Woody's cell ring

I have to get this on the record before I forget. I’m watching Crossing Jordan. Great show, by the way. Woody’s cell phone rings.

His ring is a Newton alarm tone.

Aw, hey, Newton. I just pulled mine out again. It’s been almost a year. I’ve missed the little guy,

Technorati tags: Apple Newton, Crossing Jordan

Line of the day: 8/26/05

I’m back! About time, too. Today’s line comes from the forums at LinuxQuestions.org, where jspenguin asks about DTMF detection and uses this sig:

The trouble with bite-sized cookies is that you can only track 256 people with them.

Now I sit back and pray someone else gets it.

Technorati tags: Line of the day, geek humor

From here on...

Ok, look: the phrase is “from here on in”. Not “from here on end”. It can be said “from here on out”.

But not “from here on end”.

Am I clear? Am I wrong? Am I insane?

Technorati tags: grammar, usage, English, nit-picking

Comment spam

From the looks of it, I just go hit with a butt-load of comment spam. I’ve deleted it all. If you posted a comment to the last post and I deleted it as spam (and shouldn’t have), drop me a note on this post and I’ll put it back. It can be hard to tell sometimes.

And here I thought I was getting all popular.

Technorati tags: spam, blogging, blog comments

Cindy Sheehan Vigil pictures

Child at Sheehan Vigil
Originally uploaded by Peeja.

I attended the Cindy Sheehan vigil in Amherst, MA on Wednesday. I managed to get a few good pictures. So far I’ve only satisfied myself with two. This one is my favorite; the other one (and any future picutes) are available as a Flickr set.

Technorati tags: photo, Cindy Sheehan, vigil, child

Line of the day: 8/16/05

I have to get my wisdom teeth extracted. Excellent. But there’s one nice thing to come of this: today’s line. It comes from the preoperative instuctions for general anesthesia I recieved. The last instruction is:

5. Please reread the above instructions.

That’ll keep a blonde busy…

Technorati tags: Line of the day, wisdom teeth, surgery, anesthesia

Line of the day: 8/15/05

Ever wanted to run OS X on your Intel box? Now you can. This article explains how. And step #1 is our line of the day:

1. Authorized users should obtain the OSX files from Apple. It is illegal to obtain them from torrent sites by searching under the following keywords: “VMWare files for patched Mac OS X Tiger Intel”

Such responsibility.

Technorati tags: Line of the day, OS X, Apple, Intel, BitTorrent

It had to be.

Oh, lord. There’s a SlashGoth.org. It had to be.

Technorati tags: goth, geek

I just don't understand the Postal Service.

I got a letter in the mail the other day. Apparently I can get $30,000 worth of life insurance for only $1.00. Great. What interests me more is the address they sent it to:

To:
Head of Household
Pre-Selected Residence
Major US Market Area

WTF!? And this got to my mail box? What the hell kind of address is “Major US Market Area”?

Technorati tags: weird mail, junk mail, postal service

Line of the day: 8/11/05

Been a while, hasn’t it? Oh, well. Today’s line comes from an older post over at Merlin Mann’s truly wonderful 43 Folders productivity/lifehacks blog. Here, Merlin explains why tabbed browsing is so damned worth it:

Whatever your browser is, if it doesn’t support tabbed browsing you’re missing the boat. If you have no idea what this means, please just get Firefox, and thank me later. Tabless browsing is like having to check out a library book one page at a time.

Yeah, that about covers it. Check out his site if you haven’t already. You may learn a thing or two, and your self will thank you.

Technorati tags: Line of the day, tabbed browsing, Firefox, lifehacks

Who the *bleep* is Liza Ramlow?

I’m working on a paper about Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, which contains a character named Liza. I just installed Microsoft Word a couple weeks ago (I caved; Apple, get off your ass and write a decent word processor already…). Logically, I started one of my paragraphs off with “Liza”.

Word suggests I was writing “Liza Ramlow”.

Who the hell is Liza Ramlow? I have no idea. The name sounds a little familiar, but I have no idea who she is or why Word knows about her. A search of my hard drive reveals nothing. Google isn’t much help either.

If you’ve ever heard of Liza Ramlow, please, please leave a comment. Save my sanity.

Technorati tags: Liza Ramlow, Microsoft Word

One *what* under chicken fries?

Anyone else noticed that Burger King just changed the lyrics to “Bob Your Head” from “One nation under chicken fries” to “One kingdom under chicken fries”? I wonder who pushed them to do that?

In their defense, though, “one kingdom” makes more sense for a place called “Burger King”.

Technorati tags: advertising, politics, Burger King

Thank you random hot-spot! (Please don't sue me!)

I’m in New York. With my parents. Being away from my desk and TV and the Internet leaves me with no distractions from the simple fact: I’m lonely. Aside from a wonderful freak sushi incident with Ian the other day, I haven’t had real social interaction in a long time.

So when I opened up my PowerBook to the greeting of “Would you like to connect to ‘belkin54g’?” I was ecstatic. My face lit up. I may not have any friends around for a while, but at least I’ve got blogs and podcasts.

That’s sad, I know, but at least I’m happy.

I hate cell phones

I have a new cell phone, the LG VX3300. It’s a piece of crap. But then I get the feeling that most are. What a god-awful mess of an OS. Why can’t it use something like Linux, something even remotely inteligible.

I wonder if that sounds like a joke. It’s not. Linux can only be understood by those who have taken the time to understand it, true. Traditional cell phone OSs can be understood by no one. They’re just there to make it theoretically possible to operate the phone. And the manual? Forget about it. It doesn’t explain what any of the features do or mean, it just tells you how to activate them—by which I mean it tells you the numbers to press to get through the menus to a feature. Great help that is.

By the way, on one of these phones, the default lock code starts out as ‘0000’, but after activation it becomes the last 4 digits of your phone number. The book doesn’t mention that last part. Thanks, LG.

Bonus Lines!

I just couldn’t resist a couple more. The first is from the NBC show “Medium”, which I’m enjoying quite a lot. Here she momentarily relives a certain public figure’s execution and thinks:

Ungrateful bastards. Have you ever tried cake? It’s not like I said, “Let them eat Brussels sprouts.”

Line #2 (really #3, but who’s counting…) is the fine print from a new Post-It ad:

Not intended to be worn.

Ok, some context might help: a guy is in fact wearing Post-Its in the ad. Just the same…

Line of the day: 8/1/05

Happy August, everyone. Happy Lughnasadh, as well.

Today’s line is the headline of a story from vnunet.com about “audio hallucinations,” hearing songs when there’s nothing playing. The article is entitled:

iPod hallucinations face acid test

Brilliant.

PSA: How to cancel your AOL account in 10 minutes

I normally don’t like to just point to things without having much to add, but this needs to be spread around as much as possible. If you have signed up with AOL, get the hell out! If you haven’t picked up on it yet, you’ll soon see why it’s just no good (and never has been). I hate those adds where they talk abut their spam filtering—just talk to my girlfriend about AOL spam filtering. I don’t know how they get away with those ads.

So do yourself a favor: get out now (in just 10 minutes), before it’s too late.