For Pete … following our conversation the other day about AppleScript, here’s a brief concoction for your noodle: (* first, let’s launch some apps for fun: *) (* we’ll start w/ just Mail *) tell application “Mail” activate end tell (* then we’ll launch Safari and size the window *) tell application “Safari” activate repeat […]
An L.L. Bean catalog arrived in the mail today. A was quick to point out their brilliant Winter Seasonal marketing strategy. “Remember Last Winter? Coldest Day In Barre Last Year: -28 F.” Unfair.
(quickie follow up to last night’s post…) May be worthwhile to track Orin Incandenza’s role (esp. vis a vis Hal) throughout the course of the Infinite Jest text. Orin is perhaps a more important character to track when charting Himself’s arc (in a “behind the behind the story” fashion) than Hal (or even Mario!) esp. […]
As I settle in for read #3 of D.F. Wallace’s Infinite Jest, I try to identify what pulls me back into this massive tome yet again. As JK would say, “You’re just fulfilling the thesis all over again.” Yeah, I know. But that’s not the point. From my first time through I gleaned two major […]
Whether your interests are philanthropic or strictly prurient, it is time for the Third Annual Blogger Boobie-Thon for Breast Cancer!! Nothing wrong with a little skin for a good cause.