October 31, 2004
Powerbook Wrist Rests
Doing this as a trackback rather than comment as I don't feel like messing with Typekey, required to comment at heyblog, where Andrew asks: (OS7)
I love my G4 Powerbook, but the edge below the keyboard where I rest my wrists is sharp. If my elbows are below the plane of my hands it gets uncomfortable. Has anyone seen a good solution for this? (OS8)
I had this problem too. Started with a taller and worse Dell, but is present in the powerbook too. I solved it by taking one of the long (~ 18 inches) flat foam wristpads for desktop keyboards, cutting it in half, cutting 3 inch pieces off either end, and gluing the 3 inch pieces underneath the two six inch pieces to create two things that look vaguely like this when view from the side: (OS9)
------ ------ --- --- (OSA)
These then slot over the lip of the powerbook where your wrists go. (OSB)
It's ugly and a bit of pain to carry around, but works well. (OSC)
October 25, 2004
Comments
I'm tried of dealing with comments spam, despite the useful mt-blacklist. The combination of MT with PurpleWiki's TransClusion makes rebuilding the blog painful, I'm too busy to worry about upgrading to MT 3.whatever, etc etc. (OR9)
So I've closed comments on entries that are over two weeks old and plan to make a habit of it (easy to do by tweaking the mysql database directly). (ORA)
If you'd like to comment on something older, please just mail me. There's info for that on every page. (ORB)
Meanwhile I have half of a PurpleKwiki? working. (ORC)
Update: More than half working now. (ORI)
October 19, 2004
Categorizing and Classes
Sometimes it feels like I ought to save some of the things I say so I can recall what I preach and perhaps manage to practice it someday (or at least spread the good word widely): (OPJ)
me:that's the inevitable result of being a critic (OPL)
me:if you wish to be thought of as someone aligned to a particular set of values, you have to talk about those values, not the people who don't represent them (OPM)
Dr. Surly:I think that sentence probably deserves to be a paragraph (OPN)
This lines up nicely with last night's partial viewing of High Fidelity wherein our man Rob, through a series of events, realizes the value found in being a creator, not solely a professional critic or appreciator. (OPO)
October 15, 2004
Gmail Invites
I finally checked my gmail account today for the first time in months and I have six invitations to give away. If you would like one, let me know. (ON2)
I don't use my account. I think they've done a wonderful job, but me like me pine from me powerbook. (ON3)
(This is also an experiment to see how long people will continue asking for them after they are already gone. Something of a trend, I'm told.) (ON4)
October 09, 2004
State of Affairs
My mom just asked about Hijacking Catastrophe: (OKN)
(CJ: do you have any info/opinion on this film? Also have you seen the big double page ad from George Soros that is in today's newspapers?) (OKO)
I've heard of it, I think it went through Bloomington while I was still there. It's more of the "if you're already convinced, this will just confirm and if you aren't already convinced this will just make you think it is a bunch of lies" kind of stuff. I'm sick of it. I just started watching a rerun of tonight's debate and before they even started talking I got disgusted with the smarminess of it all and got behind the tv with my computer and headphones so I could neither see nor hear. (OKP)
I've not seen the George Soros thing. What's happening with that? (OKQ)
Clearly I need to be reminded that people can change (quickly) through delivery of information from the outside. I'm not convinced they can. Predisposition, osmosis and diffusion make things go. Thus things like structured argumentation and the like are just facades masking a different process. (OKR)
But happy news, in celebration of entering a new bracket in the life-insurance actuarial tables, I'm taking a spaceship to Mars tomorrow to stay in a dumpster. I'm told I should pack light as leaving things in the dumpster may get them carried off by homeless (Martians? Rovers? Lost Kim Stanley Robinson characters?). I'll take a camera and rain coat. I hear Mars is nice but a bit damp this time of year. (OKS)
October 04, 2004
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
This weekend was the last weekend of sun I will see. Seattle is preparing to descend into several months of cool foetid dampness. In keeping with tradition, Sabrina and I made way to a wilderness destination. We went to the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, the estuary at the mouth of the Nisqually River as it enters the Puget Sound, bird central, home of somewhere between a few hundred and 97 million billion cedar waxwings (a suave character to be sure) and many other birds. (OJX)
The Nisqually River starts way up on Mount Rainier in the Nisqually Glacier and flows 78 miles to the sound. From the wildlife refuge, one can see the mountain watching over things: mindful, present, and completely untouchable. It's an awe inspiring sight. (OJZ)
Sabrina and I visited Rainier last year. This, if I recall correctly, is the Nisqually Glacier: (OK1)
Its melt flows down the mountain (OK3)
to the estuary (OK5)
and out into the sound. (OK7)
The experience of seeing the mountain from a distance is not that much different from looking at it while upon it. Its upper reaches tower above everything around it. It is always there, always watching you. The only way to get away is to go to the top. I may need to do that. (OK9)
There's a lovely trail that walks a large loop through the refuge. More pictures at NisquallyWildlifeRefugeThumb: more of the mountain, some of me and Sabrina being confused by the camera, a nice little froggie, and a seal pulling a fish from a net in the river. (OKB)
