I’m an opera fanboy. No, not the music, click on the link. Anyway, one of my favorite features is the mouse gesturing system. I’m addicted to it and get frustrated when I sit in front of a browser besides opera. Now it’savailable for mozilla/Netscape 6 as well. And it works on the mac. Browsing heaven, especially on the mac os x side where opera is not nearly as good.
If they’d put this in a movie…
The soul of a new machine
I got my new machine up and running this weekend. If you’re interested, read on, though be warned that lengthy and arcane techno geekery is to follow….
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Dave’s daily skeeve out
I’m addicted to lip balm. Yes, it’s true. Especially in the winter months, I can’t live without it. Today I made a gross observation. Take your lip balm out of your pocket, especially if it is one of those plastic – mini-toothpaste shaped tubes of Carmex or some other brand. Give it a good sniff. Nice huh? What the hell kind of toxic goo is growing in my lip balm, that’s what I want to know.
YA cool link of the day
Think legos are for kids? check out what these folks are building with legos, they’re really very impressive.
best spam of the day
Today I did my weekly hotmail cleansing. I use the account as a clearing house for junkmail. Some of the email is legitimate so I have to look over the emails somewhat carefully. It usually takes me 10 or 15 minutes. Today I noticed an invitation to visit the adult Boob village. I never read the actual email beyond the subject line, but I have to say I find the prospect of there being an adult boob village out there somewhere in the world compelling, if best left to my imagination.
Mailing lists as personals…
So today on the ‘steampunk’ yahoo mailing list, someone wrote:
Hello Sarah, it's meatloaf from planet jazz!!! I'm a steampunk person and loving it!!!
So, umm, its time for me to get the hell off that list. I’m not a steampunk person, seems to me, nor do I want to be 😉
steampunk is a genre of fiction that proposes an alternative history. Generally this history has some version of a victorian society that’s evolved somewhat from what actually occurred in that time period but with advanced technologies based on steam power. The Difference Engine from Sterling and Gibson is a good example of the genre and a fairly entertaining book, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a decent example of the genre in comic book form
Following
I saw Following last night. This is by the same fellow who did Memento, which I really enjoyed, so I had high hopes for this movie. I was not disappointed. This is a ‘small’ movie – unknown cast, low budget, only a few sets and a few characters, and it’s shot in black and white. Even so it’s compelling stuff with a tight script and a tense ‘where is this going’ feel to it. Plus the director plays with sequence such that you really have to pay a bit of attention to keep track of where you are in the story. Not to the degree that he does in Memento but enough that you have to pay attention to it. All in all I would say Memento was the more entertaining movie, but that’s not to say you should skip this one. Three stars from me.
best line of the day
me: hey who do I ask this question of? Is it this guy?
other guy: yeah probably, but good luck getting anything useful out of that guy, he’s about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.
Now that’s comedy folks. Other guy eventually admitted that it was a foghorn leghorn line, but not until I’d stopped laughing.
Dave 1, new computer 0
newegg.com refunded my money today, leaving me free to shop for replacement parts for the new machine. This leads to the one advantage to this whole struggle, so far at least: the prices of computer parts are constantly dropping, such that for the same money I spent 3 weeks ago I can now get an identical motherboard from the same manufacturer but with ATA 133 support on board for the same price (the dead one only supported ATA100), and I can get the next AMD cpu up the scale or save $20, whichever I prefer.
