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Not playing

Well, my iTunes project is hung up. There are any number of remote-control applications for iTunes. I have downloaded several. iTRC seems to be the most mature.

All the Mac OS apps rely on activating Apple Remote Events on the host machine, and there my troubles start. Remote Events use a creaky old protocol, ‘eppc:’ which no longer operates properly and in particular has difficulty passing user IDs and passwords.

So, the long story short is that while the desired functionality is supported and documented within all-Apple products, it’s currently fuct. I will spend a bit more time on it tomorrow but it looks to me as though my desire is unlikely to be fulfilled in the manner I had been visualizing.

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THE CAT we found.


THE CAT we found.

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As Viv and I left our dining tonight, bemused by the continuing foie gras protesters (yes, really and no we didn’t have any and yes, they were mildly annoying and made me want to order some but it was too mild an annoyance to generate a genuine backlash), we saw a kitty on the street and went over to say hi.

The cat is a longhair calico in the end of kittenhood, filthy and matted and starving. She (I think) ran away at first, then hungrily charged our hands for affection, and finally chased after us as we began to walk to the car.

So. If you have been neglecting the fuck out of your longhair calico kitten, she’s not dead. No, you can’t have her back.

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White king salmon


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I was surprised to be presented with 2 pounds of super-fresh white king salmon tonight as a dinner ingredient.

I went with the simple foil-poach-and-plank method and I can’t even describe how delicious and, well, different the fish was. It was clearly salmon, but with a really different set of base flavors than the intense ones we associate with the deep, dark, red salmon.

So good.