Batman Begins
The new Batmobile: Wonder what the mileage is like in that thing?
Go here to check out the trailer/teaser thingy.
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July 30, 2004
The new Batmobile: Wonder what the mileage is like in that thing?
New Star Wars Ending?
Return of the Jedi's ending gets 'remastered'.
Have I mentioned that I love Will Ferrell? Here's some more funny from Ferrell.
July 28, 2004
Mac Product Cycle
Little bit of mac humor that hits the nail on the head:
Survivor Island
Here's one of the videos we had done last week up in Pierceland.
July 27, 2004
Life is Life
Reports of me leaving work have been greatly exaggerated. I think it's just that time off always seems to do my head in. Does everyone feel like they should be doing something else if they've been away from their job for a week or two?
It's a short week as I'm off again next week - this time we're headed down to North Carolina. Anyone got any good 'to-do's' down in the south besides hitting up Dolly World?
July 24, 2004
Is this Life After All?
Spent the last week up north with a group of youth leading fun camps for 30-40 kids in a small town. Coming home and seeing all the work related emails really has me questioning working at a computer store again. Spending my day finding a really good deal on a computer for someone just doesn't hold the same appeal for some reason.
It's part of coming down from a trip like that, I know, so I'll hold off writing a letter of resignation right now :). It's good to have reminders like this past week has been that there's a whole lot more to life though.
July 16, 2004
Cooler When It's Free!
That sweet photo organizing program I mentioned the other day that got bought out by Google? It's now free!
I think Google is my second favorite corporate entity next to Apple.
July 15, 2004
They Did It Again
Is it a hoax for free publicity or is it a real theft: Edge left a CD of songs from U2's new album sitting out and it's gone missing.
Those paying attention will remember that when the Electrical Storm single was due to come out, somehow a copy fell into the hands of a DJ friend of Bono's who then, "against the band's wishes", played it on air and leaked it to the world. Much press and MTV time followed for the band.
Countdown to it being available on Kazaa: 5, 4,3....
Alec or Stephen?
I just can't decide - should I go for Alec or Stephen? One's pretentious and pompous, the other is crazy like a banshee.
July 13, 2004
Pixel Pusher
Since I know most (none?) of you would frequent the mac blog, here's a cool little app for OS X for designing/drawing/editing at the pixel level: Pixen2.
Google Swallows Picasa
I noticed today that Google bought out Picasa. Picasa Software makes the best photo organizing program this side of iPhoto and I seriously recommend it to anyone using a digital camera on a Windows machine. It will make managing your photos so much easier - and for any bloggers out there, apparently it integrates well with your blogs!
It'll be the best $29US you've ever spent on your computer.
July 12, 2004
Printers Explained
When you pay $100 for a printer that has $100 "worth" of ink in it, don't expect to have any sort of face-to-face troubleshooting/repair from the store you bought it from.
That may have worked 5 years ago when companies actually made money by selling a printer - but these days they just swap your printer for a new/refurbished one and send you on your way.
July 9, 2004
Paperwars
Well done flash cartoon - paperwars.
July 8, 2004
mini's Coming to Town
Get your order in now for the pink ones - they're going fast!
July 7, 2004
Beautiful
When I read something like that, it makes the back and front parts of my brain want to touch themselves together.
- Beautiful quote from today's Penny Arcade.
I tried to enlighten LT about the way that Gallery (the program) goes way above and beyond any other web image gallery program I've seen or experienced. You can even upload a zip file of images and it will automatically unzip all 300 pictures of your grandma-ma's birthday party and seperate it out into thumbnails, regular image size and freaking huge size that you forgot to shrink down, all on 30 pages with 10 pictures per page and a nice easy menu system. On top of all that you can get this amazing experience for the low, low price of free.
But LT would have none of it. All he could see was my ugly face on my own gallery and wouldn't look at it.
So I changed my default images on my gallery, added some photos of flowers, a watermelon candle and even a picture of Travis killing a fly. Hopefully this will enlighten LT into the ways of Gallery.
For the mennoboys (and girl) out there, I'm thinking about installing it on our server here - but I'm a little worried about space issues. We're sitting around 130MB of our 200MB right now and if people start going image crazy we could eat that up in a hurry. But maybe I'll install it and we can see how it goes with 5 people pumping pictures onto the server.
July 5, 2004
Lux (aka Risk)
Anyone else out there playing Lux? It's a Risk type game for Mac/PC/*nix.
Drop me a line if you are and we can try and hook-up and play.
Weekend Without WiFi
(that's pronounced "Why F-eye", not wiffi btw)
A weekend without wifi is like a weekend without warm weather. Oh wait.. I got to experience both this weekend. :)
Some new pics up in home improvement (we painted our bedroom), friends (BBQ and video gamin at our 'summer home' - props to Ging and Larissa for making the trek to hang out with us), and a couple new pics (1, 2) in the Artsy Fartsy gallery - doing some fooling around with the macro mode on my camera.
We watched In America on Saturday night and then watched it again last night with the director's commentary on. I'm a sucker for all things Irish and so I may be a bit biased, but it's a great movie. The acting by the two young girls in it is worth the rental alone.
Speaking of Irish stuff, someone was apparently hanging outside U2's studio and recorded a possible new U2 song. The sound of the wind is just all the hot air coming from Bono's mouth. (Grabbed from U2log.com.)