Monthly Archive for June, 2006

Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear…

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John T Davis
on June 29, 2006
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Quixotic is a fun word.

Spent most of today with Rex. Sat in on a meeting with the website designer and have apparently been made liaison between management and the designers, especially seeing as I’ve got all the info for our sever space over at Dreamhost. Also probably because my eyes don’t glaze over when things get technical. ;)

I’ll be expanding the site here on tle.org over the next couple months. Not by much, at least for now, but I wanna put up my research papers and such, for those who are interested. I’ll post more on this later.

The trailer for the Transformers movie is out. Apparently the film is due in September of next year. Yowza. Snakes on a Plane is upon us. So, Superman and that are my current movies-to-see. (Saw Cars, may do a write-up on it.)

MacOS X 10.4.7 is out. Installed it today and it didn’t kill my system (installing OS updates is always a bit of a fun thing when your backups aren’t current–will or won’t your system come back up after rebooting?) Speaking of which, I need to find a backup solution. Anybody got any good suggestions besides Retrospect? Absolute worst peice of commercial Mac software I’ve ever had the displeasure of using–and that includes Microsoft products.

That’s all for now.
Phasers on stun. Good luck. Liquid Engineer, out.

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Substantive Update.

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John T Davis
on June 21, 2006
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I’m going to not talk about, for the moment, the Mavs losing last night’s game. I’m not quite as shocked/angry as I was last night…now I’m just calmly disappointed.

I’ve begun working part-time at my dad’s company. I do research; basically I scour the Internets for information my employers desire. It’s nice. I get to hang out with The Big Guy some and will hopefully be able to train my body not to rip, roar, and scream when I have to get up before 8.

I got my final Astronomy grade back: A. This brings my Cumulative GPA to 3.806.

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Prison Break.

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John T Davis
on June 6, 2006
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I’m done. Completely and totally, unequivocally, done. At least until late August. The Astronomy final was more difficult than the mid term, but I still think I came away with an A. We shall see, I suppose.

My body continues its active rebellion. Last night I was struck with some sort of bladder infection/demonic entity, and it’s proving quite annoying. I’m hitting it hard with Oregano and Uvaursi leaves, both in pill form. Amazingly, it seems to be about gone, and I must say, thank you. Seriously, without going into detail, just, ow.

My new glasses are in. They are indeed awesome, though I think I’m gonna have to go to a glasses place and get them to adjust the arms so they have a bit more of a bend at the end and stay up on my nose. I tried to find a picture of them to link to, but all I’m getting is stuff about the hotel and fine leather.

I downloaded Delicious Library a little while ago. It’s book/movie/CD cataloguing software with a twist. If you’ve got an iSight camera plugged into your Mac, you just turn it on, hold up the book’s barcode to the camera, and the information is automatically downloaded from Amazon. All the info you could possibly want on a book. I went through 20 DVDs and 3 books in about 15 minutes. Doing that by hand would’ve probably taken me hours. (Probably the reason I don’t have a meaningful catalogue of my books, DVDs, etc.) Unbearably cool. I’ll probably end up going on a mad spree and putting in the info for all my books, comics, and movies later.

Those who have been in charge of Proteus, the multi-protocol IM client for Mac, for the past few years (and doing an awful job, IMHO…no major release in years, and it’s still not a Universal Binary and doesn’t support group chat and other critical features) are finally admitting they’ve botched it and preparing to open source the whole project, with a firm development team in place. Yay.

I’ll probably be splitting it out of here tomorrow afternoon, barring some unforeseen disaster.

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Stephen King is awesome.

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John T Davis
on June 5, 2006
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In October 2005, King has signed up with Marvel Comics; this will be his first time writing original material for the comic book medium other than two pages in a benefit comic for African hunger relief in the 1980s. The 31 issue series will see him adapting and expanding his The Dark Tower series. The series will be illustrated by Eisner Award-winning artist Jae Lee. Marvel recently announced the series was delayed until 2007 in order for King to give it the attention it deserves.

 

Stephen King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Stephen King is doing a comic book series. I am beyond words.

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Koo-Koo-Kachoo.

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John T Davis
on June 5, 2006
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Tomorrow’s the last day of Astronomy.  Assuming I don’t blow the test, which I should have finished by 2, or the paper, which I finished on Saturday, I should have a solid A.  I am quite happy with the course and my performance therein.

I need to study for said test now.  If I feel like I can think up something interesting to say, I’ll post a ramblicious entry of randomness later.

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