Ok, I’ve finally found a Kindle Cover that I’d love to have. Incredible. But $75 is still more than I’d like.
It’s more ($99), and I don’t know what you’re looking for, but I absolutely love my Cole Haan leather cover (saddle tan, pebble texture). It’s so classy and masculine. It makes me happy every time I use the Kindle. I don’t regret spending that amount of money for it.
If this is truly the cover you want, don’t let the price tag discourage you.
ok, here’s mr. facts:
considering a kWh cost of $0.15, 8.0 hours of usage/day, all lumen outputs equivalent to a 45W incandescent:
considering that an LED will run for 34 years without burning out at the above usage, the following 34-year costs can be determined:
now, if one were to borrow against the amount paid for a light fixture’s 34yr lifetime icd bulb requirements, one would net $695.70. now, if one were to invest that $695.70 into even low-ass yield t-bills (one would have to chip in $4.30 though, t-bills are only available in $100 increments), over the course of 35 years (three 10-year t-bills reupped, followed by a 5-year) one would have an ending balance of $2,428.38.
none of the above takes into consideration that nobody would ever use a lowball t-bill to do this, more likely a mutual fund or hell, you could get .75 oz. of gold or 3 shares of apple stock. whatever, just know that however you invest that almost $700.00 it will be more than quadrupled by the time your $10.00 led finally kicks the bucket.
and remember, this is just for ONE lightbulb. you know you can replace at least 5 incandescents currently burning in your house/apt./barn/business/butt.
so yeah, deeeeeewwwwww eeeeeeeeeeeeeettttt.
What are your recommended LED bulbs? I’ve only ever seen very dim, very expensive ones. $10 sounds optimistic compared to the ones I’ve found.
Yesterday afternoon when I landed, I didn’t even need my coat. In fact, I took it off because it was a whopping 43˚ above zero—a temperature I haven’t felt since literally late Sept or early Oct.
I can tell you’ve been in Alaska for a while because you specified “above zero”.
Anonymous source describing Apple’s pending table, Silicon Alley Insider (via davidkaneda)
Can’t wait to see the Apple table! It’s going to kick the Microsoft Surface’s ass.
Lovin’ HTML5. Pretty much everywhere, it’s gonna be hot.
Then I don’t need a jacket!
I have an Xserve that’s still on 10.4. It runs a web app with a typical MySQL database backend. Both on metal.
This morning the DB got so slow that the app server started returning “timed out” error pages.
Ungood.
So I dumped the database, created a new Debian VMware instance and loaded up the data. I ssh port-forwarded metal’s
3306to the new VM and restarted the apps.Yesterday it took around seven seconds to vend a page. Now it’s back under half a second.
I wonder what I’m doing wrong that MySQL on OSX metal is an order of magnitude slower than MySQL on virtualized Linux.*
Could it be the default settings on Mac OS X Server 10.4 are that much worse than the defaults on Debian 5 Lenny?
Mac OS X’s file system is a lot slower than Linux’s, but I don’t think it could explain this much of a difference.
*You may assume I did the obvious things before migrating the DB from metal to VMware: restart the server, dump+reload the DB, etc.
I’ve never looked too far into it, but I can’t get MySQL on OS X to even keep up with slave replication from masters with similar hardware and moderate to low loads.
Something’s not right, but there’s probably too little demand for it to be adequately figured out yet.
Without even following the link, I looked and that and knew it had to be from Pittsburgh.
Winter pro tip:
- plug the bathtub drain
- fire up the hot water through the shower
- point box fan (got mine for $20 @ home depot) at the tub/shower
Best humidifier, EVER. Leave the box fan on, even after you turn off the shower. The water in the bathtub continues to evaporate and give relief from winter dryness.
Update: picture above is of my parent’s house in Michigan a couple of winters ago.
I did something similar in my extremely dry Pittsburgh apartment: shower on, box fan in the door to the bathroom blowing in, rest of apartment humidifies within 20 minutes.
What do you do when your walls start bleeding?
Most landlords react quickly when you tell them that there appears to be a water leak in the wall/ceiling, given how expensive water damage can be.
