This is Renal Tap

Hotel provided free Wifi at the DoubleTree in Downtown Boston, a good thing.

The Chinatown bus to Boston:

just $10, good.
crappy seat backs, bad.

What's the point of getting food at the Excellent Dumpling House in NYC's Chinatown, getting it packed because you wanted to get to the bus on time, and then ending up in Boston's Chinatown almost five hours later, with cold dumplings, that you can't store in the hotel mini-fridge anyways since it is packed with food tied to exorbitant incidental fees?

Eric P was in town this week. I unfortunately did not get a chance to see his new early eighties Porsche, but did get a chance to hang out with the boy while he was in town. There was as expected much reminiscing, and I was lucky enough to have recounted the singing of the song "Knock knock knocking on Minnies' door" sung to the tune of, well, you know.

Also, Matlock is still cool.

Edwards, lawyer like Matlock.

Conclusion: Theme music to the DNC, especially when Edwards comes out, should be, not some shitty tune like Macarena, but the Matlock Theme.

Finally, the BBC interviewed me one early morning in Bryant Park this week. They are doing some documentary on Macs and Apple products like the iPod. I was busy, and had the chutzpah to tell them that I only had two minutes. The saving grace of the interview, which was brusque, was, as usual, my dashing good looks.

;)

Osbourne w/o Osbourne

So when did the Sharon Osbourne show pick up a co-host who talks more than Sharon?

Arrgh.

Thank God it is Kerry.

I'm already salivating at the prospect of a Edwards - Cheney Debate.

One's a former trial lawyer, and here's a hint, it isn't Cheney.

The fafbloggers?

Ten minutes of lazy googling investigative reporting might bring you the fafbloggers:

Chris Mastrangelo, Mike Fried and John Leen

Chris is/was a member of "Tech House" at Brown.

Then again, I could be wrong.

Michael Moore abandoned independent movie theaters -- the only ones to give him a chance in the beginning. It's like when Metallica sued bootleggers -- the same people who made them famous. On the other hand, I don't really care and if I were Michael Moore I'd be raking in the cash too (ya know...like a guy who makes money pointing out the failures of others.....) Regardless, check out this 3-minute documentary by a buddy of mine, Finding Fahrenheit 9/11, and make up your own mind.


When: 7/1/2004

Company: Michael Moore

Severity: 5

Points: 105
[Newcum's FuckedCompany Feed]

I'm willing to give Moore a lot of leeway. But nobody is immune from criticism.

Jurisprudent Fusion, or Throwing Laffer a Curve

The presumption of innocence is a hallmark of the American court system.

What would happen if this were reversed in the particular case of American tax law?

Would tax evasion go down?

gmail bindings in browsers

I hadn't realized how hooked to gmail I was until I was reading the NYT site and I hit "u". I think we need to have a firefox extension that allows gmail key bindings. The most useful would be a "g+i" combination to go up to the root url, say if I was reading a NYT story, I could go up to nytimes.com.

The other key that would be useful is "u" - which would just take me up in the hierarchy by going up one in the URL. So if I was in nytimes/news/candybars, "u" would take me up to nytimes/news/.

There already exists an extension for firefox that handles going up in the hierarchy. I want a combined plugin.

And one more thing. It should autodetect that we're at gmail.com and disable itself.

mmmm.

satMac meet kryptonite

The satMac needs a new titanium case. Apparently, it cracks very easily.

:(

set WWDC2004 = Crap;

The Apple WorldWide Developers Conference was the most dissapointing Apple Event in years.

No new systems, a preview of an OS that won't come out until 1st Half 2005 (read as late as June 2005), and a score of "advancements" that have been available independently of Apple.

• Metadata file system like the one BeOS had working, on Apple hardware, six years ago


• System wide searching similar to that already implemented in Quiksilver


• Desktop Widgets a dead ringer for those of Konfabulator


• RSS Feeds in Safari Repeat after me: The browser is not the place for added non browsing functionality. Rather than go the route of a suite in the manner of the netscape suite, have the dignity to buy out NetNewsWire or PulpFiction in the same way you bought out SoundJam to make iTunes.

There were other announcements, but they are barely worth mentioning.

• An updated SMB file system driver. To keep up with "Everybody Else"


• BSD utilities that handle resource forks out of the box. This in a .4 point release?


• New Displays - in Aluminum! yawn.

I'm leaning stronger and stronger towards believing that we need a GPLed Carbon environment.

Give me a linux system running on Apple Hardware, running apps meant for Apple's operating system, but better.

What is it they used to say?

Think Different.

Dale a Flaming Liberal?

The Full Monty was on this afternoon as I hooked up my TV to the cable (with the new splitter I bought today at Lowes.)

Not realizing the movie had ended and Fox had segued to NASCAR, you gllorious reader will understand my surprise as I heard the words "Fahrenheit 9/11" come out of the speakers.

It seems that the NASCAR commentators were referring to Dale Earnheardt talking about going to see Michael Moore's new movie as a potential bonding experience.

Dale!

The Fog of War

brilliant

mcnamara comes off as a tragic figure, despite the millions of lives that he was instrumental in eliminating

i have also discovered

that all with dubious places in history

should come with a philip glass soundtrack

bunnies

my cable modem arrived today

it is pretty

i will call it george

I miss STNG.

Riker: How did you like command?
Worf: Comfortable chair.

Bush or Death?

I think I've caught on to the signature of the 2004 Bush/Cheney campaign.

gmail explosion

Three invites last night, and now five more today

Sounds good, I think, aside from the capacity problems gmail seems to be having today.

Ever heard an indie-rock band with a classical violin do Pachelbel's Canon? Me neither. Zox can hook you up. [die puny humans]

That's one cool song.

Great Reagan Memory

Scroll to the bottom.

Impeach Bush

If even a small part of what Seymour Hersh says is true, then we are truly truly fucked.

I think it is about time we started seriously, seriously discussing impeachment.

umm

The Jobs Grunt giving presentations at the Apple Store Soho just waxed poetic about the new 2.5 gigabyte G5s....

oops.

yet another post about gmail first impressions

Now that I've made the plunge and switched entirely to gmail, I am googling daily for external interfaces to gmail.

http://www.email2pop.com now offers a pop3/smtp interface to gmail. This sounds useful, but I would really like to see something that will work on unix. I envision a nice imap interface proxy that could run as a daemon on my system. The biggest irritant so far is the lack of notifications when I get a new email.

Gtray is a windows program that at least notifies you when you've received new mail.

Another reason for imap support is offline archiving. There are many clients that can cache an imap server's mailboxes. Offline storage and searching are a powerful feature that gmail doesn't have yet. There must be a way...