After the news stories about the filipino monkey a coupld months ago, it occurred to me that recordings of the phenomenon could be what Pressurehed sampled in the song dead air. I’ve always wanted to know what that was from. So far I’ve found no definitive proof though.
Today makes 2 years of no smoking and my little hospital adventure. Sometimes I don’t think I’m doing very well here, but at least I quit smoking.
I mailed my absentee ballot back to California yesterday; I voted for Obama. Hooray for voting for someone I actually kind of like. I’m not a 100% zomg-hes-the-bawm; sometimes he seems a little too slick. And being eloquent doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be a good prez either. But he seems relatively honest, sincere, intelligent, and REPASENT ILLINOIS WHAT WHAT@(&%* There’s really no one else now that Kucinich is out.
It’s nice to be able to cast a ballot in a race that isn’t pre-decided. In the 2004 presidential race California was pretty much locked for Kerry, so I didn’t feel I had to vote for him. I was glad I got to vote for the Green party. I always feel dirty when I have to check that “I am a democrat and would like to vote in the democrat party primary.” I found out too late that you don’t have to do that.
open a terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning end
killall -c Dock
That keeps the trash can–the only thing in the dock I really use–in the lower right corner.
Update, Leopard version:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
At some point I expressed nostalgia for the Muppet Babies, so ADB ordered me dvds of the shows off some website, but they’re totally bootlegged; the case was made on an inkjet printer, when you put the disc in it just says “SONY DISC MENU”, and the video looks like it was recorded in analogue from a vcr.
Train of thought:
Attention movie companies: this is how you Make Money On The Internet.
Incidently, the shows are practically impossible to watch due to the high pitched voices of the characters. 😀
One time I almost bought a used mini cooper s in florida. They wanted 21k. I decided that the car was worth 18k to me, so I told them that was all I was willing to pay. The manager come out of his office huffing and puffing and saying he would give me 200 bucks if I could find them anywhere for that price, acting very upset. We left. My friend Deb told me she was proud that I made a used car salesman cry.
If a vendor is offering a buy one, get one free sale, does that mean that the margins are high enough for them to make money anyway? Or are they taking a loss just to get a foot in the door?
I’m inclined to think that they’re not taking a loss, and I want to say, “I’ll just take one for half price.” Somehow I doubt it will work. I hate equipment negotiation.
There is a position open in my group (Grid Computing, Organic Chemistry Institute, University of Zurich) for a Java programmer. Take heed!
http://www.jobs.uzh.ch/jobDetail.php?jobID=1910
There is also a student position open (they actually get paid here) but I don’t have a link. Email me for details.
I’m subscribed to Mac Mojo; a combo blog written by the folks who make Microsoft Office for Mac. I don’t read it very often because it’s mostly ads in blog form or some other self-wankery, but today the headline caught my eye:
“HA!” I thought. They couldn’t have expressed my feelings more accurately. Alas, they meant something else: “BFD! Big Friday Deals. Best Friday Destinations…” etc etc. Now that OpenOffice is Good Enough, I don’t know why anyone would spend money on the MS one.
Yesterday I got to try Office 2007 for Windows, and my first impression was “Wow, somehow they managed to take up even MORE of my goddamn screen with bullshit menu bars!” Ctrl-Q. So if 2008 for Mac is anything like that, well, SMB.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aTlZbBTSz8o
20NOV 1255 ZURICH ZRH LX 008
1555 CHICAGO ORD ECONOMY
25NOV 1915 CHICAGO ORD LX 009
26NOV 1100 ZURICH ZRH ECONOMY