Want to play 20 Questions with a computer? Do it. It’s almost scary how good it is at guessing whatever it was you’re thinking of.
Archive for July, 2003
LikeI seriously think that HP should give their printers away free. They’ve got a monopoly on the ink cartridge market already, and they’d just be getting more new customers.
I had to buy an ink cartridge last weekend and I practically shit my pants when I saw I’d need to spend a little more than fifty bucks to get one – and that’s just for a single color cartridge – not including black.
If the ink was made from of the blood of sweatshop labor in India, it still wouldn’t be worth anything near $50. Now I see why those inkjet refill spammers are so insistent that they’ll save you so much money – they will!
I got my hands on a copy of the Trillian 2.0 Beta2 today. Unfortunately, the only thing that I was looking forward to – Jabber support – doesn’t work. It just won’t let you add a Jabber connection, no matter what you name it.
They’ll fix it before the public beta though, I’m sure. Still kind a bummer for now though.
Battlestar Galactica wasn’t a particularly exciting part of sci-fi history, but those Cylons were scary as hell. Now you can own one!
Wow, Mang! There’s a load of cool retro desktops and icons at Pixel Decor. Chickenhead has a whole bunch too, but they haven’t posted any new ones in a while.
Sony released some specs on their upcoming portable PSP today.
Built in wireless networking and 7.1 channel sound (why?) caught my eye. Nintendo’s next Game Boy better kick some serious ass if they want to stay in the handheld game!
Actual photos of the unit or any information about its appearance won’t surface until the next E3 in May of 2004. 
Saturday we started working on wedding favors. That’s going to take a couple days to finish. Saturday night we went with Stacy and Steve to the Orange County Fair. It was a lot smaller than the LA County Fair, but the clientele wasn’t nearly as seedy and the grounds seemed to be kept up pretty well. It was fun, and I got Dippin’ Dots the “ice cream of the future” that I’ve never seen for sale anywhere BUT at a fair.
Sunday we worked on other wedding favors, but we mostly finished that batch.
Sunday we also saw Seabiscuit, which was a really good film that was only 5% about a horse. Really, the whole story was about a jockey, a trainer, and an owner. One of the better films I’ve seen in recent memory!
A few quick TV notes-
The last season of Monk had much, much better writers than the current season. Did you see Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico a few weeks ago? Yeesh.
Sci Fi channel is spinning off a new show from Stargate SG-1 called Stargate: Atlantis. They’ll have to dig deep to hire quality talent for this one, because I think SG-1′s strongest selling point is its great cast…Except for that totally unconvincing doctor lady. They could stand to replace her I think.
Enterprise took a nose dive in the ratings last season, so there are going to be some major changes made in season three, all of which sound like not-very-well-thought-out ideas to me, but I’ll wait to see what happens before I make a final judgement.
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is actually very funny and you should check it out if you get Bravo! Although I hear rumors that it’s headed to NBC pretty soon.
You know those people who love to tell you how they don’t watch TV? You know how they like to slip it into conversation all the time? I can’t stand those people. And some of the things they say in defense of their choice sound alarmingly similar to the guy in this Onion article. Anyway, those are the people who need Tivo the most.
There’s a fully scanned Gutenberg Bible online. Pretty cool!
I think recall elections are dumb.
You don’t like the job the governor’s doing? Tough shit. Guess what – he’s the governor. He won the vote. That means he can keep the job until his term is over. That’s how a democracy works. Just grow up and get over it already. If you don’t like what he’s doing, don’t vote for him in the next election. If you’ve got ants in your pants and absolutely have to have a new governor righthissecond, well you need to chill the frick out and move to Canada.
Recalls are the stupidest thing ever.
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