I think I’ve been listening to Sleater-Kinney for weeks on end now. I’ve still got to make a CD with their first two albums on it. Yon think I would have done that by now.
The last of my auctions are closing tonight, but don’t worry – I’ve got more stuff to put up, including a nice portable CD player, my Agenda VR3 Linux PDA, two Voodoo5 graphics cards, a Voodoo3 3500TV, and more. The stuff clear-out continues…
Damn it was a nice day today. Must have been 15 degrees C. Went for coffee to Tim Ho’s without a jacket. Now on the train its damn hot.
They were filming some TV show in Union Station this Morning. They had a sign saying that you may be filmed, yadda yadda. In the main lobby where the camera was I noticed the woman who was obviously being filmed, as no one was walking between her and the camera. On my way by I walked past a big guy wearing a totally over-the-top NBA jacket and gold chains. I figure either he was part Of the shot and so my back Made it onto cellulose, or he was just American. or a gangsta. I wish I remembered the name of the show so I can look it up on IMDB.
I wonder if anyone is reading this over my shoulder…
Today is Sandy’s birthday! She is 24, uh, 21! Yeah!
And, I finally finished my homemade digital picture frame on the weekend. 5-minute epoxy is my friend. The frame is on so it looks nice, I just have to figure out how to mount the power switch nicely on the front and cover up some stuff with black paper. The software is still Linux using an SVGALIB graphics viewer and my RangeLAN2 wireless card, but I might switch this over to something based on Bart’s Network Boot Disk so I can take out the hard drive and achieve silent operation. This would mean delving back into Proxim NDIS driver hell again though.
Looking like a pirate is fun but only having one eye annoys me (idea)@Everything2.com – Freaky true story about why wearing glasses is a Good Idea. Not for the squeamish. I’ve really got to stop reading everything2 while waiting for scripts to finish running and do some real work instead. Oh well, it’s lunchtime now 🙂
This reminds me of a phrase that someone at my high school used to say (or, at least, got credited with it in the yearbook): “It’s only fun until someone loses an eye – then it’s one-eyed fun!” Still makes me smile, in that slightly twisted way.
‘Dell Dude’ arrested on pot charge – heh. heheheh. Funny. Dell Dude. I’m waiting for Ellen Feiss to get charged with presenting a forged prescription now. (Just kidding!) beep beep beep beep beep beep beep!
I worked my ass off today, yet again. And interrupting my normal work was the task of recursively retreiving the names from an MS Exchange distribution list and performing LDAP lookups on them. Half done that one.
Made tacos for dinner! Homemade tacos, even if it’s just from a taco kit, are way better than any fast food.
CBC News: Powell’s evidence fails to sway most of Security Council. Surprise, surprise. The show-and-tell session seems to have been filled with mostly hot air and unconvincing satellite photos. I’m sure I could pull up some satellite photos of some factory in the US from TerraServer and label some round things “chemical storage” and some rectangular buildings “missle assembly building”. Sheesh.
Yes, that’s an awful title. I know.
My favourite way to give back to musicians lately is to attend concerts instead of buying CDs. Consider that the vast majority of artists will only get half a dollar or less per CD sold, while they get a decent percentage of the ticket price at a concert. After a debacle a while ago where I totally forgot to buy tickets for the No Doubt concert, I’ve been really trying to spot concerts that we would want to go to and snap up some tix. (And missing Sum 41 tickets was not my fault!)
Anyways, we currently have tickets for two very different upcoming shows: Sleater-Kinney and Zwan. One’s an all-female indie punk-ish band from Seattle, and one is a new band from ex-Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain. Variety is the spice of life, you know… damn, I didn’t get tix for Swollen Members either!
I added a banner image at the top. It’s a little huge right now (120K PNG), but it’s not permanent. I personally like how it turned out, but please let me know what you think of it by leaving a comment in this entry. It should look fine in Mozilla and IE 5.5+.
hey-is this Working? I’m posting this from my Newton!