That Axe Commercial
If you live in Canada, and you watch television, you’ve probably seen a commercial for Axe Shower Gel. In this particular spot, there’s a naked man being chased by a pack of dogs through backyards, etc (ostensibly because he was cheating with the dog owner’s wife/girlfriend). In any case Sandy and I loved the music […]
notes to myself
How to hack my cups install again to automatically turn on my printer: cups will send the output using /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel symlink this file to a script that checks the printer status first, then runs the real CUPS parallel backend.
My GBA Movie Player
A while ago I bought a GBA Movie Player from overseas. Read about it and it seemed like a good thing, plus it was only about $30. How it works is: there are some programs that you run on your PC to convert media files (images, music, and video) to a special format for the […]
sometimes the lyrics just fit my mind perfectly.
Guster – Come Downstairs and Say Hello from the album Keep It Together Dorothy moves to click her ruby shoes Right in tune with dark side of the moon Someone, someone could tell me Where I belong Be calm, be brave, it’ll be okay No more messing around and living underground And new year’s resolutions […]
The Who – I’m Free I’M FREE-I’m free, And freedom tastes of reality, I’m free-I’m free, AN’ I’m waiting for you to follow me. If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high, You’d laugh and say ‘nothing’s that simple’ But you’ve been told many times before Messiahs pointed to the door […]
People change, times change, interests change
Who wants a file archive? I started this thing, which I called UNNA, back in September of 2000. At the time, there had been a great collection of Newton software called NewtonMAD – however, some of it was warez and so it needed to be ‘cleaned up’. Some Newties, including myself, started doing this, and […]
I miss Lloyd Axworthy.
Lloyd Axworthy tells Condoleezza Rice what we’re really thinking – Axworthy was a great foreign minister IMHO. This is a great read.
Random smatterings.
Our basement is painted! It “just” needs a ceiling and carpet now. Might be a while before those are done though. I made a really good lasagna yesterday. It was just… tasty. I wish I had made two but we ran out of noodles. I’ve been writing quite a lot of JavaScript lately, not a […]
