Steel White Table

This is the time of year when every disenfranchised Canadian hockey fan whose team isn’t in the Stanley Cup finals must decide which is the lesser of the two remaining evils in the championship series. There are plenty of reasons, however, to wish both teams would lose. For the third year in a row we [...]

I found this recipe behind the fridge today (click image to enlarge). It’s a baked pasta I made up on the spot a few months ago. I’ve since made several variations of it, and it’s always delicious. The secret ingredients are cheese and ham — a.k.a. salt. Just don’t over-cook the pasta. Here’s what the [...]

It’s iceberg season in Newfoundland. One of my relatives sent me these photos, taken near Cottrells Cove, a small community on the Northern coast of the island.
Towering icebergs have floated near St. John’s as well. They’re quite a sight.

(click an image for larger view)

I inadvertently made fun of a mentally challenged person today. I’m going to burn in Hell. Or — assuming my ticket to The Big H was waiting for me already, which is a fairly safe assumption — one of those deeper, more painful inner circles of Hell. (I would imagine The Eagles Greatest [...]

The DeBroff DeBrief gave Steel White Table credit for an image they copied from one of my posts. I have no idea where I pilfered the image.
Almost all my images are taken from a search at Google Image Search; I never state their source. I think I will start doing it now.

Just when Albert thought he found his lost car keys, a cat landed on his keyboard. It caused a glitch, not unlike what happens when you accidentally put your hand in your pants to scratch an inch. I mean itch.
Then he looked up at what appeared to be a butterfly outside his window caught in [...]

Sleep Adjustment - Gain 10 days per year lists three things that worked for the author to optimize his sleep time:

Go to sleep when your body indicates it’s time to go to sleep; that is, if you’re tired, sleep.
What up at the same time every day.
Take a nap during the day.

I’ve posted about trying [...]

I went to a Boston Pizza in New Minas, N.S. last weekend for take-out, discovering the employees had a wardrobe I never saw before: low-cut, tight black t-shirts.
Waitress: Hi! May I help you?
Me: (staring at cleavage)
Waitress: That your son? What’s his name?
Me: (staring at another cleavage)
Waitress: Can he have a toy?
Me: (staring at original [...]

My 2½ year old son had left-over broccoli for breakfast: he took the container from the fridge, sat down in front of the TV to watch Arthur, then started munching the cold, damp broccoli like it was candy.
I would’ve taken a photo but my batteries were dead. Honest!

For Windows do this:

Go to the command-line: Start->Run, type “cmd”, and press Enter
Type the following, press Enter, then wait until it’s finished: dir /s /a-d c:\

You Apple and Linux people can post how to do it in the Comments section.
Post your total from all your hard-drives.
Here’s my work laptop. I’ll post my home computer’s [...]

Jenny and I are thinking of renting of a video game console over a long weekend sometime, preferably during a long weekend when it’s raining. We’re going to veg and play video games night and day. I’m talking about pulling out the futon and setting up the living room and not moving for the whole [...]

What would it be like to have Danny Schmidt play at your house? Maybe like this:

Or this.

After one week and 63 five-word comments, here’s how the Add Five Words collaborative story has worked out:
Just when Albert thought he found his lost car keys, a cat landed on his keyboard. It caused a glitch, not unlike what happens when you accidentally put your hand in your pants to scratch an inch. I [...]

Seeing how the Add Five Words story hasn’t completely self-destructed yet, I’m creating this post so you can leave comments about this story here instead of filing up the SWT message board.

Is there a market for old computer products? I have magazines, disks, and books from the 80s and 90s for technologies that are not in common use, like 16-bit assembly and DOS.
I even have IOMega ZIP disks, without the disk drive! I should throw that stuff out.
For you computer folks, do you keep [...]