Well, I'm pleased to find that I interest you. Hell, why not email me and start a friendship, I'm sure you won't be dissappointed :) Assuming the sky hasn't fallen in, I promise you'll get a prompt reply.
The picture on the left is of me (obviously :). Unfortunately it is in B&W, but I'm afraid thats the only kind of scanner I could lay my hands on. For your convienience, I have blue eyes, dark brown hair, and an olive complexion.
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More Stuff About Me, Computer Stories and Anicdotes, Other Stuff
I happen to think that I'm a pretty facinating kind of guy. According to the Kersily personality test, my personality type is INTP. (Find out who you really are over here :) This basically means that I have an analytical mind, am introverted and easy going, and love to hack systems. Hence I enjoy mathematics, and everything relating to computers. I also have a creative flair, and take art as a school subject, as well as enjoying essay writing. Pop over here to read one of my zanier essays entitled Cabbage, or over here for a more serious work, or over here for an argumentative essay on the virtues of being a technofreek vs being a technophobe.
My current computer is an aging Cx486DX40 with 8mb RAM, a 212mb hdd, a VESA local bus graphics card, a Quad speed CD-ROM drive and a Mwave 28.8kps modem. The road we have travel has been long and interesting, and somewhere along the way my computer became known as Splonk. Hereafter lie the adventures of a teenager and his beloved PC, who have traveled where no duo has traveled before...
Splonk was purchased from the local computer dealer in the small town where I live, and by request assembled by me. Excitement was in the air, and after plugging the hdd cable in, and the floppy cable in, powering up, powering down and plugging the floppy cable in the other way around, I was ready to use my new, supercomputer (64 times faster that my old 286 ;) That new plastically smell in the air I formatted the hdd for the very first time. Rebooted, loaded up EDIT, and the computer died! AAAARRRGGG! Well, to cut a long story short, the computer had to be sent back to the suppliers, who fiddled in a more knowing way, flicked some jumpers and sent back a working PC. Not!, for some reason you couldn't load EMM386, and the screen was out of focus. Back again... Finally, a month ofter first contact, I finally got my working PC. Weeks of parading the superior speed to all my friends, and running fractal generation programs to show off the FPU followed. Aaah, those were the days... ;)
You know the expression Shit happens? Well it does, espcially in the computer world. On weekend a friend and I decided to format his harddrive. He had most everything on stiffy disk, however at the time his floppy drive was the bootable A drive, resulting in us making two bootable floppies, just in case of disk failure.
FDISK - that power of destroying entire systems with one keystroke -, reboot and stick in fresh bootable floppy.
After Simon had finished beating my head in, we returned to the question at hand. The situation: One unformatted hdd, a stiffy with the entire DOS directory zipped on it and no, repeat no, bootable disk in site. Two in the morning is too late to go and fetch anything, so we had to resort to the box of 360kb disks sitting dustily in the far reaches of Simon's cupboard.
Half an hour later, and we had them, one bootable DOS 2.0 disk, and a DOS 1.0 bootable game. Relics of an ancient past...
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Flipping pancakes: The real secret to flipping pancakes is in the batter mixture which you use. The ideal pancakes for flipping are unfortunately those thin yuky tasting ones. I guess you just can't flip you pancake and eat it... Those deliciously thick golden brown pancakes as a general rule, don't flip. Well, thats not entirely true, without exception, it is possible to make them leave the pan, but due to the fact that they do this in an un-uniform manner, it is almost impossible to control the direction of takeoff, and thus catching the pancake, or portions thereof is rather difficult..
So, once you have the correct batter, flipping the pancake professionally isn't hard at all. Once you're pancake is in the pan (you do know how to do that I hope :), and has cooked just long enough so that little bubbles have appeared in the middle, you are ready to flip. First, it is important to make sure that the pancake can slide freely around the pan. Should this not be the case, gently free the stuck bits with a spatula instrument of you choice. The flipping operation itself requires nothing more than a deft flick of the wrist, and careful repositioning of the pan to catch the falling pancake. Fortunatley for us, the pancake will turn upside down in mid air due to the fact that the side which was facing up is still wet, and is thus heavier than the side which was closest to the pan, causing the pancake to neatly flip over in accordance to Newtons laws of gravity. Once last tip. When flipping pancakes, make sure that the dog is in the kitchen with you, so that it can gobble up those pieces of pancake which fail to make their way back into the pan, before your significant other discovers them :)