"Sorry," Turlock said. "Same as Open Apple. Microsoft isn't going to want
to say that dirty word, though, so on MS products it's called the Command key."
I found an error in
the Onion today. The crazy thing is how someone could make this
mistake while writing with an Apple. Because what is the 'Open Apple' key?
I guess they meant the 'Command' key. But it hasn't been an 'Open Apple'
since the Apple II. And PCs don't have 'Command' keys. Arg!
Mac: Ctrl, Command, Option. Win: Ctrl, Alt, Windows,
Context.
UPDATE: The Onion e-mailed me back saying
that that was part of the joke. I still don't get it but there you go.
And I guess that not getting it means I'm even more of a geek than the guy in
the article. I'll admit that possibility.
After months of research
and handwringing, Stars and I have finally bought a dog! It's still
a pup and we have to wait until September to pick it up which works out
perfectly for us. 'Roxy' (tentative) is a Boston Terrier.
Watch a video of Boston Terriers running around. The
American Kennel Club
writes: "The Boston Terrier - a native American breed - is known for
his sunny disposition. He is happy to know you and to be your friend, and
is content to live in the city or country." "It's sometimes called
"the American gentleman among dogs." You can read more
here. (I really wanted a
British Bulldog but this will definitely do until I can save up the
$2300 that Bulldogs cost. Interestingly though, the British Bulldog
is the Boston Terrier's grandfather. The Boston is a uniquely
American breed and was created by breeding British Bulldogs with French
Bulldogs and English White Terriers.) At any rate, Stars is going to visit Roxy again
tomorrow to take some pictures. I'll post them as soon as I can.
Audio
blogging has really come to the forefront lately. Since I've
missed being at the forefront of just about everything else I figured I'd
better jump on this. I didn't really have anything to blog about
other than a recipe I found on my frig. They'll get better. I
promise.
Take a listen. (Click or right-click and Save Target As.)
In the past I've put up Calvin's cat cam only to take it down
again to be put back up in order that it may later be removed. The
problem, for me, was that I had to post a link to a pop-up that contained the
cam feed. The second problem that compounded the first problem was that I
am a bit obsessive about having as much of my content as possible visible in one
browser window. Take the tag-board for example. I like that it's on
the main page and that if you are viewing a
fun gallery or
reading an article you can keep
your eye on the tag-board at the same time. I wanted a cam that worked the
same way. I like things that can be glanced at. There will be
no firm, deep viewing at chessthecat.com. Long story short, I've
been able to cram, and even jam, the cam into the sidebar. Now by simply
glancing at the sidebar you will see a picture of my cat. The
marvels of the Internet. Thank you Cold War!
What happens when a Motor Martinez meets a Spark Plug Martinez? It
only seems to matter in the Honduras. (lol! Thanks Tao!
I would have posted it sooner but I've been downloading Redhat over the last
three days and didn't want to chance interrupting my ftp client.)
Submitted by: Tao
Jones
Email address: taojones@happyindex.com
Is it just me or does anyone else read 'Not Tested on Animals'
on their shampoo bottle or whatever and think 'This has not been tested.
Not at all!' I think a clearer notice would read 'Tested, but not
on animals.'
7/19/03. Windows tip:
Print Screen to take a screenshot but Alt-Print Screen takes a screenshot of
only the active window. One to grow on.
Tons of links
to post and I probably have an article for tomorrow so might as well post 'em
now. I'm sure everyone knows about the
Meowlingual by now. Oh, those Japanese! Steve Wiebe is the first
man in history to
score more than 900,000 points on Donkey Kong Junior.
Tattoos for kids? Is
this real? I still can't tell. Well, there's the A-Wing, the X-Wing,
and the Y-Wing. But what about the
O-Wing, S-Wing, N-Wing?
Really cool! Also Star Wars related but not nearly as cool is
this.
Are you sick and tired of
having all those limbs? Maybe you have
BIID. Stop being a
little girly man; drop those panties and get some manties instead!
My dreams have come true:
the C64
is coming back! I don't care if you've read all 5 parts of the
Douglas Adams trilogy, this
Hitchhiker's game is impossible!
I'm sorry my wallpaper featuring my wife offended you. My wife, yeah,
that's the ticket! If you're at all interested in consoles,
this interview conducted in the early nineties with the president of Atari
is laugh your socks off funny! Last link:
the USS Ronald Reagan,
a $5 billion aircraft carrier was launched recently. That's almost half of
Canada's yearly military budget! Don't forget to
send me any interesting links you may come
across!
7/18/03. Tao, you working for CNN now? Seems this interview
about
Little Robots in Your Pants is something you'd come up with.
See this key? It's the 'Angle' key from my DVD remote.
Back when DVD was in its infancy, one of the key features of the format was
going to be the ability to change the camera angle on the fly. You could
be watching a movie and the current shot might be the main character's point of
view but if you hit the Angle key you could immediately switch to an overhead
shot, or the POV of a different character. I was really looking
forward to that. So imagine my frustration whenever I hit that key and get
"Multi-Angle Not Present." It turns out that the only studios who use this
feature are studios who make pornos. I know it'd be expensive to do in a
feature film because you'd have to shoot the movie every which way. I'm
just asking can we get a featurette that uses this? DVDs come packed with
so many extras anyway. How about the 'Making Of' featurette is multi
angle? Something. I just want to hit that key and see something
happen.
Beth, of
Sassy.net e-mailed me back about why people take hotel room photos when they
go on vacation:
"I don't think I can really explain the hotel bathroom photo
phenomenon. It just happens. I think it's from not staying in many hotels. For
me it's also from just being interested in other homes/apts/rooms in general.
New Yorkers are all about checking out other people's places, but hotels are the
only place it's OK to actually take photographs..."
I think that's a pretty good answer actually. Probably the
same reason that magazines devoted to interior decorating and Trading Spaces do
so well. We all want to see inside other people's houses. But you
can't really take a picture of someone's bathroom and expect to get away with
it. Unless of course, that bathroom is in a hotel. Great stuff.
7/17/03. I've archived May
and June of the blog so the page should be loading a little more quickly.
7/16/03.
Blind? Just check the box.
Better late than never. A
follow-up to my
original Model M article.
Is it any wonder
I get so frustrated with Windows sometimes?
7/15/03. I've just read a
very disturbing book about American politics, the state of government, and
the future of Pax Americana.
Read more...
7/13/03. I found
a site that
recommends a presidential candidate to vote for in the 2004 election based
on your answers to a questionnaire. I took the questionnaire, answered
honestly and received my results. Here are my top 11 candidates.
1. Bush, George W. - US President (100%)
2. Bayh, Senator Evan, IN - Democrat (71%)
3. Lieberman Senator Joe CT - Democrat (69%)
4. Biden, Senator Joe, DE - Democrat (68%)
5. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (64%)
6. McCain, Senator John, AZ - Republican (63%)
7. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (61%)
8. Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO - Democrat (60%)
9. Clinton, Senator Hillary Rodham, NY - Democrat (59%)
10. Libertarian Candidate (56%)
11. Buchanan, Patrick J. - Reform/Republican (55%)
Even I was surprised with the match percentage. 100%.
Wow. There's Buchanan too. Remember him? He's still great on
the McLaughlin Group anyhow. But how can he be below Hillary Clinton?
I'm also proud to see that there are no third party candidates on the list.
Bunch of crackpots. Oh, I see number 10 there: Libertarian
Candidate. But they didn't even provide a name so that doesn't count.
I'm also surprised at the fact that there are only 3 Republicans on the list.
Hmmm.
I've finally dumped the Bliss desktop in favor of the Mac OSX
desktop. Now I just need to switch OSs. No comments on this one
because as an update this is a stretch even for me.
Every once in awhile I like to make up URLs and see if they take
me anywhere. I was doing that tonight and found that every single 'sassy'
domain has been taken.
Sassy.net is owned by a 32 year old New Yorker and contains a few photo
galleries and a blog. Interestingly, she went to Toronto on vacation and
took some
tourist-y style shots. I've been to Toronto countless times so it's
interesting for me to see the city through someone else's point of view.
Dr. Hovind is offering $250,000 to anyone who can produce proof that evolution
is more than just a theory. He may as well have offered $250,000,000.
It's funny because Darwin died in 1882 and yet evolution is still just a theory.
So if evolution still hasn't been proven then isn't someone who claims to be an
evolutionist relying on their faith in the theory? Then. isn't evolution a
religion just like any other? As Dr. Hovind points out, evolutionists
believe in something that hasn't been proven to be true.
7/11/03.
Like Doc M says: Cats like boxes. But why?
Christmas will be here before you know it. If you're stuck
for a gift idea for me then
unstick
yourself.
7/9/03. If you're like me you
love to post little Sticky Notes everywhere. The Mac OS has a Sticky Note
utility built right in but if you're using Windows you can use this
fun little trick.
7/6/03. "The trade of
advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any
improvement". Dr. Johnson. c. 1750
7/5/03. What if your car
backfiring sounded like the coming of the apocalypse? What if you could
make your car backfire whenever you wanted? What if you enjoyed scaring
people by making your car backfire?
What if you
photographed those people?
7/4/03. Happy Fourth of July
to our American cousins!
Time to flush some links.
I saw this on Fazed and
it's really cool:
Build your own race track and race on it. If you need some
plutonium to power your flux capacitor
these
guys will sell you some. For all those who say that the
Americans can't find their own country on a map of North America I say
eat it. This guy got his head cut off but rather than panic
he just held it onto his neck extra tight and drove to the hospital.
Mattias Wandel's site is full of neat stuff. Check out the
CD changer he built. Then check out
his brother's page too.
This was just on Slashdot:
A list of some of the people who are being served subpoenas for
filesharing. Are
you on the list? Here's
something about a robot shark. Finally,
the sickest thing
you're going to see in awhile. (Don't worry. It's not that
bad.)
After months of research
and handwringing, Stars and I have finally bought a dog! It's still
a pup and we have to wait until September to pick it up which works out
perfectly for us. 'Roxy' (tentative) is a Boston Terrier.
Tons of links
to post and I probably have an article for tomorrow so might as well post 'em
now. I'm sure everyone knows about the
See this key? It's the 'Angle' key from my DVD remote.
Back when DVD was in its infancy, one of the key features of the format was
going to be the ability to change the camera angle on the fly. You could
be watching a movie and the current shot might be the main character's point of
view but if you hit the Angle key you could immediately switch to an overhead
shot, or the POV of a different character. I was really looking
forward to that. So imagine my frustration whenever I hit that key and get
"Multi-Angle Not Present." It turns out that the only studios who use this
feature are studios who make pornos. I know it'd be expensive to do in a
feature film because you'd have to shoot the movie every which way. I'm
just asking can we get a featurette that uses this? DVDs come packed with
so many extras anyway. How about the 'Making Of' featurette is multi
angle? Something. I just want to hit that key and see something
happen.
