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03.30.02 the register has an update on the current state of powerline networking technologies. # hah hah! you can take a look at the scathing first review ever of radiohead right here. included at the bottom are the critic's slight-backpeddling in a 2001 interview. oops! # i saw him as soon as i walked in. young, maybe 17. dark hair, silver loop through his upper ear. sharp features, dark eyes hung under heavy eyebrows. smooth, tanned skin, his brown forearm sticking out of a dark restaurant uniform. he stood behind the counter, stacking boxes, oblivious. i couldn't help looking as i gave my order to the cashier. the meal is a joyful excersize in not getting caught. i look up once and our eyes meet briefly. i don't remember who flinched. walking to the car to leave, i notice him standing out back, behind the resturant. as we approach the car, he looks over. seeing us standing at the car, he starts to walk in our direction. i stare, dumbfounded as he walks right up to the car. "hey, do either of you have a light?" he asks, cocking his head in our respective directions. i shake my head apologetically. "do you have, like, a lighter in your car or something?" he asks again, leaning on the open door. but oh, what is worth of a life spent regretting missed opportunities? i'll be sure to carry a lighter from now on. # 03.29.02 I don't keep bookmarks, now. I keep very few bookmarks. I know that with Google I'm going to find it because I know I've got the name. And there's so much data we receive there's no way we can organize the data, it takes too much time. the register talks to two BeOS gurus about the realities of implimenting a datebase-driven file system and microsoft's plans to do just that (even at the consumer level - something apple should have done with OS X). it's really long and gets highly technical in parts, but overall it's a pretty good discussion of need for this kind of system and the realities of trying to make it work. [updated] # ok, confession: i want to see the panic room. it looks kind of dumb (although not as fantastically "hey look, we're a dumb horror movie" as resident evil) but i still want to see it. and the new york times review gives me good reason, too! listen to this plot synopsis: empowered but jittery single mother buys huge swanky new house with a strangly fortified room in the middle of it. who would ever need this strangly fortified room? she thinks. next thing you know, the house is invaded by psychopathic home-robbers who are really jared leto. sounds fun, yeah? # toyota and honda are getting worried about the next generation of car buyers. they've aparently done lots and lots of research and have come up with some concept cars targeted at... last year's dot-comers! um, are we really supposed to buy into this crap? better yet, are people really going to want to drive stuff like this, this and this? # here we go. moveable type is up and running. the only thing you'll notice is in comments. previously posted comments are now, regrettably missing. posts can be imported (very easily) from blogger but not from dotcomments. oh well. # 03.28.02 lyle lovett was trampled by a bull that had just flipped his uncle, calvin klein. sometimes the news is just strange enough without commentary. # still (very) hard at work on the back end right now. you likely wont see any changes once mt is enabled, but i'll be able to return to a more regular posting schedule. in the meantime, take a look at david's latest. always great stuff. # 03.27.02 FEEDBACK ok, so now i've got moveable type installed. i'm learning the in's and out's. i'm going to migrate this site over to the system soon, but i need some help from you. just take a moment and let me know what you (as a reader) prefer in the following (simple) customization features.
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# 03.26.02 what more could a boy want? i've been pining for moveable type for a while now. i want to get free of blogger more and more these days. after blogging for a year now (as of april 2) i feel like i'm ready to move on to something new. but i bought into my host on an annual plan. so i'm stuck without proper cgi access to install/run mt until the plan expires. at least i was. turns out that today, my host upgraded all of their plans, including existing accounts. so, armed with a profound sense of joy and my new clinic album, i set off into the wilds of personal content managment systems... # ahhh! i forgot to mention that os x just celebrated a birthday this week. # lastly (i swear) it looks like britney and justin may have broken up for sure. or at least cooled things off. perhaps because justin timberlake is gay! (another shameless attempt to grab some quick google hits here at prosaic*) # ha ha! bono's real name is paul hewson. that's sooo not rock-star-with-colored-glasses. # playboy presents: the women of enron. no, serious. # this is one of those "cool looking though not nessesarily useful" gagets that attract attention. but it turns out that the same people also sell this which surpasses that catagory and leaps right into "wow i oughta own this." if, of course, you have an ipod. and a car. and you drive. for more than 10 hours. um. gee. anyone? # WORKING OFFLINE it will come to be known as the day the world stood still. perhaps not. nevertheless, an all-day internet outage (earthlink dsl) today was a quick and nasty reminder of my own growing dependence. i'm away for spring break right now, and i've taken the liberty of plugging my glorious unwired beauty into jessie's dsl connection. i can lounge around during the day, sitting at the couch or kitchen table or even sprawled out on the bed reading news, chatting, blogging and emailing. a convenience perhaps, but it seems i rely more and more on the internet as my primary source of information when traveling like this. looking up phone numbers, directions around the city, emailing job contacts, research contacts, professors and friends, or researching just about anything i need to write on; everything i need is right here, a few keystrokes away. so today i didn't do anything i meant to. instead i watched tv. ran errands. read some magazines. watched a movie. a good day. a day off. but i'm glad i'm back on now. # 03.24.02 i don't usually post any of those "which blah blah blah are you?" kinds of crap quizes. but, these are about two of my favorite subjects! so go take the which british band are you and which rock chick are you, then come back and share you answers! # 03.23.02 wow, according to google, i'm the best place source of information on "how to become a gay homo like ameer." # it's now legal to practice cell phone jamming in france. it might be nice to install them in theaters and busses. # I don't think there is anything wrong with calling ships 'she' in conversation. It's a respectable maritime tradition. regardless, the seafaring newspaper lloyd's list will now refer to ships as it rather than she in editorial content. # 03.22.02 it looks like the postal service is going to increase rates as a result of increased security costs. this might have an adverse effect on large segements of the print industry. # more more more! my life turns electric. everyone say hi to another member of my local reality - byron. his new blog is called "sterilized velcro to save the children." what a swank name! i'll just call it "sterilized velcro" in the future, for brevity's sake. # perhaps one of the most fulfilling and profound moments in a person's life are those minutes following the end of a good book. it's a strange and awkward time, your mind still reeling, making connections, tracing patterns, trying fervently to make sure that the picture you see is in fact the full and complete portrait of the novel. it's such a wonderful feeling to lounge in it, languishing in it's hallowed, ebbing light. the world looks different, if just for a few moments, at the end of a good book. # my honda has just under (1)86,000 miles on it. i bought the car at (1)64,000. in the two and a half year's that i've owned it, i've put over 22,000 miles on it, most within the last year. i'm amazed first because i bought the car for $800 and didn't expect much more than a year or so of jaunting around town and second because most of those miles have been logged between the same two points. # has anyone else ever noticed that in certain brands, the red gummi bear tastes like mr. bubble? # 03.21.02 today is the first day of spring break. lo and behold, there was naught to do, and it was glorious. and the people rejoiced. i had lunch today with my friend's tyler and dianne. dianne is leaving the country to study in london for the next three months. when she returns to sunny san luis obispo, i will be gone. so we agreed to have a parting-is-such-sweet-sarrow luncheon. while dining on our fabulous tacos, she accused me of suffering from GAyDD. this was brought on by the sudden appearance of gym-boy. granted, there's lots of boys at the gym. this one however, i've noticed more than a few times. dark featured and square, i could have sworn i saw him looking a few times. very cute, but the assuption always has to be that their all straight (at my gym). so today he shows up at the resturant, trailed by a harem of middle-aged women (hello) and dressed in tight jeans (hello again) and the gayest shoes ever (ching!). quite nice. now, where was i? i think they're conspiring against me, the beautiful men. they've gotten together at beautiful-man headquarters and decided that i should never be allowed to speak a complete sentence in conversation ever again. as soon as one exits, stage left, another enters, stage right. it's an endless parade designed to distract. how am i supposed to fight this kind of international plot? speaking of international and cute, dayv just turned me on to a new film. now i'm all excited to see it, but can't seem to find it playing anywhere near me. perhaps it will be worth a drive down to santa barbara? i can't seem to find the end of this post, so you'll pardon me if i just kill it right here. # so apple did in fact make some announcements today. nothing too shocking, mind you. there is something to be said however about the updates to the ipod. besides the general coolness of a 10 GB ipod and portable equalizer features, there's the rather random addition of a contact list. seems a bit out of place perhaps? i think what's be demonstrated here with the contact list support is that this device was designed to be more than an mp3 player. already is it an mp3 player, a portable hard drive and now a "not-a-PDA." i think apple has big plans for this gizmo, and i'm anxious to see where they take it. # 03.20.02
i had these lying around, waiting for more vouyer pictures before i published them. but it seems that spring break starts tomorrow, so i thought i'd just usher it in a little early. take special note of number 2 there. # japanese rest homes are being equiped with robotic teddy bears to help track the vital status of residents. they're supposed to interact with the old folks too. kinda, erm, childish, maybe? # it's shaping up to look like apple might reveal something new at macworld tokyo (despite saying otherwise 2-3 months ago). keep up on any announcments here - the keynote is tomorrow morning in tokyo: 7:30PM EST / 4:30PM PST (today!) # 03.19.02 there's an interview with steven johnson (editor/author: feed, interface culture, emergence) over at studio 360. i'm embarrassed to admit that i got this link from kottke. # eww. gross fish washes up in florida. what's in the water down there, anyway? {via obscure store, home of strangely great stuff} # apparently, "500 million billion tons of ice sheet" (no shit) have collapsed off the tip of antarctica. stick that in your smokestacks. # according to an email i just received, radiohead will be conducting a brief tour through portugal and spain during the months of july and august. the band is billing these shows as "small, intimate affairs, featuring a great deal of new material." # 03.18.02 david donovan wants to quit the army because he's bisexual - but the army doesn't believe him. how strange is that? starting to sound a little like some kind of cult... # 03.14.02 I can't stand spiritual gay men. They annoy me more than flavored coffees. A spiritual gay man simply means he has a yin-yang tattoo on his ass, which you can be sure is all muscle. from a pretty funny sex story over at salon. # our society tries very hard to contain and concentrate its embarrassment. for example, in public spaces, we are always conscious of embarrassing ourselves. except in the bathroom. somehow it was designated as an "embarrassment free zone" - perhaps it comes with the nature of shitting. for example, today i walk into the bathroom in the student union. i'm standing at a urinal, peeing - a typically embarrassing event. and yet i find myself carrying on a conversation (albeit breif) with the other guy in the bathroom, who's trying desperately to remove some kind of otherwise-embarrassing stain from his pants. and there we are, two guys in the act of embarrassing themselves, fully comfortable. because we're in the bathroom. # my exit from the beleaguered state sort of asks that i do something to announce it's departure. what i mean to say by that is that its time for a status check: listening: gomez, in our gun (over and over and over again) # i was going to vote for the sexiest vegetarian alive but i can't decide between them! rivers cuomo, thom yorke, fiona apple or jude law? # 03.13.02 after a long silence, mac os rumors is back with reports of apple's newest digital hub devices. apparently, an apple-branded digital camera is in the works, but doesn't look likely to ship until apple feels that it is significantly superior to other consumer level digitial cameras. however, it looks good for the late-year release of an apple set-top box, slated to include: digital video recording, superdrive (cdr/dvdr), high speed firewire, gigabit ethernet, airport hub, mp3 storage/playback and possibly apple/harmon-kardon home speaker system. um, wow. # good luck with the nap baby! try drugs next. # i've been so busy with school over the last two weeks that i'm afraid i might fall down, right here, standing in front of the finish line. i have one more paper to write tonight. the last one. it's due tomorrow. tomorrow is also a very important midterm. isn't week 10 a little late for a midterm? you might ask. and indeed, you would be correct. once i take that test and hand in this as-of-yet-unborn paper, i'll be done. sure next week is finals, but i'm not worried. we all know my feelings on finals. in the meantime, the only thing that is going to get me through this paper tonight are the sweet sweet sounds of unreleased gomez tunes, with huge thanks to andrew and his army of cd-burning monkeys. # 03.12.02 i'm a big fan of sensory naps. especially in the afternoon. especially under pressure. sensory naps differ from regular naps on only one point - you're not actually sleeping. laying down, eyes closed, breathing slowed and rhythmic, you might appear to many to actually be sleeping. the truth however, is that your mind is racing, writing or thinking out a problem or planning a schedule or otherwise occupied with important stuff. while your mind is churning on some important issue, your body can rest. another form of sensory nap involves a similar setup, but in this case, the brain is in neutral, absorbing everything that is being reported by the senses. your ears tell you what's going on around you, reporting and emphasizing the subtle sounds of the afternoon (street sounds, highway sounds, sidewalk conversation, roommates typing). again, you're not asleep, but it might look like it. the problem of course with the sensory nap is the inevitable tug of real sleep. you're walking a very thin line already, and it's easy to misstep. which usually results in some really bizarre waking dreams. like that dream where you're measuring the chromatic values of peanut butter sandwiches as they come off the printing press. you know the one i'm talking about. # 03.11.02 thanks to my class in native american cultural images i have discovered the future of music as we know it: hard hitting, contemporary urban Native American music! (click to hear a sample from Brule' - One Nation) wait, doesn't urban mean black? # just as i was about to tear open my lovely, king-sized hershey's milk chocolate with almonds, i noticed that it contained "an emulsifier." now, i don't know about you, but i'm concerned when people start putting emulsifiers in my candy bar. (plus like, in printing, emulsification is like, bad, and stuff) so i did what any concerned candy bar customer would do. i called the hershey hotline at 1-800-468-1714. i spoke with cindy who is not only a hershey hotline worker, but apparently a chocolate scientist and an english teacher. first of all, as she pointed out, i had fully overlooked one of the most basic rules of english language: the comma. "see that comma in front of the phrase an emulsifier?" she asked me. "uh huh," i replied stupidly, as i gradually came to the realization that she had just taken the upper hand in my little phone prank. "yeah," said cindy, "that actually reads soya lecithin, comma, an emulsifier." at this point i tried to get off the phone, because i'd drawn a crowd of onlookers and i knew cindy was going to humiliate me. so, for a full minute and a half, over the speaker phone in an office full of my peers, cindy explained to me that soya lecithin is a harmless, natural derivative of the soy bean, and that it is used to stabilized the volatile molten chocolate during processing. i thanked her, gave her a false name and promptly disconnected, a humbled man. # U.S. attorney general john ashcroft sings a patriotic song he wrote. it's amazing. go watch it. like a train wreck, you can't turn away from it. you have no choice but to stand and stare, transfixed, as the attrocity of the event runs you down like a bus full of...well, a bus full of something really scary. # 03.10.02 wow. salon has totally changed it's tune about from what they were saying this summer. not only does the revised critique make no mention that this media/award beloved gem was pretty well dismissed by salon when it started, but even the new review is a pretty weak, narrow-minded and attempt to turn alan ball's (american beauty, in case you didn't know) writing into a simpleton pudding. bleh. # 03.09.02 what?! spring break is a booze- and sex-fueled college rite? shit. what am i going to do with these tickets to the Chain Link 2002 Crochet Conference? # 03.08.02 media week is reporting that while CBS and ABC continue to battle over letterman, a displaced ted koppel may have a place with CNN. # 03.07.02 there's a very well thought out, in-depth, track by track examination of amnesiac over at Last Plane to Jakarta. i haven't read all of it, as it's very long, but what i've seen so far is a pretty impressive, comprehensive review of the album. not the least bit like those reviews you've already read. at all. # 03.06.02 adrian lamo is wired's hacker du jour, it would seem. the article talks about the transient youth in that "you heard it here first, of course" way they report just about everything. nevertheless, he's a sometimes-san francisco resident, pretty cute and if i read the article correctly, he's also gay. i think i know a place he can sleep... # 03.05.02 lots of new pictures! check them out. share your thoughts. # um, can anyone possibly suggest why my papertowls carry brief inspirational messages? i just wiped my face with a true friend is the best possession. musta been on sale. # good news for beck fans: he's back in the studio, hard at work with nigel godrich (radiohead's producer and all around shit-kicker) on a new album. you'll remember that beck and nigel collaborated previously on the (awesome) album mutations. # the thing i hate most about getting up in the morning is knowing that even if you can go back to sleep later, it wont be as wonderful as it would have been if you'd slept in. # noah lays down some rules for threesomes. it's a little heavy on the aquisitions and a little light on the mergers, however. # 03.04.02 TEAM WORK i spent the better part of sunday night working on what will come to be known as the group presentation of death (de muerte). the class is Printing Supervision and Personnel Issues. the project is a quarter-long audit of a graphic arts company's human resource department. sounds fun, huh? anyway, tomorrow morning, at 8 am, my group and i ("The Pep Boys Consulting, Ltd.") are presenting our complete audit. this presentation is an hour and a half in length and covers ever ounce of material we've produced in the past 8 weeks. as part of our presentation, we (ryan) drew up a quick cartoon to introduce our group's mission. it may be just a little esoteric for the regular prosaic* audience, but i thought it was pretty funny, so here it is: (click to expand)
to the rescue! a ghost?! run away!! how they did it saving the day... # 03.03.02 His company wants to suck fresh water from two North Coast rivers, stow it in massive poly-fiber bags the length of a World War II battleship, and tow the floating sacks hundreds of miles south--dodging oil tankers and migrating whales--to slake San Diego's thirst. the insanity of our water wars spreads ... maybe southern california can get their water from mars. # « February 2002 | archive index | April 2002 » built with movabletype |
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