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october 21, 2007
in preparation for the main thing i am giving myself for the big four oh -- ten years of re-learning how to draw -- i found out how many (empty) sketchbooks and moleskines i have. hopefully after the provided period i can look as good as mattias inks. (via moleskine project via aaron's delish)
oooo they have their own apple pro tips.
it is so weird seeing the it crowd - series 2 already out on dvd in the uk considering we just finished watching the torrent releases a few weeks ago. i guess they knew the real medium for this show.
oooo it's about switching but it's ultimate. p.s how long does it take to stop obsessing over the cleanliness of the macbook? i have two cats and a cat hair free keyboard is impossible. on my pc i just don't care but on this brushed metal look, it is very apparent.
i suppose if i read enough of these 10 tips for new mac users, switching from windows, the best keyboard shortcuts will become apparent. while i never did any such thing on the pc, rescripting some keyboard functions seems like a good idea but simultaneously seems like a cheat.
october 20, 2007
yo tbit, pay attention here. update: i guess not; the link is no longer on the main page so it doesn't look like there will be after dark festival bloggers posting on their site. but as for other sites...
reading how to switch to the mac and drinking blended irish whiskey. i'm hipster.
october 19, 2007
11:50 pm apple things done today. installed firefox and acrobat., that is, after learning the difference of installing in osx -- it's neat.
fiddled the hell out of the desktop settings and even found a neat halloween based desktop image. i renamed the computer to jolly roger after pondering invisibles names on wikipedia. learned a few keyboard shortcuts but still need a few more basic ones. things loved? the keyboard lighting up as the light in the room lowered & how pretty everything is. things annoying me? expanding large pdfs steals a lot of processing power even on this mega 2.2 dualcore -- not even noticeable on my much lower pc. i guess the prettier it is the harder it is to make happen.
yeah i have n.a.d.d. but it doesn't affect my life.... it is my life. i cannot wash the dishes without a break between sink loads to ... flick a few channels, to browse a page, to play a round of or to watch the latest effect on csi. when is the last time i sat down and did something that lasted an hour or more, an hour or more concentrating? ya got me.
now that my printer decided to change printer profiles all on it's own (blues and greys come out green, browns are yellow, etc.) i am not printing my own postcard images. but now moo is. no not you marc.
this is very strange but in the same way i got excited about going to kungfu friday, i am tres excited to go to dungeon siege at the toronto after dark fest !! thanks kent.
i grump enough about how badly things are done out there that it is nice to hear about a good example of customer service. and what makes it good? that it was done by a human in reaction to a human event. i've got something in my eye.
10:03 am
last time i brought home a macbook pro it was for a brief period to make sure a new web-based service would work on osx. it did so i brought the macbook back. this time it's for an extended eval in order to get my skills on a mac up to date. so the above macbook pro 15" is my baby for some time to come. a fresh out of the box, break the seal sort of deal. weee.
with that said, i am going to get my ass in gear and update the look & feel for this blog, as i have been intending on doing for about 2 years now. the final design is settled upon but it's about getting around to it. once done, i am going to make my primary home computer this macbook as that is the only way to really get a handle on the ins and outs of this new environment. oh kingmob (my pc) will still be the main computer for gaming and other shite, but all the day to day computing (and blogging) will be done with this guy. and if i find the software, photoimage manipulating, photoast site building, cd cover production, game writing and networking learning.
first experience with turning it on was that "never really experienced before" first time on setup of the laptop. it walks you through a basic wizard, which went easily with only one hitch -- the default wireless internet connection is just wep -- my router required the setting 40char wep. and what's up with the $ in front of the chars? but she is up there and running. the next few weeks or months will be fun.
anybody suggest any good new user mac blogs ?
october 17, 2007
while i read this rogers portable internet bait and switch post i am not surprised, neither by the misleading and mistakes on the website nor the belligerent attitude of the customer service people. i work with rogers everyday at work and only the simplest of tasks are done without trouble. but the more difficult or complicated tasks always get screwed up and take forever. such is the life of a callcenter employee, not trained properly nor paid enough to give a shite about their job. i am just glad the incompetence has me getting free cable since i cancelled in april but still watch tv.
october 16, 2007
i thought so. while the novelty and amusement factor of kottke komments, everything you love about kottke.org, but with comments was funny, once the novelty wore off nobody kommented anymore.
i have recently collected a strange amount of music that i heard on tv, not music that was in a music video but music heard in shows, in commercials and in backgrounds. how do you find it? well, via the internet of course. i really should get around to making that mixcd.
01:49 pm new design is still sitting in limbo, not as bad as the stalled-delete-the-software limbo of photoast, but a "my routine interferes with me completing things" kind of limbo. the new design will involve having more words on the page than i do now, a redesign of intent as well as .... visual. i like writing, even when i do it badly (ala most of the time) and i get inspired by wordsy places like verbalized. simple, to the point and fun to read. but not journal-like... to be honest, i like randomalia in my reading unless i know the person personally. then i want to read each drop of their life.
tangent. wordsy tangent. why the fuck is my life so often like a rube goldberg machine of mishaps and accidents? it's as simple & annoying as placing a awkward shaped bowl against the microwave when i am washing dishes, which leads to a number of things leaning against it and ends up with somehow snagging an entire handful of clean forks with one plastic cover and sending them all spinning onto the floor. i always yell at the objects like it is their fault, as we know it is, and wonder how it could happen. as if i tried to setup things that way there is no way i could accomplish it. i swear that someday i am going to elbow a bag of bread and somehow collapse the apartment building next door.
but maybe it's just the universe trying to tell me that my current state of mind (sour, self-obsessed, pent-up, frustrated, on-edge, unable to smile for real) is affecting more than just my immediate environment but causing real woe in the world, ala butterfly in tokyo kind of damage. talk about self-obsessed.
p.s. i am not talking about current as in "this hour" but days, weeks, months and most likely the entire last decade. it's like my entire reserves have been drained, as in those reserves that people recharge when they take vacations. mine are empty, the furnace of my contentment is off and i don't know how to re-light the pilot.
oooops, i didn't mean to rant or whine but sometimes the words come out.
hee ! mst3k does jack chick, or more explanatory, make fun of the jack chick anti-d&d comic tract. (via the wednesday knights)
october 15, 2007
michael pollan says,don't eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”wow, that would lead to a lot of really boring nights eating out at restos. and to be honest, my grandparents and probably their parents, did not eat so well -- tons of fried food and buckets of salted this and salted that. tons of veggies boiled into mush. yuck. my father would balk at gyoza and there is no way i am giving that up. (via beatnikpad)
october 12, 2007
kewl. one of my favourite monster stories from stephen king is being made as a movie.
the teaser trailer for the eye doesn't leave me as interested as knowing alba was in it. speaking of remakes of asian horror movies, anybody have any recent recommendations?
so, where are the decals that you dip in water and attach to the plates?
and here i thought that pepsi workers were supposed to seduce coke workers into drinking their beverage, not attack them.
hmmm, interesting how no matter how much you might consider yourself a d&d geek, you could not know about david a. hargrave. me, that is. me as in i didn't know about him, not me as in i am him. anywayz, game maker and game master. (brought via this post about a reallllly fun game, by way of jeff)
look, it's paris hilton's laptop; well if she knew how to use a computer.
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