Holy Heck. I’m now the second match for Gregory on Google. I wonder what happened. I was on like page three just a month or so ago. Of course it is still pointing at my old address, but whatever. I can’t help it. I’m just a big geek. I want to be able to tell people: “to find my site, just go to Google and search for Gregory”. I’ll have to work on taking the top spot now.

Edit: My friend Lukas, is also the second match for his first name. Cool.

PerversionTracker has a review of some apparently useless software called Cretin Tracker 1.0.

Keep those unspeakable cretins accounted for with Scotland Software’s Cretin Tracker, which offers handy features for maintaining a detailed list of the transgressions of your family, friends and coworkers. A laudable purpose, but can it cut the dijonnaise?

Offering an profusely cretinous interface with incredibly non-obvious cretin-adding, this software will never liquify a mouse in 30 seconds. Despite its surplus of flaws, it remains the #1 cretin tracking application on Mac OS X. [PerversionTracker]

Damn, I don’t know that I have any cretins in my life to track. Though maybe I could make a modified version of this called Crouton Tracker and rate the croutons in my salad.

Wolfgang Pauli: “This isn’t right. This isn’t even wrong.” [Quotes of the Day]

Lately there are a couple of shows I’ve just been enjoying way more than I feel I should. I think it’s because I’m just not expecting much from them, so when they amuse me I’m quite happy. The first is E’s Otherwise. I’m really not quite sure what to say about this show. It started off seeming much more series (and still has serious moments here and there), but for the most part it’s a light action show. Plus, as I’ve mentioned before, the opening song is hopelessly addicting to me.

The other is Matantei Loki – Ragnarok. It’s another show that while not stellar tends to have lots of goofy moments that I just enjoy watching. It’s like candy. Not that filling, but fun while you’re enjoying it. In some ways I wish there were a couple more shows like this. It’s nice to have shows that are just fun to watch without a lot of deep plot sometimes.

I keep finding great stuff over at Defective Yeti. Here’s one someone pointed me at over there. The Spam Subjectline Haiku Generator. My favorite so far:

Become a member
8 girls, one guy, see what’s next!
Photo gifts for dad.

VERY cool project out of MIT Media Lab. It’s called the Audiopad. I’m not even totally sure how to describe it. It’s a surface with some kind of display built in that lets you play sounds, but it’s a bit more complex than that. From the web page:

It is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. One can pull sounds from a giant set of samples, juxtapose archived recordings against warm synthetic melodies, cut between drum loops to create new beats, and apply digital processing all at the same time on the same table. Audiopad not only allows for spontaneous reinterpretation of musical compositions, but also creates a visual and tactile dialogue between itself, the performer, and the audience. [Audiopad]

The page has a six minute video (available in Quicktime or Windows Media) that shows it in action. It is seriously cool. I’d love to get a chance to play with it sometime. I wonder if these guys could come out and open up some Wednesday night.

Phew. I’m not sure if I’m behind on sleep or what, but today I was just sleepy all day. So around 2ish I just let myself take a long nap. I feel pretty good now too. I’ve been finding that my body seems to finally want to get back onto a solid sleeping schedule too. So I’ve been going to sleep at more and more of a normal hour lately. This all feels like a good thing.

Buy a New Beetle, get an iPod. I’m actually curious about the connectivity kit and how it plays the music. If it uses something like the cassette that plugs into the tape player, or if they did something different.

Ronnie Shakes: “I like life. It’s something to do.” [Quotes of the Day]

In the past week or so I’ve watched the first two episodes of Narutaru. I really didn’t know too much about this show to start out. There’d been a blurb in NewType USA about it, and that was it. But I seen to remember it sounded interesting enough to pick up an episode or two. For now I’m hooked. It’s about this girl named Tamai Shiina who meets this weird star shaped creature during her summer vacation and it becomes friends with her and comes home with her. The show is fairly cute, but with the introduction of one of the characters in the second episode the show definitely shows a bit of depth and that it isn’t afraid to be a little dark here and there.

Supposedly, this is based on a popular manga, so I’ll have to see what I can dig up about that. I definitely think this one is worth giving a look see.