Due to the temporary dislocation of both my car and MP3 player, I’ve been digging through my CD collection for stuff to listen to while I’m in transit. One of the nice thing about having several hundred completely disorganized albums is that just digging around and finding stuff you forgot you had. New stuff for today’s binder include Jale – So Wound, Radiohead – The Bends, and the Stand By Me Soundtrack. Also of course, some of the more familiar stuff, like Prodigy’s Jilted, some Naked mixes, and our pal DJ Shadow.
Category: Legacy
So, looking at my fall music schedule, and it looks like I’m planning on going to a lot of shows in the upcoming weeks. Hmm, maybe I should start eating out less…
Sept 6, Freedom to Dance @ Westwood Federal Building – not really a “show” per se, but gotta show some linky love*Sept 6, Techno Tribe @ USC (free!) – dittoSept 9, Gus Gus, Balligomingo @ the El Rey- Sept 14/15, Dealership @ Fray Day
- Sept 18, Sleater Kinney @ the El Rey
- Sept 19, Interpol @ the Troubadour*
- Sept 20, Jazz a Nova, Kiip, Jason Bentley @ the El Rey
- Oct 6, “Keeping Time” Concert feat: Cut Chemist, Nu-Mark, J-Rocc, Shortkut, Madlib + special guests @ the El Rey*
- Oct 8, Doves @ the Mayan*
- Oct 10, Bright Eyes, M. Ward, The Bruces @ the El Rey
- Oct 21, Underworld @ the Wiltern*
- Oct 23, Spoon @ the Troubadour*
- Oct 24, Ani DiFranco @ the Wiltern*
- Nov 2, Dismemberment Plan @ the Troubadour*
* Still sorta up in the air.
Most of the in the airs have to do with whether I really want to shell out for tickets (or if the tickets are available yet). The RAVE Act protest depends on my schedule / car availability tomorrow (it’s in the shop getting the hydraulic clutch cylinders replaced). Whether I go to Fray Day SF depends on if I really want to drive up to SF on my birthday weekend.
Hey, I have work early tomorrow morning. What am I doing still up? I don’t know. I have more stuff I want to post up, but that Mozilla post really grew out of hand… which is about par for my Mozilla posts. (yeah, I should work on the search bit sometime. Honestly, just about anything would be better)
Hey, Chris brought Justin into the fold. Welcome, brother Hall. 🙂
Oh, some (old and new) links for fellow Mozillian converts:
- Links Panel – all hail Dr. Brain.
- MozBlog – All Hail Mike Lee.
- spellchecker – coming soon to a build near you
- jesser’s bookmarklets – lots of good stuff; also, Jesse made one just for my site.
- Mozilla Evangelism Sidebars – most sidebars sorta suck, but the Mozilla Source Generator sidebar rocks the house.
- QLookup – Adds Google Search, Wayback, and Dictionary lookup to the context menu
- Multizilla – what Mozilla’s tabbed browsing was inspired by and may one day be. Warning: They have a pic of it working, but when I installed Multizilla on a 1.1a+ build on OSX, it really gave it a royal drubbing (totally hosed the chrome). Really, the only toolbar addon you need though (w/ the option GoogleBox). See blog
- diggler – comes in handy more than you might think
- leech – pretty useful right now, with lots of potential
- Googlebar – honestly, I don’t use this anymore, no good reason, I guess. Same w/ EasySearch. Nothing against them, but my custom keywords handle just about everything I need
- Banner Blind – when the default image blocking isn’t enough and you’re too lazy of a bum to run a real proxy. 🙂
- Optimoz – OK, some people like gestures. I don’t because I like dragging my mouse around and highlighting stuff randomly. That wasn’t a good thing to do in earlier milestone builds with the random lockups and the hey hey. Some people like gestures though.
- Preferences Toolbar – personally, I don’t like it and have grand plans to make something that is functionally similar and combines it w/ uabar functionality and some other neat stuff, but um… I’ve been busy.
- Phoenix nightlies (mozbrowser) – d/l’d it today. It rocks the casbah.
- January Mozilla addon ramble – has some links I’m too lazy to reproduce
Hmm, another list just because it popped into my head: my current Mozilla “annoyances that happen all the time that I can think of off hand”
- Window shortcuts (close tab, switching tabs, etc.) don’t work depending on location focus / whether tabs are empty or not
- “FileBookmarks” / “Bookmark Groups of Tabs” dialog boxes don’t remember the size
- History Window remembers that I want to view by Last Visited date in descending order, but doesn’t actually order it. It takes 3 clicks to make it actually do it (1st click makes it into unordered mode, which is what it starts as (but doesn’t think it’s in), second click gets it into ascending order, and the third takes it back into descending order with it actually sorted in that order)
- Email notification goes off even when filter sends is set to delete the incoming message
- No “run rule on current folder(s)” option available when I make a new rule (which I might add, I should be able to make from the context menu but have to go in the Message menu instead)
- Oh, and I can’t easily switch between SMTP servers (important when using a laptop from different locations/ISPs)
Justin’s mindex is cool. I should update mine. I’ve been using the same one, pretty much unchanged, since 1998. A large chunk of those sites on my list don’t even exist anymore.
BTW, for Dictionary lookups, these are the keywords I use:
- mw
- http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=%s
- mwt
- http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/thesaurus?va=%s
- dict
- http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=%s
- thes
- http://www.thesaurus.com/cgi-bin/search?config=roget&words=%s
I read about umami a while back, but then I never heard another peep out about it. However, this week’s Washington Post has an article entitled Umami Dearest that goes a more in depth than the stuff I had read last year. It also sites where the original research came from.
Umami got a big boost in the Western world early in 2000, when scientists at the University of Miami discovered a specific taste receptor for glutamates on the human tongue. That made believers out of a lot of skeptics. And just this year, in the March issue of the research journal Nature, scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Diego and the National Institutes of Health reported their discovery of a taste receptor that is sensitive to several of the amino acids found in proteins, not just glutamic acid.
Homer: Save a guy's life, and what do you get? Nothing! Worse than nothing!
Just a big scary rock.
Bart: Hey, man, don't bad-mouth the head.
Marge: Homer, it's the thought that counts. The moral of the story is a
good deed is its own reward.
Bart: Hey, we got a reward. The head is cool.
Marge: Then... I guess the moral is no good deed goes unrewarded.
Homer: Wait a minute. If I hadn't written that nasty letter, we
wouldn't've gotten anything.
Marge: Well... Then I guess the moral is the squeaky wheel gets the
grease.
Lisa: Perhaps there is no moral to this story.
Homer: Exactly! Just a bunch of stuff that happened.
Ooh, nice framegrabs via The Simpsons Showcase at Monstromart.com
Art.Lebedev Studios has section of great posters (they all share the studio barcode logo embedded within them). Way cool.
On a recent /. thread, there were still some people still bitching about Ogg Vorbis‘ name. A few years ago, when I first heard it, I’ll admit that the name didn’t strike me as particularly good, but it has since grown on me a bit. After all, Ogg is both easier to type and pronounce than MP3. It seems like it could really catch on. Of course, if people start calling Ogg Vorbis as Ogg, that sort of leaves Theora and Tarkin out. This post has run out of steam.
There seems to be some recurring feedback complaining about the new USC site being bland and not having any school spirit. This feedback usually includes some form of pining for the old site, with more than one message speaking of the “cardinal background.” I hate to burst the alternate realities these people live in, but the old site background was BROWN.
No, I don’t have any better work stories. You can see why I generally don’t post any here.