I picked up a bluetooth keyboard this evening on the way home to use with my powerbook. :love:

I uh, get a lot of “wow you type really fast” from people. I don’t know why, I think it’s actually that I type really noisily, not necessarily quickly.

I type fastest on spring loaded old IBM KA-CHING KA-CHING ZING-ING-CHING keyboards and the like and when copying something already written. I got this keyboard because I like a full sized and in the corner Control key (Sorry Powerbook you are the best laptop kb evar but it’s just not good enough) with some separation between Caps Lock and A (vim hateses) that isn’t warm to the touch under my already sweaty palms. Oh, and 10-key is nice.

A few weeks ago I bought and never bloged about my new Airport Express. Get one if you use your laptop to listen to music like I did and was tired of being confined to the 20’ mini-stereo extension cable. It looks like wireless speaker extensions w/ amps are between 100 and 200 a pop, on the way.

How to reset the windowserver preferences in OSX so that your external monitor that claims it is being overdriven and turns itself off. It worked.

It is very bizarre to log into a mac using the GUI and be dumped into a vt100 console. The console seemed to work fine but meta-keys and commands in vim went apeshit. Ben helpfully suggested tweaking my TERM settings from xterm-color to vt100 which solved the vim problem. Back to dual head goodness 😃

Put best elsewhere:

I left during the last presentation of the evening, which was supposed to be a sort of “hacker talk show.” It was more of a train wreck than anything entertaining or informative. I will report on Saturday’s talks tomorrow evening.

Saturday has been hit or miss so far. Posting from a nearly empty last impromptu 'BOF"'s of the evening before walking home. Why the only major event is a dance club and not something local I don’t know.

(paraphrased because Adium didn’t seem to log it correctly)
David: Any plans for the Superbowl or are you totally apathetic?
Grant: Totally apathetic.
David: haha
Grant: Did you do anything for the Solstice last year?

Jung: options are intriguing nonetheless

First D.J.: Rise and shine, campers, and don’t forget your booties
'cause it’s cooooold out there today.
Second D.J.: It’s cold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?
First D.J.: Not hardly. So the big question on everybody’s lips.
Second D.J.: On their chapped lips
First D.J.: their chapped lips is, does Phil feel lucky? Punksatawney
Phil, thats right wood chuck chuckers its
[in unison]
First D.J.: GROUND HOG DAY
Second D.J.: GROUND HOG DAY

I opened an account with Netflix Monday morning and snagged three movies that I had a mild interest in seeing. A day later they were in my mailbox. Last night we watched The Manchurian Candidate. Tonight I have episodes IV and V of the Star Wars series, which the geek in me refuses to buy for the fifth time but the child in me really wants to see on DVD w/ my adult HiFi audio rig.

Back to Netflix: Wow. This is how it should be done.

Back to The Manchurian Candidate: I stopped reading Dean Koontz novels around the end of middle-school, is this one of his post-1992 novels? Contrived. Would have made a better comedy. If you liked it, go rent Jacob’s Ladder, which leaves all the weak midichlorian-type specifics to your imagination and is much more successful because of it.

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Mind reeling.

A and B are ~#666666 gray. The parts of my brain not reading this information out of photoshop strongly disagree.

I know I’ve been guilty of them. Not new, but comments bump the thread in my RSS reader and I get to play catchup.

• Student Loans consolidated
• Rent Paid
• Dentist Paid
• Blockbuster Paid