Just over there
Ordered a set of tires from Tirerack over the phone. Hmmm….. let’s see if they actually get here in the 3 business days they said. Just enough room on the old credit card to cover it…
Right now I’m expecting it to show up Wednesday/Thursday… based on not getting an e-mail notice by the end of the day about the tires shipping.
Went out at lunch to see if I could patch up the paint chips on the buggy now that it’s finally warm enough out.
Woops….. looks like it’s gotten even worse than last time I looked. There’s a 3″x7″ section of the hood where the paint has become brittle and cracked and a haven for rust. So…. after attempting to uncover it all I got out my anti-rust paint and tried to cover it up yet again. Looks like this time I won’t get away with it. I’m going to have to get the whole thing (hood, or car) repainted soon (soon = when I’ve got the money for more than a patch job).
Argh….. seems like the anti-rust paint has only been covering up the rust in a few spots.
And now the “spot welds” holding the trim above the driver’s side door seem to have failed due to rust. Need to get rid of the rust and get some epoxy to fix that now.
Now that Dave Winer has done a deal with the NY Times, how long will it take for other media outlets to get in on the act ? We don’t all read the NY Times.
So Dave…. who’s next on your hit list while building up this meta-web community of yours on the backs of the blog-net ?
Interview oriented
Documentary style
I’m sure I missed one.
The interview shows seem to pander to the person involved though Inside the Actor’s Studio seems to do it the least but it is also the only one where the audience consists of people in the same profession or at least who want to be. Musicians is the one that seems to most scripted. You know they were given the questions before hand. But at least there is music to even it out.
Unfortunately, Jules Asners’ show has the slickest, fluffy glossy magazine feel to it like someone took a 5 minute Entertainment Tonight piece and used that as the model for an hour long show.
Very painful to watch.
the trailer for the new Spiderman movie is looking better than almost anything on, even the FoodTV Network. Or at least until Bruce Campbell showed up in The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.pilot on TNN. Oddly enough, he’s listed as having a bit part in Spiderman.
It’s almost enough to drive me back to work for the rest of the evening.
Do I:
Hmmmmm…..
Bryce Payne
has collected a number of comments and reviews of the new look of the Wall Street Journal. It was mentioned in passing by CSPAN this morning during their morning call-in show, otherwise I would have never noticed. I’ve been getting my business news from Fortune for the past few years instead.
Hmmmm…. on the front page a lot of it is subtle…. not enough change to be jaring ? Did they really spend six years on this redesign ?
Ok…. we’re still in rerun hell on my favorite Tuesday show but at least I’ve got the Naked Chef to watch. Jamie spent the show cooking at a school. Didn’t quite get the context other than he gave a speech and presented awards at some event and then assisted in cooking for the prize winners. Hmmm…. I’ll have to watch it again Saturday.
I’m in the middle of watch the train wreck cooking show “A Cook’s Tour”. This week he (Tony something) is in London.
British food can be very different than what is considered normal in the Northeastern US. Roasted bone marrow ? At least he found someone to make him some real Indian food. Boy can he eat !
Two years after she moved out I still get phone calls for my ex-wife (she doesn’t have a phone that she is willing to share will non-family and people get confused.), usually bill collectors if she’s late paying someone. There’s one that calls every month and won’t stop until they have been paid in full no matter how much she sends them every month, which I have no control over & keep telling them.
I haven’t been able to get her name off my phone bill no matter what I try. Seems she is the one who has to ask the phone company to do that and I’ve been asking her since she moved out to do that and somebody isn’t paying attention, most likely the phone company.
Ok…. so I’m too stubborn to fight it out with the phone company. Why give them any more money. I pay the phone bill every month. It still works even if it also has her name on it. Since I’m selling the house it didn’t seem like there was much point.
The electric company & cable tv had no problem putting the bill in just my name. She had to sign something to switch checking and savings accounts out of her name (Ok… sounds odd… but she moved to a town that didn’t have a branch of our bank so I kept the old accounts.). The mortgage & property taxes are a completely different matter but the house selling will eventually solve that.
I’ve used a number of different computers for office applications over the years, usually a PC, but my travel machines have been Powerbooks until the year (2000) corporate policy dictated that I retire my Powerbook and start using a Thinkpad for EVERYTHING in my office. Not a bad machine but it doesn’t have the appeal/class of a Powerbook. Too “boxy”.
Last September, I finally got myself a new Apple laptop (an ibook) for personal use so that when I stop having a home office (any week now…. want to buy a log cabin in NH?) I’ll still have a laptop at home even if my work laptop is in the office.
Well… it looks like my fingers have been permanently trained to find that pesky Start menu/task bar when I want to switch applications. The iBook was too late. I just tried to go to the bottom of the screen on my iBook to get to the pop-up menu.
But, this is Mac OS X and my “dock” is to the left where it belongs
(I know Apple thinks it belongs at the bottom. They are wrong.)
Argh!!!!
Starting to read up on XML for a number of work related reasons. Outputing XML appears fairly easy using our proprietary database tools (jdk sent me some examples this weekend. Cool 
). We already output HTML in a similar fashion. Granted, inputting it will be a different kettle of fish. Going to be fun…
I’ve finally started bending my Radio theme away from the default to something more esthetically pleasing to my eyes. A lot of it won’t be original (I’m borrowing the day header format, sort of, from Scripting News) but given the age of the internet and number of web sites out there… originality is in short supply.
But still better than my original personal web site which seems to still be out there as a ghost page. Scary. Including the 10 year old picture of me on it. Yikes. That’s a stumble down memory lane.
