The Lemon: History Of The Internet (for a more serious take, check out ISOC’s Internet Histories or the various timelines and historical resources).

For those interested, I’ve decided to go w/ a Powerbook 12″ (I’ve been lugging around a 1st gen 15″ TiBook for the past year and a half) for my new laptop. I have a PB12″ vs X31 excel spreadsheet outlining listing some of the why-fors. Basically, it comes down to the fact that though the PB12″ gets blown away in the hardware department (it is fast enough to be useful, but barely), OS X’s laptop handling and native *NIX environment makes up for it. The biggest things I miss when I’m on a Mac: TopStyle, Neat Image, WINAMP 2, ACDSee, and Trillian. (dealing w/ CRW files is much more limited on the Mac as well, but the next version of Photoshop will come bundled with Thomas Knoll’s kick ass Adobe RAW plug-in, so I’m not super worried about that)

On the flip-side, useful apps that are Mac only: iLife, AppleScript, Konfabulator, OmniGraffle, Final Cut Pro.

Most of the apps I use all the time: Mozilla, vim, and Photoshop, are on both platforms.

Proving that comic hilarity can continue even after you’re no longer ’embittered’, or ‘hapless’, Ernie’s back online. the 10-sided die of ‘i don’t think so’ – now that’s classic.

Turn-about, fair play, etc.

In severe need of a 50mm prime.

Gaaah. This weekend must be dedicated to getting blogging system up and running. This is interminable.

Borrowing a couple of lenses from Jaime right now. Here’s a shot from Day 1 shooting. 1600 looks really good scaled down. I love RAW.

My process needs some work, but the IQ is spectacular: 12-bit linear -> 16-bit sRGB TIFF -> Crop -> White/Blackpoint General Curves -> 8-bit -> Color adjustment with image mask -> scale -> USM

Occurred to me I should be using the real Matrix screen font, since it’s installed on most systems.

I’ve already taken over two hundred photos (maybe 1 or 2 good ones, mind you) in the past day, about 1GB of files. Maybe I should buy another HD?

It’s been raining toys recently. Finally got my EOS-10D yesterday. After going to a friends house and borrowing some lenses, I filled up the half-gig CF card I had with me in a matter of minutes. I can see that that new HD I ordered should come in handy.

MPlayerOSX – Mac binary distribution of “Movie Player for Linux” – flossy. Plays DIVX (and kin), Real, etc.