days ago, the crack got a lot worse. The screen half broke off from the rest of the laptop.

My solution: duct tape.

My solution: FAIL.

My back-up plan: buy a new laptop.

My back-up plan: fiscally irresponsible.

Plan C: grab the nice 19-inch monitor from the old desktop that I never use.

Plan C: WIN.

See, I don’t know how to fix anything, with the possible exception of broken Remedy workflow, and you have no idea what means, nor should you, since it’s not exactly an in-demand skill.

I wonder if I can get a trademark on SuperClock.

If you’re usually reading this on Facebook or through some other feed reader, you really don’t care.

The marriage of Match Game and Hollywood Squares in 1983 was the most dynamic union of two entertainment juggernauts in history until Michael married Lisa Marie.

So far, with my existing junky antenna, I can get the signals from the local Fox and ABC affiliates. But this is great; it’s the first crystal clear signal I’ve enjoyed since I dumped Dish and Time-Warner 15 months ago.

If I can get an antenna that allows me to pick up all the local stations, I think I’ll be happy with free programming on my 27-inch RCA “TruFlat” CRT for many years months to come!

UPDATE This evening, I’ve messed with the super-duper RCA antenna I had gotten some months back, and it is now working superbly. I get 23 channels, which is really like 5 stations x 4 channels per station, but it’s basically what I was looking for. Between football and Three Tenors Christmas on PBS, there are plenty of choices for background pictures and sounds.

UPDATE #2 I spoke too soon. Just saw a commercial for a new Howie Mandel show “Howie Do It” in which the perplexingly-successful network television star plays practical jokes on audience members, such as by telling a man he has just spilled the ashes of another man’s dead wife. Hahaha. Maybe I don’t need TV afterall.

Nothing says “celebration time” like a big win on the 100K Pyramid, which aired at a time when you had to be really good at something to win a lot of money on TV and not just some greedy schmuck who’s lucky enough to pick the right briefcase.

For the benefit of The Google, if you’ve got a page that displays fine in Firefox but badly in IE, it might be because you’re stuck in last millennium and using to many margin attributes when padding attributes will suffice, and the margin attributes are being rendered differently in different browsers.

Whoever can tell me how to fix all this gets their choice of…hmm…let me have a look around…

some 37-cent stamps

the O’Reilly book “Learning CGI Programming on the World Wide Web” (circa last century)

a bound copy of my homeowner’s policy from Unitrin/Kemper

a big Yankee candle jar still with 8% of the wax left (“Lemon Lavender”)

a week of free advertising space on Toastiest (a $0.0099 value!)