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September 29, 2005

Yay my pads are done being built ()

by fluffy at 07:29 PM
The order status page on cobaltflux.com has finally changed to "awaiting shipment."

Also, on the order form I left the comment, "Please fill my pads with love." They left a comment in response: "<3"

:)

September 28, 2005

So much for simplification ()

by fluffy at 10:12 AM
So, by getting a USB data cable for my phone, I thought I'd be able to simplify things by just using my phone where I'd have normally used my Palm. But unfortunately, its sync software is pretty assy compared to the Palm's. Go figure.

So I guess I'm still using the Palm, at least as a conduit to sync between Outlook and my Mac at home. I'll just have to have the Mac put all my appointments on the phone, and hope that any appointments scheduled on the same day as the event have the reminder show up when I'm at my computer at work (since I've set the Palm's alarm to be silent since I was just hoping to reduce the number of alarm-raising devices). Oh well. I was still keeping the Palm in my backpack as a quick-access web device anyway, so this way I can still just keep it in my backpack instead of needing to put it in my pocket. Which still solves the primary problem of "too much crap in my pockets."

September 24, 2005

New-old phone ()

by fluffy at 02:08 PM
So, my latest "new" phone just arrived.

September 23, 2005

Head like a hole ()

by fluffy at 11:34 PM
I saw Nine Inch Nails in concert tonight. They played all of the NIN songs I was familiar with. I felt like an angsty disaffected teenager again.

September 20, 2005

RSS changes ()

by fluffy at 11:14 AM
I finally decided to do something about how friends-only entries were still exposed in RSS (since MovableType's entry filters suck even in 3.2), so I've used the same sort of hacks that I use on dex/dx to make my RSS feed dynamic. While I was at it I deprecated the RSS 0.91 feed and replaced it with the 1.0 feed, so this might temporarily break bloglines subscriptions (which were still using the 0.91 feed), though it probably won't.

September 19, 2005

Phones suck ()

by fluffy at 11:01 PM
All I want is a small-ish cellphone which doesn't cost a lot, will withstand the rigors of living in a pocket (i.e. is a flip or clamshell), and can sync its phonebook and calendar with both iSync and Outlook (preferably over Bluetooth for the first one). Is that so much to ask for?

As a bonus it should be fully-compatible with Clicker but at this point I'd be willing to not bother with it anymore.

It's a cool app but I don't really use it that much anymore, and anyway I can still use my Palm with it.

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September 18, 2005

More iTunes retardedness ()

by fluffy at 10:07 PM
Two rants about iTunes 5.0.

First: I have two totally distinct albums, "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Radio Show)" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Motion Picture Soundtrack)." These are distinct albums with distinct names, genres, artist, etc. But when I play them in iTunes, it plays one track from one, then one track from the other, intermingling them based on track number, even though they have different names. Even if it's assuming that the stuff inside parentheses is a retarded "Disc 1" or whatever, that's still incorrect behavior because that means that it'd play 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, etc. on a three-disc album.

The other retarded thing is that iTunes 5.0 no longer has a way of providing bug reports on iTunes itself. The feedback page has been replaced with a music request page, as if iTunes itself is perfect and the only possible problem anyone could conceivably have with iTunes is a lack of music selection in the store. Ugh.

Splurge ()

by fluffy at 09:43 AM
I finally got sick enough of dealing with soft pads that I went and just ordered a Cobalt Flux doubles set.

(If you think the pads are expensive, order a pair and wait 'till you see the shipping on them.)

Flexible seating ()

by fluffy at 03:40 AM
(This actually happened on August 4. I sketched it that day but didn't get around to inking it until just now.)

September 17, 2005

Hitchhiker's Guide on DVD ()

by fluffy at 08:35 PM
So, I don't normally pay full-price for a just-released DVD, but I just had to get Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And I watched it again tonight. It was even better the second time.

Annoyingly enough, they did film the "mostly harmless" scene, but they cut it, as well as the second half of the Babel Fish guide entry, and about 15 seconds of material in the final scene which explained a lot about Zaphod's relationship with the vice president. All in all it was about two minutes cut out. Oh well.

September 12, 2005

The dumbest ad ever ()

by fluffy at 10:34 PM
In an ad for sleeping pills: "May cause drowsiness."

Stupid spammers ()

by fluffy at 08:28 AM
So, I'm getting another bout of spammers using trikuare.cx as an origin domain. So I've been getting a lot of broken bounce messages from misconfigured MTAs which do asynchronous bounces, not to mention lots of "out of office" auto-replies, angry "PLEASE REMOVE ME FORM YOUR STUPID LIST" messages, and so on.

My junk folder has 25494 items from the last week alone. ("Only" 400 or so have gotten past bogofilter, and they all went into my greylist folder so were easy to train on.)

September 11, 2005

Video games suck ()

by fluffy at 10:59 PM
So, tonight I hooked up my old N64 and dusted off some of my old games for it.

How much money did I spend on this crap in college? I didn't have any fun playing any of them. I also haven't had much fun with any modern games, really. Except Katamari Damacy and DDR. But even those get old after a while.

blo.gs bites ()

by fluffy at 01:15 PM
I've been using blo.gs for a couple years now. But I need to find a replacement for it now.

September 10, 2005

A friend needs a job ()

by fluffy at 08:38 PM
A good friend of mine is searching for a job. If you know of any openings (preferably where you have the ability to make direct referrals) for someone highly skilled in areas including but not limited to one or more of PHP, C/C++/C#, web design (with a strong emphasis on usability and user interface design), game programming, and many other things, who is hard-working, dedicated, analytical, and great at solving difficult problems quickly, send me an email or forum PM and I'll hook you two up, contact-info-wise.

Short-term remote contracts and so on are also fine.

Progress ()

by fluffy at 12:20 AM

September 06, 2005

Ow, my head ()

by fluffy at 08:20 AM

September 05, 2005

Seattle is a good city to pass out in ()

by fluffy at 09:41 PM
Tonight, we were all going out to dinner to say bye to Marcus and Weagel before they headed back to Idaho. I suddenly felt extremely nauseous, so I excused myself and went outside to get some fresh air. I felt absolutely horrible and so I sat down crosslegged next to the building. I vaguely recall wanting to go back inside to throw up in the toilet and say I was going to just head home, and then I kinda remember having some happy brief dreams and then the next thing I knew, my right ear was ringing and I heard people asking me if I was okay, panicking and telling me I was in the street and wondering what happened.

It seems that I got up a bit quickly, and passed out while walking back inside, and I hit my head pretty hard on the ground. I also scraped up my left elbow. I probably have a minor concussion but nothing worth an emergency room visit.

September 04, 2005

Tonight I watched the news ()

by fluffy at 10:21 PM
Police had to kill five snipers in New Orleans who were firing on rescue workers.

Two hundred police officers have walked off the job. Two have committed suicide.

Halliburton was awarded the navy's cleanup contract.

George W. Bush said, "The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before . Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." Then he laughed.

Tonight I watched the news, and I don't want to watch it anymore.

Wrong numbers ()

by fluffy at 09:12 PM
So, the last few nights I've been getting wrong-number calls from the +252 country code. Which is Somalia. It's the same person every time. I answer, they say something I can't understand, I say, "Wrong number" (yes I know they probably can't understand that) and hang up, they call again and I decline the call. You'd think they'd get the idea by now that my number isn't the number of the person they're trying to call.

At least it's not just Americans who don't get it.

September 02, 2005

I'm still alive ()

by fluffy at 04:01 PM
Just busy and not feeling posty.

Right now Marcus is staying at my place for Bumbershoot. Last night we saw The Forty-Year-Old Virgin, which was quite good, and a surprisingly sympathetic and kind treatment. He wasn't portrayed as a dork so much as having given up on romance and devoting his attentions elsewhere. Which I think is cool.