Mister Dude
Welcome to MisterDude.com – A bolt from the blue.
May your journeys be filled with opportunities to stop and eat an apple.
– Brett Thorson
What you’ve found is nothing more than the ramblings of a guy who doesn’t have time to write a blog, but does so anyway. If it doesn’t fit into any of the other Cranial Thunder properties, and sometimes, even if it does… It ends up here.
Something weird happened when I was editing some video from the HFS20. As my system looked at the card, somehow it saw 17 minutes of video in 1 file on the SD Card.
This worked great until I copied the media to the NAS, and repointed Adobe Premier at the …
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We’ve got a Honeywell air purifier in the house, and while the lights on the device never said it was time to change the filter, after several years, it was time to change the filter.
The problem was that (of course) Home Depot didn’t carry any replacement filters in stock, …
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I’ve been up north watching all the reports from my friends & hackers that went to Black Hat & DefCon. I honestly felt sorry for them being stuck inside of a hotel or a bar in hot Las Vegas. Why? Because while they were sitting around one more hotel conference …
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I went to New York and stayed at the New York Hilton on 1335 Avenue of the Americas. Hotels.com has since been pestering me for a review. However, when I went to hit submit it said, please limit your review to 1500 characters. Right, because …
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So I’ve been having some troubles with my knees after a Disney injury. I really wish it was more exciting, but it isn’t. The orthopedic Dr. that I went to suggested that I get some Superfeet Green Premium Insoles. I looked around and picked up a pair at REI …
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There are two places I like to visit when I am in Williamsburg. For dessert you can’t beat Handel’s Ice Cream. Now, I grew up in Milwaukee, so I know a thing or two about ice cream, and custard. Our family was known to go to Kopp’s Frozen Custard …
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Just kidding, Panera Bread doesn’t work that way. But my latest trip there doesn’t get much better.
So I’m in Williamsburg doing the Great Wolf Lodge thing right? Not content to give ALL my money to the Wolf (save the evacuation of my wallet for the Mouse) we decided to …
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You know how you find a new band, and they come out with an album, and you are like, this is the best thing since deep fried macaroni and cheese with a chipotle ranch dip?
Then you get their second album, and it is all sand and eggshells with day …
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Update: 2013/02/11. I love LL Bean. They sell the best stuff, and what isn’t the best, they return. So that’s what I did today. In the hopes that someday, someone will make a radio that isn’t this confusing, I returned it. No questions asked. I of course, then bought …
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I don’t like my packages sitting out in front of my house, and like everyone else I order stuff over the Internet. So for this reason, I purchased a UPS box. The number the UPS Store uses to notify me of arrived packages is a google voice number. They call, …
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