Chinese Ketchup
Another indispensable item. The backside of a Heinz Ketchup packet from a chinese restaurant. Can anyone translate this?
Digging Through 15 Years of Crap
I’ve been working on implementing GTD, and part of that is working through all the random piles of crap I have spread about the house. So, now I have a shiny new 4-drawer filing cabinet (reminds me a lot of my Grandpa’s) and I’ve been furiously creating folder labels and filing things for a week …
Gah.
Made it through the Spiderworks book on C just fine. Made it halfway through the Apple book, The Objective-C Programming Language… and then… my eyes started to glaze over. I think the real reason is, I need practical experience with this stuff—the C book had exercises I could do, and most of the chapters I …
C, ObjC, Cocoa… little steps
I’ve been meaning to learn Mac programming with Cocoa for two years now, and finally am getting off my ass. Since the first of the year, I’ve gone through Spiderworks’ “Learn C on the Macintosh” eBook. Just finished that last night, now I’m starting Apple’s PDF doc “The Objective-C Programming Language,” and then after than …
This city is skin deep, but what gorgeous skin.
The first time I went to Vegas, it was sensory overload. Everything was amazing. The second time, my reaction was more, “Is this all there is?” Since then I’ve been there a couple times on business trips, and comes to terms with its superficiality. You have to enjoy it as it is, and not impose …
Satemallite Radio
So, I got the Sirius for the car. Yay! It very nearly totally rocks, in a very literal way. Thing is, I noticed while scanning the comedy stations tonight that there were commercials, and I was royally pissed. I mean, isn’t this why I’m PAYING for it? …so I won’t have to listen to that …
Linkage
Today’s Fun Links: I want to… — Great list of online resources for doing useful stuff Arcade Game Sounds — Recordings from the 80s of arcade machines in their natural habitat. Audiophile products — A list of insanely expensive audio gear, and an amusing illustration of what happens when people ignore physics in favor of, …