dsandler.org ≡ 2002 ≡ November

30 Nov

2002

Boy, it’s been quiet around here, eh?

≡ 10:39 pm ≡ friends hate houston life my neighbors soft

Boy, it’s been quiet around here, eh?

It’s been a surprisingly busy weekend with Erin in Houston. Not to be left out of the generally-boisterous Thanksgiving experience, I managed to get myself invited to Chris’s family’s (well-attended!) feast, at which I had a great time. Back home, it’s cleaning, hunting for episodes of Changing Rooms to tape, and more run-ins with the Evil Neighbors (it turns out that part of the reason that the heads-of-household are perpetually out of town is that the dad is a United employee … the other part of the reason, of course, being that their fully-grown live-in children are Hellbeastes).

Working on software too. Hope to finish a new screensaver sometime this week. In the meantime, borkware has some handy OS X programming tips as well as another retro screensaver.

27 Nov

2002

Presumably you’ve all heard by now about Al Gore’s candid rebuke of the rightist media.

≡ 11:41 am

Presumably you’ve all heard by now about Al Gore’s candid rebuke of the rightist media.

27 Nov

2002

[11:23] <hippo> Doom is upon me.

≡ 11:23 am

[11:23] <hippo> Doom is upon me. My daughter has figured out how to use doorknobs.

27 Nov

2002

Displaced Wednesday series “Fastlane” will move to Friday nights at 8 p.m.

≡ 9:04 am

Displaced Wednesday series “Fastlane” will move to Friday nights at 8 p.m. starting Jan. 10. The current time slot occupant “Firefly” will go on hiatus. Fox Entertainment President Gail Berman stressed that “Firefly” has not been canceled. New episodes will continue to air throughout December and the network is considering a new time slot for the series. [source]

26 Nov

2002

Speaking of jwz, news from his SF nightclub:

≡ 3:45 pm

Speaking of jwz, news from his SF nightclub: “DNA update, in which a tagger is made to be our bitch.”

26 Nov

2002

A serious engineering adventure in LA, involving L-N2, 800 amps, and road construction.

≡ 2:22 pm

A serious engineering adventure in LA, involving L-N2, 800 amps, and road construction.

26 Nov

2002

IBM:

≡ 2:02 pm

IBM: RSS in Python.

26 Nov

2002

This little mind-blower from TMW:

≡ 9:32 am

This little mind-blower from TMW: an article from 1997 about the government’s unconstitutional desire to wiretap Internet communications.

The protections of the Fourth Amendment are clear. The right to protection from unlawful searches is an indivisible American value. Two hundred years of court decisions have stood in defense of this fundamental right. The state’s interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens’ Bill of Rights.

Author: Senator John Ashcroft. Weird.

26 Nov

2002

Salon on Trading Spaces:

≡ 7:42 am

Salon on Trading Spaces: Home decorating, and other lies. “You’ll never see the sewing coordinator who has done all the sewing. You will not hear him tell a homeowner working in front of the camera that she won’t hurt anything because the machine isn’t threaded. You also will not know that some of the scenes that take place on Day 1 actually were shot near the end of Day 2. And you will never know how many retakes it took to get the scene right.”

25 Nov

2002

So, we got new chairs at the office today.

≡ 10:10 am

So, we got new chairs at the office today. [shakes head slowly, at a loss for words]

24 Nov

2002

Mark and his cat ER adventure.

≡ 11:32 pm

Mark and his cat ER adventure.

22 Nov

2002

PCWorld:

≡ 10:21 am

PCWorld: What’s New in Palmland.

22 Nov

2002

Gems on Slashdot about Ellen Feiss’s interview with the Brown Herald.

≡ 8:21 am

Gems on Slashdot about Ellen Feiss’s interview with the Brown Herald. “She was wearing comfy clothes. Comfy. What could influence an individual to wear comfy clothes but the gentle ministrations of marijuana?” And, hey, I mean, Brown? Come on.

From the interview itself, an elegant Steve slam: “I met Steve Jobs. He called me by my first name — clever, huh? It was brief.”

21 Nov

2002

Don’t have enough to read on the Web?

≡ 11:59 am

Don’t have enough to read on the Web? Want some recommendations?

21 Nov

2002

Python Journal 3(1):

≡ 11:44 am

Python Journal 3(1): Filtering Texts, Embedded Python, Baby Snakes, etc.

21 Nov

2002

.dmg files considered harmful?

≡ 11:13 am

.dmg files considered harmful?

21 Nov

2002

Wow, I didn’t know there was a Palm Cafe.

≡ 10:44 am

Wow, I didn’t know there was a Palm Cafe. (Not unlike the Apple Store.)

21 Nov

2002

For those of us that don’t watch, a reasonably-detailed (if hard-to-follow) summary of the most recent episode of “Angel”, “Rain of Fire”.

≡ 10:14 am

For those of us that don’t watch, a reasonably-detailed (if hard-to-follow) summary of the most recent episode of “Angel”, “Rain of Fire”. Why? Because apparently it’s linked to what’s going on in Buffy right now.

[Cordelia] admits that every time she closes her eyes she sees something terrible, “moving, deep down, clawing its way up.”

21 Nov

2002

Joss Whedon on the current state of Firefly.

≡ 10:10 am

Joss Whedon on the current state of Firefly. “[W]e all feel like we’re on Serenity. We’re looking ahead to that next job. We’re still flying. The future’s uncertain, but we’re still flying.”

21 Nov

2002