Plaidophile

Archive ID 666 needs a suitably evil post to fill in its space.

So, how about this idea for remote file search?

IRC is the mind-killer.

So, like, yesterday John told me that I might be getting a call from the staffing agency about putting my services "on hold."

Basically, I'm having flashbacks to the late 90s.

Yep, after only one day I already have various issues with the 12" PbG4...

In this case, it's specifically about the display.

*hugs her new Powerbook*

Please stop.

So, my mom's out of town until next Tuesday, which means that since my dad is totally helpless when it comes to food, I'm cooking until then. Which is great, since slaving over a hot stove is just what I want to do after I get home at 6:30 after 8-odd hours of working with a major asshole, but I digress.

Of course, my dad (who gets home at 5:15 or so) is also clueless about what needs to be purchased at the grocery store, and so I'm just having to make do with what's around.

And what's around? Salmon!

When the boss is going to be out of the office next week, and you won't be able to get in on Wednesday because you still don't have a key, despite two months of showing up to a locked office — but the part-time accountant who only works the middle 5 hours on Tuesday and Thursday does.

My best one yet.

Listen to it and other entries when it goes live sometime on May 20, 2004 (or find it in the archive after May 27 or so).

Why yes, I did!

Just when the party was getting really good, the cops had to go and show up...

Great movie. You should see it.

Also, my G4/450 is pretty long in the tooth by now. So I'm really considering buying a laptop.

It just wasn't willing to tone down the sucking enough for me.

Back to pwm. Only I'm mitigating the reasons I switched away from pwm to begin with by just not having it automatically tab-group Mozilla windows, and by using Mozilla's built-in tabs. (Because Mozilla/gtk/whomever people are dumb and don't set dialog boxes to be transient, so pwm groups them the same as browser windows, which just doesn't work that well.)

So now I have two layers of Mozilla tabs, which is actually kinda useful in a strange way.

Does anyone know if the new 15" Powerbooks (the 1.33/1.5GHz ones which came out a few weeks ago) have the white spot issues? The last I'd heard was a slight murmur that Apple had an engineering fix for the problem on the RevA, but Google is still serving up all the information about last October's outrage and doesn't seem to have anything more recent than that.

I want to finally get a laptop again, but I don't want something which I'm going to have to send back to Apple for repairs every month...

John's current "business dealing:" He's getting into the calling card scam business for extra capital while getting the VoIP business going.

Right now my computer is occasionally locking up for reasons I've been unable to determine (I've already checked all the memory with memtest86 on another system). In the meantime, iTunes doesn't maintain any sort of data integrity on its library, so if the lockup happens at an inopportune moment, the library gets corrupted and I have to rebuild it.

Jennifer: What is the status of the Friday shipments?

John: I didn't do any, because you didn't mark any shipments as completed on Friday so I didn't want to muck about doing research as to which ones you'd shipped or not.

Jennifer: I didn't do any shipments then because I wasn't in on Friday!

John: Not my problem.

Okay, so yesterday, after an all-evening Food Network binge (watching, not eating), I had an idea of preparing one of the Alton Brown recipes.

But my subconscious had other plans, so I made teriyaki grilled salmon today instead. C'est magnifique!

Actually, I sold it over a month ago, but the closing finally finished, and today I got my check in the mail.

Next step: cancelling the fuck out of my MBNA credit card, paying off my Capital One card (which I'm going to keep since, unlike MBNA, their entire business model isn't attempting to screw everyone over on interest rates and "special promotional offers"), and paying my parents back for my moving expenses. And still having a nice big chunk of change left over. Woo!

Over on Joy's weblog I mentioned that the 10.3 Finder still sucks, and that I really hope Apple fixes it. Someone asked how I thought it sucked, so here's a list as I think of things. (Mostly an extension of what I posted as a comment there.)

9:06 PM I've gotten some flak for being "too negative." In my defense, I was only talking about specific aspects of the OSX 10.3 Finder which suck (and not OSX as a whole), and it's basically a bit of balance for back when I was unconditionally singing OSX's praises. It'd be pretty zealoty of me to only talk about the good stuff, right? And anyway, I only said that it sucks (which means that it has room for improvement), not that it fucking sucks (which means that I hope the programmers get some form of unpleasant venereal disease).

Today's dose of bullshit. (John is being more of an asshole prick than usual.)

(BTW, the formal definition of a Cecil is enough angry to launch a thousand quits. So 1mCecil = 1000μCecils = enough to make me quit. Sorry for not actually defining my scale earlier.)

Today I got a new toy, which is worthy of a review.