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Things that seemed important enough at the time

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Drumline Music

The drum-nerd inside of me was really excited when I found this site the other day. Hooray for parking lot tapes! Thanks to the internet I can now see the SCV tenor ensemble from 1992 - something I saw on video a few years back and never thought I'd see again.

You may not be able to tell from the tone in my voice, so I should mention that I'm not being sarcastic about this. I really do enjoy listening to drumline warmups for hours on end (though after a few weeks I need a change), in fact that's what I did through most of college. Yes, I'm probably a little bit crazy.

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Hooray! Soundtrack got 4.5 mice in the December issue of Macworld! Of course I can't give you a link to the article, because Macworld's site still links to the November issue. As someone here at the office said, "that makes sense". Also remember that this review is of a product that shipped in August.

Venturing into the cobwebby regions of my brain, I remember back in the day when I would eagerly await the new issue of MacUser. (pause for effect) I would be sooo excited to see what new theme they had placed on Copland and hear about the fancy 50Mhz busses on the new PowerExpress machines from Mac the Knife. Ah, good times.

Of course sometime in college (read: when I got broadband) I realized that everything you read in the magazines is pretty old news, and the only way to sufficiently feed my techno-news addiction was to scour the web multiple times a day. Thank god for Macsurfer. I mean, who wants to read computer-related news on a non-computer-related item? (read: paper)

Well, I guess I do. Somebody needs to create a "Magazine Printer" that will take in a PDF and spit out a glossy tree wasting product that could contain slightly newer news than ones from the shelves. I could choose to only print out the ones that I wanted, and I'd have the fancy searching features of PDF (at least in Adobe apps or Panther). They could even print out the little "you're subscription is 11 issues away from running out!!!" cards for nostalgic effect, and an optional mechanism could fold, crease, and generally beat the crap out of the finished product just like my mailman likes to do.

Whoa. That ended up about two tangents off of where I originally intended.
Yay 4.5 mice!

Monday, November 03, 2003

Some "highlights" from the weekend:

- Halloween H20 --- not a good movie
- Cell phone companies (or maybe just their employees) have NO idea what is going on with number portability. I got a different story from each of the three companies I talked to.

...and some good things:

- A shaved cat, similar to this. Very cute. Also worth noting that doing a google image search on "shaved cat" isn't nearly as dangerous to do at work as I thought it would be.
- SSX 3. Is it bad that my thumbs are sore?

OOOH! I thought of more!
- Simpsons Halloween special #15
- Big O --- my cartoon soap opera has left me as confused as ever.

 
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