Via Autopia (via Autoblog): While Hummers’ fuel economy is anemic, before you cast aspersions on these monstrosities, remember that their [sic] are SUVs from LandRover, Mercedes, Infiniti and Lexus that actually get worse gas mileage. The answer to that is easy: cast aspersions on and boycott those, too. currently playing: Interpol “Leif Erikson”
Spring is settling in and so we’re settling into it. The temps are up to the balmy 60s during the day and even know my WeatherDock is telling me clear and 55. Makes me want to smile. The cat is in every window a lot and seems to want nothing more than to escape and […]
Via Boing Boing: Roughly, “flarf” is the name for poetry constructed from spam/wordjunge. Who knew?
The hallway feels like the one from a high school or middle school. It’s not the lockers but the cieling and the sterile walls and tiling. I’m rushing to the bathroom and when I reach it, I notice that there’s only one stall and it has a labyrinthine entrance. I have to navigate through several […]
Meditating on the MacBook Pro, I commented last week: Again with the Rosetta. Again, Rosetta will catch you where you least expect it. As I mentioned last time around: Office apps worked pretty much as-good-or-better than ever but the Logitech “Control Center” drivers did not play nice. Another paired example: NetNewsWire Lite hums along as […]
I don’t know how long I’ve had this little text document but I’ve found it indispensible over the years. “George Orwell’s Six Rules”: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is […]
Draft #2 is under way. I spent the better part of the weekend taking the notes that I made during my read-through of the first draft and applying them to the text. Sixteen chapters (roughly 80 pages, or 18,670 words) into it and it’s feeling pretty solid. Some areas have received the thorough re-working that […]
Jeff Coleman (my advisor from St. Mary’s) has a new collection of poems out. Titled Spirits Distilled, Jeff’s brief write-up goes: The book addresses a range of subjects, including my deceased father and grandmother, the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd, Jr., former and recently deceased Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, the psychological terror of September […]
If you haven’t checked out the deep house mixes on Fleep.com already, please do so. One of the most recent mixes (“One Night In Singapore“) is absolutely to die for. As A. said: “Why isn’t his music in stores?”
A few months ago in my “pre-packaged Apple apps vs. Mozilla equivalents” round-up, I made mention of how Apple’s Mail (or the dreaded “Mail.app” if you prefer) application had mediocre signature support. My criticism went something like: Pain in the butt. Can’t reference external files and what’s worse, you can’t edit the HTML source of […]