Category Archives: Mr. Boy

Those timely hallows

Posted on July 13, 2007 | Comments Off on Those timely hallows

Mr. Boy is one of the lucky millions who Amazon is going to try and ship a pre-ordered copy of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," on a Saturday, the day of release. It’ll be interesting to see if it arrives.

"You don’t have to do a thing — just sit back and wait for the book to arrive on the day of release, July 21, 2007, guaranteed!*"

It’s the asterisk that usually gets you. But this one isn’t painful:

"…in the unlikely event that you don’t receive it on Saturday, July 21, we’ll refund the cost of the book."

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Mr. Boy’s dictionary

Posted on July 8, 2007 | Comments Off on Mr. Boy’s dictionary

Staticution: Being shocked by static electricity. Also see previous entry, Snickup, and further application.

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A child’s choices

Posted on June 29, 2007 | Comments Off on A child’s choices

Mr. Boy recently confided to me his life goal. It’s always satisfying when your 7-year-old trusts you enough to reveal his tender plans. He’s going to be a rock star. He’s not sure which instrument to play, but is leaning towards the guitar. His second choice is to be a spy. The kind that brings criminals to justice, he said. At his age, it seems very simple. All you have to do is choose.

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Global warming snickup

Posted on June 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Global warming snickup

Too funny. How not to measure temperature for the historical climate record. Yet, this is the way the feds do it. Al Gore? You need to look into this slap at global warming. Maybe re-edit your faulty biopic?

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Snickup

Posted on June 26, 2007 | Comments Off on Snickup

Snickup is Mr. Boy’s polite word for screwup. Unfortunately he now knows the impolite word, and we seldom hear snickup, anymore, which I rather like. But not the fact of it. I bought the new, self-inflating Stearns life vest at West Marine this morning, then settled down with the manual to see how to install the CO2 bottle and how it all works. But in my curiosity, I managed to break the little green plastic safety pin. I think I can buy a new one, but I’ll have to go back out to West Marine and see if they agree.

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Goblet of No-install

Posted on June 26, 2007 | Comments Off on Goblet of No-install

Mr. Boy has had a lot of fun playing the Harry Potter PC games by EA Games. But we finally hit a big snag. We can’t load/install the fourth game, Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire. Tried several times, but no go. It hangs on the second disk. Thought registering might help. It didn’t. New install programs always tell you to shut down all programs running in the background, but that would take some time, even to find all the little housekeeping stuff Windows XP has going and turn it off. Wasn’t necessary with the first three games. I suppose that’s the next, logical step, however. You’d think… Well, maybe not.

UPDATE  Finally, on July 9, we got it to install, by following EA Games’ advice to pull all the files off the disks and double-click autorun.exe. It worked! Now all that needs overcoming is the commnands, which are different from the other three Potter games. Why do you imagine? 

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The travelers return

Posted on June 20, 2007 | Comments Off on The travelers return

Mr. Boy and his mom came home today from her latest family reunion in Western Maryland. I had to relinquish the computer for a few hours so he could play his Harry Potter game after a week without. Mom started pulling weeds in the front flower bed that were encroaching on her cilantro. I’d been concentrating on the backyard while they were gone, when not blogging, working on the boat or editing a book of family stuff I’m doing for Mr. B. He was delighted to be home, went around kissing things, from his stuffed animals to the refrigerator where his artwork hangs. Blew kisses to the backyard where it is still wet because it is still raining off and on. He’ll go back to summer day camp in the morning.

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