Month: October 2005

Another Cheaper by the Dozen?

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I ranted a while ago about the Cheaper by the Dozen film, a bastardization of one of my childhood favorite books, vowing not to see the results.

It’s time for another vow — this time, sadly, for Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

Never, never, never. The only even vaguely interesting pieces of the trailer were two quarter-second long shots of girls in bikinis…and since if I ever feel the need to see that I can do a quick Flickr search, that takes care of that.

Would someone please just forcibly retire Steve Martin and put us all out of our misery?

Seattle’s Seasons in Software

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The news that yesterday’s rumors are true and that NewsGator has acquired NetNewsWire is flying all over the ‘net right now. NewsGator posted a quick Q&A about the acquisition, which produced this little gem from NetNewsWire’s Brent Simmons:

Q: Is Brent moving to Denver? Or Tennessee?

Greg: Yes!

Brent: No, I’ll be staying in Seattle.

Greg: Darn it, I’m 0 for 2. Denver’s not such a bad place, you know. We have 4 seasons and everything!

Brent: As a Macintosh user interface designer I like to simplify whenever possible. Four seasons is two too many. Seattle has two seasons, rainy and dry — anything more is too complex for new users. ;)

Shining

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Okay, so I’m a bit late to the party on this one, but if you haven’t seen it yet, you’ve really got to check out the trailer for a little heartwarming family comedy called Shining (9.5Mb QT .mov). A definite must-see!

Bouncing and flirting

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Much fun out at the_vogue tonight. Flirting with friends I hadn’t seen in a while (Tej, Suzanne, Noreen) and friends I just made tonight (Margarite, Amanda, Sarah). All in all, definitely worth going.

And on a not-at-all-unrelated side note: I’m so lucky to have a girlfriend who not only understands and appreciates that I’m an incorrigible flirt…but also thinks it’s fun and doesn’t mind in the least when I go out a-flirting (as long as I tell her all about it when I get home, if she wasn’t able to come along too). It’s a rare and wonderful thing.

iTunes “Frozen (Chill)” by Collide from the album Vortex (2004, 7:37).

LJ-style links for Ecto

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This is actually fairly simple, but you never know.

For ecto users who want to post LiveJournal-style links to LJ user accounts (such as [djwudi's info]djwudi) into a weblog entry on a non-LJ system:

  1. Open Window > HTML Tags.
  2. Click the + button to create a new tag set.
  3. Paste the following code into the ‘opening tag’ box (as a single line): 
    <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=%*">
<img src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" alt="[%*'s info]" width="17" height="17" /></a>
<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/%*/"><b>
  4. Paste the following code into the ‘closing tag’ box: 
    </b></a>
  5. Assign a command key sequence (optional, of course — I used option-command-J).

Viola! You’re done. Now, just type someone’s LJ username into a weblog post, select it, and choose the new tag set (or type the command key sequence you set), and the LJ-style link is created.

Serenity

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Saw Serenity last night — Prairie and I got to hang out with eckstacie, sgtjesse and [oblique_ref], saw ogremarco, got donuts from the people in line right in front of us who were playing Buffypoker (Buffy playing cards) and betting with Gummi Worms, and talked with a lot of the fans, browncoats, and assorted self-described “geeks and freaks” around us. Much fun was had.

The movie…I’m still letting it percolate. And I’ve gotta get in gear to go to work. More later.