Wednesday
Not too much to report about the early part of the day.

I spent part of the evening mowing the back forty. It’s amazing how much the grass back there grew – in a week! I’m probably going to raise the blade height next time I mow it. I think that I took out a sprinkler head, too. *ARGH* But, the lawn is mowed. Tomorrow, I’ll tackle the front yard and parking strip.

Dinner tonight came courtesy of Sampan. Beef Lo Mein.

Stray Toasters

  • The 2005 IKEA catalog is available online. Now. The print edition will be available next month.
  • By way of : Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting…
  • showed me this ‘review’ of Kitty Litter Catwoman.
    I countered with this review.

  • We Didn’t Start the Fire Historical Context
    Someone had a lot of free time…

  • Cyril Connelly?
    No… “semi-carnally.”

  • iTunes (Part I) – I finally sussed out how to import the files from Enterprise into my iTunes library on Pegasus. After about 4 misstarts, I got it done. And the evil revels can now begin: I can see how many Tropicana Twister-like “remixes” I can make by playing songs on iTunes and Winamp. I believe that the first item(s) will be finally seeing just how easy it is to combine Closer (NIN) and Come Together (The Beatles or Aerosmith). On a cursory listen, it sounds like they should mesh fairly well… give or take a few beats per minute.
  • showed me this earlier while we were playing a game of “One Up.” I showed it to . I haven’t heard from her since. I’m hoping that she didn’t explode.
  • iTunes (Part II) – Hmm. I just noticed how iTunes “reconfigured” the mp3s on Enterprise. Almost every song that I had not organized by artist now has its own folder. Curiouser and curiouser…
  • Also from : JusticeLeague.org – Friends of hers and the marathons in which they have run. In costume. Very funny.
  • By way of Slashdot: NTSB Recommends Black Boxes for All Cars
  • iTunes (Part III) – It was worse than I thought: iTunes decided that it should determine how some mp3s should be filed… and then scattered the rest into “Unknown Artist/Unknown Album” folders. This most likely has something to do with the mp3 tags… or lack thereof. This is going to take some work to undo or modify. *sigh* Did I mention that it also renamed the files whose tags it didn’t grok? It did. It stripped them down to “Artist – CD – Track Number”. *braincramp*
  • I’m all for GUIs – and I think that voice recognition is an interesting input method – but I don’t see anything wrong with typing. (flashback to Scotty trying to talk to the Macintosh in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home…) The Christian Science Monitor “has an article on how some schools have stopped teaching touch-typing as a necessary office skill.”
  • If you have watched/read/listened to the news over the last couple of weeks, I’m fairly sure that you have heard of the Lori Hacking case, here in SLC. I just found out that someone I know is related to her family.
  • The Ethical Precepts and Philosphical Tenets of Zen Buddhism
  • The new OfficeMax “Rubberband Man” Back-to-School commercial is funny.
  • Also from : How to Be a Villain (co-written by one of her LJ.org friends) and VillainSupply.com

Quote of the Day
From the latest Obey your Thirst commercials for Sprite:

Congratulations on your no-prize, didn’t win nothin’ victory.

Namaste.