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Strangely low-tech yet strangely beautiful site on sushi.

Never dip sushi in soy sauce from the rice-side and suck up too much amount.  It will be too bitter to eat, or will damage the taste of sushi seriously.

Currently Playing: Dave Angel “Rematch”

You can do things quickly or you can do things well.

ugh.

I hate being on-call for work. I was starting to get used to it and was figuring out ways of being able to do it w/o letting it completely interfere w/ my life but… Pretty much the only other person in my dept. who can take the on-call stuff is in the process of moving and has no internet connection etc. Which just pishes me off b/c it’s not as though I’m not in the middle of my own set of moving related errands (see below). Glancing out the window, I see that the skies are blue w/ intermittent clouds. Could be a nice day outside — but I wouldn’t know b/c the phone has on-call cell has rung three times before noon already! Can’t a man eat breakfast and have a cup of coffee? Combine all of the above w/ the fact that A will be out of town this week and I’m still mega-exhausted from this past, super-hellish week and I’m in extra-strength bitch mode. Grr…

Anyhoo: We’re in moving mode at this point. The date is still some 3 weeks away but we’re not taking any chances. W/ my work schedule and the fact that A will be out of town for one of those weeks puts us in an awkward spot. I don’t want to be cramming shit into boxes at the last minute. Consequently, our joint looks like this:

Anyway… Where was I? /rant

Currently Playing: Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466

Now that my trial period has expired, I shall issue a brief, inconsequential review of: Konfabulator!

the good: The idea is definitely good. I like the concept of being able to throw a bunch of neat little dynamic, iconic graphics on my desktop to feed me information. Especially since I can set them to be more/less transparent an unobtrusive. In particular, I *love* the weather widget and thought that that was the neatest damn thing since sliced f00kin’ bread on my Aqua desktop. I could also get in to the uptime read-out, and the iTunes remote widget, the mini-calendar, etc. etc. And since so much of it seems rooted in this open XML/JavaScript-based API (upon my cursory glance, at least) it’s just about infinitely available for anyone to whip out just about … well whatever!

the bad: OS X has enough problems with memory leaks to load up this bad boy. Perhaps the ultimate irony was when I loaded up the Memory widget and noticed that my free memory just started to bottom out. All those pretty, fancy graphics don’t mean shit if you’re system is just going to choke and/or suffer b/c of them all. Sure, run one or two of these and you shouldn’t have a whole lot of trouble but in excess of 5 or 6 and you may notice some slow-downs. Granted, KetelOne doesn’t rock out on a gig o’ RAM (it *is* a G3 iBook, after all) but just the same… Plus, let’s face it, so many of the widgets are lame. Troll through Konfabulator.com and you’ll see at least 20 iTunes remote control widgets; not to mention all of the assorted “count down” widgets and/or battery read-out clones. And so many of these are available right there in the system to begin with (e.g., Airport signal, battery life) or are available through free apps (MenuMeters). The weather widget is probably the only really, truly awesome one out there. There are some neat ones, granted — but not enough to make Konfabulator a killer app. Which stinks — b/c it’s still a neat idea with a slick interface.