Why I usually eat lunch alone…
So today, I went out to lunch with a bunch of developers to a fucking sports bar. The highlight of which was that I got to ride in a Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet back the office. With the top down.
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Not Platinum
Has anyone else noticed how applications like QuarkXPress and Flash (newest versions of each) don’t use the Platinum interface inside their preference panels and menu selections? What’s up with that? Like, if you click ‘View’ in the top menu in Flash 5, all the options are in black text, with the highlighted selection having a black selection bar instead of the color you’ve chosen in the Apperance control panel. Also, everything looks very flat and System 7-ish. Weird. I wonder why Macromedia / Quark / Netscape would just simply not invoke the Apperances settings along with the Platinum interface elements. Funky-monkey. Hopefully 10.1 will fix all that.
Vs
As Neil Gaiman (or was it Terry Pratchett?) has said in the past: “’Good’ and ‘Evil’ are just names for sides.”
Something perhaps to keep in mind.
10 years fly by
Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ was released 10 years ago today. Holy fucking christ.
My short Nirvana history:
- I hear ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ for the first time on MTV.
- It takes me a while to get into Nirvana, as my Metallica-loving stage has just kicked in and has yet to grow into the festering hate I would harbor in later years.
- Eventually In Utero is released, forcing me to reconsider my lukewarm attachment to said band. I look into the albums prior to Nevermind and am pleasantly surprised to find music that I enjoy.
- I see Nirvana in concert at the San Diego Sports Arena on Decemeber 29, 1993, coincidentally one year to the day before I would move away from my hometown, my life ripped to shreds.
- Cobain dies, I am really not that affected although a future girlfriend at the time is terribly unhappy as she is a huge Nirvana fan, and Kurt’s body is found on her birthday
- Unplugged is released posthumously, and keeps me warm during the cold Colorado nights. Almost.
Anti-Anti War
Right now, 6,300 Americans are presumed dead, a fact barely acknowledged by the protesters in Boston and many others swept up in the anti-war reaction. A foreign state that treats women like slaves is harboring and sponsoring a known terrorist with global connections. The world has a strong, reasonable suspicion that a network of genuinely savage fighters is being sheltered by the mountains of Afghanistan men who have publically and clearly stated their intentions to kill Americans and Jews, regardless of age, gender or military affiliation.
…
…staging street protests and petitions that seem to lend sympathy and comfort to those who destroyed the World Trade Center can only sabotage the Left’s ability to reach into the mainstream of American opinion and create real change.
I’m with him, I think. Decide for yourself.
WTC Ghost Towers
This is kind of interesting. Multiple people claim to see some sort of ghost of the twin towers at night. The quote that struck me as odd, however:
The towers “were the most beautiful thing you could see from here,” said Carlos Torres, 28, a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side.
Torres said he also saw the faint image of the towers one recent night when his boss pointed it out to him. “Scared? Why?” Torres asked. “It’s a thing of God.”
Not to be harsh or anything, but I just didn’t think that Lower-East siders were the type to believe in God. Just a thought.
AlterCast
This just looks too fucking cool. It’s a new product from Adobe called AlterCast, and it basically uses database/scripts/server-side-whatever to generate dynamic images for your website. I know that PHP already has GD available for making dynamic images, but I just can’t help but think that something Adobe puts together would be easier to use and install. Too bad it’s only currently available for Windows and Solaris. As soon as MacOS X or Linux is supported, I’m on it.
Link via Splorp.
Courses of Action in the Wake of Terrible Tragedy
Recently here at work, someone sent around a picture of American and United Airlines airplanes announcing new, non-stop flights to Afghanistan. The planes pictured were, in fact, B-52 bombers, and they were carpet bombing the ground beneath them. It raised a giggle, of which I quickly became ashamed, but raised some very real concerns as well.
I feel uneasy at even the suggestion that we begin carpet bombing Afghanistan. In times like this, it’s important that we look at all the ramifications of any action we might take. Carpet bombing anyone right now is a bad idea. Especially with all the hardwood floors currently being used in new home construction, particularly here in Denver. These kind of things go in and out of style all the time, and then where will we be? Out of badly needed carpet, that’s where.
As well, I have to ask how much good carpet bombing would really do. How much could that hurt? At best your going to have some really angry rug-burned Afghans with freshly carpeted homes, planning revenge. And that’s if we use a short berber. Don’t even get me started on shag…
Can’t help it
I seriously can’t help it but… Listening to The Smiths gives the irrestistable urge to go and aggresively read Oscar Wilde. Don’t ask me why.
Must See, Version 2.
My previous post titled “Must see.” had problems for some people loading the images. Anyway, this link is a consolidation of those pictures and more.
Fucked.
Here it is, the official list of non ‘patriot friendly’ radio songs. Some fuckers at Clear Channel seem to think that censorship is the way to keep america patriotic. Do they really think that if we dont hear this music right now we are better off? As far as I’m concerned, that attitude is one of the problems in this country.
Drowning Pool “Bodies”
Mudvayne “Death Blooms”
Megadeth “Dread and the Fugitive”
Megadeth “Sweating Bullets”
Saliva “Click Click Boom”
P.O.D. “Boom”
Metallica “Seek and Destroy”
Metallica “Harvester or Sorrow”
Metallica “Enter Sandman”
Metallica “Fade to Black”
All Rage Against The Machine songs
Nine Inch Nails “Head Like a Hole”
Godsmack “Bad Religion”
Tool “Intolerance”
Soundgarden “Blow Up the Outside World”
AC/DC “Shot Down in Flames”
AC/DC “Shoot to Thrill”
AC/DC “Dirty Deeds”
AC/DC “Highway to Hell”
AC/DC “Safe in New York City”
AC/DC “TNT”
AC/DC “Hell’s Bells”
Black Sabbath “War Pigs”
Black Sabbath “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
Black Sabbath “Suicide Solution”
Dio “Holy Diver”
Steve Miller “Jet Airliner”
Van Halen “Jump”
Queen “Another One Bites the Dust”
Queen “Killer Queen”
Pat Benatar “Hit Me with Your Best Shot”
Pat Benatar “Love is a Battlefield”
Oingo Boingo “Dead Man’s Party”
REM “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”
Talking Heads “Burning Down the House”
Judas Priest “Some Heads Are Gonna Roll”
Pink Floyd “Run Like Hell”
Pink Floyd “Mother”
Savage Garden “Crash and Burn”
Dave Matthews Band “Crash Into Me”
Bangles “Walk Like an Egyptian”
Pretenders “My City Was Gone”
Alanis Morissette “Ironic”
Barenaked Ladies “Falling for the First Time”
Fuel “Bad Day”
John Parr “St. Elmo’s Fire”
Peter Gabriel “When You’re Falling”
Kansas “Dust in the Wind”
Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven”
The Beatles “A Day in the Life”
The Beatles “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
The Beatles “Ticket To Ride”
The Beatles “Obla Di, Obla Da”
Bob Dylan/Guns N Roses “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”
Arthur Brown “Fire”
Blue Oyster Cult “Burnin’ For You”
Paul McCartney and Wings “Live and Let Die”
Jimmy Hendrix “Hey Joe”
Jackson Brown “Doctor My Eyes”
John Mellencamp “Crumbling Down”
John Mellencamp “I’m On Fire”
U2 “Sunday Bloody Sunday”
Boston “Smokin”
Billy Joel “Only the Good Die Young”
Barry McGuire “Eve of Destruction”
Steam “Na Na Na Na Hey Hey”
Drifters “On Broadway”
Shelly Fabares “Johnny Angel”
Los Bravos “Black is Black”
Peter and Gordon “I Go To Pieces”
Peter and Gordon “A World Without Love”
Elvis “(You’re the) Devil in Disguise”
Zombies “She’s Not There”
Elton John “Benny & The Jets”
Elton John “Daniel”
Elton John “Rocket Man”
Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire”
Santana “Evil Ways”
Louis Armstrong “What A Wonderful World”
Youngbloods “Get Together”
Ad Libs “The Boy from New York City”
Peter Paul and Mary “Blowin’ in the Wind”
Peter Paul and Mary “Leavin’ on a Jet Plane”
Rolling Stones “Ruby Tuesday”
Simon And Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
Happenings “See You in Septemeber”
Carole King “I Feel the Earth Move”
Yager and Evans “In the Year 2525”
Norman Greenbaum “Spirit in the Sky”
Brooklyn Bridge “Worst That Could Happen”
Three Degrees “When Will I See You Again”
Cat Stevens “Peace Train”
Cat Stevens “Morning Has Broken”
Jan and Dean “Dead Man’s Curve”
Martha & the Vandellas “Nowhere to Run”
Martha and the Vandellas/Van Halen “Dancing in the Streets”
Hollies “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother”
San Cooke Herman Hermits, “Wonder World”
Petula Clark “A Sign of the Times”
Don McLean “American Pie”
J. Frank Wilson “Last Kiss”
Buddy Holly and the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day”
John Lennon “Imagine”
Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife”
The Clash “Rock the Casbah”
Surfaris “Wipeout”
Blood Sweat and Tears “And When I Die”
Dave Clark Five “Bits and Pieces”
Tramps “Disco Inferno”
Paper Lace “The Night Chicago Died”
Frank Sinatra “New York, New York”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Travelin’ Band”
The Gap Band “You Dropped a Bomb On Me”
Alien Ant Farm “Smooth Criminal”
3 Doors Down “Duck and Run”
The Doors “The End”
Third Eye Blind “Jumper”
Neil Diamond “America”
Lenny Kravitz “Fly Away”
Tom Petty “Free Fallin’”
Bruce Springsteen “I’m On Fire”
Bruce Springsteen “Goin’ Down”
Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight”
Alice in Chains “Rooster”
Alice in Chains “Sea of Sorrow”
Alice in Chains “Down in a Hole”
Alice in Chains “Them Bone”
Beastie Boys “Sure Shot”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
The Cult “Fire Woman”
Everclear “Santa Monica”
Filter “Hey Man, Nice Shot”
Foo Fighters “Learn to Fly”
Korn “Falling Away From Me”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Aeroplane”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge”
Smashing Pumpkins “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”
System of a Down “Chop Suey!”
Skeeter Davis “End of the World”
Rickey Nelson “Travelin’ Man”
Chi-Lites “Have You Seen Her”
Animals “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”
Fontella Bass “Rescue Me”
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels “Devil with the Blue Dress”
James Taylor “Fire and Rain”
Edwin Starr/Bruce Springstein “War”
Lynyrd Skynyrd “Tuesday’s Gone”
Limp Bizkit “Break Stuff”
Green Day “Brain Stew”
Temple of the Dog “Say Hello to Heaven”
Sugar Ray “Fly”
Local H “Bound for the Floor”
Slipknot “Left Behind, Wait and Bleed”
Bush “Speed Kills”
311 “Down”
Stone Temple Pilots “Big Bang Baby,” Dead and Bloated”
Soundgarden “Fell on Black Days,” Black Hole Sun”
Nina “99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons”
SoCal notes
Some notes on my recent trip to California:
1. San Diego has fucking great sushi.
2. Don’t buy a stunt kite and fly it at mission bay all day without sunscreen. I acquired probable second degree burns due to sunburn.. my feet and calves swelling again for the second time this year. Sucks ass.
3. IKEA is fucking rad. I spent 200 bucks on like 20 things and they all fit in my little Corolla’s trunk for the drive home.
4. Thinking about moving back to San Diego in February. We’ll see.
5. Playing ‘Taboo’ while drunk with 8 other equally drunk and like-minded people is the most fun I’ve had in a long time.
6. The Paris hotel in Las Vegas is actually very nice and not that expensive. It’s not the Las Vegas-y type of place I tend to hate and the $23 buffet was to die for.
7. Las Vegas, New Mexico is a shithole.