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January 31, 2007
January 30, 2007
Why home ownership kicks ass (random)
(Without the deductions from my mortgage I'd have had to pay $360ish.)
(Of course without the mortgage, $360ish wouldn't have been a big deal either since I'd have a heck of a lot more money.)
(Of course that counter-argument ignores equity, though I'm not sure if my monthly equity accrual is enough to counter the difference in my total monthly payment vs. my previous rent in a bigger, fancier apartment which was downtown, but oh well.)
(Actually I just worked it out and the interest portion of my payment is only barely higher than the rent I was paying previously. Woo.)
January 29, 2007
Thinking of selling my car (random)
- $4380: loan payment
- $1500: insurance
- $220: registration
- Total: $6100/year, or $117/week or $17/day
January 28, 2007
Environmental art (artwork)
This artwork is outside, and is supposed to be corroded and weathered by the (somewhat unpredictable) environment. Shouldn't the environment also include the people who are viewing it?
This is also what I hate about MoMA. Modern art was all about new frontiers and interactivity and a dialog between the artist and the viewer, but sometime in the past 10 years it's all been put behind a hermetic seal.
January 26, 2007
Let's see if we can fill this up! (random)
January 23, 2007
Post-holiday party (random)
January 22, 2007
Is it wonderful? (meta)
It's interesting that so far, all of the sites (and most of the ads) I've seen on it are webcomics. I guess that comes with the territory of it being yet another Internet project run by Ryan North.
9:15 Wow, my first ad already, from someone I haven't even heard of before! Huh.
January 21, 2007
Easy sausage soup (food)
Blake Lewis performing locally (music)
show calendar, Blake's myspace.
Kara-AWESOME (music)
I also forget all the songs I did, but I know I did at least "Ticket To Ride," "Take On Me" (again), "Undone (The Sweater Song)," "Oops! I Did It Again," and (again) "Creep." I thought I had a sixth but I guess not.
Spud did "Kokomo," "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show," "Hotel California," and "Wooly Bully." All of them were in a very Octothorpian manner.
There were a lot of incredible singers this week. Also a lot of terrible ones. It was great.
January 20, 2007
New Jabber address, for serious (geekery)
January 19, 2007
Russell T. Davies needs to stop (media)
Rediscovering the world of Doctor Who through Rose's eyes was a refreshing take on the canon. Repeating that formula in the other two shows is just obnoxious.
January 18, 2007
American I-dull (media)
I'm also very happy that Paula and Randy passed Blake (from Seattle), because he was very good, regardless of how Simon felt. I think Simon said that Blake wasn't particularly unique or original either, when Blake gave definitely the most interesting good performance I'd seen, what with integrating glitch-style beatboxing into his normal vocal performance (and Randy in particular was very enthusiastic about the performance, which gave me new respect for Randy). He is totally who I'm rooting for this season.
January 17, 2007
HOWTO: launch a web browser from a win32 app (code)
url is an ordinary char* string.
January 16, 2007
Way ahead of its time (MLP)
Obviously a lot of the notions and medical understandings of the day have gone obsolete since then, but the attitude of the author is something I actually agree with, and isn't presented in a "ha ha, look at the freaks" manner that even modern articles about transsexuality still exude.
January 14, 2007
Dietary experiment (food)
January 12, 2007
January 10, 2007
Dear Penny Arcade: (rant)
HTH, HAND.
January 09, 2007
Apple RDF is wearing off (geekery)
Also the Apple TV doesn't do anything I don't already get better from my Mini, and if anything it's pretty ludicrous in that it's even MORE lock-in to iTunes and iTMS. I have no desire to pay $12+ for a 320p sub-DVD-quality movie with no extras, when for $12-15 I get 480p with everything, and 480p upconverts quite nicely to 720p+. Plus the Mini can play DVDs (and does a great job of upconverting!), which the Apple TV can't. Plus, said Mini is serving this website to you right at this very moment.
The Apple TV might be pretty okay when combined wiht a desktop system with some sort of HD PVR thing, but again, I can get that with the MIni as-is. (I do want to upgrade to an Intel Mini someday though, to get optical output and a better video experience via Front Row et al.)
I have to wonder what the data service will cost on the iPhone, also, seeing as how Cingular is pretty notorious for having really expensive data service (they charge by the KB, unless you go flat-rate in which case it's like $30/mo for GPRS or $80/mo for EDGE). That's the main reason I stick with T-Mobile, too, since I get flat-rate GPRS/EDGE for $6/mo (used to be $5 but I lost that when I switched to the sidekick, meh).
January 08, 2007
All-you-can-eat single-serving friend (random)
Firefox pisses me off (rant)
- It's always stealing my keyboard focus
- It interprets a paste as "do an I'm Feeling Lucky Google search on whatever's on my clipboard"
January 07, 2007
Kara-OK (music)
I plan on doing this every week!
Oh, and also! NoCode's friend Bridget is awesome. She works as a sign language interpreter, and her schtick is to sign all the songs (instead of singing them). It is really amazing to watch. Especially Cyndi Lauper's "Bop She Bop" (which is of course filled with long nonsense-onomatopoeia choruses about masturbation, which Bridget made really good sense of, even though she'd never done that song before). It brought new meaning to the term "interpretive dance."
January 06, 2007
New Jabber account (geekery)
6:54 PM Maybe not.
7:57 PM GOD DAMNIT WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH IT
January 05, 2007
January 02, 2007
Leaving, on a jet plane (rant, travels)
So, here's why I won't be flying on United ever again if I can help it, and another reason not to trust small-time cops who are assigned low-ranking grunt patrols. United's lack of transparency caused more problems than the face they thought they'd save.
January 01, 2007
What is with MT's timezones? (rant)
Both of the entries from December 31 were actually posted on January 1, after midnight, in mountain standard time. However my weblog is set to pacific time.
What the hell, Movable Type.