screen memory

by jebni on January 30, 2005

Last night in a dream, I suddenly remembered that I had been charged with looking after a small and special mouse, which was housed inside an intensive care crib in my backpack. This special mouse received all its nutrients via (…)

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touching the omegatron

by jebni on January 18, 2005

Ned and Stacey was one of my favourite sitcoms of the 1990s. Really stupidly enjoyable stuff about misanthropy with heart, and a total guilty pleasure. Imagine my surprise last night as I watch a rerun on cable: written and produced (…)

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digital idiocy

by jebni on January 17, 2005

A couple of weeks ago I upgraded our lab of Macs to OS X 10.3.7 — a free, minor upgrade. All is fine. Today we find that Pro Tools 6.4 no longer runs on our systems, which is irritating. Okay, (…)

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just try acting

by jebni on January 17, 2005

Found this great post at 43 Folders on how to “hack your way out of writer’s block”. At the end is a fantastic story about Laurence Olivier, Dustin Hoffman and another layer of the Antipopper school of acting: One day (…)

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shuffle-upagus

by jebni on January 12, 2005

Dan Hill enters the iPod shuffle fray with an extremely well-timed treatise on shuffle mode.

think stupid

by jebni on January 11, 2005

The mounting hysteria about Steve Jobs’ MacWorld keynote tomorrow is noted with amusement. Some speculate that Apple’s lawsuit against the ThinkSecret rumour site is just a marketing ploy — an attempt to visibly exploit the cat (news of a sub-US$500 (…)

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stealing hearts

by jebni on January 9, 2005

.flickr-photo { border: 0 } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hon and I come across this fabulous store display in Osaka. Hon turns to me. “Do you want?” he whispers, (…)

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uncle tom

by jebni on January 9, 2005

Check out Tom‘s great rant about Alexander and the limits of “gay rights” discourse: I think I can state right-out that there is homophobia in the way this film has been received. I think that’s true. It’s only one reason (…)

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songs about famous people

by jebni on January 7, 2005

*Alexander Graham Bell Well, he knew darned well That he could find the only way To talk across the USA Telephone, telephone Never be on your own Many many years ago He started something with his first “Hello, hello” Alexander (…)

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