Okay, I'm not actually going to Mars, but my name is! As a donor to and member of the Planetary Society, my name is being included on the DVD to accompany the Phoenix lander to Mars in 2008. It will contain a lot of Mars-related material, including messages from Carl Sagan and Arthur Clarke, Orson … [Read more…]
I cam across a link to this screencast this morning, and now I've got a case of gearlust for a new Intel Mac all the more! It shows a couple of the new features for the new version of virtualization software Parallels. First, if you've used Apple's Boot Camp to dual boot the mac, you … [Read more…]
This week, I got the check from the freelance project I sacrificed so much sleep over a couple weeks back. I should have another check from a different project within the next week or so as well. Between the two of them, it's more than enough to buy a MacBook Pro and the required accessories … [Read more…]
Don't you hate it when you're having a really good dream, and you're just getting to the really good part of that really good dream, and your alarm goes off…
For all the grumbling I've done lately about how bored I am with the uber-minimal techno that's all the rage in Berlin lately, I just sat down and wrote a big, steaming slice of it myself. As much as I contradict myself there though, I've also gone on and on about following one's muse, not … [Read more…]
Though I usually avoid black Friday shopping like the black plague, I nonetheless found myself at the local Guitar Center first thing this morning and just couldn't resist buying myself a little early Christmas present while I was there. So I picked myself up a new Jackson guitar. I've been wanting to pick up a … [Read more…]
I was going through some of my old bookmarks, and came across one for Litany, a news site for Skinny Puppy and related side projects, and came across a couple cool things. First, I had no idea that Skinny Puppy were even working on a new album (I kinda expected 2004's The Greater Wrong Of … [Read more…]
I had hoped to finally get some proper rest this weekend after my lack of sleep throughout the week last week, but it never seemed to happen. I was up before 8am both Saturday and Sunday. I was up until around midnight Saturday, falling asleep on the couch watching Dirty Jobs sometime between 11pm and … [Read more…]
I got a little scare from my iPod this morning when it appeared to have died. I went to use it in the car this morning, and it wouldn't boot. It would show the black boot up screen with the Apple logo, and then the screen would get all garbled and it would shut off. … [Read more…]
In order to get the freelance project I mentioned a couple days back done in the time frame the client wants, and thus cash in on that nice incentive/bonus, I'm working some pretty long hours this week. Up past midnight the last two nights, and out of bed by 5am the last two mornings. Working … [Read more…]
I got to spend all afternoon playing around with an iPod Nano & iTunes, and I got paid for it! One of our clients wanted to ship the iPod to one of their clients loaded with a bunch of their podcasts on it. Thing is, they weren't really podcasts, but just a bunch of random … [Read more…]
I've got a freelance gig that I'm starting this week, pretty basic front-end coding stuff, a dozen or so static HTML pages with consistent layout/page elements. Originally, the code was to be delivered on November 27th, which would have given me more than enough time to get everything done. But, they really want the code … [Read more…]
Apparently I fell asleep in a really bad position last night, because my back is giving me all kinds of problems today. Every time I go from a sitting to standing position (or even just bend over) I get a really painful spasm in the middle of my spine. I was hoping it would go … [Read more…]
Well, it's official. I've become a junkie for The Office. I love this damn show. I swore I'd never get hooked on network television after Buffy and Angel ended, but I got sucked back in. This show is so damn good, hilarious and sappily melodramatic at the same time. (And, if you watch the show, … [Read more…]
After trying out the demo yesterday, I had to go out and buy Sid Meier's Railroads today. Sid got me with the Civilization series, especially Civ IV, and he got me back in the day with the Railroad Tycoon series. So when Sid made a new train/railroad sim I pretty much knew I was going … [Read more…]