The music industry has announced a new audio format to help cut down on pirating.

(– shamelessly swiepd from zannah –)

So I started to wonder today, “Who leaves pancakes just sitting around in a dungeon? Wouldn’t they get all stale and hard?”

(A sure sign I’ve been playing too much nethack.)

Jane Wagner. “The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.” [Quotes of the Day]

This morning while dreaming I found myself talking to an old friend of mine. I haven’t actually talked to her since I moved out here from San Diego. I stopped by to see her in Arizona on my drive out here to Boston and I think I may have emailed with her once since then. So of course I quickly dug up her email and sent a message out. Gotta love the power of dreams.

I really wish I was better at keeping in touch with some of my friends. I sometimes feel that it is one of my flaws. I have a tendancy to be a bit of a flake.

In playing with making SVCDs this weekend I suddenly thought of a great use for them: Home Movies. My parents are fairly new mac owners. My mom got the mac because she wanted to do home video stuff on it. We’ve played with it a few times, but she keeps asking me “well, how can I send this to someone else”. One solution I gave her was just saving it to a quicktime file and then burning that to CD.

Now that I know how easy it is to make VCDs or SVCDs I think I’m going to recommend that. The biggest reason is that a large number of DVD players can at least play VCDs. So now the next step is to come up instructions for her to do it on her own.

This Friday from 7am till Saturday morning at 5am. The Sci-Fi channel is having a Farscape Chain Reaction. They don’t list what episodes they are showing, but with 23 hours of programming they’re bound to have some good episodes. If you’ve been curious about this show at all, this would be a good chance to take a look (Though I think anyone who watches for 23 hours straight is probably insane).

In the grand tradition of Toastyfrog, someone has done a Cowboy Bebop Thumbnail Theatre. It’s cool, check it out. All five seasons AND the movie are there.

Nari posted a fun link to a shockwave game where you are eating gummi worms.

I was able to get a score of around 4545 on level 9.

William James. “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” [Quotes of the Day]

I’ll post a bit more about later, but thought I’d share my morning wake-up and get going music this morning:

• Kiss Chase – Lush

• Fear of the World – ABC

• Nobody’s Diary – Yazoo

• Honey (Bootleg)- Sam Shaber

• (shower)

• Ted, Woody, and Junior – Robyn Hitchcock

• Kissing the Day – Mandalay

• Rise & Shine – The Cardigans

• Perpetual Dawn – The Orb

Not too bad a way to wake up. Though the first part was a bit too random for me.