So do you have home internet again? I did a little PC maintenance, but still was experiencing some issues. I did manage to play some NWN’s Hordes of the Underdark and practice “I Want Out” with Guitar Pro. Boy is my left wrist sore. LOL
I did play lots of guitar, watch some DVDs, try to get out of the house, talk on the phone. I was actually fine (although my computer had better f*#king be delivered and working tonight). It’s a little disturbing just how dependent I’ve become on this material, worldly item.
Any of my fellow Net Addicts ever think the same thing?
Jack, I was without POWER and a phone line on Friday, and it was kind of nice, but I’m glad it’s back on. I think that I’d be much worse off with no satellite television than no internet. Of course, I’d rather have both.
I enjoyed True Blood last night. As a lover of the books, here are my initial thoughts: I love what Alan Ball is doing with the character of Tara; Anna Paquin is a great choice for Sookie; I wish Bill didn’t have a Southern accent; the sex scenes are pretty steamy; I love the character of Lafayette as I did in the books — I hear he’ll live longer on the TV series. I think it’s gonna be a great series.
Ed: The very tip of one of Ike’s arms just passed over my town in the last hour or so. The wind and driving rain lasted less than 30 minutes. Part of me wishes we (we = South Florida) were getting the direct hit instead of the Gulf Coast getting it again. :-(
we have watched episode 1 and 2 of Eureka
episode 1 and 2 of Mad Men
only 1 week behind on all political shows (meet the press, this week with George s., colbert, daily show, etc etc)
umm.. what else
Hugh sez: and da Bears
Yes :) we watched the Bears KICK the Colts ASSSSSS last night
That razor looks a bit old fashioned Jeremy and if it uses the blades I think it uses (the ones depressed people used to slit their wrists), I’m staying well clear.
Jack: I consider the internet another limb. The difference between it and my other limbs is it has a much smaller failure rate.
When it’s down, not only do I have nobody to talk to, not only can I not work, but I find losing google et al is like the power going out, and there go the lights. Over and over, you keep trying to flick the switch.
I had multiple beers last night with a group of friends that just raved about “True Blood”.
Seems it was a hit … I do have to wonder if they were swayed by the “steamy sex scenes”. They each made a point of mentioning that aspect.
I didn’t think True Blood is a clumsy allegory, but think after only one episode it’s too soon to tell.
I think the books are from the “paranormal investigation/romance” genre, and fluffy compared to what I usually get into, but I love them. I think that the vampires’ “coming out” is a wink-wink towards gay visibility these days, but again don’t think it’s clumsy.
I haven’t watched “True Blood” yet, although there is a part of me that thinks that vampire stories have been over done. But who knows? I did like “Kindred” when it was on. I enjoyed “Sarah Connor” last night.
Re: Sarah Connor – BLAST!!!! My TiVo had too many programs marked “save till I delete … and didn’t record the show. :( sadness.
RE: True Blood – several of the folks I talked with (who loved the show) thought that it was a vehicle for “airing out” a LOT of current social issues, being able to parade them in front of the public by cloaking them in fantasy/vampire wrapper.
People will watch a show “about vampires”.
Less people will watch a show “about discrimination based on fear and misconceptions”.
Well, I haven’t watched the show as I’m not particularly into vampire fiction (though Murder at Avadon Hill is proving interesting).
But, if it’s the case, I would have to wonder about how effective it would be to use vampires as an allegory for homosexuality. I’m not sure I’d see that winning many converts so much as preaching to the choir.
I feel kinda the same about the vampire and zombie genres being overdone
(sorry, sorry – just my take. I’d have to have the most amazing idea EVAR to write in either milieu. Yes, milieu). I don’t have HBO, so I doubt if I’ll ever see TruBlood, even with the clever vampire premise and Anna Paquin.
– Physicist to morning radio DJ concerned about the Large Hadron Collider experiment going bad. The DJ had brought up Doc Ock’s fusion experiment as an example of how scientists can destroy things.
Looks like NOT having downloaded the last several iTunes software versions is paying off.
They are now poised to abandon that which I never had to struggle with and never even missed.
“Take that you software bloating, code monkeys!!!!”
*shakes tiny fist in air*
Van: Just venting. Most software has good and bad points. There are a number of things that iTunes does that really annoys me, including the recent additions of bloatware that Apple insists on installing.
As is often the case, I agree with JustaJ0e. I never install the iTunes updates anymore. It’s still a little scary living in the past, but I think I’d break Deadpan if an update trashed my library.
In fact, WinAmp is looking more and more attractive – as long as it interfaces safely with an iPod.
I’ve always had non Apple MP3 players, of course I managed to wash one and drop the other on a concrete floor. Currently, I’m using Teresa’s back up iPod Shuffle for jogging and my Sony PSP for listening to MP3′s in the car. I don’t buy music off iTunes anymore instead, I’ll either buy CD’s and rip them or MP3 off of Amazon. I’d love it if I could mount iPods like flash drives and drag and drop MP3′s onto them. iTunes seems to be obtuse in this regard. =P.
I’ve yet to have any serious issues with iTunes. Admittedly I’d like a few more options to help manage podcasts, but nothing major. I started using it 3 yrs ago when I bought my first ipod, and I’ve never regretted that decision. In my opinion it’s easier to move drm videos between computers with iTunes versus amazon’s unbox.
I did by Spore on Sunday, and played it for 4 hrs so far I’m at the single land animal stage. It’s fun, very much like an rpg right now, and game control is easy and fairly intuitive. I was looking for a game that I could put down and pick up at will, which I think Spore will satisfy. We’ll have to see what I think at the end off the week.
Rhettro: Me, too. As a lifelong user of Windows, I was really surprised and perplexed to discover that I couldn’t drag and drop things from my iPod. I wish I could do that, too. iTunes’s methods for getting things on and off the iPod really took some getting used to, for me.
I guess it’s not that big of a deal, but typically I’ll download a podcast or two directly in the morning for my commute. I’m rushing to get out the door so taking the time to boot iTunes, then import the MP3s and then import them to the iPod leaves me flustrated. I love my PSP in that regard, I plug the flash memory to my machine and it download directly to it. Ready to roll.
Well lately I’ve been playing Radius on the iPhone, very simple game, but fun when I can grab a few minutes in the working day.
Oh and Metal Slug 7 on the NDS is still grabbing some of my attention.
Agree for about iTunes, it was a shock to my usual way of doing things (I would just copy files over to the memory stick for use in my old phone), and it took me a while to get used to it.
Had an exhausting yet humorous day. One of our engineers has till the end of the week to build a stormwater model on this prison facility that I’ve been working on for over a month or more… Its been incredibly stressful because it’s based on 11 surveys over the past 13 years… Anyway we were supposed to be in the home stretch this week, having the survey department catch the newest part of the facility and dip the rest of the manholes we were missing (and if you don’t know what dipping a manhole is… probably best not to ask).
So I start with three days worth of survey notes and bring in the first day, and right off the bad realize the entire line of manholes they missed back in 95, rather than dipping them this time around the surveyor just wrote “locked.” (which, you know, it’s a prison… They obviously don’t want a repeat of Shawshank Redemption here) But the one that really made me laugh was the manhole they marked “unlocked,” and didn’t even bother dipping.
Which only got more amusing when I told the engineer, who then frantically ran around the building looking for a principal to tell. Of course it was after five, so nothing could really be done.
On the brighter side, I’m going back on Lyrica tonight. My doc has a 21 day trial for me while he gets his next appeal going… and if that doesn’t go through, I’m ordering canadian. I’ve had enough of feeling like shit and having no energy to do anything.
Admittedly, the way Itunes interfaces with the Ipod is definitely a different mindset. Honestly, I haven’t really kept up with what other players/programs have done since I made the jump into my 5G Ipod some three years ago.
At the time, it offered the bet integrated Podcast support, which was and remains a high priority for me. I wish that Apple would do more to improve podcast support, but I haven’t read about anything new on the angle for Itunes 8.
The other killer app for me has been smart playlists. In the months before I got my Ipod, I made a concerted effort to clean up my ID3 tags and rate my songs. Doing so has paid off handsomely in making smart playlists effective, especially the ones that I have that will kick a song out of rotation for a number of days after I listen to it so I’m not having the same tracks coming up all the time.
From what little I’ve seen so far, Itunes 8 seems to be more about extracting more cash from users than really improving things.
I’ve only ever bought one track from Itunes. Everything else has been either from allofmp3 in the past, and now from Amazon.
Today I finished consuming the best vampire porn book Ive read in a long long time. 238 pages which I read over 20 hours between last night and today. So taking out time to sleep, eat and do other things in those 20 hours. I read it pretty fast.
I am actually currently reading Christopher Moore’s Lamb which is about the most funniest books Ive read in a long time but Hugh had put in an Amazon order and ordered me one of my vampire porn books I had saved in the shopping cart. I began to inhale it the moment he passed it to me :)
Oh.. and when I say it was hte best vampire porn Ive ever read I don’t really think the book was that well written… just the fun parts were REALLY well written.
The sites in Japanese but looking for the version number should help you find the download link.
How did upgrading to version of iTunes go LostRalph? Since I mainly buy CDs at the gigs I’ve never bought any tracks on iTunes..just the Radius game for the iPhone. I’ve spent more at money at Fictionwise for the e versions of Analog and Asimovs than at the iTunes store.
The non fixing blows chunks Jack, hopefully they didn’t charge too much for the non repair.
I didn’t noticed the ‘Degree for Men’ pimping in Eureka, might help if I knew what the product was…
TSH, I’ve pulled the book link for the wife as she is into the vampire genre. I’ll definitely take your opinion above random reviews, but man is that book getting ripped on Amazon.
Happy no doomsday day I guess :)
Van maybe it does die away if you haven’t noticed it- ALso like right when they cut to commercials here they have a commercial for it featuring a Eureka cast member, so that may be why it seems so obvious to me. The placement in the show I guess is really not that bad.
Ed- I wouldnt say the book is a great vampire genre book.. it was really just a very hot vampire porn book.. really- the reviews in Amazon were correct about the actual story. The story was quite lame, I had the ending figured out by the middle of the book, but the sex scenes were really really good. So if your wife likes to read kinky vamp sex books then she will love it! :)
although considering we were planning on being in Texas next week.. ummmm… maybe I need to check that. Don’t want to be flying to Texas in the middle of a hurricane.
I don’t understand why the Barack camp doesn’t just dig out all of the clips of the Bush people attacking McCain when he ran against THEM!
Why re-invent the wheel? Those Republicans already made a strong case against voting for McCain. At the very least, all of that stuff should be gathered and on youtube or something.
Don’t know if we have any other “Mad Men” fans here but I really thik the show is back in it’s stride. About the first 2 episodes of this season had me wondering what I had seen in the show but it is back to it’s “Whaaaa, that’s all for this episode? Oh come on … give us another 10 minutes!” status.
I finished reading “Halting State” by Charles Stross last night. It’s an excellent book but only if you can get past the fact that it is entirely written in 2nd person perspective.
hammer and chisel
Morning Deadpan!
I’m looking forward to purchasing Spore. don’t know when I’ll have time to play it, but still…
Back to the grind…
the grind is not nearly as much fun without the “bump”.
Ain’t that the truth.
Agreed. Cloudy Mehday here. :(
Morning, Deadpan!
Lunchtime!
Shift work is the enemy of biorythms.
Morning, Pan.
I sat home all weekend, shivering and unkempt, huddled in a corner, going through internet withdrawal.
… the horror, … the horror, … the horror,
Hey Jack,
So do you have home internet again? I did a little PC maintenance, but still was experiencing some issues. I did manage to play some NWN’s Hordes of the Underdark and practice “I Want Out” with Guitar Pro. Boy is my left wrist sore. LOL
Jack that is called sanity creeping its ugly head in to your mind.
A stiff strong drink should fix that leakage of reality.
Sanity? What’s that?
Frayed Ends of Sanity?
I did play lots of guitar, watch some DVDs, try to get out of the house, talk on the phone. I was actually fine (although my computer had better f*#king be delivered and working tonight). It’s a little disturbing just how dependent I’ve become on this material, worldly item.
Any of my fellow Net Addicts ever think the same thing?
It’s hard to type a dissenting opinion without the aid of a computer.
Jack, I was without POWER and a phone line on Friday, and it was kind of nice, but I’m glad it’s back on. I think that I’d be much worse off with no satellite television than no internet. Of course, I’d rather have both.
I enjoyed True Blood last night. As a lover of the books, here are my initial thoughts: I love what Alan Ball is doing with the character of Tara; Anna Paquin is a great choice for Sookie; I wish Bill didn’t have a Southern accent; the sex scenes are pretty steamy; I love the character of Lafayette as I did in the books — I hear he’ll live longer on the TV series. I think it’s gonna be a great series.
I used to go cold turkey when busting a sisters. Laptop sorted that out.
I just thought AP’s acting was just bad, bad, spoilt True Blood for me.
Van, “busting a sisters”?
Sometimes those nuns just need some cold turkey busting up.
Grrrrrr no computer til tomorrow.
Jack – have you tried just tying two old typewriters together with a tightly stretched piece of string?
Visiting rather than busting.
Another reason to hate Apple…
2:30 PM work… day… almost… over… *insert Kirkspeak sound effect here*
… And yes I know a bad workperson blames their tool.
Ed: The very tip of one of Ike’s arms just passed over my town in the last hour or so. The wind and driving rain lasted less than 30 minutes. Part of me wishes we (we = South Florida) were getting the direct hit instead of the Gulf Coast getting it again. :-(
Van, don’t blame your tool . . .
Seems to be an inordinate amount of tool failures on the board this week.
Stay safe Amy.
Another new razor, another load of nicks..
Van get one of these:
http://internationalcutlery.stores.yahoo.net/meanra.html
I did, and it rocks. Not to mention replacement blades are like, $5 for a 10 pack.
Actually I think it was this model…
http://tinyurl.com/6f5x25
either way they are really nice.
On another note, is there a tinyurl firefox plugin? if not why? that would rule.
OMG there is!!
http://tinyurl.com/28jmzn
and it ROCKS.
Dang, It’s times like these I wish I could run Firefox at work. :(
Razor FAIL.
Amy, my brain still registers you on the West Coast. Like Rhett said — keep safe.
I really coulda used that tinyurl plugin for the next comment I’m about to post.
CP: Justin Timberlake – Sexy Back
LOL
Hotties! Breaking out the JT!
CW: The Shield premier.
[singing]
You see these shackles baby, I’m your slaaaaave
I’ll let you whip me if I misbehaaaave
[/singing]
*swooooon*
yes I just swooned Justin Timberlake.. kill me
what have you peeps been up to?
Smarties catching up on TV update
we have watched episode 1 and 2 of Eureka
episode 1 and 2 of Mad Men
only 1 week behind on all political shows (meet the press, this week with George s., colbert, daily show, etc etc)
umm.. what else
Hugh sez: and da Bears
Yes :) we watched the Bears KICK the Colts ASSSSSS last night
Hugh sez: *swooon* it was wonderful
is no one here to talk to us :(
Huh sez: *sniff, sniff*
ok.. fine.. we’ll return l8r
oh wait… 1 more thing…
Todays Reason To Drink
September 8, 2008
Happy birthday to Star Trek! Grab the synthehol and toast the first episode, which aired today in 1966.
Live Long and prosper, Deadpanitos
Doh! missed the Hotties!
It’s the Hotties! Mark your calendars!
I may be wrong but I think Sarah Connors starts up tonight. I’d better be sure my Tivo is up to the task.
The Shield is an awesome show. I’m sorry it’s ending after this season.
Yep, Rhettro, it is recording now on my TV.
Okay, work day over. Gotta pick my son up from gymnastics class and get on home. Good night, c’ya on the flip side.
Paul Cole reads my short story “Bodies in the Water” over these 3 episodes of the Beam Me Up podcast/radio show. Check it out.
http://beameup.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-08-23T19_27_36-07_00
http://beameup.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-08-30T16_12_24-07_00
http://beameup.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-09-06T15_23_02-07_00
I should probably act like a real blogger, and post this news on the main page.
CP: Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin (on pause because of work stuff)
Oh hey Essbee! Didn’t see you standing there. LOL Awesome! Now I really need to get home to check my DVR. ;)
So much new TV, so little time.
That razor looks a bit old fashioned Jeremy and if it uses the blades I think it uses (the ones depressed people used to slit their wrists), I’m staying well clear.
-update- yes it does use those sort of blades.
Conclusive proof the world is going to end when the LHC is switched on:
http://www.popgive.com/2008/09/gordon-freeman-spotted-at-cern.html
Jack, Rhettro: Thanks. I’m safe for now. I’m not used to living on the East Coast myself, yet. It’s a big adjustment that will take time to make.
TSH: Oh, yeah! Thanks for the reminder! Happy birthday, Star Trek! :-D
http://tinyurl.com/6x7ldz
^Approves.
Glad to hear it Amy. :)
Jeremy, that Tinyurl plugin for FF does rock! To bad I can only use it here at home.
My other link didn’t work.
http://tinyurl.com/58rytr
^Approves. LOL
spore does look so cute. I want to play but have to write.
I will hide my geekiness by not swooning at that pic of Alyx Vance, oh no.
*peers out from under rock* Is it morning yet?
Joe, it’s always morning somewhere. Unless that’s a moonrock you’re under.
Jack: I consider the internet another limb. The difference between it and my other limbs is it has a much smaller failure rate.
When it’s down, not only do I have nobody to talk to, not only can I not work, but I find losing google et al is like the power going out, and there go the lights. Over and over, you keep trying to flick the switch.
“Oh, I need to look up…argh!”
*a moment later*
“Oh, I wonder when…ARGH!”
Watching the world go by makes up for the dodgy hot chocolate.
TruBlood: clumsy allegory for interracial and homosexual dating in the South. Writing isn’t as good as Carnaval or Deadwood. still good!
I had multiple beers last night with a group of friends that just raved about “True Blood”.
Seems it was a hit … I do have to wonder if they were swayed by the “steamy sex scenes”. They each made a point of mentioning that aspect.
Then, I know it will be a hit with a number of people I know. :)
I didn’t think True Blood is a clumsy allegory, but think after only one episode it’s too soon to tell.
I think the books are from the “paranormal investigation/romance” genre, and fluffy compared to what I usually get into, but I love them. I think that the vampires’ “coming out” is a wink-wink towards gay visibility these days, but again don’t think it’s clumsy.
Well the sex scenes weren’t that graphic.
Well tonight I’m going to setup a friends laptop to access his broadband via a router.
It should take 10 minutes, start placing bets on how long it will actually take..
I haven’t watched “True Blood” yet, although there is a part of me that thinks that vampire stories have been over done. But who knows? I did like “Kindred” when it was on. I enjoyed “Sarah Connor” last night.
To many Vampires??? I am so shocked…
It’s a nice town, just too many vampires.
Re: Sarah Connor – BLAST!!!! My TiVo had too many programs marked “save till I delete … and didn’t record the show. :( sadness.
RE: True Blood – several of the folks I talked with (who loved the show) thought that it was a vehicle for “airing out” a LOT of current social issues, being able to parade them in front of the public by cloaking them in fantasy/vampire wrapper.
People will watch a show “about vampires”.
Less people will watch a show “about discrimination based on fear and misconceptions”.
Runaway, runaway:
http://tinyurl.com/6lfyh5
Man that tinyurl plugin is cool..
So “True Blood” is like “Crash” but with vampires? LOL
I’m afraid Ballards ’4 Dimensional Nightmare’ anthology put me off the author for life.
Well, I haven’t watched the show as I’m not particularly into vampire fiction (though Murder at Avadon Hill is proving interesting).
But, if it’s the case, I would have to wonder about how effective it would be to use vampires as an allegory for homosexuality. I’m not sure I’d see that winning many converts so much as preaching to the choir.
Civ IV is evil time Sink….
Good day.
I’ve still got the original Civilisation DOS version somewhere. There had decent size manuals in those days…
Interesting point, Ed, though I don’t know that the goal of an allegory to convert.
CP: Bailame — Gipsy Kings
I feel kinda the same about the vampire and zombie genres being overdone
(sorry, sorry – just my take. I’d have to have the most amazing idea EVAR to write in either milieu. Yes, milieu). I don’t have HBO, so I doubt if I’ll ever see TruBlood, even with the clever vampire premise and Anna Paquin.
Anyone pick up the new Brad Sucks yet?
http://www.bradsucks.net/albums/out_of_it/
WNDR, I assume you’ve downloaded it.
Hey Jack, did you get home net access yet? Oh and thanks for the Devin. I listened while running this morning. :)
One more thought on that vampire/zombie stuff:
I think Anne Rice’s books are still the pinnacle of the vampire genre for me.
YW, Rhett! There’s a chance I’ll get my computer back for tonight. Fingers crossed.
pwnd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Spider-Man 2 was not a documentary.â€
– Physicist to morning radio DJ concerned about the Large Hadron Collider experiment going bad. The DJ had brought up Doc Ock’s fusion experiment as an example of how scientists can destroy things.
Yes Jack I have already downloaded it _ A cut of it (Fake It) was in the last show.
CP: Opera Singer — Cake
I hope iTunes 8 doesn’t suck as bad as iTunes 7.
Is that even possible, ditto? I mean, isn’t there a suck threshold?
Maybe they could make iTunes play mini web commercials while you were downloading songs?
I think so, but new software never fails to amaze.
When does iTune 8 come out?
Looks like NOT having downloaded the last several iTunes software versions is paying off.
They are now poised to abandon that which I never had to struggle with and never even missed.
“Take that you software bloating, code monkeys!!!!”
*shakes tiny fist in air*
CP: Panic — The Smiths
Wndr: I’m not sure
Hang the Dj, Hang the DJ Hang the DJ…
…wait a minute!!
lmao
http://sidewayspony.com/images/trough/production/2007/jun/14/28949_formatted_1181805099604.gif
You actually have to go to the Sideways pony site and post that link to get it to work. LOL I pity the fool.
I am baffled, intrigues and confused by Sideways Pony.
oh sorry. what crap. well, it was a funny Mr. T animated gif.
Well version 7 of iTunes was my first taste of the software. Since I only really use it to download podcasts, I’m puzzled in how it’s terrible.
Anyone care to elaborate?
Mr. T will never need a robot arm.
Van: Just venting. Most software has good and bad points. There are a number of things that iTunes does that really annoys me, including the recent additions of bloatware that Apple insists on installing.
As is often the case, I agree with JustaJ0e. I never install the iTunes updates anymore. It’s still a little scary living in the past, but I think I’d break Deadpan if an update trashed my library.
In fact, WinAmp is looking more and more attractive – as long as it interfaces safely with an iPod.
I’ve always had non Apple MP3 players, of course I managed to wash one and drop the other on a concrete floor. Currently, I’m using Teresa’s back up iPod Shuffle for jogging and my Sony PSP for listening to MP3′s in the car. I don’t buy music off iTunes anymore instead, I’ll either buy CD’s and rip them or MP3 off of Amazon. I’d love it if I could mount iPods like flash drives and drag and drop MP3′s onto them. iTunes seems to be obtuse in this regard. =P.
I’ve yet to have any serious issues with iTunes. Admittedly I’d like a few more options to help manage podcasts, but nothing major. I started using it 3 yrs ago when I bought my first ipod, and I’ve never regretted that decision. In my opinion it’s easier to move drm videos between computers with iTunes versus amazon’s unbox.
I did by Spore on Sunday, and played it for 4 hrs so far I’m at the single land animal stage. It’s fun, very much like an rpg right now, and game control is easy and fairly intuitive. I was looking for a game that I could put down and pick up at will, which I think Spore will satisfy. We’ll have to see what I think at the end off the week.
Looks like I’ll be picking up Lego Batman next week. :)
Rhettro: Me, too. As a lifelong user of Windows, I was really surprised and perplexed to discover that I couldn’t drag and drop things from my iPod. I wish I could do that, too. iTunes’s methods for getting things on and off the iPod really took some getting used to, for me.
I guess it’s not that big of a deal, but typically I’ll download a podcast or two directly in the morning for my commute. I’m rushing to get out the door so taking the time to boot iTunes, then import the MP3s and then import them to the iPod leaves me flustrated. I love my PSP in that regard, I plug the flash memory to my machine and it download directly to it. Ready to roll.
Hmmm… Amazon sez Sept 23rd for Lego Batman, Gogamer sez Sept. 17th. Who to believe? Probably the later date, it’s always the latter.
Well lately I’ve been playing Radius on the iPhone, very simple game, but fun when I can grab a few minutes in the working day.
Oh and Metal Slug 7 on the NDS is still grabbing some of my attention.
Agree for about iTunes, it was a shock to my usual way of doing things (I would just copy files over to the memory stick for use in my old phone), and it took me a while to get used to it.
Had an exhausting yet humorous day. One of our engineers has till the end of the week to build a stormwater model on this prison facility that I’ve been working on for over a month or more… Its been incredibly stressful because it’s based on 11 surveys over the past 13 years… Anyway we were supposed to be in the home stretch this week, having the survey department catch the newest part of the facility and dip the rest of the manholes we were missing (and if you don’t know what dipping a manhole is… probably best not to ask).
So I start with three days worth of survey notes and bring in the first day, and right off the bad realize the entire line of manholes they missed back in 95, rather than dipping them this time around the surveyor just wrote “locked.” (which, you know, it’s a prison… They obviously don’t want a repeat of Shawshank Redemption here) But the one that really made me laugh was the manhole they marked “unlocked,” and didn’t even bother dipping.
Which only got more amusing when I told the engineer, who then frantically ran around the building looking for a principal to tell. Of course it was after five, so nothing could really be done.
On the brighter side, I’m going back on Lyrica tonight. My doc has a 21 day trial for me while he gets his next appeal going… and if that doesn’t go through, I’m ordering canadian. I’ve had enough of feeling like shit and having no energy to do anything.
Oh yeah, did I mention my book is for sale now? http://www.lulu.com/content/3985038
Did any of you guys watch Generation Kill on HBO?
Dub said “manhole”.
Back to my Shiner Bock.
hee hee hee
What’s the current time in Az?
5:30?
Oh … lookie there.
It’s right above this comment
I just had a bad image of Dubshack in Lycra.
Admittedly, the way Itunes interfaces with the Ipod is definitely a different mindset. Honestly, I haven’t really kept up with what other players/programs have done since I made the jump into my 5G Ipod some three years ago.
At the time, it offered the bet integrated Podcast support, which was and remains a high priority for me. I wish that Apple would do more to improve podcast support, but I haven’t read about anything new on the angle for Itunes 8.
The other killer app for me has been smart playlists. In the months before I got my Ipod, I made a concerted effort to clean up my ID3 tags and rate my songs. Doing so has paid off handsomely in making smart playlists effective, especially the ones that I have that will kick a song out of rotation for a number of days after I listen to it so I’m not having the same tracks coming up all the time.
From what little I’ve seen so far, Itunes 8 seems to be more about extracting more cash from users than really improving things.
I’ve only ever bought one track from Itunes. Everything else has been either from allofmp3 in the past, and now from Amazon.
Unofficial offical photos of the production version of the upcoming Chevy Volt electric car have escaped into the wild.
http://gm-volt.com/
I do think the original concept was a much more striking car. Damn those pesky laws of physics!
JOe, I believe AZ time is 1 hour past the time shown in our nipples.
What’s Lycra? And for that matter, what the hell is the “Left Coast?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandex
Well to answer WNDR’s earlier question as to when iTunes 8.0 is coming out, the answer is tonight. Wish me luck I’m installing it now.
Book tangent..
Today I finished consuming the best vampire porn book Ive read in a long long time. 238 pages which I read over 20 hours between last night and today. So taking out time to sleep, eat and do other things in those 20 hours. I read it pretty fast.
I am actually currently reading Christopher Moore’s Lamb which is about the most funniest books Ive read in a long time but Hugh had put in an Amazon order and ordered me one of my vampire porn books I had saved in the shopping cart. I began to inhale it the moment he passed it to me :)
Oh.. and when I say it was hte best vampire porn Ive ever read I don’t really think the book was that well written… just the fun parts were REALLY well written.
and the vampire.. *swoooon*
ok I’m done
I dont think any of you are vampire porn fans.. but just in case:
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Master-Masters-Desire-Book/dp/0758226772/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221019353&sr=8-1
Eureka tangent…
Hugh and I want to know whats with the fucking Degree For Men product whoring on Eureka.
please don’t tell me they are going to find a way to plug Degree for Men in EVERY episode, please?
and why did I feel compelled to capitalize Degree For Men – just like I just did right there in the above post?
Hugh sez: Don’t worry Deadpan, I am tearing her away from the computer now. Say goodbye to your Deadpan friends, babe.
Goodbye Deadpan friends, babe :)
OOooooooo a Smarty Hottie sighting!
So the good news:
I got my computer back.
The bad news:
They didn’t fix the problem. It was gone for almost a week….. and they didn’t fix the problem. Sigh.
In other news. . . . . Smarty Hotties!
And Dubshack! Congrats on releasing your book! That’s a pretty big deal!
No more exclamation points!!
Morning Pan, cool demo for a PC shooter called Reflex:
http://tinyurl.com/5c6dfe
The sites in Japanese but looking for the version number should help you find the download link.
How did upgrading to version of iTunes go LostRalph? Since I mainly buy CDs at the gigs I’ve never bought any tracks on iTunes..just the Radius game for the iPhone. I’ve spent more at money at Fictionwise for the e versions of Analog and Asimovs than at the iTunes store.
The non fixing blows chunks Jack, hopefully they didn’t charge too much for the non repair.
I didn’t noticed the ‘Degree for Men’ pimping in Eureka, might help if I knew what the product was…
Read all about it:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/10/lhc_day_is_not_today/
Doomsday postponed for now.
Shoot, and I was ready to skip work since the world was going to end.
Guess this means I’ll have to drag my ass into the office.
Just finished the season premiere of Sarah Conner. Definitely off to a strong start.
TSH, I’ve pulled the book link for the wife as she is into the vampire genre. I’ll definitely take your opinion above random reviews, but man is that book getting ripped on Amazon.
Morning pan
Happy no doomsday day I guess :)
Van maybe it does die away if you haven’t noticed it- ALso like right when they cut to commercials here they have a commercial for it featuring a Eureka cast member, so that may be why it seems so obvious to me. The placement in the show I guess is really not that bad.
Ed- I wouldnt say the book is a great vampire genre book.. it was really just a very hot vampire porn book.. really- the reviews in Amazon were correct about the actual story. The story was quite lame, I had the ending figured out by the middle of the book, but the sex scenes were really really good. So if your wife likes to read kinky vamp sex books then she will love it! :)
Jack sorry about the puter
and Ed- you watch out for that mean ol Ike
although considering we were planning on being in Texas next week.. ummmm… maybe I need to check that. Don’t want to be flying to Texas in the middle of a hurricane.
Bumper sticker of the day:
I saw this on my way home from work yesterday.
“I came into this world with nothing
and I still have most of it left.”
I DON’T like Ike!
WNDR – that’s a great sticker! :)
Now THIS is great!
It’s an actual video interview of Tom Delay absolutely TRASHING John McCain.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Bf7e7R3gSos&hl=en&fs=1
lol
The Conservative Party of America. I didn’t know there was one. ;)
I don’t understand why the Barack camp doesn’t just dig out all of the clips of the Bush people attacking McCain when he ran against THEM!
Why re-invent the wheel? Those Republicans already made a strong case against voting for McCain. At the very least, all of that stuff should be gathered and on youtube or something.
Re: Mad Men
Don’t know if we have any other “Mad Men” fans here but I really thik the show is back in it’s stride. About the first 2 episodes of this season had me wondering what I had seen in the show but it is back to it’s “Whaaaa, that’s all for this episode? Oh come on … give us another 10 minutes!” status.
Good morning, Deadpan!
Catching up —
Love the vampire porn, Hotties!
Love Mad Men, JOe, but still back in Season 1.
Wolf, excellent sticker! The one I see on every other car in my town is the Marriage = 1 man + 1 woman. Blech.
Back to the work disaster of the moment . . .
My happy thought about Dragon Con 08!
http://www.12vtheater.com/podpress_trac/web/64/0/Dragon_Con_08_special.mp3
I finished reading “Halting State” by Charles Stross last night. It’s an excellent book but only if you can get past the fact that it is entirely written in 2nd person perspective.
I wonder how Alvie feels about new Alice in Chains?
http://www.spin.com/articles/alice-chains-return-studio