While my WordPress gently weeps.
A profile of Jack Black mentions, at the end of the article, that he’s looking forward to getting back to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic on his XBOX. I’ve been playing this game for a couple of hours now, and let me say I agree with him wholeheartedly.
FULL DISCLOSURE: My character is named Dahan KarNeelias.
Ted Turner predicts the end of mankind — but acknowledges his batting average is not quite as high as Hank Aaron’s.
Today, after a six-hour delay caused by a Prometric server outage, I passed
Microsoft 70-210 to become a Microsoft Certified Professional. That means I
know a lot about installing Windows 2000. I’m still a Mac guy at heart [and at
home], but it feels good to expand my skill set and my potential job opportunities.
Sunday through Tuesday.
Wednesday through Friday.
The best thing about it is the icons they use to represent the genres of series, particularly the one for “Sci-Fi” shows, which reminded me of the the hamburger-shaped saucer from the animated intro to “Lost in Space.”
What a bummer. I don’t know anyone there, but now, on some level, I kinda feel like I do.
With today’s release of Weather Desk, Raj Bains joins Navdeep “Adoptive Daddy of Son of Weather Grok” Bains in the swelling corps of men named Bains developing weather applications for OS X.
Personally I’m a fan of Meteo, which although not written by anyone named Bains, is very flexible and is one of the few that supports weather.com, wunderground.com, and weather.gov. I hope that its new maintainers are able to keep it vital and working well with the weather sites’ changing layouts.
Lots of fightin’ words in this excerpt from a larger interview. Thanks for the link, P-Divvy! Bling bling.
I have applied for an ISSN, the eight-digit serial number for periodicals. Joe Clark explains here why a blogger might want to register their online publication. He sold me.
Another traditionalist decries the hijacking of the word gay. A lot of people take great umbrage at the repurposing of “gay,” but none of them seem to give a whit about other obsolete slang. Sobran in particular doesn’t seem to care about “dandy” or “foppish” [or anything based on “fop”]. He also comes up short on other twee archaisms, like “behoove,” “moxie,” and “23 skiddoo,” although he has used the all-but-endangered-species “a whit” four times. I suppose all these word crusaders, if asked, would probably be glad to let the g-words have “queer,” “homo,” and a couple of less flattering terms, but to confirm that would require me to talk to these word crusaders, and… um… not until I make my Krispy Kreme quota.
I’d like to thank Victor for the link, and although he probably won’t thank me for my rejoinder, one of the things I like about Victor is that our differing viewpoints on things like this have never compromised our ability to enjoy Sega, belgian beer, and old R&B, often all in the same night.
Interesting piece on how much play Shaolin Soccer is getting on
the file-sharing networks because Miramax won’t RELEASE IT
ALREADY.
The article notes that there is still no planned release
date, even though the Apple trailer site still says August 15, which was, like, the third announced release date and about a year after we first saw the trailer before the very enjoyable Wesley Snipes prison-boxing film “Undisputed.”
