dark tower redux
I’ve been too busy to lose myself in my new Sidekick II, but as soon as I get a chance I will write a complete review. Suffice it to say that I am thrilled with it so far. For some reason today a silly joke came to mind, and with it, unbidden, the mental images of three different metal keys. When I finally placed the reference to the awesome electronic boardgame released in 1981 called Dark Tower, I googled and found the Dark Tower Flash Game. O, the retro goodness.
Read Morenew toy dawning
What is throwing me off about graduate school is that I have extremely mixed feelings about it. One day, I’m elated to be participating in the program, and the next, I feel like it’s a colossal waste of time. The latter sentiment is not aided by the fact that my paperwork, despite being turned in on time and correctly, is utterly messed. After told that a course I wanted was too full, I registered for a different one. But I was wait-listed on that first course without my knowledge, and then promptly got in without my knowledge, so I had to drop it past the drop date and fill out an academic petition to make the “withdrawal” turn into a drop. As a result, I’m paying taxes on three credits I’m not taking; due to the tuition...
Read MoreR.I.P. Legolas the iPod
My first-gen iPod, Legolas, finally bit the dust, rendering me tuneless. But you can help fix this sad situation, and get your own iPod, too! Following Allura‘s lead, I have Gmail invitations to offer in exchange for your generosity. I also have one whole month of free Netflix service, which is twice as long as their regular free trial! If you’ve ever wanted to try Gmail or Netflix out, this is a great opportunity. [Update: According to her latest post, Allura's iPod should be on its way soon!]
Read Moremobility
One of my employees is very ill today, so I’m at home for a while before heading back to close till 23:00. Fun. I had to cancel dinner plans with the MSG, but maybe this will break my insomnia into little pieces. I signed up for Dodgeball, which is, to quote my friend Ryan, “creepy and cool at the same time.” Now I can email the service from my mobile with my current location and it will broadcast my location to all of my friends who have signed up and been approved. It will also let me know if any friends-of-friends are within ten blocks of me. Creepy, yet cool. Which reminds me: T-Mobile now carries the Nokia 6600, which I was lusting after before the MSG showed me the 7610. And then it was just all over. [Update: I had to add this review...
Read Moremoleskine love
Warning: insomnia-induced mushiness follows! My current written journal is kept in a Moleskine. To say I am happy with this notebook would be an understatement to end all understatements. Its heavy cream acid-free pages, its elastic closure, its stitched-in bookmark all make me deliriously happy. I adore gluing bus transfers and dried flower petals and ticket stubs into it. And writing in it with my fountain pen tickles my every nerve. Earlier today, after two months of owning this incredible notebook, I discovered the inner note holder. Inner. Note. Holder. Pardon me while I melt. If you are melting, too, you should visit Moleskinerie, a blog devoted to this exquisite little...
Read MoreGmail and Big Wheels
Whether or not you think Gmail is evil, it’s the best webmail I’ve ever used. I’ve been playing with it since Wednesday morning, and I must say that I am mightily impressed. It’s got filters, labels, flags, keyboard shortcuts, searching, spam reporting, spellcheck, and an excellent way to handle conversation threads. Plus, it’s damned fast. (I didn’t even mention the one gigabyte of storage part.) I am too lazy to snap and post screenshots, but Kevin Fox wasn’t. And for those of you still up in arms about the “evil” thing, let me point you at another post from Kevin Fox, entitled “Personal Data and You”. If you really think that your remotely-hosted email, free or not, is 100% secure and...
Read MoreNewsmap
Yet another beautiful Flash hoomiejobbie: “Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.” I would like one of these for my brain,...
Read MoreQuicksilver
Like my friend Gregory, I used LaunchBar but never got hooked on it. His post on Quicksilver as an alternative to LaunchBar intrigued me, so I installed it. With just a few keystrokes, I have the ability to browse just about anything I want on my laptop, including my iTunes library, address book entries, bookmarks, plus a robust clipboard and a “shelf” that I haven’t figured out how to properly use yet. Hooray for Quicksilver! Edit: This is Panther-only software. (Sorry,...
Read More[meme] what is it with the dead frogs, people?
I’m suspicious of these brown nugget-shaped entities that are referred to as “candy” … My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul cygnoir goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Number 6. cirocco tricks you! You get a piece of tinfoil. ergazork gives you 1 brown coffee-flavoured nuggets. funkyplaid gives you 15 tan cherry-flavoured nuggets. inkbot tricks you! You get a thumbtack. lara gives you 10 orange coconut-flavoured pieces of chewing gum. lvx gives you 18 pink grape-flavoured pieces of chewing gum. mish tricks you! You get a dead frog. parklygirl gives you 14 teal lemon-flavoured pieces of taffy. randomlife tricks you! You get a dead frog. tyee gives you 16 purple lemon-flavoured gummy bats. cygnoir ends up with 74...
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