November 2005 Entries
Four or so years ago my brother Kevin bought me a Logitech WingMan Formula Force GP (for the PC) as a gift.
At the time I didn’t really have a computer with the gaming horsepower to take advantage of it, but as time went on and I upgraded, I settled into a regular pattern: about every six months a new racing/driving game comes out. I’ll buy/try/download it, play for approximately 20 hours, more or less straight, finish it or get to a point where I don’t know what to do next and won’t bother going to find an online gaming guide,...
Cory Doctorow: Alinsane sez, "I am in the process of digitizing and Flickr-posting the entire 1979C edition of the Sears Wishbook. Every year, my siblings and I would pore over the pages of the Sears Yearbooks, selecting the scores of items we hoped to get for Christmas. For many, the Sears Wishbooks were the (then) modern day equivalent of A Christmas Story's Higbee's Department Store front window." Link (Thanks, Alinsane!)
via Boing BoingIf they had maybe 1981 or 82, I think I would recall specific pages I had earmarked and sweated over — mostly in the star wars and legos...
Freeware program Who's Connected analyzes and displays your active Internet connections. It's a quick and simple tool for finding out what programs are using your bandwidth.
Who's Connected may come in handy when you suspect a bandwidth hog on your computer, but can't seem to find the culprit. While the software currently lacks a bandwidth monitor for each connection, the feature is currently in development.
Who's Connected
[via LifeHacker]
I’m one of those guys who has to make things difficult computer-wise, running all sorts of strange application combinations that the designers never imagined someone would do. The other day I ran...
Eater/Curbed:
Aspen (right), which last week got a ton of just-opened buzz actually opens tonight.
That’s funny. Emily and I went last night.
There was brown paper up in the windows and no visible address, but we did the old “this must be it” and just walked in. Bars are funny like that; trying to be hard to find to make you feel special. There weren’t all that many people there and everyone seemed to already know each other, but whatever, we were determined.
The place was split between the front bar part you see in the picture here and...
There is one main reason why I don’t use Firefox.
98% of my “surfing” or “browsing” time happens in Outlook 2003, where Newsgator delivers my RSS feeds. The reading pane in Outlook is built on Internet Explorer. So I’m already hitting IE’s cache, security settings, admuncher settings, page behavior. Now if I were to click on the link to open a particular post in the full browser (which I do all the time) all that stuff is already there and I know what to expect. If I had Firefox set as my default it would have to go and re-download...
I was just reading about Joaquin Phoenix playing Johnny Cash in the new biopic, stumbled into IMDB per usual and, whoa, did anyone else realize that he was Max from Spacecamp (ha, released in 1986).
“Max and Jinx... Friends... For-e-ver.”
What timing! Just two posts ago I was from California and today I’m totally from Weston, Connecticut.
Johnny Depp: Suburbanite?
Weston, ho!http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/15010/
Although Johnny Depp has been living mostly in France since 1998, the word on the quiet, tree-lined streets of tony, rural Weston, Connecticut, is that he’s discovered that some things function better back home. In 2003, Depp was quoted saying he didn’t want to raise his kids in the U.S.: “America is dumb, it’s like a dumb puppy . . . I’d like them [his children] to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check...
Cafepress.com has allowed an idea that was hatched on a road trip to Cape Cod into a product you can buy.
It says “Without the C it’s just od” or if you prefer “Without the sea it’s just odd”
Get yours today.
Emily gets the 100% of the credit for coming up with this one and executing the idea.
http://www.cafepress.com/ewphoto
Rocky Top Tube Socks Custom t-shirt shop.
There are seven different T’s to choose from including women’s and baby sizes.
As one who is frequently teased for being selective about where I am “from”, e.g. California vs Connecticut, suiting the answer to the situation, I can say definitively my taste in Mexican food is CA based. That is to say I have high standards — for guacamole and carnitas especially. So far living in New York has netted some enjoyable Mexican meals, and there are a few good dishes at otherwise less than spectacular spots. I’m thinking about the salsa and steak tacos al carbon at Rancho on the upper west side for example.
But last night, I had a really...
CNN.com - Boeing jet breaks nonstop record - Nov 10, 2005
LONDON, England (AP) -- A Boeing Co. jet arrived in London from Hong Kong on Thursday after 22 hours and 43 minutes in the air, breaking the record for the longest nonstop flight by a commercial jet.
I had to read this a bunch of times scratching my head before I understood why I was confused.
See, I have flown Hong Kong to London on Virgin (wow, that was a nice flight) and that was not a 22 hour flight, more like 14 if I remember correctly. I read this thinking,...
(zoomed from above right)
Check it! Emily used us as models in her shoot for Food Arts magazine. Got to love the title of the article too: Hong Kong Cocktail Heroics.
Left to right = Amanda, Corey, Vibha, Vinod’s back, Vic.
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This is for a new web project I’m working on.
Here’s the [tech]...
Knowing our obsession with toilet themes (toilet bowl tricycle, toilet bowl restaurant), reader Marc N sent us this shot of the men's room at the new Sofitel in Queenstown, New Zeland. Apparently the life sized images of girls peering in to the urinals are creating quite a buzz down under.[via Cool Hunting]
Nice Purple Cow.
"A new poll shows that 66 percent of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job of handling the war in Iraq. And the remaining 34 percent think Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church."
-Tina Fey on SNL (that I just watched in Tivo)
This past weekend I went to my first NASCAR event at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Emily was able to get a press-pass so that meant it was me and her dad in the stands while she was down in the pits getting photographs of the action, dodging lug nuts and snapping portraits of drivers. (She did join us for the middle 75 laps or so)
I am pretty proud of this PhotoShop job I did on Dale Jr and Matt Kenseth. This is only the animated gif, cropped sample — the real one is being sent to her stock agency.
I...