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For the record, four 235/18 tires will fit in the back of an M3 coupe.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
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It's Alot Like Starting Over
26 February 2008 @ 01:56 pm
I've been watching this graphic this afternoon. Obama's campaign is trying to reach the one million individual donors mark, and is just about there.
Between 1330 and 1400, it went up by about 270 people. When you think that each of those is a new person giving money to the campaign, and that it keeps on going up... that's pretty cool.
(I've done my part. Have you?)
Edit: For my reference, mostly, it was at 988,180 when I posted this, and as of this edit, is 989,577.
Edit 2: 0822 the next morning, 1,001,090. Neat.
Between 1330 and 1400, it went up by about 270 people. When you think that each of those is a new person giving money to the campaign, and that it keeps on going up... that's pretty cool.
(I've done my part. Have you?)
Edit: For my reference, mostly, it was at 988,180 when I posted this, and as of this edit, is 989,577.
Edit 2: 0822 the next morning, 1,001,090. Neat.
18 February 2008 @ 02:36 pm
I just sent out a lengthy email to a number of my friends in Texas. I decided to repost it here, because I've been meaning to say something about the current presidential races, and... given the energy I put into this message, I think it will suffice.
I hope you take the time to read it.
( Read more... )
I hope you take the time to read it.
( Read more... )
Current Mood: 
hopeful
hopeful28 January 2008 @ 12:12 pm
Oy. I s'pose it's been a while. But now I'm in the post-holiday getting back to normalness. After a month of running around to start off the year, I'm now setting back into a normal routine, and it is feeling like a new year. Figured I might as well update my journal a little.
What's happened recently...
I took three weeks off in December. Julie and I spent a weekish on a small roat trip; we drove to Pittsburgh to see friends and then to West Virginia to visit her family. While in WV, we manage to catch something from her family and bring it back to Illinois. Julie got it first, then I got it, and I was nice and sick in time for my return to work in the second week of January.
I spent that Monday and Tuesday working from home with a high fever. On Tuesday, my boss called me. "Want to go to the UK?" "Sure, when?" "This Friday." "Um, ok..." International travel while sick! Yay!
Turns out we didn't actually leave till Saturday. Flew to Heathrow, then went to Birmingham and spent several days at the Motorola facility there. Now that Mot owns 50% of UIQ we're going to be making more phones on it, and we were meeting with the core UIQ developers in Birmingham. I found out a good bit about the SDK and emulators for the Z8 and Z10, as well as their super-seekrit successor. Told you about it, kill you, etc etc.
Got back on Thursday, took Friday as a comp day, and now it is Monday and I'm actually back in the office for only the third day since late December.
What else?
I've been trying to learn Dvorak. I have the basic character set down, and now I'm just working on speed. It's annoyingly so, so I switch back and forth between that and QWERTY as my situation allows and patience demands. I'm slowly building speed. It's rewarding, if... occasionally frustrating.
I've become utterly hooked on X-Plane. The new version adds to the stellar flight model with some truly kick-ass eye candy. This screenshot is reduced from 1280x1024, as is this one. Even without the eyecandy, now that I have a proper stick and have taken some time to actually learn instrument navigation, it's very enjoyable.
I also put together a new PC, on which I am running MythTV. It's only been up a few days, but so far I'm loving it. Yay for throwing off the chains of TiVo! Or something.
I put on 20 pounds over the holidays. Bad, bad, bad me. :( Today I start on getting it off again! *pops speed pills* Heh.
And, er, um. Stuff. And things.
There might be some pictures of various things later.
...
Oh, on a sad note, today is the 22nd anniversary of the Challenger accident. Though I was as stunned as the rest of the country, I did not cry on 9/11. I did cry when Columbia went down. I was young at the time, but Challenger had the same effect on me, and engendered a strong respect for modern explorers in me early. Rest well, daring souls.
What's happened recently...
I took three weeks off in December. Julie and I spent a weekish on a small roat trip; we drove to Pittsburgh to see friends and then to West Virginia to visit her family. While in WV, we manage to catch something from her family and bring it back to Illinois. Julie got it first, then I got it, and I was nice and sick in time for my return to work in the second week of January.
I spent that Monday and Tuesday working from home with a high fever. On Tuesday, my boss called me. "Want to go to the UK?" "Sure, when?" "This Friday." "Um, ok..." International travel while sick! Yay!
Turns out we didn't actually leave till Saturday. Flew to Heathrow, then went to Birmingham and spent several days at the Motorola facility there. Now that Mot owns 50% of UIQ we're going to be making more phones on it, and we were meeting with the core UIQ developers in Birmingham. I found out a good bit about the SDK and emulators for the Z8 and Z10, as well as their super-seekrit successor. Told you about it, kill you, etc etc.
Got back on Thursday, took Friday as a comp day, and now it is Monday and I'm actually back in the office for only the third day since late December.
What else?
I've been trying to learn Dvorak. I have the basic character set down, and now I'm just working on speed. It's annoyingly so, so I switch back and forth between that and QWERTY as my situation allows and patience demands. I'm slowly building speed. It's rewarding, if... occasionally frustrating.
I've become utterly hooked on X-Plane. The new version adds to the stellar flight model with some truly kick-ass eye candy. This screenshot is reduced from 1280x1024, as is this one. Even without the eyecandy, now that I have a proper stick and have taken some time to actually learn instrument navigation, it's very enjoyable.
I also put together a new PC, on which I am running MythTV. It's only been up a few days, but so far I'm loving it. Yay for throwing off the chains of TiVo! Or something.
I put on 20 pounds over the holidays. Bad, bad, bad me. :( Today I start on getting it off again! *pops speed pills* Heh.
And, er, um. Stuff. And things.
There might be some pictures of various things later.
...
Oh, on a sad note, today is the 22nd anniversary of the Challenger accident. Though I was as stunned as the rest of the country, I did not cry on 9/11. I did cry when Columbia went down. I was young at the time, but Challenger had the same effect on me, and engendered a strong respect for modern explorers in me early. Rest well, daring souls.
21 September 2007 @ 03:30 pm
Heard this today and really liked it:
To an American, 100 years is a long time. To a Briton, 100 miles is a long way.
To an American, 100 years is a long time. To a Briton, 100 miles is a long way.
19 July 2007 @ 10:11 am
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Read this. Laugh.
It’s rare that you see celebrity trashing done so well.
10 July 2007 @ 11:19 am
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Any of y’all on Pownce?
If not, d’you think you’d use an invite if I gave it to you?
And yeah, yeah. Not updating much again. Been busy! But good. :)
20 June 2007 @ 07:46 pm
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Bwahahaha. Clicky for full screeny.
11 June 2007 @ 08:07 pm
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Wow. It’s, um, been a while. Given my previous post, I think I can excuse myself for saying I’ve been understandably busy. ;)
This one is just to ORDER and DEMAND that all of you start playing Quadradius. It’s good. And I want to play with my friends.
That is all.
I’ll, um, try to post more reliably now that the Crazy Crazy Month of May is over and I can breathe again. :)
18 May 2007 @ 09:33 am
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Right. I am off to get married. Eeee!
See everyone, uh, on Monday!
Except for those of you I’ll see in a few minutes. :)
25 April 2007 @ 10:23 pm
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I got it. It’s shiny. :D
25 April 2007 @ 11:04 am
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Final signoff on the loan is gold. Should hopefully be meeting the seller again tonight to hand over TEH CHECK.
zomg. I’m going to own an M3? Can it be?
I’ve only wanted one for, like, 15 years or so.
bouncy bouncy bouncy
24 April 2007 @ 11:40 pm
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Assuming my pre-approved loan gets finally-approved and nothing else gets cocked up, I should hopefully have a new car in my posession by the end of the week.
1995 BMW M3
Dinan chip and intake
Sachs suspension
SuperSprint exhaust
Euro brakes
Rebuilt motor with 36k on it
Just about all the options
… man, I hope this works out. *knocks on wood*
24 April 2007 @ 11:23 am
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For those who were curious, it looks as though Julie and I will be doing the wedding thang on the 19th of May.
No, we’re not registered anywhere, so don’t ask (one person already has!). Gifts aren’t expected, but don’t let that stop you if you’re determined. :P
16 April 2007 @ 11:17 am
10 April 2007 @ 10:43 pm
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I’ve been playing around with relocating my iTunes library to a network mount recently. It’s gone swimmingly, with one (minor, but very highly vexing) problem:
For some time, I’ve been ripping my own CDs in AAC, because of the minor space/quality benefit over MP3. I’ve been irked in the past with the inability of a number of applications to handle AAC files, but have just gritted my teeth and told myself to give it time.
Since I mostly use iTunes to control my library, I’ve never noticed the following, until now: While iTunes properly encodes the TPOS ID3 tag (Part of Set, i.e. “Disk X of Y”) in MP3s it, apparently, does not do it in AACs, but, instead, choses to track the information in its own library. Which means that, as long as you never divorce an AAC from a multi-disc set that you ripped in iTunes from the one copy of the library that it was created in, you’re fine. But as soon as you do… you lose valuable meta data.
As I result, I have about a dozen albums for which I no longer have proper track order information, without doing something ugly with file-names. For someone who is as anal about his metadata as I am, this is righteously infuriating.
Grrr. I think this will be the final motivator for me to spend a weekend re-ripping everything I have in AAC back into MP3. 192VBR can’t be too much bigger than 128 AAC.
I usually love apple, but god damn, when I hate them I hate them with a passion.
29 March 2007 @ 09:13 am
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This story has just about my favorite quote from a news article EVAR:
The school, in North Buncombe, North Carolina, remains adamant that their decision to suspend Killian for a day has nothing to do with his religion, and quite a lot to do with his repeated refusal to heed warnings against wearing pirate outfits.
I also greatly enjoy the picture of Johnny Depp running wildly through the waves, captioned “A man in full pirate regalia”.
29 March 2007 @ 09:05 am
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I think I’m going to go to Amsterdam.
27 March 2007 @ 01:01 pm
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Oh man. This story makes me want to cry. Apparently, all the major 2008 presidential candidates have myspace profiles.
…
Wow.