Re-Jigged my desk again.. I like it more than the last two attempts.
Macbook pro on the left, can’t close the screen at the moment for a reason i’ll explain in a later post. It’s driving the 24-inch dell in the middle.
On the right is a 19-or-20-inch Dell LCD driven by the dual xeon linux workstation under my desk. It’s running ubuntu at a pitiful resolution at the moment because i can’t find a PCI-E 8x graphics card. Stupid diminutive slots.
In the lower left is my new MSI Wind, which i should post a review of at some point. It’s running Windows XP because i know the wifi card is troublesome in both Linux and OSX - i need wifi working when i’m in Berlin, so i’ll tinker with it after i’m back.
Archive for the ‘Meatspace’
Changed my desk again
Tidying
I’ve spent the last little while trying to sort out my shelves. It’s not going so well.
This is how they looked before i started:
Click the image to view the photo notes in flickr.
Even more geocaching
Headed off today to find the other two close geocaches. Score for the day was two for two, so things went well!
First one was at the old ruined kirk near my home.
This geocache included a series of puzzles - answered by wandering around the kirk and graveyard looking for certain things. After the answers were found, they were used to work out the next set of co-ordinates. Just as we were working out the numbers - we had to hide from a short but heavy deluge of hailstones.
It turns out that the co-ordinates were 5 minutes walk BACK the way we had come. So we decided to put it off till we headed back home.
Our next stop was the Braefoot battery, which i’ve visited a number of times over the years. I used to play there as a child, and i’ve visited recently to take photographs.
After a short search i spotted this:
A fairly large cache, which had obviously been visited by some kids in the past, made evident by the giraffe among other things.
I took some kind of Russian fabric patch, and left a little smiley badge - as well as my first travel bug!
On the way back we checked out the co-ordinates from the first cache, and ended up finding a small cache:
Which, as is apparently “usual”, included a golf ball!
I took a small yellow bouncy ball which had an amusing face drawn on it, and left an LED keychain torch.
All in all a constructive day.
Tags: geocachingGeocaching
Went on my first intentional geocaching trip today. I say intentional because i found one quite by accident recently.
I’ve been interested in Geocaching for 5 or 6 years now, but i’ve never had a chance to do it because i didn’t want to commit to an expensive GPS receiver which didn’t have the features i wanted. But after finding one while out on a walk i couldn’t resist, and purchased a brand new Garmin Etrex H.
A few days ago i went out hunting a nearby geocache, but after quite a while scrambling up and down rocks i gave up, wondering if i had inputted the co-ordinates wrong. Today we went back to the spot, and after a long while searching, and climbing.. We found it!
Yup, we couldn’t spot it either.. But here it is:
Very well hidden. The box itself had some kind of camouflage coating which made it very hard to spot. Not to mention the fact that it was in a cleft between some rocks, which you had to climb down to reach!
You can see the camo coating here. The cameraphone picture doesn’t do it justice, but trust me that the colour and texture were spot on. The only thing that gave it away was the corners!
The contents. It’s a dinosaur themed cache, and the guy who left it instructed all other geocachers to leave a drawing of a dinosaur in the log book. I didn’t take a photograph of my drawing simply because art is hardly my strong point. You can also see some plastic dinosaurs that had been left as geoswag, some coloured pens for the dino drawings, and …a golf ball.
I took something and left something, as is the spirit of geocaching. I took the rubber lizard and left an LED keychain light.
All in all, success!
Tags: geocachingThis could be the start..
.. of something beautiful
It’s a pyramid made out of blu-tac. Maybe one day it’ll be huge.
Here’s my new desk too. Looks a bit to the way it looked a few days ago. New desk which is finally suitable for my height (6′4), new monitor (24″ Dell), new laptop stand (griffin elevator), new speakers (cheap logitech 2.1 set), new mouse (logitech laser), new server (HP Proliant) and the corner of a new motherboard which i have to send back!
Note the 500gig western digital external drive fits perfectly under the griffin elevator. Weee.
Tags: blu-tac, desk, pyramid
