Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Twitterpations
08:30 Sure someone has already post this but: Debate in one minute tinyurl.com/4c9eek #
15:55 I hate FileZilla. Its interface is the latest and greatest if this was 1996. Since it's 2008, it sucks. #
18:16 Trying Fetch but I'm cheap. #
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Twitterpations
10:32 In a re-org meeting - I'll get my boots. #
21:04 Working on DLR Halloween photo tour thingie. #
21:09 Conspiracy theory: Palin dropped from ticket, Lieberman brought in, GOP numbers soar. Plan all along? #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterSunday, September 28, 2008
Twitterpations
15:57 Giants beat Dodgers in game 162. Cy Young for Lincecum! #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterAt last, someone else who sees "Reflections of Earth" the same way I do
One advantage to living in Orlando is that there's an abundance of fireworks. I got to see a display at one of the local theme parks the other night that was a tribute to the cultures of the world and how they interplay with each other. The show began with a mammoth fireball that caused an uncomfortable amount of heat from hundreds of feet away. The grand finale was a giant globe cracking apart and exploding in a shower of sparks.
I don't think I took away the message that the show's creators had hoped I would.
I always thought pretty much the same thing.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Twitterpations
12:44 Google opposes Prop 8: tinyurl.com/4pbetm #
15:22 At *$ before shopping. #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterFriday, September 26, 2008
Twitterpations
11:28 What is the cheapest .com registrar? Lower than 7.99? #
12:48 Lunch time. Grilled cheese & turkey sandwich while trying to ignore CNN on caf_ TV. #
18:48 I guess if you have no actual solutions, lies and more lies is one strategy. #
19:45 Overall no real "winner" if a debate can be said to have one. Didn't care for McCain's condescending attitude. #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterThursday, September 25, 2008
Twitterpations
11:37 Still doesn't know what MILK is. #
12:39 Has anyone reading this ever seen a dog exhibited at the Disneyland petting zoo? #
14:24 Anyone else still subconciously expect the Letterman intro to include "The World's Most Dangerous Band"? Or am I old? #
16:24 Damn eels, get out of my internets! #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterWednesday, September 24, 2008
Twitterpations
09:38 Free copy of "House of Leaves" up for grabs. First to ask gets it. #
11:44 Loving the new P!nk song "So What" #
13:07 I don't buy it. There's something else going on. "Suspending" is what primary losers do when they run out of money. #
13:36 Annoyed at Bluetooth. Could be headphones, could be computer, either way it's sucking. #
15:49 successfully "forgot" about weekly staff meeting #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterHouse of Leaves - an incomplete review
In the end, or after least at page 200 or so, it doesn't matter. The narrator is plainly losing his mind as he edits and annotates the review, and the author's M.O. of constant footnotes and backreferences quickly grows tiring. At first I admired the denseness of this book, comparing it to GEB in terms of the level of thought and concentration required to grasp the overall narration. I eventually realized that unlike GEB, it's not sublime; it's just pretentious. I gave up in disgust around page 200 and am now offering the book to the first person who asks.
I realize this quickie review doesn't really do the book justice, either as a legitimate review of the author's obvious effort or as a clear enumeration of why it annoyed me so much that I committed the usually-unpardonable sin of discarding it before finishing. The Publisher's Weekly review on Amazon might help:
Danielewski's eccentric and sometimes brilliant debut novel is really two novels, hooked together by the Nabokovian trick of running one narrative in footnotes to the other. One-the horror story-is a tour-de-force. Zampano, a blind Angelino recluse, dies, leaving behind the notes to a manuscript that's an account of a film called The Navidson Report. In the Report, Pulitzer Prize-winning news photographer Will Navidson and his girlfriend move with their two children to a house in an unnamed Virginia town in an attempt to save their relationship. One day, Will discovers that the interior of the house measures more than its exterior. More ominously, a closet appears, then a hallway. Out of this intellectual paradox, Danielewski constructs a viscerally frightening experience. Will contacts a number of people, including explorer Holloway Roberts, who mounts an expedition with his two-man crew. They discover a vast stairway and countless halls. The whole structure occasionally groans, and the space reconfigures, driving Holloway into a murderous frenzy. The story of the house is stitched together from disparate accounts, until the experience becomes somewhat like stumbling into Borges's Library of Babel. This potentially cumbersome device actually enhances the horror of the tale, rather than distracting from it. Less successful, however, is the second story unfolding in footnotes, that of the manuscript's editor, (and the novel's narrator), Johnny Truant. Johnny, who discovered Zampano's body and took his papers, works in a tattoo parlor. He tracks down and beds most of the women who assisted Zampano in preparing his manuscript. But soon Johnny is crippled by panic attacks, bringing him close to psychosis. In the Truant sections, Danielewski attempts an Infinite Jest-like feat of ventriloquism, but where Wallace is a master of voices, Danielewski is not. His strength is parodying a certain academic tone and harnessing that to pop culture tropes. Nevertheless, the novel is a surreal palimpsest of terror and erudition, surely destined for cult status. (Mar.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
It's a best-seller. Obviously some people get more out of it than I did. That's why I'm offering it free to the first person who asks. You pay shipping or arrange to meet.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Twitterpations
09:12 It's a bleh kind of morning. Glad I have coffee. #
12:52 Lunch & washing the car. #
14:06 Today best so far summed up: tinyurl.com/4eeknu (I'm the one giving the lesson) #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterAlice House wins first prize & Best In Show
colleency and Obi-Shawn for their first prize & Best In Show at the LA County Fair!How To Write To Congress
Writing to Congress is the single best way to express your view on public policy. The average consumer has a surprising ability to influence legislation by crafting a well written missive. Let's find out what the common mistakes to avoid are, how the process works, and the best ways to ensure your letter has the greatest impact.The article continues with specific suggestions on writing your letter, how to format it so it will be read, and where to send it to be read by the right person.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Twitterpations
10:27 At least Dell has decent teardown instruction for their laptops on their Web site. #
10:34 On chat line with Sprint, getting spurious charge removed from bill. #
11:26 45 minutes on "chat": completely useless. Five minutes on the phone: solved. Doh! #
14:11 Strange Windows thing of the day: XP in Virtual PC; colon/semicolon key acts like tilde/backquote key. Tilde/backquote key inactive. ? #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterWindows weird thing of the day
Problem: colon/semicolon key acts like tilde/backquote key. Tilde/backquote key is inactive. No apparent way to type a colon or semicolon. Sometimes, but not always, goes away on reboot.
Anyone ever heard of this? I don't even know where to start searching for solutions.
Today: A Day That Will Live In Infamy
14:27 Recoding LWoMP & updated Adv. Club promo for MouseStation. #
18:04 Sadly throwing in the towel on Linux on Dell laptop. Couldn't ever get docking station to work. Reinstalling XP. #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterSunday, September 21, 2008
Today: A Day That Will Live In Infamy
15:37 I've been ionized! #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterSaturday, September 20, 2008
Today: A Day That Will Live In Infamy
10:09 Paying bills. (Arr!) #
10:34 Finished bills, finished Friday "Box of Kittens" update, did some actual work. Arr! #
15:33 Waiting for this day to be over. Is it over yet? (Arr!) #
16:47 Attn: Guy who thinks I report to him though I don't. Thanks, I really appreciate being scheduled to start an hour's work at 5pm on Friday. #
19:26 Home, watching Countdown & eating melon. Exciting, huh? #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterFriday, September 19, 2008
Lesson Learned
<target name="myTarget" depends="setPaths">
<!-- target stuff, with paths set based on a version -->
</target>
<target name="setPaths">
<!-- get a variable needed to set paths, name it "version" -->
<antcall target="setPathsFor${version}">
</antcall></target>
<target name="setPathsFor123">
<!-- set paths for version 123 -->
</target>
<target name="setPathsFor456">
<!-- set paths for version 456 -->
</target>
to this:
<target name="myTarget" depends="getVersion,setPathsFor123,setPathsFor456">
<!-- target stuff, with paths set based on a version -->
</target>
<target name="getVersion">
<!-- get the version into a property named "Version" -->
<property name="ver${Version}" value="true">
</property></target>
<target name="setPathsFor123" if="ver123">
<!-- set paths for version 123 -->
</target>
<target name="setPathsFor456" if="ver456">
<!-- set paths for version 456 -->
</target>
The upshot of which is that my "depends" line gets unmanageably long as I add supported versions, and I call each and every one of the setPathsFor targets. Is there a better way to do this?
Today: A Day That Will Live In Infamy
09:02 Thursday = work from home. Laundry, errands, misc housework and a bit of actual work as well. #
15:14 Feeling sick. F**king Taco Bell substituted steak for chicken & I didn't notice until I'd already taken a bite or two. #
15:38 VMWare Fusion 2.0 free update for 1.x users: www.vmware.com/download/fusion/ #
17:37 Um, okay. #
19:28 Trapped in Costco. Save me! #
20:32 Legal question: Isn't refusing to comply with a subpoena considered "contempt of court" and subject to imprisonment? #
21:30 Trying out Twidget, a Twitter widget for OS X Dashboard. #
21:44 The winner seems to be "Twitgit", confusingly similar spelling but better interface. #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterThursday, September 18, 2008
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
11:53 New version of Google Maps Mobile includes Street View, walking directions: tinyurl.com/5xvgzb #
14:00 Read DFW's "Shipping Out" aka "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" over lunch. www.harpers.org/#hbc-90003557 #
15:09 Meeting I'd hoped to avoid. Save me! #
15:11 Completely illegible powerpoints, I might add. #
15:11 Powerpoints from the most boringest person in the room. #
15:21 Why are you talking to a room full of engineers about demographics and market segmentation? #
17:58 Damn I'm good. Going home now -- wish me luck! #
21:28 Well THAT sucked. (Homeowners Association meeting) #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterWednesday, September 17, 2008
Stephanie Edwards to return to KTLA Rose Parade coverage
There’ll be no rain on the upcoming Tournament of Roses Parade for former KTLA-TV host Stephanie Edwards -- at least, not figuratively.
Edwards, the veteran broadcaster who was removed from the station’s coverage of the New Year’s Day event two years ago after co-hosting for more than 25 years, will return to her familiar role on Jan. 1, 2009, station executives announced Tuesday.
“The people at the station thought it was a great idea, and Stephanie thought it was a great idea,” said station spokesman Paul Nichols.
Oddly, just this morning I was thinking about which Rose Parade coverage I would want to watch. We tried HGTV's last year -- gave up on KTLA after too much Michaela Pereira and Bob Eubanks subtly threatening to leave when his contract expired -- but now we'll be back. KTLA's coverage is picked up by KRON-4 here in the Bay Area.
Thanks to SeanYoda for the link.
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
09:11 At dentist. New digital x-ray machine means no more film & instant results. #
11:43 Mac users: Opinions on Vienna RSS client? www.vienna-rss.org/vienna2.php #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterTuesday, September 16, 2008
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
10:49 Loving the new Katy Perry single. #
13:58 Annoyed at InstallShield. #
16:45 Today has been full of fail. Is it over yet? #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterMonday, September 15, 2008
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
13:52 Buying Jen's sewing machine. #
16:07 Scooba-ing the kitchen while Jen plays with her new sewing machine. It's all about the labor-saving devices here. #
17:12 Aparrrrantly Ubuntu 8.04 on Dell 600m doesn't play with TV connected to docking station. WhatEVER. #
17:53 Recording LWoMP. #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterSunday, September 14, 2008
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
14:53 Fiddling with Harmony remote settings. "Fishtank" mode turns on Amp, DVD, DVR & TV for fish on screen & chillout music. #
17:45 At Michaels getting our 42-year old Disneyland map framed. #
02:43 It was so obvious as to be almost meta by now, but Tina Fey absolutely nailed the Palin impression. #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterSaturday, September 13, 2008
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
10:41 Glad it's Friday. Feel like sleeping for a week. #
11:37 Headache not being helped by phone-shouting marketing dweeb in next cubicle. #
14:57 No, I love doing the same work twice because it wasn't really ready even though you said it was, why? #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterFriday, September 12, 2008
The unedited tape from the Gibson/Palin interview!
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
04:34 Watching T:SCC from Monday. Shirley Manson! #
09:11 Thursday == work from home. #
12:46 Would you ask your food stylist about the building code as it applies to kitchens? No? Then why ask marketing about how to write code? #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterThursday, September 11, 2008
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
10:21 Eating a poppy seed bagel even after watching that episode of "Food Detectives" - no testing here. #
10:42 Happy time work quiz: When you empty the coffee pot, do you a) start a new pot brewing; b) run away; c) make a huge mess and then run away. #
13:11 Lunch: turkey wrap, chips, banana. #
14:59 Meeting time. #
19:31 LOLing at "It's Pat". Does he get the joke? #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitterWednesday, September 10, 2008
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
- 12:28 Updating five Windows machines (three of which are virtual) with latest Patch Tuesday releases. Yay. #
- 18:45 Attn: All political reporters and commentators. Please stop using national polls; they're pointless and you know it. #
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
The Daily Tweet
- 10:26 Jen is sick so I'm staying home to take care of her. #
- 16:31 I know what I said. A guy can't re-assess and change his mind? #
- 20:22 Making gingerbread. Why? Why not? #
Monday, September 08, 2008
The Daily Tweet
- 12:57 Abbey's, formerly Taxi's for lunch. Only change appears to be a banner over the "Taxi's" sign. #
- 16:21 Going sewing machine shopping. #
Saturday, September 06, 2008
The Daily Tweet
- 10:10 Already hot. Left a big bowl of ice water for cats. #
- 12:18 Mac apparently thinks it's a PC today. Crash city. #
- 13:15 Lunch: buffalo chicken pizza & watermelon. #
- 14:51 Just found out that "Countdown" has apparently been airing this week even though it's not on the schedule, so TiVo didn't pick it up. Grr! #
- 14:55 Or maybe not. ::confused:: #
Friday, September 05, 2008
The Daily Tweet
- 08:18 It's Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. That's why I'm working from home - less chance of anything going wrong outside. #
- 11:22 It's a "spare the air" day so I'm being environmentally responsible by not driving. Though I am going to get the car washed later. (shh!) #
- 11:52 Chrome easter egg: "about:internets" ( tinyurl.com/5rhpos ) #
- 15:55 Would someone please tell me how to explain to my cat that yes, I know it's hot and no, I can't do anything about it? #
- 16:43 My new RAM arrived! I'll install it tonight. #
- 21:40 Anyone reading this read this? tinyurl.com/3xrdq7 #
Thursday, September 04, 2008
The Daily Tweet
- 10:03 At work. Wednesday is bagel and donut day! (It's the little things that keep us going...) #
- 10:04 Attn Internets: How do I turn off local echo in Mac OS Terminal on Telnet connections? #
- 12:36 I heart the Internets: tinyurl.com/5jgtdc #
- 12:39 No matter the problem, SOMEONE else has already experienced it and found a solution. #
- 20:36 Re-hacking DirecTiVos with latest script. #
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
TiVo fans rejoice: HD, MPEG-4 TiVo returning to DirecTV
Unfortunately for TiVo fans that are itching for HD action, the hardware won't launch until the second half of 2009.
While this is great news for TiVo fans and DirecTV users, one wonders whether late 2009 will be too little too late. DirecTV's aggressive ramp-up of MPEG-4 HD programming has left owners of the original Hughes DirecTV TiVo with a scant handful of high-def options to choose from. As a result, many TiVo fans have moved on.
The DirecTV HD-DVR software works, but it's just barely good enough and compared to TiVo it's not even in the same ballpark. I wonder if there's any chance that existing machines will be updated with new TiVo software? I don't really want to buy another box.
The Daily Tweet
- 11:05 Underage binge drinking, reckless gunplay, unwed teen pregnancy -- them's family values, all right. #
- 12:24 Lunch time. #
- 14:28 The Chrome logo looks like Simon tinyurl.com/62yzob #
- 15:11 Renewed my domain for another three years. It's eleven years old now. #
- 20:25 My Internets are full of eels. #
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
The Daily Tweet
- 22:28 Caught up on the last three weeks of "Eureka"! #
Monday, September 01, 2008
The Daily Tweet
- 14:07 Promo item from yesterday's ballgame was either an Obama or McCain bobblehead. Just unwrapped mine & it's busted - Obama's head fell off. :( #
- 16:14 Back from food shopping. I heart in-store Jamba stands. #
- 18:14 Chilling at home. Measured dimensions in living room & figuring out how to model in SketchUp. #
We are moving to Japan immediately
The singer is MEG and the song is named "PRECIOUS". I haven't the slightest idea what she's singing, but does it matter?
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