James Chamberlin

I watched a little bit of tonight’s new episode of the reality series Undercover Boss on CBS and was shocked by what I saw. One of the employees of an amusement park showed another employee some ideas he had for a ride and he didn’t pull out a sheet of paper and pen. He pulled [...]

A week has passed since my sale of DVDs and I’m glad to see each and every one of them has sold. I had 17 auctions and I look to bring in a little over $400 from them all. I could use the money right now. Now I just need to get the winners to [...]

Kudos to eBay for lowering listing prices lately. They’ve had 3-4 sales in the last two months and it really helps. I find myself more likely to list something if I can do either for free or for a reduced price. eBay still gets you when something sells, of course, but every penny I can [...]

It was nice to have some time away from writing for IGN. It’s always good to get together with family around Christmas. Now I’m fighting off a little cold which I came down with a few days ago. I don’t get sick very often. I’m usually pretty good about eating a lot of nutritious foods, [...]

The U.S. is covered with a big weather system this week. For me, it’s resulted in a fair amount of snow. I’d guestimate our accumulation to be about 5 inches so far and we’ve got another day to go, so I’m guessing that amount will be almost doubled when all is said and done. The [...]

There’s not much going on these days. The weather is about the most interesting subject to discuss, strangely enough. After a couple of days near 50 degrees, we’ve dipped back to 30 or below. This means any precipitation is going to be in the form of snow. Although I love snow, I’m not a fan [...]

My workout at the gym was pretty exhausting this morning. Although I was only there for 50-55 minutes, I managed to wear myself out with those exercises I mentioned earlier. My arms are tired, my legs are tired, and when I left the gym, my clothes looked like they were just taken out of the [...]

OK, so the monitor didn’t die, but it might just as well have. I can’t turn the darn thing off now. The power button on the front doesn’t seem to work properly anymore and the monitor is stuck on. I unplugged the monitor, but I’m not exactly loving this idea as an everyday way of [...]

Now that that one PC of mine has been cleaned out, it’s running much cooler. The fan above the heatsink has yet to spin up while doing something strenuous. In the past, anything that made the CPU work at 50% for more than a few seconds would cause the fan to spin up. It’s because [...]

One of the things, actually, the number one thing I hate about life is maintenance. I hate having to maintain everything. It doesn’t matter what it is. Something is always breaking down or getting dirty, requiring attention. Maintaining electronics is one of those things that I’m pretty good with, but blowing the dust out of [...]