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Domain Name Greed
So I did a little more research into the gottlieb.* domain names. I had considered something along those lines before ending up with malkier.com since all the appropriate gottlieb stuff was taken. Most are held by legitimate parties (ie people/businesses with the name gottlieb), but gottlieb.net is actually being squatted on by a rather shifting looking domain service, buydomains.com. Turns out these scumbags run around buying up domains with the hopes that someone would buy them for a pretty penny.
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Kitty soup!
I got some more of the disposable cameras from the wedding processed. Nothing too interesting aside from a few shots of the cats I took to use up film that I’ve put up in the usual place. Here are a couple of highlights: Merry likes to play in the laundry Spooky likes to play in the big soup pot Silly kitties! And now that my folks have come to visit the grand-kitties (don’t ask… I didn’t coin the phrase), they have all sorts of new cat toys to play with.
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Wedding, wedding, and more weddings...
Been rather busy lately. Went to my cousin’s wedding 3 weekends ago in Missouri/Kansas. Then flew down to Amanda’s cousin’s wedding in Texas 2 weekends ago. My folks have been visiting this past week and just left on Sunday morning. To top that off, I’ve had some sort of nasty sinus infection for the past week. Next weekend we’re off to Iowa for Amanda’s coworker’s wedding and on the way back I’ll be going to ISCA ‘05 in Wisconsin for a few days.
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E3 Highlights
The big E3 entertainment expo featured the first real info on the next generation game consoles. Xbox360 features a PowerPC with 3 cores, graphics by ATI, some backwards compatibility. PS3 features a beastly PowerPC-based Cell processor (ie roughly twice the flops of the Xbox360), graphics by Nvidia, Blu-Ray support, and full backwards compatibility (PS1 and PS2). Very limited details on the Nintendo Revolution: backwards compatible with Gamecube games, support for downloading old school Nintendo games (NES, SNES, N64… not sure how the pricing scheme will work for this).
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Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Episode III is out! And it’s supposed to be good. Very dark, but good. I’ve heard it actually does a good job wrapping things up and bridging the new with the old. Hopefully I’ll get to see it before too long (headed out of town to go to Amanda’s cousin’s wedding tomorrow and my folks will be here next week). Of course, I’ve heard a fairly high quality work print has been leaked.
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Tiger X.4.1
As I suspected, the 10.4.1 update for Tiger has been released. Looks like they’ve fixed quite a number of things (seems to have possibly solved some of the crashes/lockups I’d experienced so far… at least, don’t think I’ve had one since I updated).
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Best blog ever!
Ran across the best blog ever this afternoon. The Daily Kitten! Go there. NOW!!
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Playing tunes on OS X
So it would seem that the release of iTunes by Apple largely killed off the other music playing apps (ie mp3 players). Which is lame because I find the interface a little bulky, doesn’t seem like I can have it sort based on directory structure, and I find it a little annoying that by default it wants to copy all of your music to a “My Music” type folder when you import new stuff.
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More burger news
Ok, it’s not exactly news. But I’ve randomly run into some more food oddities. I say randomly because I ran across it on this guy’s del.icio.us bookmarks (he wrote Cocoalicious, a slick del.icio.us client for OS X). Anyway, here’s the link. Featured are the Luther Burger (a bacon cheeseburger served on a toasted Krispy Kreme bun) and the Hamdog (a hot dog wrapped in a beef patty that’s deep fried, covered with chili, cheese and onions, and served on a hoagie bun topped with a fried egg and two fistfuls of fries).
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#define "prairie restoration project"
I’ve seen a few of these around town. Apparently the park district is spinning them as restoring some of the land controlled by the park district to it’s original “prairie” condition. In practice, I think this largely translates to “um, this is too much work, so we’re just going to stop mowing some of these and put up a sign.” I’ve always found the park district to be rather interesting around here.
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