fucking, fuck FUCK!!
Why is it that every time I decide to move across the fucking country my fucking laptop up and COMPLETELY FUCKING DIES on me not TWO WEEKS BEFORE?? Is there some connection??
Do I really NEED to be dealing with shit like this right now? NO I DO NOT!!
Fuck...
Thursday, June 9
Wednesday, June 8
this is why dave needs a job...
I was chatting with someone online at around 11:30 last night. I shifted on the sofa to lean sideways with my laptop and something poked me in the neck under my chin. I felt around to figure out what it was... it was the tag to my shirt.
My shirt was on backwards.
IT WAS 11:30 AT NIGHT, people.
Fucking sad.
I was chatting with someone online at around 11:30 last night. I shifted on the sofa to lean sideways with my laptop and something poked me in the neck under my chin. I felt around to figure out what it was... it was the tag to my shirt.
My shirt was on backwards.
IT WAS 11:30 AT NIGHT, people.
Fucking sad.
Monday, June 6
the rumors were true..
(Most of you can safely ignore this post) I was skeptical, but it turns out all of the leaks for the past few weeks were right. Apple Computers are dumping IBM and making the transition to Intel/Pentium chips over the next two years.
How will they do it? Well, it turns out there have been guys in a bunker in Cupertino compiling the MacOS to run on the Intel architecture FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS!! In fact, Steve Jobs stopped in the middle of the Keynote address to mention that - oh, by the way... this presentation I'm been giving has been running the MacOS on a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 all morning. IT'S ALREADY DONE!! Then they brought over a guy from Wolfram to announce that it took them 5 days to port Mathematica to the new architecture. FIVE DAYS.
Steve Jobs, you are a fucking genius.
I don't know HOW he's going to brush aside all the negative "RISC is better than CISC" propaganda of the last 10 years, (**) but... if anyone can do it, it's The Steve.
Fuck, this doesn't mean I have to have one of those ugly "Intel Inside" stickers on my next Mac, does it?? Maybe he'll loan them some designers to come up with a spiffier logo.
A good report of the keynote can be found at engadget.
Dr. Dave
(**) Actually, I do know how. LIke the article above says - they'll simply keep repeating "Pentium runs cooler than PPC" and even though hertz-for-hertz, PowerPC still beats Pentium (as in a 2 Ghz PPC actually runs more instructions per second than a 3 or 4 GHz Pentium) IBM hasn't been able to deliver a G5 that will run in a notebook without causing it to burst into flames. Steve will simply stress that portables are an important part of Apple's business, and that if they don't make the change NOW, they are in danger of falling behind Windows in the portable market. And we'll all smile and nod, becuase He's Steve and we're not.
(Most of you can safely ignore this post) I was skeptical, but it turns out all of the leaks for the past few weeks were right. Apple Computers are dumping IBM and making the transition to Intel/Pentium chips over the next two years.
How will they do it? Well, it turns out there have been guys in a bunker in Cupertino compiling the MacOS to run on the Intel architecture FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS!! In fact, Steve Jobs stopped in the middle of the Keynote address to mention that - oh, by the way... this presentation I'm been giving has been running the MacOS on a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 all morning. IT'S ALREADY DONE!! Then they brought over a guy from Wolfram to announce that it took them 5 days to port Mathematica to the new architecture. FIVE DAYS.
Steve Jobs, you are a fucking genius.
I don't know HOW he's going to brush aside all the negative "RISC is better than CISC" propaganda of the last 10 years, (**) but... if anyone can do it, it's The Steve.
Fuck, this doesn't mean I have to have one of those ugly "Intel Inside" stickers on my next Mac, does it?? Maybe he'll loan them some designers to come up with a spiffier logo.
A good report of the keynote can be found at engadget.
Dr. Dave
(**) Actually, I do know how. LIke the article above says - they'll simply keep repeating "Pentium runs cooler than PPC" and even though hertz-for-hertz, PowerPC still beats Pentium (as in a 2 Ghz PPC actually runs more instructions per second than a 3 or 4 GHz Pentium) IBM hasn't been able to deliver a G5 that will run in a notebook without causing it to burst into flames. Steve will simply stress that portables are an important part of Apple's business, and that if they don't make the change NOW, they are in danger of falling behind Windows in the portable market. And we'll all smile and nod, becuase He's Steve and we're not.
Friday, June 3
i'd rather pay off my CAR, thanks...
We got a catalog in the mail from this pen place yesterday. I assume it's because we're on the Levenger mailing list, but this place makes Levenger look like Office Fucking Depot. I'm sorry... I'm as much a materialist as the next guy, but... anybody who spends more than $5000 on a fucking PEN deserves to be STABBED TO DEATH WITH IT!
We got a catalog in the mail from this pen place yesterday. I assume it's because we're on the Levenger mailing list, but this place makes Levenger look like Office Fucking Depot. I'm sorry... I'm as much a materialist as the next guy, but... anybody who spends more than $5000 on a fucking PEN deserves to be STABBED TO DEATH WITH IT!
the good, the bad, and the puffy...
I TiVo'd that show "Hit Me Baby One More Time" last night. At least I think that's what it was called. The premise was that they resurrect some has-been artists to perform their big hit song, and then have them cover a current pop song and then... well, I don't know... maybe they pick a winner or something... I never made it past the first segment because it was so HORRIFYINGLY BAD. It was like karaoke, only worse... because you expect the person who actually wrote and performed the song to NOT suck as bad as a karaoke performer. But you'd be wrong. After watching the puffy lead singers from Loverboy and Flock of Seagulls grunt thier way through "Workin' for the Weekend" and "I Ran" respectively... I couldn't bear another minute of it.
Then later I was flipping channels and I came across the Eagles "Farewell Tour #1" on Bravo. I was pleasantly surprised and a little befuddled. It sounded far better than it had any right to. Apparently, musicians with TALENT can manage to NOT SUCK when they get old.
I especially enjoyed the guitar solo to Hotel California... not a single fucking note out of place, man... cuz you know... any improvising on THAT number and people would be demanding their $300 back!
I TiVo'd that show "Hit Me Baby One More Time" last night. At least I think that's what it was called. The premise was that they resurrect some has-been artists to perform their big hit song, and then have them cover a current pop song and then... well, I don't know... maybe they pick a winner or something... I never made it past the first segment because it was so HORRIFYINGLY BAD. It was like karaoke, only worse... because you expect the person who actually wrote and performed the song to NOT suck as bad as a karaoke performer. But you'd be wrong. After watching the puffy lead singers from Loverboy and Flock of Seagulls grunt thier way through "Workin' for the Weekend" and "I Ran" respectively... I couldn't bear another minute of it.
Then later I was flipping channels and I came across the Eagles "Farewell Tour #1" on Bravo. I was pleasantly surprised and a little befuddled. It sounded far better than it had any right to. Apparently, musicians with TALENT can manage to NOT SUCK when they get old.
I especially enjoyed the guitar solo to Hotel California... not a single fucking note out of place, man... cuz you know... any improvising on THAT number and people would be demanding their $300 back!
navigating the fantasy/reality line with toddlers...
Little Guy wakes up from his nap yesterday...
Right. Of course. How silly of me.
Little Guy wakes up from his nap yesterday...
LG: "Me. Haff. Bad. Dream."
ME: Aww.. you had a bad dream?
LG: "Ya."
ME: What was your dream about?
LG: (pause...) "Tigers!" (makes clawing hand motions)
ME: Oh, no... tigers? Were they SCARY tigers?
LG: "Ya."
ME: Oh no. Were they chasing you?
LG: (pause...) "No, Daddy... It was a DREAM."
Right. Of course. How silly of me.
Thursday, June 2
new mini-careers...
In my neverending quest to beef up the CV without writing any real papers or doing any real work, I've figured out a way to add two new writing projects to the list. One is a secondary weblog where I'm writing little science essays that I can't figure out where to publish. So I just stick them on this other blog and submit them to monthly cool-science-writing-roundups. Eventually I can add a section to my CV that says ONLINE PUBLICATIONS: Collection of essays on science and the history of science featured in Cool Science Writing Online, #29, #30, #31, #33, #40.
Then yesterday, I discovered that a fairly renown software company keeps an online encyclopedia of physics and mathematics, and that the physics encyclopedia is just FULL of blank entries! They accept submissions from outside, and since the entries are fairly short, I could easily get 20 or so submissions written with a minimum of effort. So, yet again... ONLINE PUBLICATIONS: Contributor to physics.stuff.com, a comprehensive encyclopedia of physics and mathematics developed by RenownSoftwareCompany. (40+ entries)
Being lazy and a procrastinator... there is NOTHING that makes me happier than having lots and lots of little tiny projects to bounce back and forth between.
In my neverending quest to beef up the CV without writing any real papers or doing any real work, I've figured out a way to add two new writing projects to the list. One is a secondary weblog where I'm writing little science essays that I can't figure out where to publish. So I just stick them on this other blog and submit them to monthly cool-science-writing-roundups. Eventually I can add a section to my CV that says ONLINE PUBLICATIONS: Collection of essays on science and the history of science featured in Cool Science Writing Online, #29, #30, #31, #33, #40.
Then yesterday, I discovered that a fairly renown software company keeps an online encyclopedia of physics and mathematics, and that the physics encyclopedia is just FULL of blank entries! They accept submissions from outside, and since the entries are fairly short, I could easily get 20 or so submissions written with a minimum of effort. So, yet again... ONLINE PUBLICATIONS: Contributor to physics.stuff.com, a comprehensive encyclopedia of physics and mathematics developed by RenownSoftwareCompany. (40+ entries)
Being lazy and a procrastinator... there is NOTHING that makes me happier than having lots and lots of little tiny projects to bounce back and forth between.
Wednesday, June 1
i suppose we should be proud of him for trying, at least...
From the President's press conference on TUESDAY... in response to a question about the Amnesty International "gulag" allegations...
Actually, George... "disassemble" means "to take apart"... "DISSEMBLE" means to not tell the truth. You know how I know?
Dictionary.com's word of the day for MONDAY? Yup... dissemble!
Coincidence? Right.
Now I ask you... how cute is it that the President subscribes to the Word of the Day email to try to improve his vo-cab-u-la-mary, and then tries to use the new words in a sentence the very next day? Even if he does bungle it up. What a lovable little chucklehead.
From the President's press conference on TUESDAY... in response to a question about the Amnesty International "gulag" allegations...
In terms of, you know, the detainees, we've had thousands of people detained. We've investigated every single complaint against the detainees.
It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of and the allegations by people that were held in detention, people who hate America, people that have been trained in some instances to disassemble [sic], that means not tell the truth.
Actually, George... "disassemble" means "to take apart"... "DISSEMBLE" means to not tell the truth. You know how I know?
Dictionary.com's word of the day for MONDAY? Yup... dissemble!
Coincidence? Right.
Now I ask you... how cute is it that the President subscribes to the Word of the Day email to try to improve his vo-cab-u-la-mary, and then tries to use the new words in a sentence the very next day? Even if he does bungle it up. What a lovable little chucklehead.
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