There’s a Value Village thrift store in Shrewsbury that’s being displaced because the plaza it’s in–the same place I used to go to buy Commodore gear–is going to be demolished to make way for a Wal-Mart Supercenter. Whether Shrewsbury needs a Wal-Mart Supercenter when there’s one six miles away is another question for another day. [...]
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Value Village and Affton could be very good for one another
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 23, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/04/value-village-and-affton-could-be-very-good-for-one-another/
R.I.P.: Netbooks
The last two netbook vendors standing, Acer and Asus, have both announced they’ve produced their last netbook. So they’re joining the Playstation 2 in the land of the digital dinosaurs, though I suspect more people will miss the 12-year-old game console than the netbook. The Guardian has an analysis, but basically they blame the emergence [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 1, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/01/r-i-p-netbooks/
Teleworking on the cheap
As I’ve mentioned recently, my new job allows me to work from home one day per week. They provide me a laptop to take home, but that’s it. If I want other hardware, I have to provide it. Fortunately for me, I was able to outfit my office on the cheap.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 13, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/10/teleworking-on-the-cheap/
The phone in the fridge, from generation to generation
We took our kids to a good friend’s birthday party this weekend. Unlike the last birthday party they attended, we only had one meltdown, and it was relatively minor. When I heard the unmistakable sound of two mini-Daves screaming at each other, I excused myself to investigate. My boys were playing with my friend’s daughters’ [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 29, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/09/the-phone-in-the-fridge-from-generation-to-generation/
Advice on scraping by
Here’s a good, timely Google search query: scraping by advice. I looked, and I’ve never written anything that matched that query well. I know a lot of people are hurting right now. I’ve been in some tight spots and I’ve gotten out of some, so let’s talk about what I would do, on a really [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 17, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/10/advice-on-scraping-by/
Confessions and rememberances of an Amigaholic
My name is Dave. I am an Amigaholic. I thought I was recovered. But I don’t think you ever recover. Not really. You see, this week I was trolling Craigslist for garage sales. I look for trains, toys for my boys, and other things that strike my fancy. I spotted a sale that advertised an [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 15, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/10/confessions-and-rememberances-of-an-amigaholic/
Help someone plug a computer into a TV, become a criminal
Digital video is confusing. You get some clear advantages, since signal degradation becomes a thing of the past, but if you’re not someone who works in video for a living, it’s difficult to keep it all straight. And standards are a problem. You can’t just assume that two devices will work together because they’re both [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on July 14, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/07/help-someone-plug-a-computer-into-a-tv-become-a-criminal/
Garage sale strategy: Go where the hordes aren’t
Today is one of the biggest garage sale days of the year.
An old, established, and relatively well-to-do neighborhood nearby has a tradition of doing a massive 4-block yard sale every September. People put it on their calendars. You never know what you’ll find there.
I went somewhere else.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 18, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/09/garage-sale-strategy-go-where-the-hordes-arent/
Improving DSL speed
I found some DSL speed tips. They work. If you have DSL, you should read them and do the same.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 30, 2009
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2009/05/improving-dsl-speed/
Thrift-store PCs
In the comments of a recent post I did, reader Glaurung Quena brought up a good topic: secondhand PCs, acquired cheaply, strictly as rebuild fodder. I like the idea, of course, because I’ve been doing it for years. In the 1990s I built a lot of 486s and Pentiums into former IBM PC/ATs, basically until [...]
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/12/thrift-store-pcs/