http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog Movie reviews, random thoughts, and pie. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:45:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This just came to my attention via BoingBoing, which I will now quote, as it perfectly explains the situation (emphasis mine). компютри втора употреба Thomas Denton of comic blog Say It Backwards has a nephew who was diagnosed with cancer. A charity called Candlelighters helped his family out. Thomas decided to use ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2008/05/15/charitable-comic-art-donation-fiasco/ Ever attached a PDF, Postscript document, or image file to an email and had those attachments appear inline (i.e.: the actual picture, rather than an icon representing the picture)? Likewise, have you received email with files attached to them that insist as appearing as their actual selves rather ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2008/03/21/take-control-of-your-mail-attachments-in-apples-mailapp/ I'm a pretty organized person. 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Crowe's change of heart at the end and the Batmanish trek across the rooftops, while entertaining, didn't make much sense. # Spoiler warning in my last tweet regarding 3:10 to Yuma. # @chrispirillo: I assume you're aware of all the AlertPay/Paypal Bux.to drama? # Powered by Twitter Tools.Share This http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2008/03/16/twitter-updates-for-2008-03-16/ Webclip in Safari (on Mac) *owns.* I could wax quixotic and love-struck about it, but it's really not necessary. Just...it rocks. # Powered by Twitter Tools.Share This http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2008/03/15/twitter-updates-for-2008-03-15/ Is anyone else seeing horrible performance with Newsfire on Mac OS X 10.5.2? # Powered by Twitter Tools.Share This http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2008/03/14/twitter-updates-for-2008-03-14/ Trying out TaskPaper, even though I don't really know how GTD works. # Newest DEVONthink Personal (1.9.13) finally has automatic update built in. Yay. # My 6 megabit uverse connection just topped out at 699 KB/sec downloading a file. I've truly entered into love-hate relationship with AT&T. # Also, I dunno ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2008/03/13/twitter-updates-for-2008-03-13/ First Monday in the new house, that is. All in all, a pretty good day. Some highlights and updates: Unpacking and Renovation Wallpaper started in the dining room today. It's looking beautiful. I also went by the Circuit City and picked up some component video cable (orange, green, ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/12/03/first-monday/ For completeness' sake, I note that after another day's work by Mario the Wallpaper Installer, the paper in the master bedroom is pretty much done, except for some that will need to be redone because of faulty material (which we have already reordered). He's going to start the dining ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/12/02/the-wallpaper-part-deux-also-att-is-gnarly/ (Originally written on Sat 1 December 2007. Still no internet.) Yes, I'm scraping the bottom of the double entendre barrel. Not a whole lot going on today. More boxes continue to be unpacked. Board games, clothing, master bedroom stuffs, and other goodies continue to show up. ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/12/01/wrap-my-wood-or-the-wallpaper-cometh/ I'm typing this entry on Friday, 30 November. For reasons I shall explain below, no idea when it will actually be posted. Moving, Continued... Unpacking of boxes continues apace. What follows is not a complete progress report, but rather some highlights, as I (a) don't have the stamina to write ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/11/30/trip-the-thursday-fantastico-moving-medication-and-other-stories/ Title is the output of feeding Apple's Translation Widget "The Cramping Fingers." When translating the phrase back to English with the same widget, I get "the in-squeezing fingers." Things like this keep me from worrying that machines will rise up to kill us in the near future. I spend ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/11/26/die-einzwangenden-finger/ I've really fallen off with the blogging, haven't I? I'd like to say I have a good excuse, and while I have been pretty busy, there's really nothing that stopped me from posting a few sentences here and there. In my defense, I've been feeling a bit boring ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/11/26/moving-day-and-also-the-pool/ I really should just give up on this whole post-once-a-week commitment. It's quite obvious I'm no good at it. At any rate, some neat things from around the Mac web that have caught my eye over the last few days. The Look In honor of Halloween, here's a guide (with prices) to ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/10/24/mac-attack/ Podcast (quoting liberally from the linked article): [A] digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The term, like "radio", [sic] can refer either to the content itself or to the method ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/09/29/netcasting-and-online-activism-dont-lose-sight-of-the-message-because-the-messenger-is-new-and-different/ Technorati Profile EDIT (14:16 US Central Time, 29 September 2007): Sorry for the vague, useless post. I didn't want to risk screwing up Technorati's indexing spider by explaining what I was doing, but now that it's done there shouldn't be a problem. I just signed up for a ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/09/29/hello-technorati/ What, you didn't think I could go a whole two weeks without mentioning the iPhone again, did you? Apple made clear that the newest update to the iPhone system software would more than likely not only break SIM unlocking, but render the entire phone "bricked." That is, the phone would ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/09/28/iphone-unlocking-post-software-update-111/ Forces in Milwaukee wish to erect a bronze statue of The Fonz. I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Aaaay!" [tags]fonz, the fonz, fonzie, happy days, fonzarelli, arthur fonzarelli, bronze, statue, bronze statue, milwaukee[/tags]Share This http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/09/27/sharks-are-irrelevant/ I just watched Little Miss Sunshine again. I really love this movie, and as happens, the more I watch it the more little things I notice that make me go, "Oh, that's very subtle and interestingly cool." Today, as I was watching, I noticed a link between the ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/09/26/the-power-of-words-a-little-miss-sunshine-ramble/ I never really got into The Legion of Superheroes comic book series, in any of its incarnations, through no fault of its own. It's just...some of the set up turned me off. I like to fall in love with characters and get attached to them, and that's just ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/09/26/long-live-the-legion/ For the last several months, I have held off any serious discussion of the Iraq War in this space because I am firmly in the camp that it needs to end yesterday, and prolonging it without any real change in plans or discrete goals isn't just lunacy, but amounts to ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/09/18/this-is-why-no-one-trusts-the-bush-administration-on-iraq/ I found a couple other things on the Mac continent of the blogosphere today, and I wanted to share them. Jason Fry over at The Wall Street Journal recently posted this article about the upswing in Mac adoption he's witnessed, and even though it's anecdotal evidence, I still find ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/09/17/more-apple-ramblings/ Unlocking, Part Deux I suppose I must admit that I'm rambling about the iPhone more and more lately because since the price dropped, it's become a device I could see myself owning one day, as opposed to an "oh, wow, that's really nifty but I can't even come close to justifying ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/09/17/more-iphone-news/ The Skeleton Key With the recent 200 dollar iPhone price drop, the device is now costs $399 (before tax/shipping fees). This is a much sweeter price point, in the sense that the phone is now much, much more appealing to the general public. The early adopters and Apple fanatics ... http://www.theliquidengineer.org/blog/2007/09/14/on-iphone-unlocking/