So… life’s been a little weird lately, and I stopped posting my “Everything I bookmarked todays” lists, but I’m still here.
Here’s some things I’m not writing about.
My mom’s health. Happy thoughts towards speedy recovery, mmmmkay dear readers? KayThanks.
Our firstborn son going to school in a week (didn’t we give him to someone as payment for something, already?)
June’s 2nd Podcast (was going to do August’s Cover/Prince double-barrel show, but mom went back into surgery again, ’cause she seems to really enjoy DOING THAT, and so I drove out to the ‘wack to go see her afterwards. I sang my guts out while driving out there, does that count?
James Brown WISHES he could jam with these guys. (unplugged, too)
Sharing your wifi (without giving away your WEP/WPA keys), and getting same from others.
Why I was using a computer to play Adventur when I was SIX on the mainframe at Queen’s (bonus points: why I heart encrypted communication so very very much). Mom must’ve been singing me to sleep with this stuff…
Nifty video from Nike Momentum (drum circles cause adrenaline, who knew?) via the often interesting and always well-written How Advertising Spoiled Me.
In the video, stars (it’s Nike, they can afford it – I’m surprised they don’t have them breakdancing), are squaring off, sorta, and you end up with tennis players slamming a ball at a soccer player, etc.
And I called it about a two years ago.
’cause I wanna see a game that places the sports against each other. The game’ll need some serious play-balancing, and would be a pain in the butt to do physics for, but after watching this little video, I’m thinking it’s time to check my idea in, since it’s got at least the first wave of questions and “yeah, but”s answered.
So watch out, Nike Commercial People, you’re on notice. {Speaking of being “On Notice,” the Stephen Colbert “On Notice” Generator is gone, sad.}
I’m running into an autosave bug that acts more like a “save and revert” of some sort. It’s BRUTAL to be typing for five minutes, rest for a second to think about what you want to say next, and then watch it clobber most of the last paragraph and replace it with some earlier text.
I was doing a little post just now, to give it another chance, and it LOST THE POST I was typing, even though it seemed to think everything was just peachy. Ctrl-Z to undo? It put back the last word I had deleted.
Here’s me testing Microsoft’s new Windows Live Writer, and so far, I gotta say, there’s some pretty amazing things it’s doing right outta the box:
It downloaded and installed in about 30 seconds (no activation, no stupid link/login things.
It’s doing live spell-check as I type.
It’s doing an auto save every three minutes (Arwen’ll like that).
It’s showing what I’m writing using the style-sheet from my own blog, so I know what the layout is, and how it’s going to look ON MY BLOG. (Sorry Facebook, and LiveJournal, you’ll be stuck with whatever happens during translation).
{Uh, randomly deleting the word I was typing *right* before it autosaved? Hullo?}
Allegedly can do pictures and things like that there, so we’ll just have to see about that, won’t we?
Okay, that’s enough of that. Daily Show is on.
Oh, and everyone think good thoughts about my moms, mkay? She’s in hospital with a thing, and we’re all happily pretending we’re not scared poopless.
{Okay, wtf? The autosave is actually REVERTING to what I was typing a little while ago, th’hell?}
Well, here we go again. We were kinda wired tonight, and I think it shows a little. Here’s this month’s podcast, (right-click and Save-As to Download). You can also download from here, if you’d like a faster download, and can get the file before April 10th, 2007.
Here’s the playlist for ya (sorry, no chaptering – that’s a Mac thing, from what I can tell, and only works on iPods anyway)
Talkybit 1
31 Knots - Sedition's Wish
Gomez - Sweet Virginia
The Veils - Advice For Young Mothers To Be
Talkybit 2
Peter, Bjorn, And John - Amsterdam
Andrew Bird - Heretics
Terence Trent D'Arby - This Side Of Love
Talkybit 3
Julie Doiron - No More
Feist - Sea Lion Woman
Fulton Lights - Thank God For The Evening News
Talkybit 4
Cadence Weapon - Sharks
Revolution Void - Invisible Walls
Cansei de Ser Sexy - Music is my hot sex
Talkybit 5
Tom Waits - Ol' 55
The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
Tracklist and highspeed download links to follow in the near future.
horrific clicking noise when attempting to boot.
