Crazy But Able

My google-fu faileth me. I have an iTunes library full of all of my ripped CDs. I’d like to use iTunes to manage that, by which I mean, when I rename something in iTunes, it’s nice to have it get renamed on the hard drive automatically. However, I also have a couple […]

I’m in Minnesota. Where are you and how do I contact you?!?!

Um, yeah. I’ve been busy. It’s my weblog and I’ll slack if I want to.
So, what to blog about? I’m already a little too late to blog about New Pope but I’m not going to let that stop me. I think the coolest thing about being Pope is that you get […]

yesterday something happened in Lindstrom. schools locked down, streets blocked off, a car chase, a man hunt, police everywhere, helicopters overhead…. the only mention anywhere I’ve seen in the news was this which was removed not long after it went up.
Reports: Lindstrom Schools in Lockdown
KARE, MN - Apr 12, 2005
A junior high school […]

My first thought was that metallic glass would be like, transparent aluminum! It’s true! Scotty visited the 20th century! (That *clunk* you just heard was the geek-o-meter needle slamming so far to the right, so fast, that it knocked the meter off my desk).
Alas, it’s not quite like that, but […]

Drudge is reporting “New television remote allows couch potatoes to use voice commands…” (no link yet.) I fear that this will suffer from the Clapper Effect.
The Clapper Effect, which I first observed in the late 80s, demonstrates the perils of chaining gadgets together. If you plug your TV into The Clapper, it will […]

In the past, when I wanted to paste a quick IRC transcript, I had to go through and manually convert all of the annoying < and > characters. After unsuccessfully googling for something that would do that for me, I just wrote my own. (As you can probably guess from checking out the post […]

[Previously on IRC: tsohg has been raving about the wonders of flywheels for the past two or three days. After a particularly spirited rave, tsohg went afk. the_W made a disparaging joke about flywheels (which, alas, he didn't think to copy). tsohg came back, and was upset.]
<the_W> tsohg, it was a […]

Oh man, I just discovered how good cheese fried in melted butter tastes like. I’m never eating anything else for breakfast ever again.

Okay.