Our ex graphics guy came in to touch up some labels and he brought his kids with him. One of them saw the label and said, "It looks like a big mountain covered in a glob of toothpaste".
I started reading Harry Potter after getting fed up with Piers Anthony, and I'm two books in and I'm having a bunch of fun with them.
But I need to make a decision soon. If I read all seven books, then that means I'll have to watch 2 of the movies with the little man in my brain screaming "WRONG WRONG WRONG", which is probably a small price to pay, but I'm still hesitant to leap headfirst into it.
a) Send the little man in your brain to a different movie b) Get the little man in your brain drunk and/or high to cool him off a bit c) Kill the little man in your brain
The little man in my brain is too ingrown to remove at this point. Once one has read through the series 5 times...
Book 7 is hella good, aside from that chunk of the middle.
Now i've gone back to halfway through Order of the Phoenix. It will be neat to see what happens when I reach book 7 by way of finishing book 6 and then reading it at my leisure, rather than smashing through it in one weekend.
I don't know who looks worse out of this deal. Drew Carey has made some poor career moves, but this takes the cake. And, frankly, it is time for the Price is Right to move on.
The show still feels like it is from the 70's, and the synopsis just doesn't work anymore in today's global economy. Who really knows what any product is worth anymore. Sure that toothpaste was $1.39 for you, but I could get it online for $0.75 or at Wal-Mart for $0.99.
I don't like it when Drew Carey hosts things. He should never have hosted Whose Line: ABC Crap. And now that someone thinks that The Price is Right can continue without Bob Barker Drew Carey is going to get a lot of flak.
So at work I have to do this big boring project. There are a bunch of books in a library in IU's Northwest campus with computer data that for some reason need attention. The task is to click on a call number from a huge list, select the copy that is in the Northwest campus, then TAB over to another field and type S to change one setting to another.
Fortunately the library uses a somewhat rudimentary yet useful program to handle macros, and after a couple of hours I was able to turn the series of clicks and keystrokes into Ctrl+Z, and can do with perfect accuracy in about 2 seconds what used to take more like 5.
I mention this for two reasons. Mainly I'm just proud of myself for making my most complicated macro to date (it sounds like a simple task, but the part where the macro has to click on NORTHWEST was tricky because there's no telling where the word will occur in the list, and there's no way I know of to copy text and let the macro read it to find a match, so I have a big IF THEN tree that looks at certain pixels on the screen to find where the word is printed). The other reason is because I'm not really sure I should tell my boss I did it (there are a few things about the macro that WOULD NOT WORK on someone else's machine, and fixing those things would be kind of awful), and I need to tell someone because it just feels good.
Which reminds me. Steven Levy wrote a book called Hackers in 1984. In it he chronicles the lives and contributions of some of the biggest and littlest names in the first few decades of computing. He tends to write about these things as though they were creating some kind of utopia, a form of hyperbole which usually irks me, but I think I understand the very real joy that these people felt when they realized that they could learn how to use a machine to create things that did not need to be physically real to be powerful.
I've been reading bits and pieces of the book over the last few months, and I really enjoy it for the sense of pleasure these people all felt when they learned to speak to a box of electronics and make things happen. I feel that same thrill when I'm putting together a little macro, or when I get something working in BASIC (which I started using again a few months ago). I don't fancy myself a programmer, and I don't think I have it in me to bring myself up to the level that computer programming has reached, but I feel very comfortable, and even happy down at the clunky level.
I think about starting a club for people who want to make programs in BASIC just for the fun of it, but I'm afraid nobody cares.
I feel that same way when I get something to function on the online store that I didn't think could work. Especially since there is a very good chance that no one else has done it, given that it's the MAS 90 EBM module and not that many people use it in the same way I do.
Making stuff work is awesome. Starting clubs is awesome. Go for it.
What I like about the iPhone, though, is the idea of having the internet anywhere. I can go to icanhascheezburger.com while anywhere in the Continental United States using a device that fits in my pocket.
I really like that idea...but do I $2040 like it?
Hmmmm....
Man...I could be at icanhascheezburger.com using a device in my pocket over basically a 56K dialup connection RIGHT NOW if I had an iPhone...
I mean.. you COULD be looking at lolCats... but.. if you were to naturally do so.. you'd be going home, looking at lolCats 15 minutes and one Vodka later.
The iPhone is a demon-addled future viewer, here to deprive you of your neutral grain spirits!
But what if I existed in some bizzaro universe in which I didn't spend all of my time either at work or at home?
What if...what if I went out? Do you see now the benefits?
I could go to on goody and find something I liked, and then use my iPhone to see if it was cheaper online. Or I could go to a movie and then write a spoiler for it as I watched it on a forum.
Or I could be on the potty and looking at lolcats at the same time.
I mean...$2040 for all that? It's very tempting...
I suggest waiting on the iPhone. if you get it now you will just have to get it again in a year or however long when they come out with a new and improved version.
and you know that if you buy it a better one will soon come out that will be so much better, and you will have to buy the newer one or else the other mac people will make funny of you then you will all go drink lattes.
Harry Potter ends well.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Guster Concert was awesome.
ReplyDeleteBefore the concert I explained to Jolly what a concert was, and then during the concert the lead singer (Brian) explained what a concert was.
And that made me lol.
Because, like, we listen to their songs on cds, and then we go to the concert to listen to the songs as they play them.
And this Guster shirt is a snake wrapped around a ball...and I don't know what it means. Might it be evil?
... wait ... wait... is it a BALL python?
ReplyDeleteIt's this:
ReplyDeleteIt's the cover art of an album. But I don't know what it means
Our ex graphics guy came in to touch up some labels and he brought his kids with him. One of them saw the label and said, "It looks like a big mountain covered in a glob of toothpaste".
ReplyDeleteAnd, truly, it does.
I'm pretty sure chicks do not dig logicians, if only because logicians would be very adept at identifying flaws in reasoning.
ReplyDeleteman.. Logician chicks are scary.
ReplyDeleteI don't think females can do logic.
ReplyDeleteRemember what Aimin Shen said, "You stupid like girls."
Also, the air conditioning is out today.
I started reading Harry Potter after getting fed up with Piers Anthony, and I'm two books in and I'm having a bunch of fun with them.
ReplyDeleteBut I need to make a decision soon. If I read all seven books, then that means I'll have to watch 2 of the movies with the little man in my brain screaming "WRONG WRONG WRONG", which is probably a small price to pay, but I'm still hesitant to leap headfirst into it.
But it's soooo gooood.
I think the key to solving this is to :
ReplyDeletea) Send the little man in your brain to a different movie
b) Get the little man in your brain drunk and/or high to cool him off a bit
c) Kill the little man in your brain
The little man in my brain is too ingrown to remove at this point. Once one has read through the series 5 times...
ReplyDeleteBook 7 is hella good, aside from that chunk of the middle.
Now i've gone back to halfway through Order of the Phoenix. It will be neat to see what happens when I reach book 7 by way of finishing book 6 and then reading it at my leisure, rather than smashing through it in one weekend.
I think the little man is a good thing. He's what keeps you from tolerating artistic interpretation.
ReplyDeleteFor example. The cover of book 7 looks really good until you get to the part of the book it portrays and you realize that it's ALL WRONG!
Drew Carey is going to be the new host of the Price is Right.
ReplyDeleteI think this means that every other celebrity died overnight.
What the hell? Bob Barker was the Price is Right. Just end it... dont kill it wiht drew carey.
ReplyDeleteYeah. They should have ended it with Barker instead of turning it into Whose Line 2: Electric Crapaloo.
ReplyDeleteSugar Gliders are apparently gliding possums.
ReplyDeleteI don't know who looks worse out of this deal. Drew Carey has made some poor career moves, but this takes the cake. And, frankly, it is time for the Price is Right to move on.
ReplyDeleteThe show still feels like it is from the 70's, and the synopsis just doesn't work anymore in today's global economy. Who really knows what any product is worth anymore. Sure that toothpaste was $1.39 for you, but I could get it online for $0.75 or at Wal-Mart for $0.99.
What bothers me about it is that Drew Carey sucks.
ReplyDeleteI don't dislike Drew Carey. I actually want him to succeed, which is why I hate this move so much.
ReplyDeleteI don't like it when Drew Carey hosts things. He should never have hosted Whose Line: ABC Crap. And now that someone thinks that The Price is Right can continue without Bob Barker Drew Carey is going to get a lot of flak.
ReplyDelete>honk<
ReplyDeleteDrew Carey? Really?
... I'm a little sick of gameshows hosted by fallen from ubiquity celebrities.
"I'm a little sick of gameshows hosted by fallen from ubiquity celebrities."
ReplyDeleteI'm saying.
Could you see the spoiler as a spoiler, or did you see a black bar which revealed text when highlighted?
"You lied to me! You said my father was my father, but my uncle is my father. My father is my uncle!"
ReplyDeleteBuster is a Sith.
Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.
ReplyDeleteFound a page which had the quote.
I could.. and contemplated a lame Honk joke.. considering that I shied away, it serves to inform you JUST how lame it was.
ReplyDeleteWell, now we have a way to post spoilers.
ReplyDeleteHuzzah.
So at work I have to do this big boring project. There are a bunch of books in a library in IU's Northwest campus with computer data that for some reason need attention. The task is to click on a call number from a huge list, select the copy that is in the Northwest campus, then TAB over to another field and type S to change one setting to another.
ReplyDeleteFortunately the library uses a somewhat rudimentary yet useful program to handle macros, and after a couple of hours I was able to turn the series of clicks and keystrokes into Ctrl+Z, and can do with perfect accuracy in about 2 seconds what used to take more like 5.
I mention this for two reasons. Mainly I'm just proud of myself for making my most complicated macro to date (it sounds like a simple task, but the part where the macro has to click on NORTHWEST was tricky because there's no telling where the word will occur in the list, and there's no way I know of to copy text and let the macro read it to find a match, so I have a big IF THEN tree that looks at certain pixels on the screen to find where the word is printed). The other reason is because I'm not really sure I should tell my boss I did it (there are a few things about the macro that WOULD NOT WORK on someone else's machine, and fixing those things would be kind of awful), and I need to tell someone because it just feels good.
Which reminds me. Steven Levy wrote a book called Hackers in 1984. In it he chronicles the lives and contributions of some of the biggest and littlest names in the first few decades of computing. He tends to write about these things as though they were creating some kind of utopia, a form of hyperbole which usually irks me, but I think I understand the very real joy that these people felt when they realized that they could learn how to use a machine to create things that did not need to be physically real to be powerful.
ReplyDeleteI've been reading bits and pieces of the book over the last few months, and I really enjoy it for the sense of pleasure these people all felt when they learned to speak to a box of electronics and make things happen. I feel that same thrill when I'm putting together a little macro, or when I get something working in BASIC (which I started using again a few months ago). I don't fancy myself a programmer, and I don't think I have it in me to bring myself up to the level that computer programming has reached, but I feel very comfortable, and even happy down at the clunky level.
I think about starting a club for people who want to make programs in BASIC just for the fun of it, but I'm afraid nobody cares.
go for it... I have no such skills.. but.. certainly, there are others.
ReplyDeleteI feel that same way when I get something to function on the online store that I didn't think could work. Especially since there is a very good chance that no one else has done it, given that it's the MAS 90 EBM module and not that many people use it in the same way I do.
ReplyDeleteMaking stuff work is awesome. Starting clubs is awesome. Go for it.
I never figured out Macros. The most I ever did was learn how to remove them when a computer at VSP was infected with the "Dr. Pepper" macro / virus.
ReplyDeleteI hate Macs. I hate cell phones that do more than just be phones. I hate iTunes more than I hate both of those other things combined.
ReplyDeleteBut I want an iPhone.
What does that say?
I also hate safari and screens that smudge.
ReplyDeleteWhat I like about the iPhone, though, is the idea of having the internet anywhere. I can go to icanhascheezburger.com while anywhere in the Continental United States using a device that fits in my pocket.
I really like that idea...but do I $2040 like it?
Hmmmm....
Man...I could be at icanhascheezburger.com using a device in my pocket over basically a 56K dialup connection RIGHT NOW if I had an iPhone...
would the iPhone be a unique form of time-travel?
ReplyDeleteI mean.. you COULD be looking at lolCats... but.. if you were to naturally do so.. you'd be going home, looking at lolCats 15 minutes and one Vodka later.
The iPhone is a demon-addled future viewer, here to deprive you of your neutral grain spirits!
But what if I existed in some bizzaro universe in which I didn't spend all of my time either at work or at home?
ReplyDeleteWhat if...what if I went out? Do you see now the benefits?
I could go to on goody and find something I liked, and then use my iPhone to see if it was cheaper online. Or I could go to a movie and then write a spoiler for it as I watched it on a forum.
Or I could be on the potty and looking at lolcats at the same time.
I mean...$2040 for all that? It's very tempting...
http://www.everythingiphone.com/
ReplyDeleteA veritable nesting ground of iPhone enthusiasts. I'm pretty sure that if their iPhone shot them in the foot they would still love it.
I suggest waiting on the iPhone.
ReplyDeleteif you get it now you will just have to get it again in a year or however long when they come out with a new and improved version.
Wait... now.. you're tripping Parallels? Cavorting with Bizzaros # 2 and 3?
ReplyDeleteYou're not Jay at all! You're Jay's Horrible Dark Future! A Jay who is unimpressed by Guitar Hero releases!
I'm in joke mac store testing joke iPhone
ReplyDeleteI like mac stores
ReplyDeleteBut hates teh mac
iPhone, though.
J, do not purchase the iPhone.
ReplyDeleteyou know how money works. think of the jelly beans. The Jelly Beans!
I is on teh blog...on a phone!
ReplyDeleteDo you understand?!
$2040 for bloggin on phone
ReplyDeleteMan...tempting
Plus, if i get one mikey cries!
I turned off wifi and it was not too bad. About 56k dialup speed. Msnbc.com loaded quickly.
ReplyDeleteMan....$2040....
Went to the doctor today,which is why I am in Indy.
and you know that if you buy it a better one will soon come out that will be so much better, and you will have to buy the newer one or else the other mac people will make funny of you then you will all go drink lattes.
ReplyDeleteMan, the mac people already make fun of me because I don't like lattes.
ReplyDeleteBut it's so damn awesome...and I can only think of one hardware modification...well....3...
-removeable storage
-connection to better wireless network
-better battery
Here is a link to a comic about the iPhone.
ReplyDeleteIt is lawl.
so... wait till they fix those issues.
ReplyDeleteWho the hell is this anonymous character? NAME YOURSELF! Or henceforth be known as a vile villain from Villainsberg.
ReplyDelete