I’m playing with Hyperlinkomatic, which I found the other day through a post on Boing Boing. It’s pretty cool, I think I love it. I want to keep all my web-centric data on the web! I can’t believe Google isn’t doing something like this. DUH!!!! Get on the stick guys, and give us a way to manage all these links you’re finding for us. If Yahoo can do it, y’all can do it better.
I dreamed that a guy named NATHAN GRABOWSKI (that’s right, NATHAN GRABOWSKI) did a big coffee-table book of photography on me. Well, kind of… it was about half photos of me and half trippy nature photos. I was looking at the book in my dream and I remembered that the guy had followed me around for a day wandering around the beach, in the woods etc. He wasn’t a hipster guy but more like a rumpley-coat sports photographer or something. He took kickass pictures though.
I just Googled him, and no luck. I have no idea how I came up with that name. I want my own art book, just like Madonna!! Oh pardon me, Esther.
I’ve been asking some real-world pals if they want invites to Gmail, and the universal reply I’m getting is… "What? I need less e-mail, not more!" I’m weary of attempting to explain why this a good thing and why they’d want it, that it might actually help them with their overflow. The more I try to explain, the more I come off like a geekier-than-thou evangelist. It’s no skin off my nose, I just wanted to make sure I included them so they wouldn’t get mad at me later for not offering. And I know there are lots of people out there who do want invites. So! First three people who want one, speak now and you shall have it. No beefcake shots required. (grin)
I’m saving one invite in case one of the aforementioned friends changes their mind, but I’m not holdin’ my breath or nothin’. ;-)
The City of Chicago’s gonna start using Linux servers to replace their old and busted ones. Red Hat has an article about it. Gaper’s Block? Chicagoist? Please take this and add funny punchline, thanks.
So I got 3 more Gmail invites yesterday and quickly doled them out to friends… I have one left at the moment but I’m saving it for someone very special, I know not who. I expect to get some mileage outta this. So it has to be either a very VERY cute guy, someone I am trying to impress, and/or someone who has a music collection I might envy, heheh. Barring that, an Alpha Geek. Somebody (either sex) who’s helped me a lot on tech stuff, or potentially could. And if I could be made to feel superior to this person in some small way, that would be extra nice. Trouble is, all those people already have Gmail accounts!! ::sigh:: There are too many invites out there, even the newbies of one week ago are getting invites to give away themselves. NO FAIR!! ha ha.
(If you’re still reading and aren’t thoroughly sick of this whole topic, please see the cartoon which I found through the Gmail-as-babe-magnet article on PCWorld. Not that funny, but definitely on-topic.)
Look at the hoody he made for his brother. It rules.
Reports of my iBook’s death were greatly exaggerated. Called AppleCare but they couldn’t help me, as I was (knowingly) in violation of one of their rules. (See below because the story’s too boring for anybody but a Mac geek.) I started fooling around with Disk Utility, ended up deciding to try a reinstall? And to my surprise it worked, there was apparently nothing wrong with the actual disk. I wiped the drive and there’s a new clean system on there now that boots and everything. I’m thinkin’ the problem was the heat, though I can’t say why it got so hot to begin with. It wasn’t getting too hot during the install so I’ll put it through its paces and try and get it to fuck up before the AppleCare expires next March. I’m pretty sure I can bork it up good by then, if it’s going to happen. :-)
I think my old iBook just died. Not my main one, but the other one that I use to serve MP3s and store backup stuff. It had frozen on me a couple of times today (=yesterday), requiring cold reboots. And just now it made a couple of godawful clonking noises and froze again. I shut it off, noting that the bottom was CRAZY HOT. Waited awhile for it to cool down and turned it back on. Now I’m getting the folder icon in the middle of the screen, blinking from the Happy Mac to a question mark to a Happy Mac, ad infinitum. Whatever happened to the sad-face Mac? I guess it scared people, maybe they got rid of it. But I know what’s up… I mean if a noise like that doesn’t elicit any kind of frown from my machine, there’s definitely something wrong with it. ;-)
Wow, I found and just finished entering pages from a journal I did in 1993-4, during the time when I first joined the rockabilly band and also had the Marfa Lights and the Holler Sisters going at the same time. I only had to do a teensy bit of editing on the potsmoking and family dramas, tee hee. It starts on a post I I’ve titled New Brooklyn Notebook… the pages have no titles so I had to make ‘em up. The journal ends suddenly after just a couple of months, but the entries I did do kick ass. I had no real memory of even doing this journal, and only dim memories of most of the stuff I’m talking about. (Stoner!!)
Update: Comments are closed on this post; the discussion continues on this newer one.
Yup, I’m having one again. Good thing I’m a touch typist! ;-) It’s equally intense in both eyes but is floating off to the left side a bit. Classic C-shape and pulsing very brightly. It’s mostly black and white but I am perceiving a bit of red and blue in there too. I’m having a real hard time reading now so if there are typos I’ll have to fix them later.
We have 120-someodd comments on the last SS thread, so I think it’s time to start a new one. I’ll go post a note over there and send people over this-a-way. It seems no matter what blogging system I use, it’s never really too happy when it has to serve up an entry with THAT much text on it.
Man, this is bright and shimmery. I can read now, it’s expanded wide enough in the 5 minutes it took me to type this. Eh… no pain, no big deal. Just weird.
I just entered in a handful of journal pages I wrote in the summer of 1991. Lotta complaining about work and stuff. To read ‘em, I guess just start here and work your way forward about twelve pages. This particular journal peters out at that point, but oh well, at least I got what I did. It gives you a pretty good picture of where my head was at at the time.
For that journal I was writing on Xerox’ed pages… the opposite sides of the sheets all have cool clip-art, most of which I got from the Wall Street Journal (which arrived daily for my bosses at the time). I would use the company Xerox to blow up the images to 8-1/2 x 11, and write on the back. This was important work-related stuff! ;-)
I just turned on my Windows PC for the first time in weeks and weeks. Pulled up my homepage so I could check out how my new EE layout looks in the big monitor. And oh god… it hurts, make them turn it off mommy!! It’s all purple and lavender. It is totally gay!! On the iBook the background is a straight-up powder blue and the borders are a little darker, but nothing’s all purple like that. I wonder if it’s just my monitor or if it’s really a PC thing. Blecch.
I’m scanning bits of my handwriting to get some personalization goin’ on in my site. Do you like it so far, with the page header? I know, it’s a web-cliché to use handwriting but… I have a giant ego! And I happen to like the way I write, so there. ;-)
Hey looky what I found. My brush with Penn & Teller greatness. Oh, it takes me back, I used to be such a freak for them! I still love ’em, but it’s rough when you don’t have cable and don’t happen to live in same city as them. I guess I saw their live show three or four times in the early 90s when I lived in NYC.
Sorry to keep hammerin’ y’all with the yammerin’ but guess what? I got an early invite to participate in another auction of mix-CDs to benefit Rock for Kids. It won’t be happening until September or thereabouts but I thought I’d give Clay y’all the heads-up. (grin) I had a lot of fun making the last one; glad I hung on to the tracklist so I won’t repeat anything!
I’m gonna try harder to keep up with my Now Playing list.* Just cleaned up the handful of entries I already had, so I can at least get a consistent format happenin’. I do have a few archived copies of the ancient "What’s on my turntable" page, but I never used to put dates on those, what a shame! It really was very blog-like. I would keep fifty entries on a page and just rotate the list whenever I played something new. Maybe I can just fudge and put up a few snapshots of the old pages, based on the dates they were archived?
* UPDATE: Once I started using Audioscrobbler/Last.fm, I more or less abandoned the concept of a hand-edited Now Playing list. I hadn’t made that many entries to warrant a full category, so I just folded them into the Featured Links list.
