Thu - July 6, 2006

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Wed - February 16, 2005

Thu - February 3, 2005

Sun - January 2, 2005

kenny got a job

musta been a very bad boy...

Posted at 11:53 PM      

Thu - July 22, 2004

sony ericsson t637

first impressions

okay...i'm feeling itchy for mobility so i went and got a real cell phone again...more on cingular as the months go by i'm sure...as for the phone itself...well...let's bullet...

* it's synchs beautifully with the book ; all my contacts bluetoothed their way nicely, though it didn't import the groups...not that i really need them on the phone...and the calendar synched up two weeks in advance...limited but workable...

* the ringtones are ultimately obnoxious, of course...do i really need a casio in my pocket? there are workarounds of course, and i quite easily programmed a minimal bass and horn piece to let me know you are calling. and a simple click to let me know you left a message (do i ever answer the damned thing?).

* themes capability seems decent, though none of the included possibilities, aside from the simple generic "cingular" suit me. i've opted for the ms tubbieland theme for the time being, which, once i figure out how to edit out the ms logo i'll be happy with, and if i could figure how to get laa-laa and po to randomly come walking up the hillside from time to time i would be ecstatic about. a boobah theme could be equally thrilling...time will tell i suppose.

* the camera i will let you judge for yourself, taken from a moving vehicle as the sun began to do the late in the day orange glowing ball thing...



say...doesn't the remake of the manchurian candidate open next weekend?

Posted at 04:47 PM      

Fri - July 16, 2004

Thu - February 5, 2004

Tue - January 13, 2004

Sat - January 10, 2004

could you be my, would you be my nbor

it's pronounced like mister rogers would have said it, it stands for "no boundaries or rules", and it's got me so excited i'm up late late late letting you know about it!

according to the brains behind the thing "The code is like a pot of goo, and you simply have to say, 'Poof,' and whatever you want comes out of it."

hmmm...what else are they saying?

You are free from windows, pull-down menus, screens filled with icons that you don't understand, crazy results that seem to come from out of nowhere, strict protocols that often make no sense, and endless rules that you can never remember.

well...sounds good so far...

You type a single letter "p" (for pictures) and all the pictures you have on your hard drive can come to you. They can appear in many ways. Let's say they appear as a list of picture names. Within this list, start drawing an arrow shaft that intersects the name of each image that you want to include in your slideshow and in the order that you want them to appear...After drawing the arrow's shaft to intersect the desired pictures, you point the arrow to Blackspace. NBOR automatically recognizes both the arrow and the context in which it was drawn. Then when you left-click on the arrowhead of this arrow, the slideshow is immediately created. Just hit the Play switch to view it.

you can do what?

For instance, you can create a multi-channel audio mixing console and assign it to a red star in your Blackspace . Then you can link to a friend's Blackspace over the Internet. Once you're linked, you can draw a red star in your Blackspace, and this will immediately give your friend your console over the Internet.

okay...there has to be a catch...

On February 16, 2004, NBOR will debut for personal computers and pen tablets using Windows 2000 and XP. The Linux version will also be released during the end of the first quarter of 2004, followed by the version for Mac OSX and higher this Fall.

ack! evil pc's get it first? grrrr.

Posted at 03:52 AM      

Tue - January 6, 2004

Fri - December 5, 2003

Sat - November 8, 2003

got it...

idid

so the zero interest card finally cleared up enough to do the dirty deed. in a few days it will come winging my way...



lucky me.


sounds: interpol...leif erikson
drugs: limon again
anticipation: sleep
appreciation: zero percent interest
quandry: staying up late vs. getting up early

Posted at 04:18 AM      

Thu - November 6, 2003

the machine starts

it has to start before it can stop, eh?

yes, well then, i suppose the revolution has begun, yes? and even before the obligatory trip to see what they came up with, which will inevitable play us as bigger victims than we really are, trapped in a machine we never made , i'm thinking of an early 20th century tale by e.m. forster , who has probably had every large piece of fiction he ever wrote (room with a view, passage to india, howards end, maurice, where angels fear to tread) filmed in a merchant ivory sort of manner, a short story called the machine stops , which is available on at least five different websights (there is a limit to how far i will dig just to offer up a statistic), always in that sort of delicious irony so missing from most other forms of media (when's the last time you read a novel which included a chapter warning you about the dangers of literacy?) and yet, there they are, sucking you further into the machine. my first acquaintance with this beauty was a mid-eighties issue of whole earth review which featured a beautiful drawing of a monkey with his had stuck in a tv screen, refusing to let go of the tasty fruit it has it's hands upon, even as the big bad hunter is creeping up upon it...let go the fruit and run little guy...no way...so fancy that the latest ish of wer is right back there, the dangers of runaway technology...

aw shit...i'm going offline and listen to bill hicks ...




sounds: ladytron ...the way that i found you; julian cope ...upwards at 45 degrees; david bowie ...running gun blues
drugs: chartreuse rocks
anticipation: sleep
appreciation: mp3 technology
quandry: see above

Posted at 01:53 AM