Of windows, bows, and geekiness

So today I am going to write about a smattering of things. Why? Because.

Windows:
Today we got new windows put in our apartment! Yea! They look great. In fact, they look so great that I am hesitant to put our old grimy blinds back on them. They look like they need to have new blinds put on them to go with their shiny white paint. But I doubt the apartment complex is going to put blinds in too. Sigh... oh well.

Bows:
Rochelle already told some of you this, but we recently had a bow (as in a bow and arrow) left on our door. Huh. Weird. It isn't a normal thing to walk out of your house in the morning, and discover a bow standing in your way. Normal people don't have that experience. We do. Not only do we have bow placed on our door step, but they are placed there the morning after we watch Robin Hood. Yeah... go figure. I don't know. So we have left a note on our door saying that if somebody out there is missing their bow, and would like to have it back, we have it. I have to admit though... I kinda hope I get to keep it. Wouldn't it be cool to have a bow? Why? Because.

Geekiness:
How nerdy are you? I found this great test that you all need to take and tell me how nerdy your are! http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php



I think I am actually probably more nerdy that this thing suggests, but then again, maybe not. Being married changes some of my answers, but I guess Rochelle does make me less of a nerd. And I think it is likely that this web site gets a lot of nerdy people on there... so if I'm more nerdy than 84% of them... then I think I rank pretty high! ;-)

Now so I can continue to prove my nerdiness, I'm going to tell you about some of the nerdy things I use.

So I expect this will be the part that you all can tune out on. Just skip to the next paragraph please. The following is a list of geeky tools that I found recently that have come in handy to me, and that I like. By the way... all of these tools are handy, but depending on your nerdiness, downloading them and installing them will likely do you very little good.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com -- A boot CD for all occasions. It come in very handy in case of emergency with your computer. What can it do? All sorts of things. In general, it has like 10 mini operating systems that it allows you to boot from that can help you to fix things on your computer. Do I use it often? No. But there were times where I couldn't fix a computer without it!
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm -- rip ISOs, burn ISOs, copy disks. So if you download the ultimate boot cd above in the format of an ISO, you can use this great little tool to burn it to a disk. You can also make back up copies of all of your disks with this thing.
microsoft iso virtual cd --So... if you use the above link, you can have CDs saved on to your computer. So with this link, you can use those saved CDs like they were real CDs. I know, I'm strange. But imagine instead of having to search for that software CD that you bought a year ago, simply opening up the folder on your computer where you save all of your CDs, and clicking on one of them, and ta-da! Your computer thinks it has that CD in the CD rom!
http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2 -- edit the html of your thunderbird email in your favorite text editor. So if you know html, and are ever frustrated that you can't use html in your emails, now you can.

Well... Rochelle is telling me it is time to go to bed, and so I probably should. And I'm sure that if I wrote anything more here, that it would only continue to show the world how entirely nerdy I am. Not because that's really what I want to talk about, but because that's what I do all day, and it is hard to think of other stuff to talk about some times. So... next time I write, I'll have to come up with something profound.