From something jdunson said

Matrix@Home – the screensaver where YOU are the OS!

Initial download free with signed slavery contract. Kung-fu package and cellphone plan sold separately. Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Monica Bellucci, and other expansions priced by customer pupil dilation.

If you would like information about adding “The One” option, please stay on the line and our agents will be with you shortly. Really.

Cleaning the attic of my brain

Two interesting tidbits of geek stuff crossed my desk this morning; first, there’s finally a really nice, configurable, Matrix code screensaver for Mac OS X. Too bad all my machines migrated to SETI@home some time ago. Second, it looks like the new AIM for Windows beta has early video chat support, and may soon be compatible with Apple’s iChat AV. That would be wonderful news, seeing as the video chat support in Yahoo! Messenger for OS X is… weak.

I’m now the navigator for kittykatya‘s pirate crew, yarrgh! I wonder if Tom Monaghan still has the letters of marque issued to the SS MacKeigh by the court of Riversmeet (I think)?

Christmas was very good, and in my case, spread over all of December. I got to see a lot of people who are important to me, and yes, I got a lot of neat stuff – to deny that I enjoy people giving me gifts would be hypocrisy of a high order. I know some people who feel that it’s better to spend the whole year being good to their fellow humans, rather than to concentrate it on a single season; I can’t argue with the sentiment, but I feel that we always need times of special celebration.

Still don’t know for sure what I’m doing New Year’s – we have several plans, but they all depend on things out of our control. I had hoped to finally meet subbes face-to-face this week, but I just don’t know right now.

Ray of Light

So I’m driving home, listening to electronica on the car MP3 player, and I’m wondering: do its fans enjoy it as the sensible evolution of musical sound using the instruments of the 21st century; or because they’re a generation that has grown up listening to things beep and buzz at them, so carving music out of that is only natural?

I had a link once upon a time to a percussive piece composed to be played on a room full of dot-matrix printers – an instrument already vanishing into history.

Because It’s Him

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THE SPACE-RACE JOKE!
Youre just downright silly, but thats exactly what
everyone loves about you.

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Good Webcomics

I recommend all of these, but especially the first:

Fragile Gravity, Sluggy Freelance, Kevin & Kell, Freefall, Mac Hall, Rockwood, usr/bin/w00t, Queen of Wands, Sinfest

I don’t recommend trying to read them all from the beginning in a single day 🙂

Ever heard a tin flute dancing?

I fear that WVTF is about to play the entire Nutcracker Suite at me.

I like many parts of that composition, I’m not as sick of it as I am of some other holiday music, but I wasn’t planning to listen to the whole thing right now at work.

Worse than the Classic Trek edition

Arwen Barbie and Aragorn Ken.

Excuse me while my brain explodes.

Nowhere Man

This shouldn’t be considered an opinion on Michael Jackson’s guilt or moral character; I just think it would be a sweet irony if he went broke defending himself and had to sell his song catalogue to Paul and Yoko.

Phone Post

Unfortunately, you’ll be back.

Saw T3 last night, and I can’t say I really liked it, mainly because it practically screamed, “T4 – coming soon!”

More about it, with spoilers

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