Sidetalkin’, a site making fun of the Nokia N-Gage gaming-slash-awkward phone, is making the blog rounds.
Stealth Disco is an awesome site that’s been around for a while. I tried to find it on google using words like “office workers secret dance dancing behind others” but couldn’t find it until I found my email from a long time ago. So, I hope this helps somebody! We need to start some stealth disco at work.
This is the only holiday I really worry about — it’s the only one where I feel like I have to prepare like homework. I never actually have the time to come up with a costume, because I put it on the back burner for work and school, and they leave me pretty drained, creatively. This Halloween, however, I think I’ve got a decent idea that I can pull together in the few hours before my party of choice begins. I’m going to go as Pac-Man. My plan is this: 2 cardboard or foam-core disks, painted yellow, between 3.5 and 4 feet in diameter, with black construction-paper pie wedges for a mouth and 2 black dots for eyes, which I will hang from my shoulders by straps, or by employing armholes in the top of the head. Some sort of horizontal cross-bar will be necessary in order to keep unweildiness to a minimum, but there’s only so much you can do with pac-man. Hopefully I can find a cheap yellow shirt and pants pair so that my human form will have as little impact as possible on my Pac-man qualities.
I feel like this isn’t an unreasonable plan, but I have to avoid any sort of glue, or anything that needs to dry, aside from the spray-paint I will likely use. Hopefully it will dry fast enough to not be a huge stinky mess. I can do this!
And congrats++ to Lauren! Welcome to post-education employment!
I’ve wanted to see the Maelstrom, off the coast of northern Norway, for some time. It’s the basis for Poe’s story, “The Maelstrom,” and I think it’s also the basis for the English word. Apparently there’s another version of the Maelstrom, though; the Old Sow in Maine.
I put our Tanglewood 2002 movie (4.4mb) on the site. Hope you like the soundtrack!
Update: in response to Will’s comment, let me explain what this movie is. Tanglewood is a large private park just west of Winston-Salem. For the last who knows how long, they have put on a Christmas lights show. Each year it’s gotten larger. We took these pictures through Lauren’s digital camera, which can make movies of up to 15 seconds. This movie was made using iMovie. Most of the images you see in this movie are three stories high; some are bigger. Occasionally, you can see car brake lights at the bottom center of the image (for scale).
Yahoo! article about children, etc. killed in Philippines under George Bush, Sr.. Via LaughingMeme, which suggests that George Bush, Jr. might use Philippines-style killing as a model.
So I got to use logwatch today at work, in a very nitty-gritty way: I added an option ‘conf’ which lets you change the default configuration file. Logwatch is written in Perl.
This investigation and activity led me to consider writing my own log analysis program. Logwatch is very flexible, but it is a low level tool that is basically a glorified shell script. I would like to write my own, “Bump”, so that you could say “… run bump on a log …”
Seriously, though, if I get some time I am going to write my own analysis tool.
Synergy, an iTunes helper, took over lowercase “a”, meaning that I couldn’t type the letter “a” anymore. Keynote 1.0 couldn’t save files properly. Keynote had an update available via Software Update, though, and Synergy is less important to me since I don’t use iTunes as much.
Mail threading is a little weird (it uses the subject heading, so all my “Re: What up” mail looks like it’s the same conversation), but it’s nice. There’s a 10.3 version of GPGMail which requires an updated version of gpg which requires an updated version of fink.
It would be very nice if Apple hadn’t removed cmd+shift+F for my “favorites” folder, as I put all the apps I ever use in there so it’s only two or three keystrokes away.
10.3 arrived in the mail today. Funny thing is, it doesn’t go on sale until 8 PM.
We’ve been working on getting the iPod to work with Linux. We’ve followed Using an iPod with Linux from a very nice person at MIT. My only additional recommendation is to use xid3 along with mp3info to edit your ID3 tags.
p.s. did you know that people have put Linux on the iPod? That’s just not right.