December 2007
37 posts
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I don't even like the movie. →
Cloud Cult – Princess Bride
I’ve never been a fan of intertwining movie audio into tracks. They never seem to meld together well enough. Then I heard this song. I don’t know how they pulled it off, but it almost sounds like the Princess Bride audio was made specifically to perfectly harmonize with the music. Hot damn. Have I mentioned that these guys are fucking amazing?
November 2007
44 posts
“Deep breath, now:
3.) There is absolutely no additional monthly fee of any...”
– Exactly what I’ve been saying all along: hardware design notwithstanding, this thing is important.
“Confession: Sometimes I get baked and play with Time Machine.
Sometimes I just...”
– Though I haven’t been reading it much since the “outing”, Fake Steve is in classic form in this one.
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WatchI’ll be honest, I’m a marching aficionado (being in the band throughout high school will do that to you), and this is easily one of the coolest field shows I’ve ever seen.
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Gettysburg: A Silent Love Song. →
Ratatat – Gettysburg
The only clue we’re given is the song title, as these guys hide their lyrics incredibly well, but they are there. Tragic though it is, Gettysburg left very few standing, so I’m convinced that’s why the guitar sings: “please remember me…”
Have I mentioned that this album is fucking incredible?
WatchTakes him a while to get to the point, but it’s definitely worth it. Hilarious and brilliant.
WatchA rare look at Colbert out-of-character, acknowledging his on-screen persona’s willful and idiotic ignorance.
“The scene was as spectacular as it was anachronistic: flames, sweat and liquid...”
– NY Times: photojournalism at it’s best.
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El Ten Eleven →
I think I’ve found a new place for my post-rock affections of late. Ratatat better watch out; these guys have got the electronica-infused instrumental game down. And any review that specfically mentions how a band strives to not be like Mogwai has got my attention.
Nice trick with the name too: while it reads as “The Ten Eleven” in my head (had to learn something growing up in...
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“Don’t talk to me about simple things; there’s not such thing.
All a...”
–
The Constantines – Shine a Light
It's about damn time. →
I’ve been using gmail as my main address since 2004 (including forwarding many other addresses into gmail) and have so far used 477 of my currently-allocated 5274 megabytes. That’s with over 10,000 messages. You kidding me?! Take away 80% of that space (since I’m only using 9% after three years) and throw it towards a free iDisk-style service; now that’s the Google Way.
“While there is no conclusive evidence that cell phones cause any sort of...”
– bunnie’s blog (thanks for the link Jake; good stuff!)
“Credibility? Bloggers have no credibility - we are just a bunch of assholes who...”
– I used to think this Ted guy was a complete jackass: now I realize he’s just an unappreciated genius.
“Food items solve crimes.”
– The description given in Comcast’s digital cable guide for an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Brilliant.
Thanksgiving Gems
Narrator: (while the 'rents watch South Park for the first time)
Mom: Did he just say: "He said has boner for it?"
Dad: (completely straight-faced) That's what the young man said.
Narrator: (guess you had to be there, but it was great)
New URL: IfIOnlyHadA.Name →
It’s a play on “If I only had a brain” from the Wizard of Oz… planned to use the domain name for a professional site (get it, if I only had a name, ie: professionally… oh, nevermind, the joke sucks anyway), but screw that, this is much easier and far more entertaining.
Bad name, awesome device. →
Amazon’s Kindle. E-paper display (so cool, and it means an insane battery life). Free lifetime access to EVDO for downloading books any time, anywhere (that EVDO is, at least). Paperbacks are about to go the way of the 8-Track and the Dodo.
(Don’t even care what Gruber has to say about it: I still want one.)
Why Objective-C rules; it's the little things.
How to declare a method in a header:
- (void) someMethodWithArg: (NSString*) arg;
How to define a method’s implementation:
- (void) someMethodWithArg: (NSString*) arg;
{
...
}
Note anything? It’s the exact same set of characters, including semicolon, in both situations as far as the method name and parameters are concerned. No compile errors when a method isn’t...
Your World Today
Kanye’s mom died (“Hey Mama” is a lot more poignant now), our “little” home town isn’t so safe anymore, oil is spilling everywhere, and children’s toys have started turning into the date rape drug when swallowed. What ever happened to good ‘ol lead poisoning?
βravo βloglines
I’ve long maintained that Bloglines is the best of the web-based feed readers, more because of stubborn personal bias than actual hard facts. I tried Google Reader and a few more obscure ones; they all seemed more toy-ish than actually useful. And who the hell wants to have a feed reader that’s stuck on only one computer?! So Bloglines it’s been, even though it might have been a...
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Ignore if you're not me.
IONVRAM.cpp, in ::setProperty:
304: ::clientHasPrivilege(current_task(), kIONVRAMPrivilege)
306: getOFVariablePerm(...)
347: _ofDict->setObject(aKey, propObject)
351: updateOWBootArgs(aKey, propObject)
IOPlatformExpert.cpp, in ::registerNVRAMController:
867: (IORegistryEntry*)nvram->getProperty( "platform-uuid" )
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Vtable wizards are masters the arcane.
// Arcane evil code interprets a C++ pointer to function as
// specified in the -fapple-kext ABI, i.e. the gcc-2.95 generated code.
// IT DOES NOT ALLOW the conversion of functions that are from
// MULTIPLY inherited classes.
typedef void (*_ptf_t)(void);
static inline _ptf_t
_ptmf2ptf(const OSMetaClassBase *self, void (OSMetaClassBase::*func)(void))
{
union {
void...
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Ratatat →
Their new album Classics has less vocals than their debut album (which had, essentially, none) and yet it speaks volumes.
These guys rock.
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“A driver communicates with a nub (and the nub’s family) as its client and may,...”
– Sometimes I feel like these Apple tech writers wished they were writing alongside Jane Austen. I/O Kit Fundamentals, Apple
Another eve for EVE
Alright, I’ll admit it; I renewed my EVE online account the other day. After all, they are releasing a Mac client soon… and with Leopard’s Spaces I could be running trading routes in the background all day long…
Oh the humanity. These MMO thingies are starting to get dangerous.
(I’m still crossing my fingers though, as the Mac port is running on Cedega…...
Torre? Really? →
As a life-long Dodgers fan and, by extension, Yankees anti-fan, this new management change has me pretty sick to my stomach.
But hey, I may be eating these words if the Boys in Blue manage to win the Series next year…
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"Take Your Medicine" - Cloud Cult →
My very musically-savvy jam-sesh buddy sent me this link about a week ago, and I haven’t really listened to anything since. Incredible band, the entire album is easily as good as this track, if not far better.
You can take it in stride
Or you can take it right between the eyes
Suck up, suck up
And take your medicine
It’s a good day, it’s a good day
To face the hard things
From Adium's PTHotKeyCenter.m
- (void)unregisterHotKey: (PTHotKey*)hotKey
{
....
err = UnregisterEventHotKey( carbonHotKey );
//Watch as we ignore 'err':
key = [NSValue valueWithPointer: carbonHotKey];
[mHotKeys removeObjectForKey: key];
[self _updateEventHandler];
//See that? Completely ignored
}
Haha, love it.
Rotten Library →
I’ve been a rotten.com fan for years: yes it’s horrible and depraved, but isn’t that what the ‘Net is good for?
Anyway, I just recently discovered the Rotten Library, and am pretty sad it’s taken me this long. They’ve written about all sorts of pop- and sub-culture niches in the classic Rotten style, and they’re all definitely worthwhile reading. (This...
That last quote:
Not sure why I like it; it has that rare, odd feeling about it that makes me think it’s a black sheep of English grammar. Of course, I was a “whole language” kid, meaning grammar is about as opaque to me as mud, yet I tend to have a “feel” for sentences and the language as a whole. Hey, maybe that’s what they were going for…
“It should not be used to specify the order of layer siblings, instead reorder...”
– CA Programming Guide, Apple