22nd of June 2011
21st of August 2010
Yep. Reblogged from ilovecharts
8th of August 2010
Smartness of flies. I was feeling this one earlier this summer. Now thankful for the hungriness of spiders and the stickiness of webs.
“
Fain would I change that note
to wich fond love hath charmd me,
long, long to sing by roate,
fancying that that harmde me
yet when this thought doth come
Love is the perfect summe of all delight
I have no other choice
either for pen or voyce,
to sing or write:
O Love they wrong thee much,
That say thy sweete is bitter.
When thy ripe fruit is such,
As nothing can be sweeter,
Faire house of ioy and blisse,
Where truest pleasure is,
I doe adore thee:
I know thee what thou art,
I serve thee with my hart,
And fall before thee.
—
http://www.meeuw.org/hume/fain.html
Could be Tobias Hume, but often attributed to anonymous. Pretty anyway.
4th of April 2010
“
The whole approach toward immigration and immigrants needs another look. Perhaps a non-militarized, non-aggressive, non-punitive non-fearful/paranoid/isolated view might help. ”
—
3rd of April 2010
TakeBack: the Pope can't smoke in my house
A while ago, I said the Pope could smoke in my house if he changed the Catholic Church’s positions on birth control and homosexuality. After reading about evidence the Pope shielded pedophile priests in Arizona, I take it back. If he shows up here, I’m throwing the ashtray at his head.
16th of March 2010
“
Money, man. It’s, like, the main ingredient in crazy. ”
—
Zone, Epitaph One episode, Dollhouse
9th of January 2010
Mac Weirdness
So I have two external drives that look alike. On one of them is a bootable backup of my Mac Pro. On the other, some backed up videos with their source media. I can’t tell the drives apart by looking at them, so I plug one in via the FireWire 800 port and look at the contents in a Finder window. Turns out it’s the bootable backup.
I eject it. I also unplug the FW800 cable from the external drive and leave it plugged into my Mac. I want to connect the other drive, right? But before I can, InDesign crashes. Then Photoshop crashes. Neither will relaunch. Photoshop gives me an “out of memory” message - which is bull because I have plenty of RAM installed. Anyway, I decide I’d better reboot.
My computer got stuck on a gray screen - I usually see it for a second before the Apple logo comes up. Several tries at restarting and that’s all I get.
Then I remember, long ago on my G4, it remembered what monitor I had connected, which caused me grief once when I swapped the monitor out. I don’t see how it could be related but just in case I pulled out the FW800 cable from the rear port, even though there is no drive attached to it.
Viola, the mac reboots fine after that.
What the hell is that about? OS X 10.6 bug? “Feature?” Anyone know?
7th of August 2009
The Pope Defense
I just had the most ridiculous discussion with my husband. His mom collected red glassware, and we were debating which items to sell, which to store, and which we like enough to use and display:
He: I want to keep the ashtray. I like that ashtray.
Me: No problem. Do you want it outside where you smoke? Should I store it?
(There’s no smoking in our house, so I don’t see a reason to keep a glass ashtray on display, you see.)
He: It should go in the china cabinet.
Me: I don’t think so. It takes a lot of horizontal space, and we’re not going to use it often, if ever. Nobody smokes in the house. Why not take it outside and use it?
He: What if the Pope came over and wanted to smoke in the house? You wouldn’t want a nice ashtray for him to use?
Me: The only way I’m letting the Pope smoke in my house is if he agrees to change the Catholic Church’s positions on abortion, birth control, gay marriage and homosexuality in general. He does me that favor, he can smoke in my house with this ashtray.
The ashtray is in storage.
2nd of July 2009
Vimeo's new source file policy
Starting August 1st, basic accounts’ original source files will be stored for one week from the upload date, after which they will be removed. Of course the converted Vimeo video will always be there in the Vimeo player, ready to be watched again and again, anywhere you choose to embed or share it. We will also still provide a download link so people can save the converted file to their computer (in MP4 format).
This new one-week policy applies to all basic accounts’ videos uploaded from this point onwards. For videos that were uploaded before this blog post, those original files will be available until August 1st, to give you some time to download them if you need to. After August 1st, those files will also be removed.
