I got tipped to this geeky-funny comic that deserves reposting here for casual friday: sysop, humor, linux, sudo, make me a sandwich, sandwich, cartoon » about 100 words
From the West Coast comes this tale– A friend of mine is part of Maxine Hong Kingston’s Veterans Writing group. They are publishing a collection of their work this October “veterans of War, Veterans of Peace,”, and he was invited to a reading in San Francisco. They are a program up there called “Drinks with […] » about 400 words
A Sumolounge beanbag chair is a beanbag like a Maserati is a car. But even that doesn’t properly characterize the difference. For starters, it’s big — over five feet on one side. Not big enough for the whole wrestling team, but big enough for cuddling. A bit bigger and I’d go looking for sheets and […] » about 200 words
In the list of things I should have done a month ago is an item about making my hotel reservations for Library Camp East 2006. Fortunately, John Blyberg notes that Alan Gray has arranged for a special rate Doubletree Hotel in Norwalk, not far from the site of the event.
The original Apple press release is gone (and gone from the Wayback Machine too), but back in 1995 Apple announced a different set-top box, also called the iTV, for a six-state trial of interactive television services. Apple’s ITV system incorporates key technologies including a subset of the MacOS, QuickDraw and QuickTime. In addition, it includes […] » about 200 words
David Moats did some hard thinking on Oliver Stone‘s World Trade Center. “[I]t occurred to me that the problem with the movie is that five years later we remain stuck in the moment. We haven’t really moved on.” We’ve not been able to move on from 9/11 because we’re still mired in the mistakes that […] » about 800 words
TeamTigerAwesome‘s Top Gun: A Requiem For Goose is more than funny, it’s the sort of thing a person should mine for insults and one-liners to use later. Of course, the recent Tom Cruise flap doesn’t dampen it any.
From the title cards:
On March 3, 1919 President Harding established the swingenest, scientologist, dew drop of a flight school in all 38.
Now, you boys may think that you are the high-hattenest group of flyboys ever to shoot down a Mrs. Grundy.
I’m gonna make you better.
So I ask of you?
Who among you wish to fornicate with immortality?
I dare say, me and my favorite Irishman, Goose, are the Real McCoy.
See that Sock Dollager over there?
The skirts call him Iced-Man.
She has misplaced feelings of love.
I despise it when she has misplaced feelings of love.
That Jester didn’t have a flapper’s chance against us Protestants!
I dare say you, you could call me Grover Cleveland…For I just orgazimized, on non-consecutive terms.
You’re still a splifficated, piker as I ever saw. But you can be my wing man anytime.
Applesauce. You can be mine.
Hey folks!
Good news. The Young Rapture Choir CD is now available from Raven Marching Band Records. This album is an amazing collection of songs written by Laura Veirs, and performed by a choir of school children in Cognac, France. It was recorded live in April 2006 by Tucker Martine. The packaging is all handmade and it’s a wonderful recording.
This is a lovely, limited edition cd — we only made 3,000 — so get one quick at http://www.ravenmarchingband.com/store for $15.
You can also pick one up at west coast shows in September if they last that long.
If you want to listen to a track, visit the Young Rapture Choir online.
You can also read Laura’s blog about the concert at
http://journal.nonesuch.com/journal/2006/06/young_rapture_c.html
In other news, Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton made a music video with Laura earlier this year. Check out her film to “Magnetized” which is posted at the following link.
And make sure to keep an eye on those west coast tour dates. They are coming up fast. We’ll see you soon.
xx clyde
All my searching seems to confirm my hazy memory that my olf NewerTech FireWire 2 Go card does indeed support target disk mode, but the old “hold T while booting” trick doesn’t seem to be working. Another shady part of my memory is that the key command was different, but what is it? Either Google is failing me, or it really isn’t online anywhere. Help?
Sure it’s old news, but I am pretty happy that Mac OS X 10.4 has a built-in VNC server. You’ll still need a client, like Chicken of the VNC, but it couldn’t be much simpler to make work. Though, you could run a separate server app (even several instances of it) and work up […] » about 200 words
TV star and crocodile hunter Steve Irwin is dead after being stung by a stingray on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. australia, crocodile hunter, dead, great barrier reef, steve irwin, stingray, When Animals Attack, animal attack, attack, wild animals » about 100 words
From the Royal Gazette: An angler was almost killed when a giant bill fish leapt from the sea, speared his chest and knocked him off his boat in a freak accident at the weekend. Ian Card, from Somerset, was impaled by the blue marlin and forced overboard during an international sports fishing tournament on Saturday […] » about 400 words
Blame Bentley for this. And, as noted in a comment there, “it’s so amazing how [David] Hasselhoff has this entire other career that doesn’t exist in the US, except for mocking purposes.”
Beware the pretty faces that you find.
A pretty face can hide an evil mind.
Oh be careful what you say,
Or you’ll give yourself away,
Odds are you won’t live to see tomorrow.
ZDnet’s David Berlind complains that upgrades are painful:
Upgrading to new systems is one of the most painful things you can possibly do. If you’re a vendor of desktop/notebook systems, it also represents that point where you can keep or lose a customer. Today, most system vendors have pretty much nothing from a technology point of view that “encourages” loyalty. Upgrading from an old Dell to a new Dell is no easier than upgrading to a system from a competing vendor. The system vendor that figures out how to make it less painful to upgrade to their own systems than to their competitors’ is the one that will get more loyalty out of their customers.
Of course Apple’s been doing this for a while with their Migration Assistant tool.
I’m not going to make this point well, but let me try. Now that we’ve recognized the long tail of violence and the “open source insurgency” and seen the Hezbollah missile threat, it’s hard not to imagine a growing threat from enemy or terrorist missiles. In short, as technology becomes cheaper, the weapons people can […] » about 400 words
When Dan Cat gets cagey, and people are talking about mysterious map buttons in Flickr a guy has to wonder…is this why the lines between Dan’s hobby and day job are so blurry?
update: Ryan Eby points out that the map is live!
It is cutting and pasting but what other names are there now for it?? For looking at other websites, following the site and lifting off passages and putting them onto your own site– for one reason or another?? I found bookish.dk while looking up info on Denmark about a year ago. Finally this May, lifelong […] » about 300 words
Made the mistake of complaining about Bruce’s new album. I knew I was risking the age thing, and sure enough– I downloaded finally, with too much anticipation, Bruce’s new Seeger Sessions. I haven’t heard B much lately but his voice sounds like its shot?? Seeger did his work with such a rich voice, deep and […] » about 300 words
Every so often you want to know more about real gypsies. This film is where to start when that time comes round again. Romanian gypsies portray themselves in Gajo Dilo. The crazy stranger in question is not a gypsy but a visiting young Frenchman, played by the wonderful Romain Duris.
Nicholas Lemann, in a story on blogging and citizen journalism in the August 7 issue of The New Yorker: [N]ew media in their fresh youth [produce] a distinctive, hot-tempered rhetorical style. …transformative in their capabilities…a mass medium with a short lead time — cheap…and easily accessible to people of all classes and political inclinations. And […] » about 400 words
I awoke this morning to a bit of a mess. After enjoying months of spam-free bliss thanks to Akismet, I found over a hundred spam comments for pills and free pictures to suit most any need or desire. Spam has snuck through before, but never in this volume, and Akismet has always been quick to […] » about 300 words
Now that we’ve forgotten how deep the collected sludge on the bottom of our cultural barrel is since Fox appears to have given up dredging it for entertainment like Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire? and The Littlest Groom, Jane Magazine (subscribe) has stepped up to explore what remains. The Huffington Post’s Eat The Press […] » about 300 words
Don’t hate me for this, it was MattyB who showed it to me and then setup the domain itsapieceofcaketobakeaprettycake.com. The clip comes from LazyTown (<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396991/" title=““LazyTown” (2004)">IMDB), which airs in the US on Nick Jr.
An excerpt of the lyrics:
I’ts a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake
if the way is ha-zy
you gotta do the cooking by the book
you know you can’t be la-zy
never use a messy recipe
the cake would end up cra-zy
if you do the cooking by the book
then you’ll have a cake
we gotta have it made
you know that I love cake
finally it’s time to make a cake
Matt’s disclaimer notes:
This is by far the most effective form of office/LAN party/teamspeak/ventrilo torture known to man. Use at your own own risk and as directed by doctor.