Category: next to nothing

Recently I installed a Snap package of the Steam application on my Ubuntu 16.04. I read about it in a blog post and just had to try it out. I’ve been migrating my most used desktop applications into their Snap versions over the past year, so why not Steam too. It’s “cleaner” that way, or…

Just got this baby. It looks really cool, with a good amount of exterior details put into the model. This is not brand new. You can tell it’s not in mint condition too. But I don’t care, it still looks really nice! There’s no physical damage or missing parts (I think). Granted there is a…

One of the things I find quite nice on my Android smartphone is the Google news feed that it sends me consistently for my reading pleasure. This Android feature can be quickly accessed by swiping from the left when I’m at my home screen. I often do this, usually after I wake up. That is,…

This is an old-ish Star Wars series. I might have seen some episodes across different seasons, but I know I missed a lot. Then it was probably random viewings, never a commitment to watch this great animated series from beginning to end. Now I’m going to. So where to start but in Season 1 of…

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, here is a whole bunch of them. Should be a few thousands in value then? During the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) here in Metro Manila, I had no choice but to do some home cooking and some not. I have to survive and I didn’t…

It all begins with an impression. One that is captured through accurate electronic eyes. Every property, every faint detail of contrast and hue, of black and white, every sensation that depicts how light is reflected and perceived, is brought to an almost tangible state. Then stored with precision into countless tiny bits of digitized form.…

iFlix was recommended to me just over a month ago, when I was in the market looking for alternative video streaming services. I have never even heard of it before. But the name sounds catchy. It even rhymes with something else, doesn’t it? Like Netflix. They also have a 1 month free offer with no…

As much as I love to write, so it is when it comes to reading. Since I was young I have always been fascinated with books. Perhaps I got it from my father. He always was reading something for as long as I can remember. Until now. Lately I have been slacking in the “book…

I am a beer drinker. Definitely not wine. Whiskey is okay. Rhum I can handle. Vodka is something I would rather stay away from. But beer is beer. Perhaps my preferred alcoholic beverage by far. Beer is quite simple. Heavy to the tummy. As varied in taste as wines. Yet undeniably satisfying. For a long…

Wow, I’ve missed this space. More than a month into 2010 and I haven’t blogged anything not even once until now. Guess I’ve been really busy. Or maybe I was just too lazy to blog. I guess it’s time to get back. I still prefer to blog the traditional way versus Tweeting, and Google’s new…

A programmer was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, “If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.” He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, “If you kiss me and turn me back…

A barrio is a Spanish word which means district or neighborhood. In the Philippines it is the smallest administrative division or form of local government unit, and is officially referred to today as Barangay. In popular Bisaya slang, when someone says “barrio barrio,” it would generally mean that in a gathering, people are  grouping up…

tuesdays are “clean my room” days.  at least that’s how i planned it to be.  but in between doing something else, or pretending to do something else just so i can excuse myself from cleaning my room, and actually cleaning my room,  the first one wins most of the time. surpise, surprise!  i do manage…

just great!   just a week or so after my NVidia 8800 GT died, my primary hard drive becomes unreadable.  it’s an old 80GB IDE drive from SeaGate, where my bootloader and Kubuntu 9.04 resides.  it is a good thing i made the Windows drive the secondary.  at least the default option to write MBR…

April Fools’ Day or All Fools’ Day, although not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies, and neighbors, or sending them on fool’s errand,…