Comments for A curious mind

Comment on 27/365 by Jim

Jim — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:42:13 +0000

Well, you know my opinion of it. Haven’t gotten around to 83-96 yet myself. I’d love to have a better sounding copy of “Genesis” - my current copy is the old, old CD issue that sounds like it was transferred from an old cassette to digital via a pair of $2 cables. Other than that, yeah, sure, I should probably have a copy of “Invisible Touch”. Tonightx3 is a classic. Don’t care much about the other two, I’m afraid.

As for the Early Years, the current estimate is September, but then again they’ve been pushing this back for, oh, years now. I still hold out hope that its release will coincide with some exciting announcement. I mean, after all, 2009 is the 35th anniversary of The Lamb… hmm.

Comment on 2/365 by Brian

Brian — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:57:45 +0000

Hey Chris! It's no fiddlehead, but yeah - it looks like it would give lettuce a good run for its money.

Comment on 2/365 by Chris

Chris — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:00:58 +0000

But is it better than lettuce?

Comment on What’s 1 in 5000? by Brian

Brian — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:45:24 +0000

Yeah, I still need to make the first BMW purchase - they’re sweet cars, but I just don’t know when it’s going to happen. I’m still surprised this whole thing came together.

The original plan was to eventually sell Teresa’s Nissan and pick up a slightly used diesel Golf (we still can’t buy new diesels in California yet - rumor has it the latest generation of engine and emissions designs combined with the low-sulphur content diesel will mean we should be able to buy new in 2008/2009).

Looks like VW’s planning on a diesel version of the Jetta wagon coming up, which I think will make a pretty nice replacement for the Nissan - and a good commuter if need be.

As for your LD obsession, heck - nothing wrong with that! Heck, I wish that my interests didn’t hit the wallet so bad so quickly. Being able to pick up things for little to no money is a huge benefit!

Comment on What’s 1 in 5000? by Jim

Jim — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:49:36 +0000

Nice! There was a time, so many many moons ago, that I would have sworn you'd never own anything but a BMW. Volkswagen seems to fit the bill fairly well, though. It is also nice to see someone doing extending riffs on acquisitions and/or pet interests - I felt rather guilty and boring running at the mouth about my LaserDisc victory, but alas the wonderful thing about the web is that there's room for everyone's little obsessions.

Comment on Spam your friends! by Brian

Brian — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:20:50 +0000

Yeah, I hear you Jim - the potential for paranoid freakout is there. After having been broken into at my last place though, I like the thought of knowing that you can use home automation to at least turn the lights on automatically, if not just be able to have photo captures of whoever is at the door.

It’s not like I’m going to be getting into it anytime soon, but I like the concepts that this guy has been building out of Twitter. The only potential use that I can see getting out of the service - unless some other enterprising parties think other things up - that’s for sure.

As for media server(s), that’s something I’d like to get into as well. Our one bedroom apartment pretty much precludes playing around with that anytime soon on that too though.

Comment on Spam your friends! by Jim

Jim — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:46:08 +0000

I’ve tried Twitter twice to see what all the fussin’ is about. Both times Firefox would hang. Sounds dumb anyway.

As for the home automation - oh, my head. I’d become an obsessive, paranoid freak in no time. “Someone’s at the door!” Huh? Why?! What are they doing there?!! I’m calling the cops!!!

Only thing I am keeping an eye on in terms of future needs/networking is my iTunes library. I’ve got it set up on a dedicated RAID (with DVD backups just in case), but I don’t want to push those drive into an early grave because I’m playing back hours of music from them all the time. Seems to me that I need the RAID for long-term storage and an “active” drive that I copy everything to and use for actual playback, because in the long run I would like to see my future home be wired in every useful room for iTunes sharing. Just add cheap old computers, and off you go. Networked music bliss in every room, all feeding off one server.

It’s funny how we moved from mainframe/terminal to home computer, and now seem to be inching back towards that old model. In fact one of the hightlights, for me, of this iTunes sharing thing would be digging up machines to run iTunes in various rooms. A laptop here, an old iMac there. There’s articles out there regarding new uses for old VT100 terminals…

hmmm….

Comment on Umm… what happened? Pt. 2 by Jim

Jim — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:43:25 +0000

mmmmm.... I like the new look.

Comment on Umm… what happened? Pt. 2 by Jim

Jim — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:01:47 +0000

Hey, Brian - Took a peek to see if you were active here. I have taken another stab at the online journal-type-thing with our highly suspect friends over at blogger. I know, I know… but I can’t be bothered. Their beta version of the new interface seems much happier than the old, so we’ll see.

Happy belated Thanksgiving, by the way.

Jim

http://inflightshutdown.blogspot.com

Comment on R.I.P., Don Knotts by Jim

Jim — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:14:10 +0000

Oh sure, sick days. Blame your Don Knotts fetish on mysterious illness.

I seem to remember someone getting the perfect-attendance Gold Card *every year*.

I do, however, concur on the bizarre Three’s Company role. Not so much for his performance, but it was nearly impossible to look at him in those loud polyester shirts and the (ugh) knotted scarves around his neck.

Oh, the humanity.