Oh yeah, damn, podcasts are totally they way to go. Thatsound is grrrrrreat!
Plus, the first thing I clicked took me to Yilan, Taiwan, so of course that made me happy.
Using a laptop to get work done is just horrid horrid stuff. Flat keyboard… garbage. No mouse (kk, yeah that’s my fault i could plug a mouse in, but frankly, using the PC is easier than keeping a mouse near/connected to the laptop), garbage. Tiny screen… laughable (ok that’s a quibble). Sitting on a couch, ridiculous. I can actually see the pc from here. I should be using it instead. but NO. Really, this laptop experience should not suck. The keyboard should be ergo. It should have a mouse *built in* that I can just dock and keep charged. The screen should let me extend it vertically (like slide up and away from the keyboard).
My trusty lappy is starting to lose its marbles too. Now if I reboot it, about half the time I lose the LCD screen. It’s actually showing stuff, but at like 1/20th brightness. I really don’t wanna spend money on a laptop right now.
If I get another one though, it’s gonna be a mac probably. I don’t need real speed in a laptop, and the idea of doing a bit of iPhone dev here and there is kinda exciting (though that would mean somehow getting an iPhone even though i’m scatologically(!) opposed to them and their horrendous data tethering schemes.
In fact the iPad’s 3g a-la-carte data plan is a thing of genius. So maybe it’s iPad dev I really want to be into. Ffik, In reality I probably won’t do much of either if it doesn’t directly lead to my quality of life improving. What I really need to do is organize my basement. I’m suspecting there’s no app for that.
Aggg, I’ve run out of music to listen to. It’s been weeks. I keep trying random new stuff and it’s totally disappointing. Amazon’s music search (for similar stuff) totally doesn’t help me find what I want. I’ve been listening to nothing *nothing* but french techno for my commute for going on 6 months now… it’s the only thing that seems to be consistently good.
And what’s wrong with you people loving this new Eminem? Zzzzzzzz.z.z.z..z.z.z…… I guess I haven’t finished it all yet, but jeeze, the first couple songs are a snore.
And when I do find a good new album it’s only like 10 songs. Wtf you lazy-ass musicians. When you make something good, MAKE A LOT OF IT. An album should easily have 50-60 songs on it. Or I need an auto-remixer to take 1 hour of music I like and make 8 hours of variations on it for me to listen to. Quantity. Required.
The best thing on this Eminem album is the Rihanna thing. Dude isn’t that embarrasing? It’s true of most of the Eminem stuff though… the best is always the easy-listening girlie-stuff. Sigh… Eminem needs to start doing duets with Aqua.
Edit: Plundering my google reader history for music / volume / quality leads me to an old cb post of http://www.thatsoundradio.com/. Crazy fucker (thatsound, not cb) is up to like 90+ podcasts. I’ll just download all of those…
How did Wave die… great idea.. but man, the interface was just weird. We’re right on the precipice of someone getting that stuff (collaborative info-sharing) to work well. Facebook has it down (shudder) one-way. And even their half-assed way is super successful. The frustrating thing to me is that doing all this stuff right seems so *easy*, but I feel like my generation of coders is just super super lazy. If we all had like 1920’s russian immigrant upbringings, the web would be full of beautiful things. We could all be millionaires if we were willing to work hard for a few years and take some risks. The dot-com crash didn’t help… it made everyone feel like if you stick your neck out and try really weird stuff you’ll just get your head cut off but that was totally the wrong lesson. There was no lesson from the dot-com crash except maybe to beware of suits bearing money.
The Netflix movie reviews are *staggeringly* bad. What the hell? If it has 4 stars on netflix, it might be great, or maybe you should probably throw it in the garbage, who knows. If it has 3 starts on netflix, it’s a made-for TV movies. If it has fewer stars, you might as well stab your eyes out with hot pokers. No movies on netflix has more than 4.5 starts.
Couldn’t they just fucking *buy* rottentomatoes? That’d work a hell of a lot better.
Krugman is on a roll since he got that Nobel. He’s a machine.
“The clips were taken completely out of context. It was basically as if I said, “Some people say that violence is always the answer; they’re wrong”, Fox ran with the story “Krugman says violence is always the answer”, and the Times fired me.”
Krauthammer is kinda full of shit in a lot of ways in this article (nearly of the ‘obama debt’ is actually ‘bush debt’ (economy, Iraq war, tax cut). This is a pretty tasty preview, I think of what some of this years elections (and even more so, 2012) will look like. Reports of mass Democratic demise in 2010 are very premature (of course lots of seats will be lost, mostly because Obama isn’t on the ballot, but 1994 this is not).
This country is desperately in need of proper taxation. Raising it on upper tax brackets would be the best way, but we’ll probably tax the poor instead.
I bet you thought polling outfits were run by people who knew how to do math. It appears in many cases you’d be wrong. I think this needs to be addressed in our education system. Institutions that you think are run by smart competent people are in fact largely run by incompetent charlatans who can barely function at all. Even the cynics among us I think tend to attribute super-villain status to the people running the show. Really though, they’re both malignant and dumb.
9th Anniversary Deep Thoughts and Statistics
Marian and I have been married for 9 years today. We’ve had Jules for 1/3 of the time we’ve been married, and we’ve lived in Seattle for more than half the time we’ve been married.
We’ve been friends for 15 years.
I knew within a month or two of becoming friends with Marian that if she wanted it (and I put the estimate at around 5% that she did), I could be with her forever.
I love you, babe. Happy anniversary!