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  • The Birthday Wishlist

    A friend of mine asked me what I wanted for my birthday, and I really wasn’t sure. I mean, I want the new Looney Tunes collection coming out on my birthday. In fact, I’d say the first three things on my Amazon wish list are the big items.

    If money wasn’t an issue I’d want something like the new Think Outside bluetooth mouse or a iPod Photo (60GB of course) (only partly care about the photo part, I want most of it for music).

    Oh, and I just signed up with that freeipods.com thing, so if you want to help me out, sign up for something using http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=10659946. I’m actually opting for the $250 gift certificate for the iTunes music store. Since that will be handy for impulse puchases.

  • QOTD 10/31/2004

    Jim Horning
    “Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.” [via Quotes of the Day]

  • Cider Sorbet

    Here’s a recipe for some Cider Sorbet that my mom makes. It’s really good.

    Cider Sorbet

    • 4 cups cider
    • 3/4 cup sugar
    • 1 cup orange juice
    • 1 cup lemon juice
    • 1/4 cup dark rum (Myers is what she uses)

    Simmer cider with sugar for five minutes. Add remaining ingredients. Process in an ice-cream maker until slushy and firm, then place in containers and freeze. This can also be made by freezing in a shallow container until mushy, then processing in a blender or food processor until smooth and put into containers for freezing.

    Ingredients can also be adjusted to taste.

  • Get Out And Vote…

    Here’s a site where you can vote for a Bush or Kerry Pumpkin. I personally think they both look kind of ugly. They both looks like there’s something running out of their noses. I think I’d be scared if I saw them as a kid, so maybe they’d be great for halloween. Unfortunately, at the time of this posting, Bush is winning.

  • QOTD 10/29/2004

    Roy Blount Jr.
    “The last time somebody said, ‘I find I can write much better with a word processor.’, I replied, ‘They used to say the same thing about drugs.’” [via Quotes of the Day]

  • And The Winner Is…

    A few years after I graduated from high school, my school started doing mock elections. Since 1988 their mock election has accurately chosen the eventual winner. VOTES 2004 was today, and the winner was… John Kerry! Let’s hope their record of success continues.

    It’s a pretty interesting setup. From the web page:

    Two schools from each state participate in the highlight of the month-long project—a mock election at which a winner is declared just days before the general election. The VOTES election is unique in that it simulates the electoral college process of selecting a candidate: the winner must earn at least 270 out of 538 electoral votes.

    And here is the breakdown of the results:

    Candidate
    John Kerry
    George Bush
    Ralph Nader
    David Cobb
    Michael Badnarik
    Michael Peroutka
    Others
    Electoral Votes
    326
    212
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    Popular Votes
    26,920
    22,771
    2,253
    758
    572
    230
    56
    Percentage
    50.20%
    42.50%
    4.40%
    1.40%
    1.00%
    0.40%
    0.10%

    Voter Turnout 70%

    Pretty cool I must say. I can’t wait to see how accurate it is this year.

  • Stewart Copeland, Mac Geek

    Derrick Story writes about his Favorite Stewart Copeland Story:

    The next day, when we had a few moments to talk, I asked him what he thought of the laptop. Stewart was in a great mood. He said that since he didn’t have any of his stuff on it, he just nosed around, and quickly discovered GarageBand. Stewart is more of a ProTools kind of guy, so he’s never taken the time to check out GB.

    “I saw this cool looking guitar on the dock,” he said. “So I clicked on it. It seemed like about 20 minutes had passed, but it was more like a couple hours. Next thing I knew, I had some pretty sweet tracks put together. And that was without a USB keyboard (as in the musical type). I was just tapping on the computer itself.” [O’reilly:Derrick Story]

  • Some Mac game News

    Some quick Mac gaming bits from Insidemacgames.com in the last week or two. The first is the re-release of a game that I found quite cool and quite disturbing when it came out: Bad Mojo.

    Originally hatched in 1996 under the gleeful gaze of publishers Pulse Entertainment, Bad Mojo tells the quirky, Kafka-esque story of mad scientist and entomologist Roger Samms, who, one morning, wakes up to find that he’s been temporarily turned into… a cockroach. Players are entrusted with navigating the reborn insect back to safety along a path of discovery across the giant obstacle course that has become his own apartment building. [insidemacgames.com]

    And also, sometime next month or so we should give us the release of The Fool and his Money:

    Further to yesterday’s news item regarding the upcoming release of his new metapuzzle, independent game developer Cliff Johnson has contacted the IMG News Staff with further news regarding his current project, the long-awaited sequel The Fool And His Money.

    According to Cliff, the current projected completion date for the new title has been pushed till December of this year; December 6th, to be exact, judging by the completion countdown clock on his web page.

    …

    Despite the game’s numerous delays, the game developer’s rabid fan base are standing behind the solo programmer, and are offering unconditional support to his latest effort. In his email to IMG, Cliff writes:

    What has been and continues to be both thrilling and heartwarming is the tremendous outpouring of love and affection for The Fool’s Errand (and 3 in Three) from True Believers all over the world, confirming what I’ve always suspected… that folks from all walks of life enjoy the game. To borrow the retired Mac slogan, “a game for the rest of us.”

    [insidemacgames.com]

    This is one I’ve been waiting to come out for ages (here’s my post on it from over a year ago). I am so psyched to see it finally coming out. The Fool’s Errand is still one of my favorite games of all time.

  • In Case of Erruption

    Just in case you happen to live anywhere near a Volcano.

    “Oh yeah, AWAY from the volcano…”

    From the U.S. Geological Survey's What to Do if a Volcano Erupts page:

    During an Eruption –

    Move Away From A Volcano – Not Toward It

    [via The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Weblog]

  • Porn w/out the Porn

    Last night I was at a birthday party for a neighbor that was held at Real Art Ways in Hartford. I’d never been there before and it’s a neat little place (and their movie theatre has some interesting sounding things coming up). One of the exhibits there was by Laura Carton and featured pictures that were originally porn that had been downloaded from the net, and then had the people in them removed with the help of photoshop. It definitely changes one views them once you find that out.

    Carton

    The thing is, the concept sounded so damn familiar. I knew I’d heard about it before, and had a feeling it was from BoingBoing. So, this morning I did a bit of searching about and discovered it had been on BoingBoing. And not only on BoingBoing, but by a posted by guestblogger there: the amazing Susannah Breslin.