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  • Growing For The Holidays

    I’m just starting to really get into the Christmas mood. And I just saw a link to a new GROW puzzle, this one with a Christmas Tree. It was pretty easy though. Enjoy!

  • Happy Ears

    I’ve always been a big fan of earmuffs. Hats tend to bug the crap out of me for some reason. So these would be great to have.

    Earmuffs/Headphones, Great Idea!

    Gadgets Images Jvchead Pic

    Thanks, JVC. These headphone/ear warmers arrived just time for us here on the icy east coast. Stoked with Polartec Wind Pro and Thermolite Active 100 materials to keep you warm, these babies promise good tunes and toasty earlobes. Well, warm earlobes anyhow. The cool cats in NYC are opting for ginormous earphones with earcups that double as muffs. Trouble is, you gotta wear those things around your neck like some wandering nightclub DJ for the rest of the day. These things look like they fold up nicely—although they aren’t exactly babe magnets.

    Hot stuff [GadgetCandy]

    [via Gizmodo]

  • Repetitive Information Injury

    Just as I was coming to grips with NADD, I find out that there’s another aspect to it: Repetitive Information Injury.

    NADD sufferers walk a delicate tight rope between effectively consuming large amounts of information and losing themselves in a endless loop of useless, frustrating information acquisition motions that I’ll call Repetitive Information Injury (“RII”).

    For me RII shows up late in the day. I’m between meetings and having nothing urgent on my to do list. I sit down at the computer and scan my unread email. Once done there, I click on a couple of tab groups in Safari and scan the news. Lastly, I switch to NetNewsWire and scan for changes on my 75+ feeds.

    And then… I do it again.

    And again.

    It sounds silly, but I’m literally stuck in a loop of information acquisition. What I am looking for? Something interesting informational tidbit which grabs my attention and if I don’t find it, I’ll often loop four or five times before I realize that I’m in this useless, non-productive loop. [Rands in Repose]

    Crap, this describes many an afternoon for me. I may need professional help.

  • How Much?

    How much is my blog worth?


    My blog is worth $10,726.26.
    How much is your blog worth?

    Damn, not bad, but I could do better I bet. Find out how much your blog is worth.

    [via Don Park (who is worth much more than I)]

  • Turner Classic Movies and Miyazaki

    ICv2 has posted information about a marathon of Miyazaki films on TCM in January 2006.

    ICv2 has learned that in January 2006, Turner Classic Movies, a prominent cable and satellite network, will run nine animated features by the great Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki.  Miyazaki’s movies have received scant exposure on American TV so the showings on Turner Classic Movies should expose a wide audience to these masterworks.

    A complete list of the films (and airdates) will be released next week, but ICv2 has learned that TCM will show such Miyazaki-directed classics as: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, and Porco Rosso, as well as Whisper of the Heart, which was directed by Yoshifumi Kondou, though Miyazaki wrote the screenplay, drew the storyboards and produced the film. [ICv2]

    I’m pretty psyched. I’ve wanted to see Whisper of the Heart for a while. I’m also hoping for Kiki’s and The Castle of Cagliostro.

  • Blog Stuff

    People have been pestering me to get crossposting working again so that my blog posts show up over on LJ. I finally got it working this morning after quite a bit of fiddling. I’m using the ljcrosspost plugin for Movable Type. It works fairly well, but took some fiddling to get it to work right. I should email the author and let him know the issues I was having.

    Next step is to get OpenID working so that people over on LJ can log into my blog for comments using their LJ info.

    One big gripe I have about MT plugins these days is that not enough of them work with dynamic pages. I’ve got 4000+ entries and rebuilding it all just for a new plugin really sucks (and takes forever).

  • Living with Apple

    Dave Winer just got a mac and has been commenting about things he likes and doesn’t like about it. For example, he really doesn’t like Safari. Though he is happy with his Airport Express.

    He’s also been getting a bit of advice about software to use:

    This is the kind of advice…
    This is the kind of advice I’ve been getting from Mac users. Good stuff. You know, based on the rah-rah’s from developers who are probably too scared of Apple to say what they really think, I thought everyone else thought Apple was the perfect company and the perfect computer. That’s the downside of people being too scared to speak up, we get shitty information. How can we change this system, so that people aren’t so scared? Or can we get Apple to thicken up their skin a bit, and learn to not punish people who have the nerve to criticize them. Blogs were supposed to fix all this. Frankly I think it hurts Apple to just have rah-rah public discourse and commentary. [via Scripting News]

    Most people I know who have macs are more than willing to criticize them. The thing is, I find that the positives for me greatly outweigh the negatives. I’ve had no real problems with Safari. I think most of their software is designed for the casual computer user. It does the basics and tends not to get too fancy.

    So in my case I tend to praise Apple a lot since in general it’s been much less of a hassle than my experiences with Windows in its various forms. It’s definitely not perfect, but I’ve yet to find an OS that is.

  • TV on your phone

    Full episodes of cult TV sci-fi show Red Dwarf are being made available for fans to buy and watch on their mobile phone handsets.

    The Doctor Who special The Five Doctors, originally screened in 1983, is also part of the licensing deal. [BBC News]

    Okay, maybe I’m just a bit picky or something, but I really can’t see the enjoyment of watching TV on a cell phone screen. I think the smallest I could go is the PSP screen.

  • Blizzard and Coke

    Joystiq reports an ad by Blizzard and Coke for World of Warcraft and Coke. It’s pretty nifty. It would be cool if we got some ads like that.

  • Thank God for Bluetooth

    I’m in the car right now. Dad’s driving and we’re speeding up 84 to Boston, and I’m bored. At this point I’m just ready for this to all be over and done with. So I figured I’d see if I could get my computer set up to use my cell phone for connectivity and it’s working just dandy. Pretty damn slick.

    So the next step in all of this lung stuff is to get to the ER at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (where I’ll be having the surgery and recovering). Once there they’ll take some blood, stick an IV in me and we wait for the lung to be ready. Beyond that we’ll see. My guess is I’ll be fully offline for at least the first few days. Though I’m sure they’ll have me up and shuffling along at least a little even by tomorrow.

    As far as visitors I don’t think I get to have any right at first. My immune system will be fairly suppressed at first and they want to eliminate any chance of infection. Check back here for more details.

    I still can’t believe it has only been a week since I was last called. And they called during the day! That was the last thing I expected!