Three days of annoying and unsatisfying cough, two days of spiking and breaking fevers, frequent chills, always being cold… whatever bug this is make you feel miserable. Most pain I can remember having for a long time. Once the fever spikes/breaks, I get about two good hours of feeling better before it begins again. At […]
The vast majority of Facebook applications are pointless games that open your profile up to marketing organizations to target advertising at you. I have stopped accepting invites to join applications that my friends send me unless they can tell me some useful purpose the application has. For me the most useful applications are: LocalPicks by […]
I am kind of intrigued by the upcoming: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead which should appeal to Sutragirl as a vampire story and appeals to me because I loved the original “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead” and the whole play within a play within a play thing (which reminds me of Being John Malkovich today). […]
I had already decided that my vote was going to Barack Obama, partially as a result of the process of elimination (initially I wanted Wesley Clark, then Evan Bayh or Bill Richardson, then John Edwards. One by one all those candidates dropped out of the race, and I was left with Barack Obama as the […]
Oops – forgot to post about the point of the whole weekend shindig at our house, it was the publishing party for 1381: The Peel Affinity, An English Knight’s Household in the Fourteenth Century (please order directly from the publisher through that link). I am of course already familiar with the material, but seeing it […]
Spring is finally upon us. Sutragirl had to play frogger on the way home last night (the frogs cross Mountain Road in a nightly ritual all through Spring and early Summer). This morning the birds are singing and the flowers are coming up: http://gallery.mac.com/scottdavidnolan#100064&bgcolor=black&view=grid
I am thrilled with my new job and the team I am on. I love my old team too, but the big appeal of the new job is the new stuff I get to learn every day. Since Thanksgiving I have had to quickly brush up on generic Linux skills and learn the strange nuances […]
Was not feeling well enough to go dancing tonight, and needed a night home with Erci anyway. We tried out the new Apple TV take 2 software and rented Stardust. It started playing about 50 seconds after we picked it and selected it. We enjoyed the movie, and the instant gratification was pretty cool. Until […]
So I have installed Mac OS X 10.5.2 updates on 4 different machines now and it has been flawless on all and works very well. One was an in-place upgrade from Tiger (10.4.11), and that one had a strange anomaly before upgrading to 10.5.2… it got itself into a “Setup Assistant” loop, and would not […]
So a few years ago I read this excellent cyber-punk/sci-fi story by Bruce Sterling called “The Artificial Kid” and now a co-worker sends me this link: http://www.nextgendesigncomp.com/entrydetail.aspx?id=953 Quoted from the website: “Momenta, the neck worn PC also captures the best and most exciting moments of your life.” This torq-like neck recorder senses when you have […]
