May 2005 Entries
Last night we were playing the “let’s find the most obnoxious, strangest sounds to play on the jukebox, clear out this place and enjoy it by ourselves and kick the jams proper” game. The best one was Splish Splash by Bobbie Darin. I was trying to find the tribute to my friend Rory and play The Allman Brother’s Mountain Jam which clocks in around 45 minutes — a trick he used to pull at “Our House” aka the greatest bar in Boston.
But the real point of this post is this god-awful Little Richard cover. Not quite up there with some of...
Walking up the block today, the “grinding guy” was ringing his bell. Noticing a marked decrease in knife sharpness the other day, it seemed like a good time to take him up on the offer. I brought down two big knives, one steak knife, a pair of scissors and some old wire snips. The wire snips were rejected for some kind of structural reason that wasn’t fully explained, but he set right to work on the others. Note to self: next time wear heavy boots instead of sandals while carrying many long knives down the block — nothing happened, but...
My electric bill comes in about $80 during the winter and $115 during the summer. I’d love to lower it.
I’m wondering blog-loud if I should get one of those wattage meters that you can hook up inline with a device and see what the culprits are. Do I stand there in my underwear with the fridge open for too long? Is it my server farm?
MetaEfficient posted these really neat LED light replacements that only draw 1W, but are equivalent to a 25 W incandescent bulb. The only problem is they are still specialty items that run $18.95, but should last...
Here is a picture of a fabulous piece of art I have hanging in my entry way gallery.
Whitney Pre-Crack by Sara Woster.
More good stuff, and large size jpegs here.
Also note: Dirty Does It: Andrew James, Ludwig Schwarz & Sara WosterMay 27 - June 25, 2005Reception: Friday, May 27, 6-8 PM
My previous verbal attempts to describe RSS to non-technical folks usually fail. Vic informed me yesterday that he read this piece in Time Magazine and it all became clear.
I’m posting the whole darn thing and hopefully it will help those of you who still visit via browser. My RSS feed is here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1064487,00.htmlLet RSS Go FetchBy CHRIS TAYLOR
Posted Monday, May. 30, 2005
If you're a regular reader of blogs, or indeed of any kind of news website, you've probably been frustrated from time to time by information overload: the blogosphere creates way too much material for any human being to...
I use Virtual PC and VMWare extensively.
Here’s my work VPC Console.
Most of them are self-explanatory, but here’s a couple more words about them.
Biztalk – Biztalk installations are pretty specialized and you need a whole bunch of software installed and installed in the proper order.
Windows XP Trials – Where I install all the stuff first. I don’t install any little utility on my main workstations. I use these images (I have one at home too) to do all the install tests. I have all kinds of third party tools loaded here. They get messy quick.
Korean XP...
This is a knock-off Duracell battery that was being sold on the subway. This pic is taken in the Times Square stop. It is a) funny b) a test of flickr/blog integration.
Flickr link
Let’s take a moment to appreciate music videos. Maybe everyone doesn’t share my experience totally, but I don’t watch many anymore — but I used to. MTV and sadly even MTV2 is mostly about 30 minute shows that get more advertising dollars. I can instantly recall hundreds and could storyboard them for you. I guess iTunes is experimenting with some bonus video materials but these seem to be of the buy the album, get a free bonus video variety. One some old 40 gig harddrives I have a boatload of videos that I procured on Usenet that I haven’t bothered to connect and...
Every morning starts out with Slate’s Today’s Papers. The seventh paragraph:
The Post, alone, fronts about 60 Iraqis killed in mostly terrorist attacks around the country. (The other papers reefer the bombings.) Ten Iraqis were killed and roughly 100 wounded by the bombing of a popular falafel restaurant in Baghdad. Another 20 to 30 people were killed by two car bombs outside a Shiite community center near Mosul. Late last night another car bomb outside a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad killed 10. Also, a top Iraqi national security official was assassinated. And the military announced that five American soldiers...
I’m just going to put this out there because I had always thought about the same thing and I hope you can appreciate my finally getting some closure.
“Travelling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops, boy…without precise calculations you could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that would end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it?” – Han Solo, Captain, Millenium Falcon
I was folding my laundry the other day, and had the audio commentary for Episode IV on in the background (I get bored with radio, and don’t have cable at the moment). I...
Someone at work forwarded around this fake BBC article about a lion taking on 42 midgets in Cambodia. MetaFilter mentioned it the other day, pretty funny stuff.
But then another co-worker, Josh, the one that introduced us to the 6 train Celsius system, brought up this:
Sometimes truth and fiction are closer than we think.
Yesterday, the NY Times carried this report of the discovery of a new species of monkey. A New Species of Monkey Found in Africa
And yet they were scooped by The Onion, who just a day earlier, carried this report: New, Delicious Species Discovered
I don’t read the full...
At the Seattle Show Last Night, I Went Outside and Played a Few Songs for the People Waiting in Line to Get In.
How great is that?
My blogging performance has been off this month. Two reasons why:
I have this project at work that is big, vague and has no immediate pay off other than I can say “I did it” and it is hanging over my head. Everytime I fire up BlogJet I get that sinking feeling of guilt that I should be working on Project VisioBoy instead.
A little overwhelmed by incoming content. The most remarkable new NewsGator feeds? Matthew Yglesias, FutureFeeder, A Hamburger Today, LifeHacker, Overheard In New York
Don’t worry, this is strictly temporary and the blog-faucet is poised to re-open soon.
Was on a tour of the South this weekend. Visited Greer South Carolina, bought some fireworks and went to the dirt track stock car races in middle Georgia.
I’ve got this new hot shit workstation. Things are good. Mostly.
I own a M-Audio Delta DiO 2496 which used to work fine, but when I moved it into this new box it garbles badly when I write data to my terabyte raid 5 array. (I just like saying that, I do have four 250 gig harddrives, but in actuality it is a RAID5 array and it only works out to around 700 gigs usable.) Note: I need coaxial spdif outputs only for this card.
All the reading I’ve done points to an IRQ sharing problem. Can you believe that it...
I’ve been doing a great deal of procrastinating lately — I won’t go into the why’s.
But this afternoon has been different, I’ve been closing loops and firing out emails like a champ and it is crystal clear why. I’m going on a mini-vacation tomorrow and Friday and you are always most productive the week before a vacation or in my case the day before two days off. We feel compelled to get things out the door and wrapped up before we leave. This was cited in Getting Things Done if I remember correctly.
I’m hoping to capture this feeling and...
http://www.woodmans.com/ Home of the famous fried clams.
Here are all the shows in my “upcoming shows” Outlook 2003 Search Folder. I don’t know if I’ll be able to make it to all of these, but there they are…
http://upcoming.org/event/17606/ May 14: Crystal Method/evil 9 @ Spirit at Spirit
http://upcoming.org/event/19231/ May 20: Hot Hot Heat, Robbers on High Street, The Blue Van at Webster Hall
http://upcoming.org/event/18703/ May 26: Rilo Kiley at Webster Hall
http://upcoming.org/event/18167/ Jun 10: LCD Soundsystem at Webster Hall
http://upcoming.org/event/18969/ Jun 14: Mouse on Mars at Knitting Factory
http://upcoming.org/event/17457/ Jun 16: Iron & Wine at Webster Hall
http://upcoming.org/event/19252/ Jun 20: Modest Mouse w/ Camper Van Beethoven at Central Park Summerstage
http://upcoming.org/event/17330/ Jul 14: Dinosaur...
The Sneeze has a series of these going:
Jokes From the Booster Seat II
“It's time once again to enjoy the comedic stylings of my son. So sit back, relax…”
Q: "What do you get when you cross a sandwich, a person, and a car?"
A: "A flying sandwich pit!"
Segue to this Onion great:
Another Comedian Ruined By Parenthood AUSTIN, TX—Ed Corgi, once hailed as one of the area's funniest and most ribald stand-up comedians, has lapsed into mediocrity due to the 2003 birth of his daughter Grace, a friend reported. "Ed used to get up there and just spit venom against the entire world...
Spent the last two days in New York County jury duty.
Thanks to a last minute reminder from Amanda I brought my laptop — whew. They had kickass wireless access for $9 a day. Day one, I didn’t get called at all and just worked away on my laptop the whole time. Delicious Vietnamese Pho for lunch which is a suggestion I took from Mike Doughty’s blog.
Today I made it to around 11 without getting called and then they made an announcement similar to this:
“This is a very special time in the courthouse — it is jury appreciation week and we have a...