August 29, 2006 :: 8:36 pm
I just acquired one of these beauties at work:
A 23-inch Apple Cinema Display.
I have no idea what I’m going to do with all that screen real estate! (Don’t worry, I’m sure I’ll think of something). My world in glorious 1900×1200 resolution with the best color I’ve ever seen on an LCD monitor.
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August 6, 2006 :: 1:01 pm
I’ve been having entirely too much fun this afternoon having Samuel L. Jackson make personal phone calls to my friends and co-workers, demanding that they go see Snakes on Plane. “Hi, this is Samuel L. Jackson. You may remember me from such films as Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, and The Incredibles. But I’m here today to tell you about a movie that’s near and dear to my heart. That’s right, I’m talking about Snakes on a Plane!”
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July 25, 2006 :: 8:52 pm
These are toooo funny! Even us “you can take my Macintosh away when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands” types can laugh at ourselves.
Networking
Gaming
Performance
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April 18, 2006 :: 9:17 pm
Who are you?
I’m interested in knowing who reads my ramblings. Please post a comment and tell me your name, where you are located, and how you found my blog. You can also link back to your own website if you like. Feel free to leave any other comments, too!
Thanks! :D
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March 30, 2006 :: 3:04 pm
In case you were curious as to what my cats do all day, you can find out here.
I don’t always have the camera on, but you might catch a glimpse of a cat or two or three, and sometimes even me.
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March 29, 2006 :: 11:12 pm
Look what I found in my closet!
It’s Blip: The Digital Game, by Tomy! 1977!
I can’t believe I still have this thing. I LOOOOOOOVED to play this game. It was like an early version of Pong, where a little red LED light would mechanically move back and forth across the playing field and you had to press the right button, 1, 2, or 3, to send it back to the other side. I think, in fact, the entire thing is mechancially operated, not electronic. It does require batteries, and unfortunately one of the contacts seems to have corroded. I wonder if I can get that repaired??
You had to be really fast with the eye-hand coordination on this game; it was by no means easy.
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March 22, 2006 :: 8:42 pm
… has got to be this.
Cats in laps rule!!
Or is the greatest thing about working from home the fact that I brought home my Mac G5 from work, hooked up its ethernet cable, changed its network setting from manual IP to DHCP, and it just worked without me having to do ANYTHING ELSE TO GET IT CONNECTED? (Yet another reason Macs rule!!) Or is it homemade tea and coffee, and being able to cook my own lunch in a real kitchen? Or is it waking up at 8:15? Or is it working in my pajamas and not having to take a shower?
Oh, who am I kidding. I hate not taking a shower. I feel yucky all day unless I shower as soon as I get up. (Showers rule!!)
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March 14, 2006 :: 10:05 pm
Well, I’ve finally given in. I’ve joined a social network.
I’ve been resisting it for years, saying that I don’t need it, that I already have enough friends, that I didn’t want crazy strangers knowing anything about me. I tried mySpace, Friendster, Tribe, and Meetup, and somehow just wasn’t satisfied.
Now I’ve found the perfect social networking tool that seems like it was created just for me: isolatr. Join me and be my friend today!
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:: 10:51 am
How cool is this! Google Mars.
It’s almost as cool as Google Earth (a free downloadable application), but not nearly as interesting as Google Moon when zoomed in as closely as possible…
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March 10, 2006 :: 9:57 pm
Man, I do not know how people create podcasts.
I don’t mean technically… That is easy.
I mean, how does someone talk for an hour at a time? Or even ten minutes without stopping? I just don’t get it.
I guess people do it all the time — teachers, or radio show hosts, for example. If you’re talking about a specific topic that is very important to you, and that you know a lot about, I guess maybe it’s not that hard to do.
But for me… I don’t think I could do it. I’m just not that much of a talker.
I think that everyone (or maybe just most people) have a constant internal running monologue in their heads… Things that we think about, little rabbit holes our minds wander down, rehashing conversations, making to-do lists, thinking up great ideas, etc. And I think that the people who can podcast successfully are the people who just naturally tend to make that internal monologue external. We all know people who will just talk and talk and talk, vocalizing what seems like every random thought that pops into their heads to anyone who will listen, or often just to themselves when they think no one else is listening. A real stream of consciousness. These people, the extroverts, are successful podcasters.
Rereading that, it seems like I’m stating the utterly obvious. Oh well.
This “duh” moment was brought to you tonight by my brain after listening to Radio Free Burrito (Wil Wheaton’s podcast). Yes, for those of you who think that name sounds familiar, he was Gordy in Stand By Me and Wesley Crusher on ST:TNG. He still does acting work, but he mostly writes for a living now, and keeps a blog and does podcasts. He is about my age and is married with two teenagers, seems very easygoing, and genuinely interested in interacting with the people who read his writing. He seems very much like a normal guy, someone who might live down the street from you, who does stuff with his kids and goes to the grocery store and watches TVand mows the lawn. It is very refreshing to read his work; he is an excellent writer!
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:: 9:41 pm
For no reason whatsoever, I have decided to return to normal capitalization rules in my posts. I used to, then I quit for a while and have been doing all lower case for a long time now.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the increase in frequency of my use of IM. It’s easier in IM to use all lowercase, since you’re typing quickly in realtime, usually with no time for spellcheck. I bet if you drew a graph and plotted my IM use with my lapse in using proper capitalization rules, you’d find a correlation.
Oddly enough, I find that when I’m using e-mail at work, I can type in upper & lower case without any problem. I wouldn’t want to go all-lc at my co-workers. Except that I do use all-lc on my IM at work. I guess that’s OK; it’s more accepted to not bother with capital letters on IM than on e-mail. E-mail seems more “official.”
“E-mail seems more ‘official’”… I guess that it’s all relative, isn’t it? LOL
I only had to go back over this post and correct ONE capitalization error! Yay for me!
By the way, yes, I am at home on a Friday night. Hey, I’m 33, it’s been a long week. Tonight I watched “The Fifth Element” on our new widescreen HDTV, and right now I’m taking a break from filling in my check registers in Quicken. Later I’m going to go make some popcorn, get a Diet Dr. Pepper, and watch another movie before bed.
Tomorrow night we are going to see “The Rocky Horror Puppet Show” at Quad-C Theatre, directed by none other than the one and only Dane Hoffman (actually he’s NOT the one and only, I just googled his name and found several people that are decidedly not him.) I went to high school with Dane, and I remember him as being very sweet, and nice to me (lots of people weren’t…), and kinda kooky, and he most definitely did not give any kind of a fuck what people thought of him. Case in point: he came to school one day dressed in a spandex Superman leotard and cape, with red underpants on the outside. Just for the hell of it, I think.
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March 9, 2006 :: 10:19 pm
according to my site statistics, people find me most often while doing searches for the following keywords:
and my top hits actually come from people doing google image searches for…
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