Category: obscure pursuits

dunno what I’d use one for, but it looks and sounds cool


ThinkGeek :: Cappuccino TX-3 Mini PC
The latest version of the Mini-PC has a bit more horsepower than its predecessors, having been upgraded to a 1.2Ghz Pentium 3, with 512MB of PC133 Ram and a 30 Gig hard drive. FireWire support has also been added for high-bandwidth peripherals, making these a great portable storage solution for hours of digital video!

Where is that x86 version of OS X anyway?

bargains, if you can find ’em

Friends of the Library Book Sale

“It is not unusual to see people buy scores of books at once, carting them out on something you would carry luggage on,” she said. “They line up an hour or more before the sale starts and when the doors open, they make a mad dash to various parts of the sale, piling large numbers of books into boxes.”

It sure isn’t unusual to see that, but I never see all that much I want to take home. I did get some kids books (a couple of colorful natural history references), and my best score was a hardback of Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson” — with dust jacket — for a buck.

Dr David Edgar Villanueva’s words immortalized

Google Search: It is necessary to stress that there is no position more anti-competitive than that of the big software producers, which frequently abuse their dominant position, since in innumerable cases they propose as a solution to problems raised by users: ‘Update your software to the new version’ (at the user’s expense naturally);

Found that someone had used an entire paragraph as a search query in Google: of course, Google limits queries to 10 words and drops common stop words (prepositions, conjunctions). Still, that text has been cited many places.

wildlife sightings

While sitting in my downstairs office, I heard some small animal foot steps crunching the leaves along the path: at first I guessed it was the neighbor’s cat, but the steps were not deliberate enough, too random. I looked at the window to see what I might see, as the steps got closer, and there he was , suddenly poking his snout into the light.

No, that’s not the same guy I saw, but the effect is the same. They are cute little buggers, but I’m not sure I want any hanging around my house.

The Wizard of Pink/The Dark Side of the Rainbow

Google Search: “dark side of the moon” “wizard of oz”

Almost all the song transitions match up with scene transitions, and most of the lyrics of Dark Side of the Moon can be seen to resonate with simultaneous things happening in The Wizard of Oz movie as well in one way or another. Although you have similar bursts of synchronistic energy in other synchs, none appear nearly this sustained or consistent; “Dark Side of the Rainbow” seems unique in this way.

from http://users.boone.net/brittanma/darksideoftherainbow.html

I had heard of this rumor a few weeks ago for the first time, and am amazed to see how much there is to it.

Follow a few links yourself, and see what it’s about. If you try it yourself, let me know.

blogchalking

I followed a link on John’s site and lookedinto the blogchalking stuff, deciding to add the tags to my pages and see what the results might be.

The first thing I learned was the value of linking movabletype templates to real files you can edit with a real editor. Simply copying and pasting turned all the quotes to entity refs, and editing them in MT’s template display window was going to be unwieldy at best.