I am unaccountably pleased by the realization that I can get new reading material on to my otherwise unsynchable Palm V, currently functioning as my alarm clock.
Green on black with no blinding LEDs rules for bedtime reading.
Buried
Amidst the mostly tiresome and predictable bash-and-fete chez MeFi was the news that Google Earth for Mac is out today. Today, not next March.
intelMac
Well, not that this is by any means some sort of unique, oracular reflection on today’s semi-surprise announcement of Intel-powered Macs – the scheduled ship date is a tad early – but I might was well offer my thoughts.
This weekend I had a pleasant drink or two with a good friend who was complaining about his current Dell laptop and I ritualistically plugged Apple, hipping him to the possibilities of Apple Certified and the like. As we prepared to move on from our discussion I dredged up the Macosphere rumor of the day, that Intel-based mac laptops were slated fro unveiling today. I passed it along, but scoffed heartily.
Thank you, Mac rumor sites! Today, I yam a ZHEEEHNIUOUS!
Overall, I’m impressed by the new axes. They appear to offer a significantly greater cutting-edge-to-pressure-flake ratio and make impressive use of available materials. I would not be surprised if we uncover traces of these axes in middens far, far afield of the previously recorded distribution. This, of course, implies robust trade networks.
Interestingly, the Axxle Store had not adjusted the base pricing of the previous axes, based on the now-abandonded Eastern Flake technique. Still, the hard-to-locate Cupertino axes and adzes remained available both in refurbished and new units at surprisingly comparable rates to the purportedly four-times-sharper Portland blades.
It will be well noted by veterans of similar digs that no actual instance of a Portland axe has been located despite a great deal of anticipatory research.
It is a peculiar tragedy of history that the genius responsible for three out of four base models of Axxle devices will remain forever shrouded in the mists of the Stoner Age.
Whar did ye gain yon peculyaar acccent, me bucko?
Sockpuppetry
TSG outs Oprah flacked fictioneer.
Thesis
MetaFilter user Quatermass shares the thesis written by the user on the topic of MetaFilter with the community.
The Lost City
As Spence and I listened to Dennis James introduce The Ten Commandments at The Paramount this afternoon, I was amused when Dennis quoted David Jeffers’ long and wonderful essay on the film that he published earlier this week on SIFFblog.
This bemusement turned to pleasure when Dennis in turn introduced David on stage to do the expert intro to the film.
Romeo
While it’s not available for the Treo, Romeo appears to offer a freeware, opensource app to provide remote control of iTunes and other Mac OS X stuff from your bluetooth phone.
I found this via a linktrawl in search of my preferred configuraton for Airport Express – I blew away the config we had at the apartment and don’t recall exactly how I had it set up.
We were using it to share a printer and to control music playback on the stereo. I had the printer set up under the A/V stack, which worked OK.
Here, I haven’t set up any A/V gear yet, except for the Victrola. Thus, I could split the Express away from the stereo and just use it to do printer sharing, which I’m leaning toward in order to get to an action plan.
What’s got me hung up is that it would be beyond cool if I could stuff the printer into the Victrola cabinet along with the speakers and the Express. However, that’s also overkill, since the clamshell iBook that we are currently using to stream to the speakers is also already in the cabinet. Therefore if I can cram the printer in there, I don’t need to use the Express. The only functional advantage would be that one could print to the printer via the Express without having to open and wake the iBook, a machine which insists on sleeping when lid-closed.
This train of thought has also led me to note that I do posess not one but two headless Wallstreet PowerBooks, both running an old OS X and neither with native support for Airport or USB. It’d be child’s play, if you posit that the child may be both slower than most and a masochist!
Hey, look, Walltreet LCDs are down to $20 on ebay!
Of course, there are one or two maintenance chores about the house that also call for the patience and ingenuity of a specially-abled person such as myself.
Huzzah Reduxxah
Eric points out that one Scott Southwick has also clambered upon the blogtrain.
Hail to the Cheif
Tom points out a hot one making the rounds in Redmond: Bill Clinton to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft’s president.
Please note, this rumor is passed along for infotainment purposes only.