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favorite song

So this is my favorite song, Isolation by the Darling Buds. Don't worry, no else knows who they are either. It took me a while to even find the lyrics. There are about 3 fan sites for this band.
I love the breathy nature of her voice, the way it melds into the music. I can listen to this song over and over. (and i have a few times) I don't care for the little guitar bit in the middle. It seems a little dated, but this album came out in 92.

btw, did you know that google has a music search engine? use "music:" in google.

isolation

surrep, surreptitiously
steal a kiss or two or maybe three
suck me in
through your skin
through every pore

out to make me
out to make
me
precious mind

silence
does it ever get that good
does it
ever get that good
i don't know why you ask me
i don't know why you came
some things never change

out to make me
out to make me
out
to make me i'm in every vein
once i'm in i'm there to stay
i'm strong,
cool, infectious me and you

'cause see, see you gather
one as one
free as becoming isolation
isolation

surrep, surreptitiously
steal a kiss or two or maybe three
guilty
or innocent
in your
own words

out to make me
out to make me
out to make me i'm
inside your brain
silver running through your veins
hot and cool
creeping over you
breathe me in and out
taste me in your mouth
i
won't leave your bed
i won't leave you dead
i won't...
i'm in your
head

toy bliss

Toy Bliss in the pioneer place is closing. Everything is 50% off. (including lego and action figures)

command line fsck

Restart in "single user mode" by holding down Command-S while the Mac is starting up. In single user mode, you're dropped into a command line version of Mac OS X, without windows or a mouse pointer. Type "fsck -y" to check (and repair, if necessary) the boot disk, after which you restart the Mac by typing "reboot" (sans quotes for both commands). Disk Utility and fsck rely on the same engine, so running fsck in single user mode is exactly the same as running Disk Utility.
http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-707.html

a-z block proof

first proof.
I was hoping to hve this done by the end of last year. I'm going to make some more revisions. the overall composition needs balancing and i've missed a few details here and there.

mame

emulation.net (home of all mac emulators) seems to be down, but mac mame is still available here: www.macmame.org

more emulaors here: http://www.pure-mac.com/emu.html

t-shirts

I had some t-shirts printed. They cost me $5 each. I went around to different shops late saturday and found i had missed all of the buyers. The girls at Naked City seemed to be the most interested. One girl said she would buy one if i had one printed on a girl's shirt (i didn't) and told me to come back when the buyer came back. That was encouraging. It seems i should have gotten them printed on American Apparel shirts, which i could have at a higher cost. Red Light said they would take three and price them at $12 with a 50% consignment (2 smalls and 1 medium!).

hunt 102 quill tip

Dave Cooper draws with these. They require more control than i have.

workplace

This is the high tech workplace where all the magic happens. Notice the old, rusted car on the property next to where i work.

flickr favorite

Someone chose my Lego "L" as a flickr favorite!

cheap eats 2006

Willamette Week's annual Cheap Eats guide is out this week. My neighbor's place, Equinox, is on the list his year.

http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3221/7377/

Dave Cooper photo set

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegraphics/113459528/in/set-72057594079631172/

another link from ben. thanks ben.

gapless itunes tracks

http://gapless.itunes.wanderingfocus.com/

Copy a CD (with live material, for example) to a single AAC file w/ embedded Track info for duplication with iTunes or listening truely gapless on a modern iPod.

Portland is Sin City?

From a recent Portland Tribune story:

There are three stories about Vincent Lee Wyatt that begin to separate him
from your average Multnomah County repeat offender. The one about
defecating in his pants toward the end of a resisting-arrest trial, which
brought him a mistrial. Another about breaking into his lawyer’s office at 3
a.m. to help himself to a bottle of Old Grand-Dad. And then the one about that
same lawyer —who is quite close to Wyatt and one of the few people he seems to
trust even a little — offering to buy him a one-way ticket to Alaska.

To top it off, there’s the rumor that Frank Miller’s “Sin City”
graphic-novel anti-hero Marv, especially the movie version, is based on
Wyatt.

http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=34099

[PD] CEO

Once a year

I was trying to make a list of all the fatty foods i'd only eat once a year. I only came up with 66.

1. cheeseburger
2. cheesecake
3. ice cream
4. pizza
5. donut
6. fried chicken
7. ribs
8. danish
9. carrot cake
10. milk shake
11. apple pie
12. chili cheese fries
13. snickers
14. sundae
15. onion rings
16. bacon
17. pot pie
18. french fries
19. eggs benedict
20. lasagna
21. carbonara
22. shrimp scampi
23. tempura
24. potato chips
25. pork rinds
26. fish and chips
27. root beer float
28. chili dog
29. buffalo wings
30. caesar salad
31. corn dogs
32. funnel cake
33. meatloaf
34. chicken kiev
35. chocolate bunny
36. cordon bleu
37. chocolate chip cookies
38. ice cream sandwhich
39. BLT
40. tamale
41. quesedilla
42. scone
43. croissant
44. muffin
45. meatball sub
46. italian sub
47. taquitos
48. taco salad
49. nachos
50. cobb salad
51. tankatsu
52. grilled cheese
53. guacamole
54. biscuits and gravy
55.
56. grilled cheese
57. latke
58. hash browns
59. enchiladas
60. beef stroganoff
61. curry
62. PB & J
...
334. holloween candy
...
363. pumpkin pie
364. egg nog
365. birthday cake

Movie: the Butcher Boy

I found Kim Morgan's entry for the Butcher Boy. This is a dark, dark comedy. It's funny like American soldiers being dragged through the streets of Somalia. I'm not one for dark comedy either but i completely agree with Kim's review. Maybe it's the fact that the main character isn't completely despicable and disposable that makes this movie good. It's not like you can dismiss the whole movie as something hateful and shallow that's just going for cheap laughs. Watch it, be discussed, discuss and be forewarned, it's not a happy movie.
I like this movie enough that i used to have a video tape of it but it's been misplaced after lending it out too many times.

Lego + Katamari!

A link from val!

be pedantic

We all passed college level english? Right?
This isn't a quiz, but ithink i know most of these words.

If you want bad engrish, go here.

new imac

So i'm writting this on a shiny new duo core imac. Miguel wants a tower, so i'm giving him my G5. It's kinda of a lateral move for me. I transfered all the contents using the migration manager and drive mode on the old computer. The itunes library was on the second internal drive of the G5, so when i launched itunes, it still saw the files where it expected them to be so i just changed the music folder location to the new computer and consolidated the library. Itunes moved the files and i didn't have to rebuild my index. pretty slick. Also, i moved Amelia's account from the laptop to this computer so we'll all share the office. Now i just have to move the printer and scanner from the basement and find somewhere to place them.

Monsters

Beauty and the Geek 2

OK, there's a Beauty and the Geek2 marathon starting Sunday at 7 PM. Right now it's the only show i'm making an effort to watch. The basic premise is that they pair up archetypes of geeks (a DM, a chess champion etc) with bimbos (a waitress, a beer spokes model) and they have to cross train each other to win competitions so they learn from each other. The girls have to put a computer together, the guys have to decorate a room. Maybe i relate to the geeks a little, maybe i like to see girls that know something. Anyways, it's not a mean show and the people that try to make it competitive get kicked off the show by the other players.

[PD] Spaceman2

[PD] sketch

[PD] sketch

apple + intel = $%

So it seems that i get an apple discount now as an intel employee. I looked at the iMac and the prices were about the same as the student discount.

Product Line	Selected Examples	Discount
Third-party products	iPod accessories, mice, keyboards	4%
Consumer systems and hardware	iMac, iPod, iBook*, MacMini*	6%
Professional systems and hardware	MacBook Pro, PowerMac*, PowerBook*	8%
Service plans	AppleCare* Protection Plan	12%
Software	iLife*, iWork*	17%

Video for older ipods

It seems like the base is also an analog recorder for importing video and it has it's own battery.

Lego ABCs

[PD] Bird sketch

Dave's Long box

The infamous boob wars! A very funny comics blog for both comics readers and non-readers.

Pollo Yucateco

I found a menu with descriptions of a good place to eat by work. This is yucatan cuisine, so i'm not familar with their dishes.

cds for ipods

this is very tempting:

http://www.millenniummusic.com/trades.html

[PD] Doctor's office

So Amelia said i should take some of the drawings i had an place them in a setting, a doctor's office for example. I said that if i did, she'd have to give me a caption. Hm, i'm still waiting. Anyone else?

No vikings anywhere

It seems i'm not the only one that wants this set. It's good to know that lego is having some success.










ebay




lego.com

I also heard it mentioned on NPR's Talk of the Nation that these are hard to find, so it's not just here.

spaceman

fix broken icons and other system troubles

From the /System/Library remove the following files - "Extensions.kextcache", "Extensions.mkext", and the folder "com.apple.kernalcaches"

Then run sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions (in the Terminal) to reset the cache info.

Of Comics and Men

So I've been thinking lately about how the appeal of comics is usually couched in terms of empowerment fantasy; weak, sickly nerds' dreams of retribution and invulnerability. But i wonder if it's not that the superhero is the embodiment of a single person making a difference and so they attract the people that want to change the world . Is wanting to change the world predominately the realm of men? Or, is it that only men dream of doing it by themselves? Do only progressive liberals read comics? Sure, there are some girls that read comics, but it's usually not superheroes.

[PD] Magic Card Trade

Laura Viers

I went and saw Laura Viers at the Dig Fir Lounge a week ago friday. It might be the only show i've gone to this year, and although i've been working extra hours i made the effort to go to this show since she's someone i really like and listen to often even if i did have to go by myself. I thought i was a pretty good show although she mostly did matterial from her new album, which i hadn't heard yey. Now that i've heard it, i don't think that it's as good a Troubled by the Fire (a favorite). The Doug Fir Lounge is a nice venue; new, clean and small. Everyone sat to listen to her when she played. She commented that she felt like she was at the library at reading hour because we were all listening so attentley, but that was ok because she likes libraries. She did a one song encore where they kinda rocked out, but since she's classified as folk in itunes, you kinda have to take it for what it was: a quite vocalist playing with trying to be loud and make noise.
The opening act was the Great Lake Swimmers, which was actually one person that sounded kinda like Nick Drake ( i didn't listen that closely). He sounded pretty good. It might be worth following up on. I mentioned to someone at work about the show, and he said he goes the the Dig Fir web site just to find new acts to listen to.

Powers

So i finally got around to reading the first Powers paperback, Who killed Retrogirl and i was disappointed. Does it get better? I mean, I've thought of the whole "die young and become imortalized" thing. Also, I think i must have read part of it somewhere before too, but i don't know where. I had picked up issue 50 just because Patton Oswald answered the letter column and thought that the dialog was better in that one issue.

I thought the JLA Classified with DeMattis and McGuire had more impact. I had bought issues 4-7 at one store and having read them, i went out the next day to find the last two issues. (the first three issues were a different story)

cat box

Amelia made a outdoor cat box for a friend of hers complete with kitty design cushions.

Jane Says

Is Jane Says our generation's Stairway to Heaven?

It's the song that everyone stops to listen to and sings along to. Maybe it's just the frat boys.

Amelia's blog

Amelia started a blog! And then she actually wrote an entry!

TV or not TV?

So the TV is going to cost $485 to repair, including the in-home fee ( the set weights some 180 lbs.) The motherboard needs to be replaced and has be to ordered.

Funny that we just got a letter saying we've been selected as a nielsen family.