Lolart. Please understand this reference.

I take pride in this one.

Again. More lols.

Checkity check it!

More lolart. The scat-job of the artistic community.

The truth.

What could she be talking about?

lolart

The first attempt at “lolart”. I know, not that original. Just a test subject, if you will.

We All Scream for lolart.

What the hell.

I just want to point out there we are getting an ass-ton of blog hits just because Delgado is awesome and figured out how to fix her computer. Now -everyone- and their shitty computers are coming here to read how to fix it.

Not fair.

And yes, I’m totally jealous and disheartened.

Now something random.

I googled "bacon dance" to get this. First hit.

So what do you do when life gets a little too hectic?

You drink. Plain and simple. Or turn to drugs, ’cause that’s always a good option too. End sarcasm, begin tangent.

TANGENT: While looking at some truly magnificent photography in my History of Photography class, someone called out- “Were they on drugs when they were doing this?!” Now, to the wretch’s defense, the work was pretty trippy. For example, Sandy Skuglund’s “Maybe Babies”:

Totally awesome, right?

However, the second I heard that comment I bristled. Why? Because FOR THE LOVE OF DUCKS, why do imagination and talent have to be associated with drug use? Can’t someone be brilliant, and not need to huff on a joint, or drink themselves into oblivion, or shoot crack into their eyeballs? I find it very sad that creativity must be dogeared by drugs. The astounded wretch from my class is not the only soul to do this, so I feel my anger is justified. For the record, as far as I know, Sandy was not on drugs when she did this work, or her many other (imho) beautiful pieces. She also creates all the props herself, now that’s talent.

End tangent, begin point of this post. After the cut…(psst, there’s a drink recipe coming up, so keep reading!)

Life in a godless time, Swimming in nihilistic soup, or Rise of the Ubermensch…err…Kind of:

HELLO SNACKERS! This is my first contribution to the “feed” so umm, yeah, lets get to crunchin’! The Harvery is mad, he’s angry, and he might just be a little upset.  NOOOOO…why would he be mad? What could he possibly be upset about? Well, you know…just about everything! Instead of getting blogged down by such an expansive topic as “everything” I’m instead going to focus on that small cross section of the “everything” we like to call “the state of the world”.  Yay, hooray…Timmy pass the balloons over this way! The Harvery presents:

Life in a godless time, Swimming in nihilistic soup, or Rise of the Ubermensch…err…Kind of:

Observations from a corner table.

*Warning: ADD alert. I bounce around a lot in this one.*

*Napkin One, Side One*
I sit in a MacDonalds in Yonkers, NY as I write this. It is being scrawled on a series of napkins.

Maybe I’m putting the napkin to better use by saving it the indecency  of being smeared across a morbidly obese twelve year old’s grease caked face. Or maybe I do it a disjustice by not allowing it such an end for what it was so intended. I don’t know. It’s been a while since I communed with the Napkin Deities.

Maybe this should be on Delgado’s “Theories” page…

So I have this theory, you can call me a bigot, a racist, what have you, fuck off. My blog, my opinion.

Anyway, the theory: If from this point on, for the next thirty or so years, no one ever brings up skin color, any difference in race, any type of hatred for someone who’s different, those generations down the road will not know of that difference that so plagues our society to this day. Granted, in order for that to totally happen we’d need to avoid some history and stuff in schooling, but maybe it’s not a bad idea. And, should any kid, of his own volition, come to the conclusion of different being bad, we teach him otherwise.

New Dell Studio Laptop Problems! Oh no!

Hey all you out there in hopelessly-wired-and-dependent-on-technology land! I’ve got some interesting news to share, in case you are like me and happen to own one of the new Dell Studio laptops, and you woke up one day, went to turn your laptop on, only to find that:

-The Media keys up top aren’t lighting up or responding.

-Typing on the keyboard is very difficult with certain keys, or all keys, requiring repeated hard pressing to get recognition from your computer.

-A super spazzy touchpad.

Edit 10/24/08: I’d like to add to the list of common problems, a cooling fan that is just positively roaring for no good reason.

Apparently you are not alone. A quick google comes up with evidence of other people experiencing the same problem, and also evidence that Dell knows about this issue, yet doesn’t have a solution. One of the user comments I came across suggested powering off, taking out the battery, and holding down the power button for ten seconds, replacing battery, rebooting. This supposedly “cleared static buildup,” whatever to that, it worked and that’s all I care about.

More information pending for those of you that are concerned or care, or have a shiny new laptop like me and want to know what the hell is going on. I’ll also get around to scouring the web and citing my sources. I’m a firm believer that technology should work, end of story. When it does stuff like this, malfunctioning without user interference, then there’s almost nothing more frustrating.

So I’ll get back to you, weary technofiles. As far as I’m concerned, if Dell knew about this they should’ve sent out some e-mails giving a heads up to people who recently purchased their product. Since that’s not the case, I’d like to do what I can to spread the word.

UPDATE 9/10/08: One of our commentors, Jo, got Dell to remotely update the bios and drivers on her laptop, and that seemed to fix the problem. So for those of you who are finding that the battery trick doesn’t do it (my dell hasn’t given me trouble since, maybe you’re also a lucky one) then looking into a bios and driver update could do the trick.

UPDATE 9/18/08: Here are some particularly helpful comments I’ve recieved as of late. Putting them in the main body of this post so that they are more easily accessible:

Kev77 – I have had is one week and the same problem. Just updated my bios from A02 to A05, looks good so far.

Queenie – I had the same problems. I have the studio 1535, keyboard and touchpad are not working. The best way to fix this problem is go to go through Dell Live chat support. Agent will remotely connect to your laptop and update your drivers. If you currently have BIOS A02 then you definitely need to update to BIOS A05. Agent might also or I would suggest to have him/her reinstall your Dell Touchpad driver as well because updating the BIOS alone may not solve it completely. ***There may be a lot of people on queue but even if it says “your’e #50 on queue” should still take less than a minute to connect with an agent. Goodluck!

Further edit 10/24/08: I’d just like to add that I am not a fixer-of-computers. I can’t even take credit for solving this problem on my own laptop, I found someone else’s cool trick. And also I’d like to relinquish any responsibility for how any of you out there might take this information and use it, because this is the internet, and gosh darnit I do not want to get sued, or accused by some jerk for messing up their computer. (But seriously, don’t hold me accountable. You do whatever you want, I’m just throwing out some amassed data and suggestions. It’s like religion. You can’t blame God because you stubbed your toe and he created the rock that did it. Or..maybe that’s really off and I’m really tired.)

Recentest latest right now update 12/4/08: First of all, thanks to everyone who continues to share their experiences with the blog and each other. I’m sorry I can’t reply to everyone, to be perfectly honest my priorities lie in the realm of finishing up my first semester of senior year with all limbs and brain matter attached.

So to those of you just stumbling upon this information now, the comments below are the best place to go to learn about the laptop problem, and possible fixes. It doesn’t seem that anyone has found The One Solution to these issues, which now include the sound system just not working. If it’s any consolation, I’ve had both the touchpad/media keys/keyboard problem, AND the sound problem, but the sound issue resolved itself. I still owe the use of my computer to that battery trick, and by the grace of Thor I haven’t had the problem recur, though I know others are not so lucky.

So best of luck to those of you still struggling with customer support or your laptops (whichshouldbeworkingfromthegetgogoddammit!).