Lyrics Born is playing a show on my birthday. HooHoo!

Farmers Market on a sunny saturday morning, full of colorful people and vegetables... Warm open window afternoon nap... I still like San Francisco.

Visiting people. Leaving people. Work people. Customer people. Household people. Old people. New people. Everywhere people always. Silence seems slightly impossible. and so necessary. and so far away.

This weekend I'm walking. Somewhere. Without any someone...

Mac OS X Hints | Scroll Finder windows horizontally via the mouse

If you use a mouse with a scroll wheel, press shift while scrolling in a Finder window. The content will scroll to the left and right while pressing shift and using the wheel.

Wonderful!

What's that you say? You love your Blog*Spot blog, but you want to put images and other pages on it? No problem. Go get your Blog*Spot host on.

Take one Internet Movie Database, add a data miner with some free time, and get a rather complete look at movie ratings by genre (with nice little graphs).

Courtesy of Kottke.

Stating the Obvious | The Weblog Candidate

Grubb is, at best, an enigma. Her stands on an untold number of issues -- the bric-a-brac of daily life -- are complete mysteries. She's offered no position papers, no policy statements, nothing that constitutes the lifeblood of an informed electorate.

While excessively snotty in tone, Greg Knauss article raises some valid points about Tara Sue Grubb's weblog based run for congress. Mostly that she's not very different than the status quo - expect she happens to fall on our side of things. What he misses, is the importance of starting somewhere.

Tara Sue might not be a good option for Congress. Dave Winer may be becoming a victim of his own hype. But, they are both doing something. Something different. Something shared. New idea's (right or wrong) are being added to the pool. Discussions are being had. ...Which sounds an awful lot like progress to me.

OS X 10.2 installed without a hitch. It's nice. Further elaboration soon.

Two nights ago I found a poor Macintosh SE, abandoned in the street. I got it home. Booted it up. It works like a charm. After a quick scan of the mighty internet, I was able to order the missing keyboard ADB cable and mouse. All on the cheap. Hopefully I'll be able to get it online.

In the meantime, I'm about to install MacOS 10.2. I've just got a few more backup CD's to burn. If I disappear for awhile, things didn't go as smoothly as planned. Wish me luck...

Two old friends from two different out of towns are back in town. Each uniquely beautiful. It's very nice to see them both again. It's a shame that it's for such a short time.

For the first time in months, I'm wearing contacts. As expected, it took them a little while to settle on my eyes. Now that they have, it's safe to say that everything is bigger. A very odd sensation. I don't recall my little knitted cow having such a big head. Or my money tree having such a large canape. Or this font being quite so large. Very odd indeed. And unique to me... On the other hand, trying to adjust my non existent glasses is fun for everyone around...

Look at how our heads and feet
Are capped and shod without a second thought.
It is like the man who had a long beard,
But did not anguish at its length
Until one day someone asked him
How he arranged it when he went to bed.
First he put it inside, then outside the coverlet,
The whole night he spent looking for the best position.
And tossed and turned until the dawn of day.
In the end he wanted only to chop it off!
Although this fable is light and humorous,
Still it contains a much deeper meaning.
When I asked the dharma master about this,
He gave a smile and nodded his assent.
   - Su Shih (1073)

Splorp: The cat is out of the bag.

the next major OS X update will be code named Panther, blatantly akin to the feline persona tacked on to the recent version 10.2 Jaguar update. A disturbing trend is disclosing itself here. The code name selection process has apparently come under the jurisdiction of the marketing department, rather than the engineers. We can all see that absolutely no good can come from this.

I thought the Jaguar print nav bar was some sort of "we know it's tacky" temporary promotional silliness for Macworld NY. It hasn't gone away.

The first time I spoke must have been wonderful. - Dose One

One Week Observations

• A web application never closes. Popularity + Worldwide Availability + Multitudes of Time Zones = Constant Access.
• A surprising number (and this sort of thing rarely surprises me) of people have sex/drug related passwords.
• Working at home is nice. Once your off, your already home.
• Working at home is not nice. Once your off, your still at home.

It's a smaller world... Blogger Brasil is go.

Update: Babelfish translation!

Questions, questions, questions! After all, the Blogger.com.br has the same smells and flavor of the American version? It is truth that also not untied it the straps? Yes, it is all truth. E more: our brazilian version account with exclusive resources of the version pro, gratuitously. The life in web is not better that this...

Mercury News: Behind economy's dark clouds, here are some silver linings.

It's all too easy these days to feel depressed. The economy is ailing. New wars loom. Governmental control freaks steal our civil liberties, and corporate outlaws grab everything else.

But plenty of things are right with the world, too -- or at least showing signs of progress. Consider these few examples.

It's nice to hear something that's both positive and rational...

Robot Street Gang: Pikmin Perfect.

As I thrashed through all of this, with a small part of my thinking I began to wonder what the hell I was doing it for. I mean, come on: I'm 35. I have a software consulting business through which I've managed to keep food on the table for two and half years now, so I must be doing OK; I've got a lovely gal who puts up with my eccentricities because she knows it helps me keep my stress levels down, but she also began to look at me askance and wonder whether the Quest For 278 wasn't causing me more stress than the work-stress I'm ostensibly escaping. I started to have dreams about Pikmin, in which I'm outside in a sunny field and there are pellets and pikmin, and I just pick the pikmin up in my hand and place them on the pellets, and it's so easy I wonder why I never did it this way before. It's another binge cycle. I've been here before with other games, it's familiar territory... but, as I'm keenly aware, I'm 35 years old and I'm still doing this. Is there something weird here?

Anyone who has ever found themselves playing anything obsessivly, and wondering if it was all right, should read this wonderful story by Steve Linberg.

It's been one of those days. Things done but little accomplished and that's not so bad. But then I'm sitting here. Running out of afternoon. Un-motivated and all filled up with maybe. Make some phone calls. Say hello to spread out friends. Maybe not. Work on work things. Maybe. Clean the kitchen. Maybe not. Eat. Maybe... Who can say.

Aphids eat their mothers, the ants are drunk on sap.

Support the Internet Radio Fairness Act by automaticly sending a fax to your represenatives.

long time friend some time robot hilatron has her own blogatron!

If your using MoveableType and OSX, I can't recommend Kung-Log enough. It allows you to post directly to your MoveableType blog, using a nice, simple, clean, OSX gui. It supports everything the current MT-API does. Mutliple blogs. Categories. Publish Status. Pinging weblogs.com and moveabletype.com (if you have a registration key). Loading previous posts. Everything. Once the new MT-API, supporting things like Trackback, is released, Kung-Log will support them too.

Best of all, Adriaan is rather diligent in his support -- of a donationware application.

The day after Half Dome, I was sore. I got a good nights sleep and everything seemed great. Now, almost a week later, I'm sore again. Mostly in my knees. Real sore. Thank Tiger Balm. It's saving my day. Even though I smell funny. In a strong way.

In much better news, the trip pictures are now online. There's a large number of them. Go crazy.

Guardian Unlimited: U.N. Report Says Planet in Peril

According to its findings, forests are being destroyed, drought is becoming more intense, sea levels are rising, agricultural production can't keep up with the demand for food, many plant and animal species are at risk of extinction, and air and water pollution are killing millions of people.

And this is the way we are.

I've got a job! Helping users at Pyra. Which, for right now, means helping people with Blogger. Soon, other things. Today was my first day. I like it a lot. It's a casual environment. Full (in a tiny sense) of people who really care about what they're doing. It's been awhile. Since a place with meetings about users and services and requirements. Since people who believed in the work they were doing. Since I could believe in what i was doing - without endless levels of frustration. It's work worth being done. I'm excited to really get started.

Business 2.0: The Sorcerer of Sony.

With the steady adoption of broadband connections and powerful desktop PCs that render awesome graphics on the fly, however, some say a new form of entertainment will finally take root -- and move toward a more mainstream audience. Consultancy Themis Group pegs 2003 revenues from online games at $635 million, more than double this year's draw. "Virtual worlds won't be a novelty anymore," predicts Paul-Jon McNealey, research director at market analyst Gartner G2. "Online gaming isn't just for hard-core geeks."

Courtesy of The End of Free.

In his latest article, The media titans still don't get it, Scott Rosenberg reviews two books with very different ideas about the current state of the internet. In the process providing his own excellent commentary on where we all are at.

105 photos taken. 50 color corrected. 55 more to go.

The Miami Herald: Millipedes move in, and the monkeys go wild.

The millipedes' secretions induce an excited state in the monkeys that lasts up to 30 minutes, kind of like how cats react to catnip.

I just go back from halfdome... and boy does my everything that moves hurt.

Sunscreen is packed... giant pasta salad is made.... I'm off to halfdome!

Salon.com | I come to bury IAmCarbonatedMilk.com, not to praise it

I understand the temptation. I've registered domains myself. I know that, though ultimately unexpressed, each expired URL represents a discrete idea deemed good, or at least good enough, at the point of inception to justify its registration fee. However short the ultimate lifespan -- from inspiration to registration to research to realization and then, finally, to the decision to let it lapse, to take it off the hook and throw it back -- each URL offers a snapshot of a mind at work at a particular moment in time.

Courtesy of splorp.

bluishorange - if you were never down, how would you know when you were up?

kurt points and asks if the moon is green. i ask if he is colorblind. he is, mostly. i tell him what james told me once about colorblind people being colorblind because if they weren't, the world would be too beautiful for them to handle. "it is pretty beautiful," kurt says. he smiles, and looks back at the moon.

Courtesy of NextBlog.

I like a job interview that takes place on a sunny back porch.

Site Update: Search All Music Guide for the artist or album I'm currently listening to, by clicking on the appropriate name over there in the sidebar.

There's something about fog... While camping this past weekend, everything was coated in it. It was beautiful. Crisp and moist. Never more than a good fire could fend off. Add some wild animals, naps on the beach, good friends, skin shedding trees, and it couldn't have been any better.

Many pictures were taken. Enjoy.

Fussy.

...what's the deal with the mustache? I've tried bleaching, I've tried waxing, God help me I even pluck occasionally. And it still looks like a hedgehog is slowly trying to push its way out of my mouth through my upper lip. While I was pregnant my facial hair was light and soft, plus I only had to shave my legs once a month (a drastic shift from the daily mowing) and my toes even stopped looking like Bilbo Baggins's.

Courtesy of NextBlog.

Tribune 2nd. August 2002 : Scott Ritter

The former head of the UN weapons inspectorate in Iraq, insists that the British and American people are being frog-marched towards an unnecessary war.

Entourage keeps crashing shortly after launch. Shortly after that OSX goes with it ("The system and other applications have not been affected" - Ha!). Leaving me with nearly no e.mail.

O-Well.

This afternoon I may have a job interview and tonight I leave for a weekend of camping at the Lost Coast.

I have no concern for Entourage's attention getting antics.

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