oh man, if this works i would be so happy to dump endnote, the crappy bibliography & reference plugin for word that inexplicably costs 240 dollars
http://www.zotero.org/
but, uh, a firefox extension? weird. i’m guessing it sucks too, as all bibliography software must, but at least it’s free.
openoffice is now good enough that i’ve dumped ms office except to open and re-save .doc & .xls files I have to send to those foolish enough to pay
swiss international flight 8
depart zürich: july 11 @ 12:55
arrive chicago: july 11 @ 15:35
swiss international flight 41
depart los angeles: july 31 @ 19:40
arrive zürich: august 1 @ 16:00
estimated xanax consumption: 12mg
estimated trips to steak & shake: 3
cubs games: >= 1
minimum burrito quota: 5
likely condition of liver: degraded
attempted stockpile of short trousers: confirmed
At last cartalk has a proper podcast so I can now auto download via rss instead of having to stream it every week. I am teh pumped.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=9911203
This completes the pantheon of free NPR shows online:
on the media
a way with words (not as good since Richard left)
fresh air
wait wait… don’t tell me
all songs considered
this american life
PS itunes still sucks why does it keep getting slower luv ghort thnx
PPS podcast is a dumb word
Also, during one of the talks on friday a speaker said something about Stryker’s Reagent. All I wanted to do for the rest of the day was play Ultima 6 & listen to .mods.
One of the Princesses of Thailand came to the university on friday for a symposium. She had an entourage of about 14 people.
Video from the zurich news station coverage (in german).
I installed the red carpet and helped with various logistics, but otherwise had no contact with her, thus missing possibly my only chance ever to high-five a real princess.
Later we went to Zeughauskeller and ate a meter of sausage.
I wanted to listen to Manowar’s classic Kings of Metal album on my linux box so I did what any sensible person would do: select the 10 music files and run “Open with VLC”. Little did I know that it would open them and start playing them ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Now, I’m sure that for most albums, this would result in an earsplitting cacophony of unlistenable cacophony. I would flail my arms in terror, involuntarily ejecting my expensive headphones from my head into the air, where they would accelerate rapidly away until the cord was fully uncoiled, at which time they would abruptly change direction and crash to the unyielding university office floor like a dalmation walking a 6-year-old.
But the Manowar album doesn’t care about any of that crap. Manowar–I’m now convinced–writes their songs intentially to be played on top of each other, intensifying the metal and revealing additional nuances of wrecking-your-neck-ness for anyone who can take it. What’s more, as far as I can tell the relationship is linear, meaning I experienced *9x* the normal amount of Manowar destruction contained in a single song (song #9, The Warrior’s Prayer is not really a song). It was far, far too awesome for me. Only a level 14 metal-warrior-mage or above could withstand such an attack for sustained intervals.
I lasted about 60 mouth-agaping seconds before having to close VLC and make a cup of soothing tea.
akzrh: so my computer should be a fully operational battle station by tomorrow I guess?
ghort: yeah are you still here?
akzrh: yup
ghort: if you want to come up and claim it in like 10 minutes that’s cool
akzrh: cool
akzrh: maybe I’ll do that
ghort: do you have any cheese?
ghort: on you
akzrh: yeah
akzrh: always gotta be rolling deep in zurich
ghort: i’m so hungry
ghort: trade you cheese for computer
akzrh: ok so I refer to money as cheese, but maybe you are actually hungry??
ghort: hahahaha
ghort: yes i was talking about actual cheese
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/robot-sex-its-here-240486.php
re giving the british peeps back: “if this is some kind of bizarro power play, who won??” [second question mark mine]
if the US caught an iranian soldier in a rowboat anywhere in the goddamn western hemisphere we’d be invading faster than you can say amma jamma nimma jibba jabba