Plaidophile

1. Toby approaches Shooby
2. Toby sniffs at Shooby
3. Toby starts to lick Shooby
4. Toby playfully bites Shooby
5. Shooby retaliates by biting back
6. Toby retaliates by starting to wrestle with Shooby
7. Shooby retaliates by starting to claw at Toby

And on it goes...

Why does bullshit always come in deluges?

My kitties missed me.

Got home with a big pile of things purporting to be bills, and a dead router box.

Shouldn't female bulldogs be called "cowdogs?"

thadk writes,

Mmm. Just got around to trying Galeon2-cvs--nice and speedy! No other browser can match it at 1600x1200 I don't think. What are all these features which everyone says were missing in the new release anyway?

It was snowing all day today in Albuquerque, but it was warm enough that it all melted before it hit the ground. Funky.

Random daylog crap.

Okay, so like, after figuring out how to configure keybindings in gtk2 applications (which is pretty easy, since it turns out that gtk2 has moved to semantically-oriented XML resources which makes me happy since that's something I've been advocating for quite some time now), and getting OcelotBob's hint at how to turn off the stupid bookmarks toolbar, galeon2 isn't pissing me off quite so much anymore. Yay!

Today I got nothing important done. I don't think I'm going to finish these papers, and I don't feel that it's important.

So, I started to remove the side of the fountain, noticing that the mortar holding it together was different than the mortar on the rest of the structure, implying that this had to be done before.

You'd think mr. Crawford would have learned his lesson the first time.

I still haven't gotten the aiptek tablet working. Why do you ask?

Recently I've been discovering that Mr. Crawford (the previous owner of my house) didn't just seem to not know what he was doing, he definitely didn't know what he was doing.

meh

If you've recently sent me an email and I haven't responded, send it again, because my hosting provider has been having some email problems recently (he finally got fed up with sendmail and decided to switch to qmail, but there's still some kinks being worked out).

In the meantime, Al Lowe has a great website.

(I should have written this entry from the store while I was actually having these thoughts, but oh well.)

Why did that mom just buy each of her kids a lottery ticket? Does she want them to become gamblers when they grow up? Doesn't she realize there's a legal minimum age? I don't think any of those kids are 18 yet...

Aside: I received my DSL modem in the mail today, which implies that the DSL line qualification happened successfully. Yay!

Shooby and Toby are finally playing with each other!

So, my paper was rejected from siggraph. Reason: Good idea, but doesn't really bring anything new, and doesn't have enough comparisons with similar algorithms. No room for incremental improvements, I guess. The reviewers' comments were, on the whole, fair and well-reasoned, and they gave me some references to some really good papers to look at, so on the whole I'm pleased.

The climate around here is changing a lot.

On Saturday, I was a judge at the local science fair, which is a fun, if harrowing process.

He doesn't chase laser pointers.

He doesn't every try to play with other kitties.

He'll only chase string under nondeterministic and brief circumstances.

He won't sit in my lap.

He won't sleep on top of me.

All he does is sleep, eat, and wander.

Maybe he's just tired from all the wandering.

Charles Cooper has written a nice spew about what the world would be like if Netscape hadn't lost the browser war.

I think his view is rather naïve, at best.

Borrowing the technique from the conversatron, the "comments" links now have the comment count embedded into the url, so you can kinda-sorta tell if there's new comments to read based on the link color. (This is mostly for my own benefit, because MT's "recent comments" interface on the admin side sucks, like most of MT's comment engine.

As it's currently implemented, it'll only work if you click on the "comments" link, rather than the "full text" link, and even then it's totally kludgy. Someday I'll probably just learn enough PHP to do it "right" and PHPify this whole thing, but I don't think MT's pseudo-scripting stuff is expressive enough to do it without nasty kludges.

It's weird. Toby's around 2 years old, and plays with anything that potentially moves (whether it's actually moving or not), yet Shooby's around 6 months old and can't be arsed to even pounce on a piece of string which is being dragged by him.

Holy cow. The iMic has amazing playback quality. The specs claim a -95dB noise floor (which is the theoretical best possible for a 16-bit signal), and I believe it. Even when I have it turned up all the way I don't hear a single iota of static.

Yeah, definitely time to replace my good trusty ISA ES1868 card. Ooh, does this do 48KHz? I think it does...

Yes, it does! Yay! My occasional 48KHz mp3 doesn't have to sound like ass because it's getting resampled to 44 anymore!

Now to test it on my studio computer for recording...

Much later I re-measured the noise floor with a better routing setup and am now getting a noise floor of around -85dB. Kick ass.

So do you save the world and get the girl
at the end of every day?
Are firefights and men in tights
all the games you play?

If life were like a movie,
would you be the hero guy,
or would you be the villain?
If so, you're gonna die.

You know how there's this wonderful feeling of release after you pop a particularly nasty zit?

I finally managed to pop a huge one in front of my right ear (hidden by my hair) which had been bugging me for the past month or so.

Chapter["Wisper"].end();

Earlier today I was feeling extremely depressed again, so I did what I often do: I browsed Best Buy for fun things to watch.

I picked up Resevoir Dogs and Dragon Half, which is finally on DVD.

I got third place in last week's. This week's (I Think It's Killing Me) is much more difficult to decide (but feel free to vote for me anyway). I think Hoblit's is my favorite (I'm not sure... it'll take a few days of occasional relistening before I vote), but I bet 2 from 14 will win with MYCC in second.

Wisper still hasn't picked up the equipment, and qwest still hasn't installed the phoneline, so I'm doing some yardwork.

Specifically, I'm breaking up the concrete slab which the windmill is on.

Well, not right now, since I got distracted with working out how heavy this slab is.

Inspiration: the (imo) successful usage of cardboard boxes for percussion on my Fool In The Middle entry

Idea: build a drum set out of "garbage." disused coffee cans for tom drums, baking sheets and CDs for cymbals, and basically anything else which makes a noise when hit and is fairly unbreakable to make totally new sounds

Because Ken (admin guy) has gotten sick of trying to do his job, and after randomly blaming unrelated things didn't work, he's gonna take the nonfunctional crap back next time he's in town (on Wednesday).

I'll have to return to campus to submit the final mix of "fool in the middle" to songfight though. (one of the biggest missing pieces of functionality on the hiptop is the ability to attach files from a computer. Meh.)

But I'm real pleased with how it turned out anyway. Yay!

Platonically-speaking, anyway.

KMX blue tastes a lot better when it's not six fucking months expired. It's rather yummy, in fact.