Allowing someone to drag you to a party where you know nobody, yet cannot leave: not a good idea. WiFi at said party: mitigating factor.
[UPDATE: Although in this demographic, the blue glow from a relatively newish Mac laptop apparently sends more of a "come look at the shiny object" vibe than a [...]
It’s not often that the results of my programming endeavors fail to put my sweetie to sleep, let alone make her laugh. So it’s worth pointing out for her that this spell-check program suggests “pants” as a replacement for “phonetic.”
Because, really: phonetic pants! How can that not be funny? Especially considering [...]
This one’s all about Justin: a band called Gefilte Fuck.
Each member would wear a tallis, yamulke, or both. Singer Howard Hallis would come out holding a bottle of Manichevitz wine and scream out to the crowd “Yer all a bunch of G-ddamn bastards! Oy!” and proceed to throw chunks of gefilte fish on the [...]
I got some pictures of my brother yesterday… he’s growing out his hair, and currently sporting a goatee, and to paraphrase a seasonally-appropriate song, it’s beginning to look a lot like Jesus.
The Matrix (the first one, of course) still rocks, even though I’ve probably seen it ten times by now. Which makes the second [...]
Justin, knowing my fondness for Jello Biafra’s rant about drug testing and my own opinions on the matter, not to mention my deep and abiding love for the state of South Carolina, forwards this article about a man who sold clean urine — prompting a law to be passed against the sale of urine for [...]
Heh. This program makes your desktop all Matrix-y — and as a bonus, looks better than most of the Matrix screensavers out there (and works as a screensaver, too). Windows only, though.
(Link via Vashti-Head)
Those wacky MIT folks have created an eyeglass-mounted display that flashes subliminal messages into your field of vision. Supposedly it helps you remember stuff. This could be a nice intermediate step while I wait for my neural implant… ;> Article here doesn’t seem to work in Opera. (Link via Gizmodo)
Yesterday we drove out to Oxbow Park with the idea that we might see salmon spawning. We were, alas, too late for salmon — or you might say the salmon themselves were late, as we kept almost stepping on maggoty 10-pound fish carcasses. In one case, there were two right next to a [...]
I was in the bedroom folding laundry when my sweetie, sitting at the computer in the office, said, “The California wildflowers are going crazy! Four counties are declaring a state of emergency, 650 homes have been destroyed…”
This seemed rather implausible. Turns out she was talking about wildfires. Which makes muuuuch more sense.
Huzzah! The shed is finally done! That only took… um… six months.
After school yesterday, I got on a bus to go out to the Hollywood Fred Meyer to shop for a 128MB MP3 player. I had one in mind that I knew they had, but thought that store might have some others worth considering. On the way there, I thought I remembered there being [...]
Interesting project here to publish a short story in the form of tattoos, one word per person. I might actually consider this. (Link via Boing Boing)
So today I went out and bought myself a MiniDisc player. Yes, MiniDisc — you know, that format Sony’s been pushing for 10 years? Even though nobody you know has ever seen one? (There’s a reason for that. Actually, there are a lot of reasons.)
(A somewhat rambling not-really-a-review)
[UPDATE: Returned it [...]
Looks like Apple finally got G4s in their iBooks. It’s about six months too late for my tastes, but I have to remember that mine still works just fine… (=
On the other hand, I finally got payment for a small gig, which means tomorrow I can go get myself an MP3 player and use [...]
So I recently purchased some ActiveX controls to use in my current programming project, and said purchase included one year of free upgrades. The originally installed version was for Q3 2003, and I just got email notification that the Q4 version was available. Which I downloaded (all 124 MB of it) and ran, [...]
When people know you’re in school, they tend to ask you how it’s going. I’ve been telling people my computer science class is boring, and that I could give some of the lectures. Thus, I should not have been the least bit surprised at this email from my CS instructor:
Hi Sam,
I have [...]
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about iTunes for Windows, I present my reasoning behind my statement that: (WinAmp sucks.)
I can’t say I’m a Switcher, nor will I ever truly be — some Windows habits are too deeply ingrained, and some things about the Windows world just plain make more sense. But Apple definitely [...]
The release of iTunes for Windows is a slim glimmer of goodness in an otherwise crappy day. It’s good to know that I won’t have to deal with the suckitude of WinAmp anymore.
All right — Chinese in space! I realize that China is still supposedly our best buddy, but in my little fantasy world, I get to live through another space race. (=
So I’m generally not in favor of labeling people according to their run-ins with the penal system, but in this case the shorthand version tells you everything you need to know: drunk driver commits identity theft, gets arrested, gets in trouble for not registering as a sex offender. Oh, sweet hyperkarma.