This is my 600th post on this incarnation of this blog. I had another one at Blogger for a while, and I think I have them somewhere, I’ll have to make sure they’re back in my archives. Maybe another 15 posts or so. Elissa is over for our quad-weekly visit and Pimms-fest. Booze-amahol is inherent…
Category: Grumpy Old Man
25: The AGM is over – very little happened, dammit.
Sorry folks, gotta vent. I’ll write about the bank thing, and reading email tomorrow, probably. Also the new podcast episode won’t play, and I can’t tell why, which is (as 3yo Tate would say “Fwustwayting.” AGM Today. The short version: the thing that was attempted by a person who isn’t liked (but had a little…
19: XSims360, Hulk, Devious Bastards, and Computers Make Me High.
The new front end on the XBOX360 (that got rammed down my throat tonight before I could watch a movie) is cute and seems like it might be fun. Much like the first 5 minutes of The Sims. Unfortunately, unlike the Sims, there’s nothing to DO with the character/avatar thingie you just created. Watched the…
17: What have you been DOING to this guitar?
Just caught a commercial for Guitar Hero World Tour (looking suspiciously like some OTHER three-piece band game by another company who simply bought the development company) but here’s the cooperative cross-over from hell: Kentucky Friend Chicken. Really? REALLY? Anybody’s who’s ever been passed the five-buttoned Guitar Hero controller immediately after a particularly sweaty-handed rendition of…
Sounds About Right.
Nablopomo Day 2
Cold Stares Gold stars for parenting, in which our hero wrangles a pound and a half of pot roast into an edible (and even non-life-threatening) meal, and my old job cans a few more peaches. So, after the time change, and the kids of course not realizing the sheer joy of being able to curl…
Skype: Skinless, Boneless, and yet utterly Unmovable?
 So I’m using Skype 4, and the first thing that hits me is that I can’t make the window smaller than 800×500 or so.  There’s also this weird side-panel thing (highlighted in pink above) that you can’t turn off.  Make me want to minimize Skype as soon as I open it, just because it’s…
I’m not deep – I was just looking for a bug, I swear.
So it’s a Saturday night, during fireworks in the West End, and I’m in a deep chair with big ol’ armrests, and I reach over for my glass of scotch (thanks, Claudia!), and I end up sitting there for about three minutes, turning the glass round and round, watching the liquid seep down the sides…
One thing Apple does a little *too* differently, and F-Lock YOU!
Okay, riddle me this, Apple Fans: Let’s say I have a list of 26 songs (let’s call them “A” through “Z”) in iTunes, and I want to select *some* of them. I click on the beginning of my selection (let’s say “L”) hold down shift, and start cursoring down to select “M, N, O, P”…