Archive for 2002

Found a couple of great OS X applications worth mentioning over at What Do I Know — SnowSaver is a nice OpenGL screensaver, and Still Life lets you emulate Ken Burns by making little QuickTime movies of your digital photos. Zooming, fading, etc. I’ve only played with Still Life for 5 minutes, but it looks to be really easy to use.

Alka-Seltzer cold medicine works pretty well. Although, when it wears off you’re back to square one. But I guess that’s the case with any cold medicine.

I did something insane yesterday. It’s Thanksgiving morning, so I got up at 6am, drove 1 hour to Andover, MA and ran a 5K race in 20 degree weather. It took me about 40 minutes. Not very good. But I didn’t really train, and admittedly did this for my wife who runs one of these things every other weekend it seems.

Anyhow, after that we had a great Thanksgiving at my Brother and Sister-in-law’s. Hours and hours of preparations, 10 minutes of eating, hours and hours of clean-up. You gotta love Thanksgiving. Still probably my favorite holiday though.

The Batman lunchbox PC case mod. (via /.)

Made some more CSS changes to the site — force reload if anything looks wacky. 100% text navigation! Yay.

Will Ferrell in some funny Apple switch ads.

Chewbacca sings “Silent Night”.

Daigo pointed me to Mark Newhouse’s method of using CSS for formatting forms, rather than tables. It’s pretty simple, and works great.

24 hours later, and I’m still not sure what I really thought about the movie Donnie Darko. It had similar qualities to “Magnolia” — where you’re just not sure what’s happening the whole time. Add to the fact that time travel dilemmas always confuse the heck out of me. It was a good film though. I think.

Why on earth do you still have to twist speaker wire so tiny — yet it sill never fits in the damn hole on the receiver? Make the hole bigger — or the wire smaller. Thanks.

I just watched this on a cooking show: deep fried turkey. Someone down south must have invented this. Actually, I bet it’s delicious… and healthy. Right.

Comictastic is an OS X application that downloads and
displays up to 150 daily comics, automatically. Cool. Now you can catch up on all of those “Ask Shagg” clips. (via whatdoiknow)

Turducken:

“… an enterprising cook decided to take a boned chicken, a boned duck and a boned turkey, stuff them one inside the other like Russian dolls, and roast them. He called his masterpiece turducken.”

Mmm, just in time for Thanksgiving.

Kikkoman, the soy sauce-wielding superhero.

Am I correct that yogurt should not taste salty? I thought so.

Transmit 2 update: Several have written in, correcting me — Transmit 2 does work with BBEdit, just right (or control) click on a file. That’ll make me take a second look at it for sure. Thank you.