Smart-ass retort of the day. “Wow, you’re edgy and sexy. I’ll bet you have a motorcycle, or perhaps have seen one at some point.”
Archive for May, 2002
Microsoft now charges schools for a Windows license per computer. Regardless of whether it runs Windows.
Heroin chic: Best to start young.
dsandler.org is finally back online. Still don’t have all the kinks worked out; if you see something particularly egregious, let me know.
theregister.co.uk: Marker pens, sticky tape crack music CD protection. (Apple has a technical note on the topic too; the Campaign for Digital Rights also has an article on this new copy protection scheme.)
Things will be moving around a little bit for the next several days. Please let me know if you see things that are massively broken.
Oh, and, as you might expect, our cats were just as freaked out as we
were. Eyes like tea saucers, and all. The frustrating part of it is
that since we’re such earthquake neophytes, we didn’t have the presence
of mind to scoop up the cats when we sensed that something was wrong; I
guess we were trapped in the same two-second span of hindbrain
processing time.
Pretty freaky. Extremely sinusoidal — much more than I expected. Then again, I Only Know What I See On TV™, so I was expecting a Star Trek shake-the-camera kind of effect. Instead, it was more like sitting on a wobbly chair than anything else I can imagine; you can sense that there’s a point of equilibrium, but some external force has been introduced that starts the system into lissajous motion.
Wiggle, wiggle. 5.2 Richter quake just southwest of Gilroy, just after 10PM. Our first temblor.
Well, it seems that L&S has closed its doors
for good. But the archives live on, including a great typographic
analysis of the new WSJ.
12 May
2002
Copy-protected CDs known to damage iMac firmware, to the tune of a warranty (hopefully) repair.
≡ 11:46 pm
Copy-protected CDs known to damage
iMac firmware, to the tune of a warranty (hopefully) repair. “I’m
sorry, the warranty expressly excludes Celine Dion.”
Warning: spoilers in this review of Attack of the Clones. The interesting part, which isn’t spoilage, is below:
Lucas is also an old school filmmaker who likes to focus on the basics in terms of storytelling. Here’s a little exercise for you — go back and watch all the films from the original trilogy and note the direction on screen that particular characters move. This is very important. You see the ‘good guys’ can always be seen moving from left-to-right. The ‘bad guys’ can be seen moving right-to-left. As this chart illustrates:
Good Guys like Luke Skywalker move left-to-right —->
<—- Bad Guys like Darth Vader move right-to-left
[09:14] <todd> re:
[moby and the hubble pictures]:
I’ve thought about this from time to time, and I find myself wondering
if, since the scale of these objects is so vast, we’d be able appreciate
them at all if we were “there”.
[09:18] <dsandler> Probably not. We have good seats. :)
[09:18] <dsandler> Probably not. We have good seats. :)
“who knew that the universe was so photogenic.
how can we go visit these places?
i wanna go.
-moby”
<lbj> Anyway, the Wolfram/Gray fight…
<lbj> I’m sitting in my office and all of a sudden there are big noises next door.
<lbj> Chairs are being knocked around…books slammed on the table…
<lbj> This goes on for a while, and then Wolfram emerges and shouts (at Theo)
<lbj> “I can’t believe you used a while loop!”
<todd> Wolfram stepped out of the office and shouted this back inside?
<lbj> I may be embroidering. He probably was still inside the office
<lbj> Anyway, the two of them refused to stay in the office at the same time for a few hours
<lbj> That happened a lot.
<lbj> I’m sitting in my office and all of a sudden there are big noises next door.
<lbj> Chairs are being knocked around…books slammed on the table…
<lbj> This goes on for a while, and then Wolfram emerges and shouts (at Theo)
<lbj> “I can’t believe you used a while loop!”
<todd> Wolfram stepped out of the office and shouted this back inside?
<lbj> I may be embroidering. He probably was still inside the office
<lbj> Anyway, the two of them refused to stay in the office at the same time for a few hours
<lbj> That happened a lot.
