Well….not quite. One of my ghost shrimp now has eggs. Inside them are babies. Unlike the shrimp themselves, the eggs are not clear. They are bright green. How weird is that? I took about 25 pictures, and 3 of them turned out pretty good. They are the first 3 in that album. You may have to view the full versions to actually see the individual eggs. I’m going to have to do some more reading on how to care for the babies. Hopefully, I can find some way to keep them alive, but feeding may be a problem, as they are likely to be very small.
Category: Shane
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windows xp on a second hard drive
This is just a little note to myself (and to anyone else who may have this problem in the future). Windows refuses to boot unless it is installed on the first (primary/master) hard drive in your system. For most people, that’s not too big of a deal, but I’m installing it on the second one. Fortunately, GRUB (a boot-loader for linux) has a work around for this:
title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader (hd1,0)+1The 2 lines beginning with ‘map’ are the key to making this work.
Note: this should also work with other versions of Windows (2000/98/95), although Vista may be a completely different animal.
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effulgence
A fancy word to describe Christmas lights: shining forth brightly. In that vein, I’ve finally posted some pictures of our Christmas lights. So far, I’ve only posted the outside ones. I’ll have the rest up by tomorrow morning.
Update: The rest of the pics are up, along with a few updated pics of the new house (in the New New House album). We spent (are spending) Christmas with Amanda’s parents. We had a super time going out to eat, gabbing, and opening all sorts of presents. I took pictures (of course), and they are also going to be in the Christmas 2006 gallery. I’ll start the upload now, and let it finish overnight (oh 56k modem, how I love thee…).
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zero plus
Terms that should be mutually exclusive. Also, terms that should not both be appended to the name of a soft drink.
Frequently, I get surveys for points at mypoints. Today was one of the first times I actually qualified for said survey. The last round was for some Microsoft garbage, and due to my obvious bias, I didn’t answer the questions to qualify correctly. Anyway, the one I took today was for a Coke product that had no calories, but yet was an energy drink. I’m not sure how this works exactly. In fact, I’m pretty sure this wasn’t even a real product…yet. My favorite part was when they listed the pricing scheme:
20 oz. bottle: $1.29
2 liter bottle: $1.09
12-pack (12 oz. cans): $2.99
That’s amazing! You mean I can pay more, and receive approximately 40 ounces less? Neat! Rad! Awesome! The sad thing is, that’s pretty much the way things are, and there’s still no revolution. Revolution? Good grief, it’s only pop. Maybe sometimes I get too worked up over things… Nope, I don’t think so.
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ghosts
Well, last night I decided to spend some of my Christmas money, and I bought 10 ghost shrimp. I actually ended up with a freebie, since the lady dropped one on the floor. This morning one of them was dead, so that may have been the one. They’re cute little guys, so hopefully neither the mollies nor the frog will pester them too much. They’re pretty small too, so you’ll probably want to view the larger pictures.
If you look close, you can even see the heart (the little red blob behind the eyes).
