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Veteran

I don’t think I mentioned it here yet, but I’ve started writing professionally again. I’m finding it fun. It’s hard to squeeze the phone interviews in between work and blogging and cooking et al, however.

I’m also chasing down a project which I think the blogging community at large will find interesting but since I don’t know if it’s gonna be a blog-oriented piece or one for publication, mum’s the word. That’s a part of the professional writing stuff that kinda sucks, keeping the trap shut until press time.

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Safari irritation

Recently the most important keyboard shortcut in my copy of Safari stopped working; ‘back’ and ‘forward’ are no longer cmd-left arrow and cmd-right arrow, respectively. Instead, checking the ‘History’ menu shows that the default shortcuts are now cmd-[ and cmd-]. I’ll leave my fevered ranting aside to simply ask: how can I change this back to what it should be?

I think it’s a problem I introduced when I re-enabled my audio-transcription macros. Unfortunately, restricting them to Word did not re-enable the arrow-based shortcuts.

I’m using 1.2.3 v125.9. I have not run the software update to 10.3.6 and will wait do so until the lost-data-on-external-hard-drives bug is resolved.

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Laurels

I’m meeting with lawyers all day today in consideration of the potential branding and revenue effects of being forever linked with tentacle porn. A leading strategy is to go with a kawaii blitz to offset google effects.

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Otaku Tako

It’s kind of a long story, but I saw a print online by the great Japanese painter and printmaker Hokusai today that featured, oh, I’ll just say there was a woman, and an octopus. Moving with lighting speed, I passed the image along to my favorite expert on matters Japanese and blue. This was the result. Safe for work, but the links there in may not be. Both Manuel and I were googling furiously after his initial straightforward short-link to the image; I’d post a link in the comments to find that he’d sent it to me via email.

Now, I think I’m happy to say, I know a lot more about tentacles than I once did.

UPDATE: Welcome BoingBoing tentacle mongers!

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Hopkin Saga Unfolds

Jeff (apparently the first person on the intarweb to blog the tearjerker Hopkin tale) updates us with Hopkin: Still Lost .

AN UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: As she notes in the comments to Jeff’s entry, it was not Jeff, but the beautiful and talented (and obviously insightful) Samantha who launched the frog pix that launched a thousand photoshop remixes. Kinda. I mean, Terry had something to do with it, and… and…

Did I mention lovely? And that Jeff is of course a lucky lucky man? No? Will these do?

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the lights

Damme and Damme!

I missed what appears to have been the biggest display of the Northern Lights over the lower 48 since 1988 last night.

Weeping and wailing will occupy me for the evening. There’s some sort of possibility of a replay, I hear tell. If that tip pans out, the wailing will end earlier than scheduled.

Thanks to y2k for trying to alert me, although I’d logged off when his kind email arrived.

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Mefi Mofi Etsee

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Last night was the MeFi MoFi Blog windingdangdoodle at the Elysian. I didn’t realize that the brewpub took reservations, and should have made one.

I parked at the bar until folks started showing up a bit after seven. Mars Saxman was first and we chatted about the improbable appearance that night of Psychic TV at a nearby club. Erika from MonkeyFilter showed up next, and then Jerry Kindall and Tom Harpel.

In the end about 12 or so people showed up and we parked at pair of tables comfortably enough. After beering, Jerry Kindal, Tom Harpel, and our new acquaintance Mark, whole last name and user name I did not catch (he’s an architect, though, and he was funny) went to Caffe Vitta for a cuppa and closed down the place at the late hour of eleven o’clock.

The big news at Caffe Vitta happened when I gave the counter-girl a ten for my latte and she smiled at me real big and said, “Oooh, I love tens,” which amused me but also left me speechless, as a happily married man.

Attendees, I think:

Mark (Mefi user skyscraper)

Stacey Lester (Mefi user black8)

Stacey’s lovely and charming roomie whose name I did not catch

Amy (Mefi user tristeza)

Mars Saxman (Mefi user Mars Saxman)

Jerry Kindall (Mefi user kindall)

Oscar Bartos, (Mefi user O9scar and Mofi user el wombato)

Michael H. (mk1gti)

Tom Harpel (Mefi user tomharpel)

Erika (Mofi user mechagrue)

Steven (Mefi user Vito90), who says we should hie on down to the Virginia Inn next time, which is where he currently pursues the pouring arts. He also shouted out to SportsFilter!

My photos can be found here, and Tom Harpel’s can be found here. MeTa wrapup here (I think – the server went for a JRun just as I went to link to the thread), and MoFi wrapup here.

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him name animal

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It’s a put on, but I chuckled all the same.

Of course, as I took the picture, a couple of the zombies that currently infest our neighborhood leered into my personal space. The tall scabrous-faced one began asking half-informed questions about the camera, which I dodged.

Hm, I thought. Should I discuss my small, eminently stealable technology toy with a substance-dependent person who appears, by the way he is practically touching my face with his lips, to be drunk?

I think not.

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PNWned

A reminder. Monkeyfilter / MetaFilter / Bloggish thing at the Elysian, 7p on Saturday. Open invites, no signup, just come on down if you want to! Contrary to the rumors, there will be no free beer.