I was just daydreaming about something like this robot today when getting ready for work. My original thought was, "Remembering those supposedly uncontacted aborigines from several months ago, how could we observe them without disturbing them?

This in turn made me think of some kind of robot that could either scale trees or had an attachment that could scale trees in order to gather sunlight for power, capture and transmit video, communicate with a remote station, etc.

Note: I'm not saying that we want to observe them, or that if we did want to that we should. It was just a random daydream.

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1. Classic Space Legos.
2. Aliens. Ripley, awesome spaceships, crew, ATV, etc. Brickarms.com already has "colonial space marines". Xenomorphs, eggs, queen, movie sets, etc. Oh and especially the Colonial Space Marines' Drop Ship.
3. Predator. First movie, maybe second. Not AVP. Predator ships, maybe jungle scene or two.
4. Deadliest Catch. The ferry boat they already have made me think of this. Crab pots, characters from the TV show, etc. Maybe a dock.
5. Terminator. All four (fourth is forthcoming) movies. No blood or gore needed. Some town sets would work with this anyway.
6. World of Warcraft. Each race could be legofied, their mounts, select characters from the lore, etc. My favorite would be the engineering helicopter mount.
7. Nearly forgot this: Firefly, from Serenity! And their little vehicle. And the pursuing vehicle. And even the enemy spaceships, one or two at least.

By the way, many of these ideas have already been done by fans, the problem is I can't go to the store and buy them - but I would, if I could.

I saw this: "Aut viam inveniam aut faciam" here, which deals with far more serious issues than I will ever face. It still applies to much of my work however - today a colleague came to me with a problem - he couldn't get Adobe Photoshop CS3 installed on his tablet PC running Windows Vista.

Lots of tinkering later, I know a tiny bit more about how Adobe installs their software (but not why...) and the solution was to use the remover tool on level 4 a couple of times. Adobe's tool requires a file from Microsoft as well.

This was after trying out various .js hacks, and at least considering using System Restore.

IT: I will find a way or make one - that just about sums it up.

1. %date% and %time%. They expand properly, and are handy for use in log files.
2. %random% will generate a random number, handy for when you're starting some process many times quickly and want to use a log file for each process. 
3. The F8 key completes commands from what you've typed before. No, I really didn't know that before, and yes, I kick myself once per day now in atonement. 

I already knew about set /a, so it doesn't count. (set /a 2+2  prints 4, for example)

How does this relate to Powershell? Well, over time I've accumulated the custom of writing several small batch files that I use in CMD the way Powershell uses aliases. For example, d.bat, somewhere in my path, executes dir /w /on /ad, showing my all subdirectories. dd.bat does the opposite, dir /w /on /a-d, showing me only files. x.bat (x.cmd, anymore) types exit for me, closing the CMD window. (s.cmd executes start ., which opens explorer.exe in the current directory, but I digress.)

I couldn't get this to work in Powershell. set-alias x exit succeeds, as a command, but fails to run:

>set-alias x exit
>x
Cannot resolve alias 'x' because it refers to term 'exit', which is not recognized as a cmdlet, function, operable pro
gram, or script file. Verify the term and try again.
At line:1 char:2
+ xx <<<<

There's another way however - create a function named x, add that to my $profile, and things work like I want.

function x()
{
    exit
}