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Archive for February, 2003
Amar: “The
first time I ever did acid I wandered around Rice looking at buildings.
I saw faces in the brickwork.” News flash: There are faces in
the brickwork.
stevenf@panic:
“Hand writing recognition and speech recognition are alike ln one
regard: when thy Work, it’s the Coolest thing ever 1 but when thy
don’t, you Feel like an idiot.”
Ron Rivest (perhaps you remember him as the “R” in “RSA“? Or as the “R” in CLR
(except it’s now CLRS)?) is at it again, this time solving the problem of
micropayments. His solution: Peppercoin (great name).
The Onion gets better and better. Girlfriend
Stops Reading David Foster Wallace Breakup Letter At Page 20.
“And then there are all the footnotes. I always felt he overused those in his
valentines, too.”
18 Feb
2003
While surfing TWOP, I got a couple of nassssty adbanners from gorillanation.com that tried to download random executables onto my Windows machine!
≡ 9:21 am
While surfing TWOP,
I got a couple of nassssty adbanners from gorillanation.com that
tried to download random executables onto my Windows machine!
That’s so thoroughly reprehensible. I feel gross now.
From a /.
thread on Microsoft’s new 3° youth chat
environment [Newsweek]: “Anyone who’s ever written an IRC client should sit
back and ask themselves, ‘Why wasn’t I concerned with making IRC better
instead of just making yet another IRC client?’” [post]
Already, links to the 2003 diesel guestfest are starting to roll in: comxpedia, Scott McCloud (!!). And it’s only Monday. Note that we all owe thanks to Jason Alderman, who orchestrated the whole thing and graciously invited me to participate again.
Did you know that I’m doing another dieselsweeties guest comic?
Perhaps you recall the one I did last year. This
one will be even better, I promise, and it airs next Tuesday, the 25th.
Watch this space!
Chris and Alicia’s cat Gobo has learned a unique skill:
Our cats (sappy photo album forthcoming) have a favorite toy, affectionately known as the Vibrating Hedgehog (I tried to find a picture online, but Google didn’t return the links I was expecting). Anyway, it was almost bigger than they were as kittens, but both Gobo and Iris are big enough now that they periodically stalk, kill, and prance about with said wiggly rodent.
The only problem with the toy is that its drawstring nature makes for limited playtime. Each pull sets the hedgehog to shaking for about five seconds, after which point it just sort of lays there. It seems, however, that Gobo has found a novel solution…and we have it on tape (Quicktime, 1.5 MB).
Tom Tomorrow: “In a city which experienced the attacks of 9-11 first hand, hundreds of thousands of citizens braved the cold to say no to war…” [pictures]
16 Feb
2003
Let me use the following surveillance photo to illustrate why our downstairs neighbors are evil, and why regime change is necessary on humanitarian grounds:
≡ 5:43 pm ≡ hate neighbors
Let me use the following surveillance photo to illustrate why our downstairs neighbors are evil, and why regime change is necessary on humanitarian grounds:
The Volvos belong to the mothers of the children of the boys living with their parents (the couple on the lease downstairs). The whole nook-yu-lar family shows up frequently, occupying the driveway, the washer/dryer (when operational), and just generally turning this little garden-apartment building into a circus.
Our car is the little silver Saturn parked in one of the four legitimate parking spaces (#2, under the deck, at top left in the picture). I guess I’ll be eating in tonight.
Don’t get me started on the grandkids and their favorite game — throwing rocks at our door, and watching them bounce back down the stairs — currently in progress.
jwz: I’ve already developed a
deep and abiding hate for that
hidious little spinning rainbow disc that means “something has probably
gone horribly wrong, but I’m going to protect you from knowing what.”
Cory Doctorow weighs in with a massive
missive on the Google/Pyra deal.
(Incidentally, I would have done laundry at the apt. complex, if not
for a spirit-crushing sheet of paper taped to the dryer reading: “NOT
WORKING - MIMI [the landlord. -ed] HAS ORDERED A NEW MACHINE”) … come
to think of it, what a scheme that would be!
Heavily-contended-for washer + fake out-of-order sign = perpetual
resource availability!)
16 Feb
2003
By the way, I’ve spent the last hour sitting here in Launderland, which is right across from where we newlyweds stayed for two weeks when…
≡ 11:46 am
By the way, I’ve spent the last hour sitting here in Launderland, which
is right across from where we newlyweds stayed for two weeks when we
Went West in 2000. We did our laundry here then, and I’m feeling a
strong kind of fitting, full-circle sort of vibe now as I sheepishly watch
my boxers con corazones tumble themselves dry on the other
side of the room.
Full
disclosure from the guy whose company bought Pyra & Blogger.
Wow: Google buys Pyra Labs. This is huge news in the
weblog world, of course, because Pyra is the company founded to create
(among other things) Blogger.
15 Feb
2003
Saturday afternoon TV (1) I think it’s cool that Tourism New Zealand uses Crowded House in their TV ads.
≡ 3:17 pm
Saturday afternoon TV
(1) I think it’s cool that Tourism New Zealand uses Crowded House in their TV ads. (2) Toonami has picked up .hack//SIGN, a visually impressive and engaging anime series for which I had to look up a rare English explanation just to be able to follow it.
AP: “Online magazine publisher Salon Media Group Inc. on Friday warned
that it may
not survive beyond this month if it can’t raise more money to pay
its rent and other bills.”
OK, I seriously have to get to sleep. I’m getting up in 4 hours
to take Erin to the airport.
From: dan sandler
Date: Fri Feb 14, 2003 11:39:31 PM US/Pacific
To: MacInTouch Reader
Reports
Subject: MacOS X 10.2.4 ate my Wacom!
Just updated to 10.2.4, and discovered that click-and-drag is now broken on my Wacom Graphire2 USB. Moving the pen or mouse works fine, but as soon as any button is pressed, all motion stops. (The sensation, which is quite unnerving, is rather like the cursor getting “glued” to the screen when you click.) Makes it pretty hard to draw with the tablet, or use Ink, or remove Address from the Dock (again).
Good thing I had a Logitech USB optical mouse laying around. (Click-and-drag works fine.) My Wacom driver software version identifies itself as 4.75a6 (which is the latest, and is referred to on Wacom’s site as 4.75-6).
Anyone else having tablet problems with the new release?
[16:36] <daveb> rofl! I just called home, and my son hung up on me.
[16:36] <daveb> “Hello? Hi dada. Play cars. Bye! *click*”
[16:36] <daveb> “Hello? Hi dada. Play cars. Bye! *click*”
