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The
Mac is a harsh mistress (and Linux
is your psychotic ex-).

Ugh, lost power in the middle of a really important meeting. Couldn’t
call back into the meeting because I was just connected directly to the
conference room line (and not through a conference call system), and the
conf. room’s phone hadn’t hung up, or something. No power = no
cable = no intranet = no directory of cell phones or anything. Front desk was
no help.

The power’s back on now, but it turns out none of the other meeting
participants has a cell phone on file. Suck.

HATE. Hate the heat wave, or the power company, or the construction
workers, or whatever’s responsible for the 25-minute interruption in
service (during which it got pretty toasty in the house, this being our
first 90°+ day in Houston).

Gossip
about the Apple corporate reorg (splitting the company into Macintosh
and iPod groups). Emphasis mine: “Rubenstein will be joined by
Steve Sakoman, who will lead iPod software development, and
Tony Fadell, who heads up the iPod engineering team. Sakoman is moving
to the division from Apple’s OS engineering group.”

Despite study of French at the junior, high school, and university
levels, I am universally confounded by native speakers of the language,
their usages unusual, their tempo staccato, their liaisons downright
dangerous.

This is nothing compared to Québecois, which
is unintelligible even to the French. Here’s a convenient guide to usage in
Québec, should you happen to find yourself there, puzzled
over why your dîner date showed up six hours early.

(From a Language Log entry on winetalk borrow-words in French Canadian coffee shops.)

djpretzel has revved the look of
OverClocked Remix. Check out the newly-posted Triforce
Majeure, remixing a theme from A Link To The Past that franchise
latecomers will recognize as the Hylian King’s Theme from The Wind
Waker. (The track is by a guy calling himself “Disco Dan”,
famous in some circles for his Mega Man 2
mixes but
not to be confused with the
original “Disco” Dan.)

“And
then, Legolas and The Hulk beat the shit out of the entire Greek
army.”

Armand’s
Rules of the Road. “Music I will not listen to, under any
circumstances: ‘jazz brunch,’ pop, hip hop, anything with horns or high
hat, female singers. Please keep the radio tuned to ’70s stoner rock, or
else I will voice my displeasure.”