Chávez Calls Bush ‘the Devil’ in U.N. Speech – New York Times. This made me laugh so hard while driving home from work I nearly had to pull over, blinded by tears.
Hey, what’s that smell?
Scratch Acid
Austin 360: An oral history, from Scratch. The Austin American-Statesman looks at the once and future Scratch Acid. I have (apparently all) the vinyl, loved it, and never saw the band. Don’t know ifI missed the Seattle show or not.
Federation Propaganda
DS9 and Galactica hooncho
Ron Moore on Trek in the NYT.
On a Lock of Miss Sarah Seward's Hair, Who Died in Her Twentieth Year
by Anna Seward, 1747-1809
My angel sister, though thy lovely form
Perished in youth’s gay morning, yet is mine
This precious ringlet!–still the soft hairs shine,
Still glow the nut-brown tints, all bright and warm
With sunny gleam!–Alas! each kindred charm
Vanished long since; deep in the silent shrine
Withered to shapeless dust!–and of their grace
Memory alone retains the faithful trace.–
Dear lock! had thy sweet owner lived, ere now
Time on her brow had faded thee!–My care
Screened from the sun and dew thy golden glow;
And thus her early beauty dost thou wear,
Thou all of that fair frame my love could save
From the resistless ravage of the grave!
Multimedia message
Birthday girl
sweet!
Having just been flummoxed to discover five print jobs queued to the (phantom) local printer instead of the LAN printer, imagine my joy on discovering that one can drag and drop print jobs from one printer queue to another under Mac OS X!
Nieuport
Extensive, interesting article on the production of the upcoming Flyboys, which, you’ll be unsurprised to note, has me in a tizzy of anticipation.
Adaptation
Speaking of old technology, when we moved I appear to have misplaced the SCSI plug adapter I was using to hook my seen-better-days el cheapo scanner to my workstation, rendering it inutile for the nonce. I have a cool but also ancient PCMCIA-to-SCSI adapter but there appear to be no OS X drivers for it.
No I haven’t tried VPC or Classic to see if that would work.
The pisser is I actually KNOW the adapter works with my old Wallstreets, now decapitated and gutless in the closet. Yeesh.
Time to look at the multifunction doohickeys, I think. Hmm, let’s see now… wifi + ethernet + fax + sharing, I think. I’d like to plug into a phone jack, turn it on, and be able to fax out, receive, print, or scan to NAS over the air. That shouldn’t run me more than… what, about twenty bucks, these days, right?
cell division
After much research I have found it seems that Cingular discontinued the availability of CSD in December 2005, rendering my phone’s built in faxing capacity useless. Let’s hear it for feature contraction!