7/24は土用の丑の日。うなぎ料理を食べる予定はありますか？また、夏バテ防止の為に食べようと思っている物があったら教えてください。
既に先日、息子と実家に帰省した折に、うなぎご飯をいただきました。
My Mini-DVI to DVI adapter and iWork 08 Family came today, via FedEx. This is inline with their initial shipping estimates, so that's good for them that they estimated properly.
When my iMac came, on the tracking page it lists signature required. I did, however, not sign for it. Nor did the guy ask. He didn't even have the little electronic signature reader.
The iWork and cable required a signature as well. The delivery truck showed up, and I'm almost certain it was a mother-son team, and the son did not look old enough to drive. He was old enough to collect my signature.
So, the guy delivering the $2000+ computer can't be bothered to get my signature, but the 14 year old delivery a $100 package can.
I love it.
Book #25 in 2008: In the Woods, by Tana French
I enjoyed reading this New York Times' best seller so much that I absolutely did not want it to end. Of course, when it did end, I was actually slightly disappointed (for reasons I will let you discover yourself, lest I give too much away.) An intelligent and savvy mystery with well-developed characters and an intriguing plot. (Another book w/ two woven mysteries: a past mystery directly involving the narrator - who is a murder detective - is (maybe) connected to the murder of a 12-year-girl in a Dublin suburb.)
An interesting note: The story is told in the 1st person past-tense - so the narrator actually knows the ending of the story as he's telling it - which makes for a unique perspective as the mystery unfolds.
Don't read too many reviews on this one or you'll find out more than you want to. A psychological thriller worth checking out.
Why hello there!
If you've been on Twitter the last few weeks you'll have noticed about 1,000 "COME VISIT WE'RE STREAMING LIVE! LIVE I TELL YOU!!!" tweets from various people.
At first I was annoyed. WHY would I want to see you live? I barely know you! This is all moving too fast! Next thing you know you'll be wanting to leave a freakin' toothbrush over here and have your own drawer!
But now I totally get it. It's freakin' fun. I'll be trying to do one every night, so, come by and visit! I'll be posting on BitchBuzz's Twitter whenever we'll be going live on Qik.
In case anybody is wondering, here is a write-up on why I finally abandoned Linux on the desktop. I hope that people find it helpful, but really it's about my own choice and evolution in life and I don't really recommend switching unless you find yourself in the same situation.
First off, a word about what I would call my evolution. In the past I ran linux mostly because I enjoyed the tinkering aspect and tuning. In a nearly polar opposite of the way I like cars, I liked linux because I could hack on things. When I bought my first laptop, back in 1998, I immediately threw linux on it and proceeded to hack on a video card driver to get it working.
I spent about 4 days of near constant hacking learning the internals of how everything works, and got a working driver. This was one of my first forays into open source, as I was hacking away in my isolation chamber I missed that the maintainer of the driver duplicated the work I did. As expected, his work was better, faster, stronger, etc. The cool thing is that it worked. I made it work, even though it was just an exercise. I made it work.
Fast forward into my current situation. I work. I have a son to play with, a wife to be with, a million dreams and less time than ever before. I want to be productive, which means that a simple choice had to be made.
I had to decide to either be more productive, or settle for not meeting my goals.
Decisions like these are hard to make, because I really do enjoy the tinkering aspect of things. The reality of it is that I just don't have the time, and I found myself getting frustrated because of the constant distractions that come with running Linux. Perhaps for newer users it is less of an issue, but I've been using Linux for far too long to just let things be. It's an obsession that I can't cure with self control, I suppose.
When I bought my MacBook Pro, I was really expecting to be frustrated with having to change my work flow to work in the environment, rather than change my environment to suit my work flow. Surprisingly to me, but not to the readers of this since I'm talking about a switch, I found myself getting more done and in less time. This is even doing things that I wouldn't otherwise go on a blitz of tinkering.
So that's the primary reason. The secondary reason boils down to Firefox 3 and Ubuntu. Towards the end of my Linux on the Desktop tenure, I was running Ubuntu. I was happy with Ubuntu, and it worked. Mostly. I still had to edit my grub config. I had to modify sources. I had to do other minor things, but I tinkered less and things generally worked.
Except Firefox.
Firefox 3 was constantly giving me issues. If it was just on my desktop I wouldn't have cared much, and blamed Firefox. This just happened to coincide with me doing nightly code sprints on my mac, so I was able to do direct comparisons between the two. I even went so far as to completely remove everything Firefox related on Linux and rebuild everything. Back to tinkering, and this was a good two hours of time spent.
I still had issues. Between it crashing constantly (2-3 times a day), and then toolbar icons repeatedly disappearing it was unbearable. It was frustrating, and I was unhappy. The last straw was that I rather suddenly ceased the ability to click on the (remarkably stupid) "Confirm Security Exception" button after the "Are you sure you wish to add an exception" dialog (no, the one after the "Add a security exception" page, and afterr you load the certificate).
Even using Vox became unbearable on Linux with FF3, because typing in the rich text editor would lag so badly that I couldn't see what I was typing and I just was fed up with it.
Now I'm typing this on OS X, using Firefox 3, with no lag and I have Safari to compare with and the Remote Desktop client over to Vista works like a champ. I'm getting more done, and can't really tinker unless I go heavy into code. The desire may still be there, but it's easily squelched because I honestly feel like I shouldn't mess with things. Besides, for the most part, they all work (my keyboard is a different story, many of the keystrokes are very uncomfortable... I'll write on that later)
[Note: I wrote this while doing an svk sync of DBIx::Class, which is done so now I'm ending it]
You can clearly see the Blueberry Iron Curtain surrounding both East Tart, West Tart and the Strawberry-Kiwi ghetto. To the west, the Mandarin of Good Hope and the Fjords of Raspberry.
