Pablo Picasso. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” [Quotes of the Day]

It requires the ethernet adapter due out at the end of the month, but the BroadQ – QCast Tuner looks very slick. It will play mp3s and divx videos off of your computer over your PS2. I’m seriously considering picking this up so I can watch DiVX files on my TV. How very cool.

I hate writing resumes. I started writing mine tonight and realized that I don’t think I’ve written one in almost ten years. I was basicly recruited into this last job by my old roommate from high school. So a few times tonight I found myself staring at a blank document and not even being sure where to start. Maybe it is time to go and start browsing online for some how-to guides for resume writing.

I just got done watching Sen to Chihiro. It was simply amazing. I really hope it gets shown in at least limited release in the US. I personally thought it was a better movie then Mononoke Hime. But then again, that was never one of the Miyazaki movies I liked the best (that would be either Kiki’s Delivery Service or Nausicaa).

I highly recommend seeing it if you get the chance.

I ran across Dive into OS X and didn’t notice until this morning that it is a wiki! I just may have to keep an eye on this and see if there is anything that I can contribute.

Dwight D. Eisenhower. “I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.” [Quotes of the Day]

I found this site this morning and I think I really want a Totoro hat and a Lain hat (and maybe a pero pero hat). But if I had my druthers I’d get one of almost all of them

I can think of at least one or two people who read here regularly who might enjoy these.

Things suck right about now. I just got laid off. I’ve moved my site to my home machine until I get my server back from work. Comments have been reset to use the userland comments, I hope it works okay.

I’m still kind of numb about the whole thing right now. It really blindsided me and I’m realizing I have a lot to try and think about and figure out in the next couple of days. Anyone out there in the Boston area hiring? (Yes, I’m not above using my web site to beg for work).

From The Desktop of Dane Carlson comes a link to an article about the ‘reading gene’:

Unlocking the recessive reading gene: “You can spot born readers easily. They have books in every room of the house, including the bathroom. They read fast and they read often. Born readers know what titles are on the Top 10 list. Kids of born readers are more likely to be born readers, too. These are the children that need mom to pick them up from school because they spent recess in the library and now have too many books to carry home. Kid readers ask for books as birthday gifts.” [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]

Though my gene isn’t as active as it once was, it still gets a decent bit of a workout.

Antipixel posted a link to The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement:

VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement not an organization. It’s a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We’re not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters.