This is an hour and 45 minutes of my evening while tracking my mouse’s movements with IOGraphica. The lines are the cursor’s paths, and the dots are where the cursor stopped moving. Now I’m feeling self-conscious about where I leave my cursor.
The police blotter for the North metro contains less meth than I expected, but just as much WTFness. Here are the funnier ones:
Blaine: “A man called police to his home in the 11200 block of Terrace Road NE. because he said his neighbor continually blows his snow into his yard and onto his privacy fence. Police spoke with the neighbor, who the report said declined to change his behavior and requested a ticket. The police issued a citation for littering.”
Coon Rapids: “Someone called police to report hearing seven gunshots fired in a hallway in the 1800 block of 105th Lane NW. Police set up a perimeter and entered the building. Officers found broken balloons in an entryway and believed that to be the cause of the sound heard by the caller.”
Fridley: “Police responded to a report of a smell of natural gas coming from an apartment in the 1100 block of 52nd Avenue NE. Police did not detect the odor of natural gas, but did detect the smell of dead fish. An officer advised the fire department of the findings.”
Mounds View: “Police responded to a call of a vehicle in the ditch in the 2600 block of County Road I. A 22-year-old Mounds View man was arrested for third-degree driving while intoxicated.”
The high-quality version of an unreleased, (probably) The Fame-era track was leaked online today. This is the link to download Retro Physical, but I don’t know how long it will be functional. (Note that it was leaked by Burim, so it has the obnoxious, “Burim exclusive, baby!” watermark at a couple points within the song.) “Retro Physical” is the song that Lady Gaga dances to (~50 seconds in) during this old video, and has been a piece of Gaga apocrypha for years.
Here it is, if you’d like to listen without downloading (file is not hosted by me and may disappear):
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Last week, I noticed that my laptop’s fan didn’t seem to work and my computer was running much hotter than usual. I booted up into the Apple Hardware Test, and ran a test. It quickly gave me an error (4MOT/1/40000002: Exhaust-0) that essentially means, “Your fan is dead. And you might want to check on your logic board, too.”
Since my computer is under warranty, I brought it to an Apple store and let them deal with it. They confirmed that the fan wasn’t working and that I needed another one. They warned me that it could take up to 5 days before they were done with the repair. They weren’t sure if they would also need to replace the logic board, but they would go ahead and order both parts anyway.
It ended up being much less of a hassle than I expected it to be. All they needed to do was replace the fan so I got it back a couple days later. Everything has been working fine ever since!
I have nothing substantial to add to the discussion/fear-mongering surrounding the latest snowpocalypse, except to make fun of how weather forecast models are usually these ridiculously two-dimensional, 8-bit-looking pieces of crap:
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