While my WordPress gently weeps.
I can’t confirm or deny whether Steven Wright actually said that thing
about the seashells on the beach — though it is widely attributed to
him, I swear I read an interview with him once where he denied ever
saying it. I searched his website for some kind of statement of denial.
I didn’t find one, but I did find a posting that begins
into writing Simpsons Fan Scripts as a hobby…”, which to me is much
like a toreador’s cape to a bull. CHAAAAARGE IT!
An excellent
I borrowed the Dr. Howl link from
Mr. Cardhouse’s good works. Once I visited himand he showed me his.
seashell collection, which he had generously scattered across beaches
throughout the SF Bay Area
A side-scrolling run-n-jump
game based on Halflife with super-cute cartoony sprites. And the
fact that it’s programmed in Flash means that, when it’s done, it might
just be the only Half-Life game playable on the Mac.
Unfortunately, Chris Kemp’s dashing
good looks couldn’t save him from
crime. [Thanks, P-Dizzle!]
Maybe Chiat/Day [onetime creators of the Apple 1984 ad]
away from the whispery crap in all their ads. The banning of
whispering from television ads is one of the planks of my presidential
campaign platform. I’m looking at you too, Game Cube.
More for me when I get home than for the general benefit of all, but if
you find something you like here, then bonus:
It, truly, is all good.
It came today. I am undecided about the name. Right now it is Empress Abbey but that could change at any minute to 40 Gigabytes of Maximum R&B. [Yes, the entire box set is on the unit, but taking up only a sliver of the available space.]
Seems like it’s the same news all over the world: the iPod was a runaway hit. I thought I’d have mine by Xmas — although I ordered it ten days before, I was sure Apple would meet demand, especially since I ordered the 40 gig Big Poppa Pod. No such luck.
Quote of the Day, from this Mercury News article:
“With what you pay for a 40-gigabyte iPod, you could get a whole computer,” he said.
Who wants a $500 computer? Unless it’s 1983 and you’re talking about a Commodore 64?
I just hope I didn’t screw myself out of a couple hundred bucks by not waiting until after Macworld Expo, as implied in this CBSMW piece.
Gangsta croona Nate Dogg does that splendid thing he does on this radio-friendly unit shifter from the hot NY club DJ. Incidentally, Mark is the son-in-law of Foreigner’s Mick Ronson, in case you were wondering like I was.
You have to go to the tabloids and the British newspapers to get the real news.
