found drama

get oblique

Monthly Archives: January 2004

ugh.

by Rob Friesel

my life is collapsing into work-related metrics. and the battle against/with them. i suppose things are going well (in a way) but my frustration has reached an asymptotic level made to see insignificant only by my exhaustion. let’s just stop with the 12+ hour days already. let’s just stop with the martyrdom already.

1984.

by Rob Friesel

20 years of Macintosh. The Classic (full of puns, aren’t we?) Apple ad: The 1984 Ad. Note the digitally dubbed in iPod. That was a nice touch. UPDATE: Speaking of Mac historia: The 20 Macs that matter most … whatever that means. Some neat Apple company trivia, neat product shots from decades past, and interesting […]

inspiration.

by Rob Friesel

Sometimes something reminds you: E.L. Doctorow said, “Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. . . . Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make […]

round-up!

by Rob Friesel

Exposé on Windows. Everyone knew it would be soon. But maybe not this soon. Of course, Linux had the first clone. More geeking out… After trying drunk and at 2:30am w/ Eli to try and compile it on my iBook (results were inconclusive…), come to find out some kicked out a whoop-ass installer for Apache2 […]

shocking!

by Rob Friesel

Part of me really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really wantsthis thing. The other parts of me know that this is some seriously sick shit. But ooooooooh the Pavlovian conditioning paradigms you could enforce… Not recommended for small children, cowards, the extremely unlucky, Russians or persons […]

iOhNo!

by Rob Friesel

Mike… Weren’t we just talking about the inevitable iDVR? Except that they’re calling it “iBox” apparently. Which is about as sexy a name as “iCrap” but whatever. So here is what MacOSX.com reports (re: tech specs): Processor: 500 MHz G3 ([or more likely a] 900 MHz PowerPC 750fx [like in the] G3 iBooks […] 512k […]