I’m in the mood to link
The previous post dates from Saturday… I started writing it about 1 am, and forgot about it; it was still in my journaling app this morning 🙂
Managed to wake up this morning not feeling like death warmed over, but in fact a little optimistic about the day. We’ll see how long it lasts, especially on a work Tuesday, but it’s a nice change.
Pulled out my new Xmas present sketch pad for the first time last night, and started drawing a character I’ve been thinking about for the last few weeks. I mainly managed to prove to myself how out of practice I’ve become, but I’m not giving up. Drawing and painting have been on my mind a lot lately, and there’s a piece I wanted to do for last year’s T-con that I’d love to have ready this year.
w00t_comic‘s been funny this week… a good “gaydar” joke in the previous comic, and a Harry Potter in-joke on a t-shirt in the most recent one. I think that joke has custom-button potential for the early-year cons.
Waahhh
Douglas Adams’ last finished computer game, “Starship Titanic”, won’t install on my OS X system. Searches on the web reveal that it also doesn’t install on many of the Mac OS 8-9 systems it was intended to. Further searches mention that many people who got it to install wish it hadn’t; it may not have been the pinnacle of his work. Maybe I’ll put it on the back up machine, but maybe not, now.
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
THE SPACE-RACE JOKE!
Youre just downright silly, but thats exactly what
everyone loves about you.
Which Eddie Izzard Joke Are 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.
