8/15/2006 #
Turbulent Wishlist
Okay, so my massive organization/BS-elimination efforts last night yielded my eBay Sony (ugh) headphones. After monkeying with them for a while, I am now decided that they are not defective, and I will be using them full-time.
There’s a volume spinner on the cord, and it is a little hokey, but I’m starting to think that it’s “by design” (or at least by lack of design), and not a manufacturing defect.
Either way, they sound good, and they keep me from feeding more cash into the meat grinder for base triviality.
8/15/2006 #
Jigga What?
I’m just now realizing that a “good” Access application probably involves little or no user-generated VBScript code. Everything is either automatically generated or “implied” by the structure of everything.
While this sounds cute, it’s hell on someone who knows what they’re doing. It’s like a soccer league for voluntary paraplegics.
8/14/2006 #
Very Irritating
Well, my shiny new Sony headphones lasted all of one week before the rubber hanger sheared off of the plastic mount on the left-side earpiece. And it’s one of those irreparable small-electronics breakages that suggests inefficacy for super glue or any other remedy.
I think I’m going to “mod” the headphones by using wire cutters at the Y-junction where the source-facing cable splits into left and right, making a one-ear (right-only) setup.
I would classify the failure as being within the realm of “normal wear-and-tear” operation. It’s basically the same way my other headphones of this type failed, and I’m at a loss now.
Therefore, death to Sony. I add this set of much more robust-looking headphones to my wishlist.
Bah.
8/14/2006 #
Oh Boy...
Whisper Fudge III is now underway. Bring out the Ewoks.
8/14/2006 #
Merch
This doohickie, while an expensive doohickie, is pretty cool. 200 degrees of tilt and the option to just clamp it to a desk.
If I bought yellow-tinted wrap-around sunglasses, this, and an iMac with Bluetooth I could be a card-carrying hippie.
Correction: This doesn’t work with the Intel iMacs. Vonderful.
8/11/2006 #
Wish Listy
One
Two
I’d add the new FfF album, but it’s not well reviewed, and it didn’t seem to have a lot of radio interest (like that says much, though).
8/11/2006 #
Eric's Nerd Test
Pure Nerd
100 % Nerd, 30% Geek, 34% Dork
8/10/2006 #
Worlds Collide
Sleeping Contractor and Cackles have commenced the second-annual Whisper Fudge in an adjacent cube.
A Whisper Fudge, by the way, is defined by me as a meeting in which two or more people exchange very noisy, obvious whispers with people around.
The last one was on a Friday, which was slightly more conscienable, since half the workforce is toodaloo each Friday due to the blessed 9⁄80 schedule.
Productivity must not behave like electricity and magnetism. Look at the field for two repelling poles. It’s quite clear that two infinite sources of negative or positive charge/polarity don’t exactly go out for coffee or cocktails together in the E&M world.
However, what we have here is a close union of two infinite productivity sinks, effectively drawing each other into the purview of the other.
If we waved some dead chickens and resurrected Maxwell and Gilbreth, maybe they could come up with something to explain this.
8/10/2006 #
Why?
I’m in a vicious spinlock right now, treading water at the precisely wrong time. Nothing I can do but sit back and wait. And maybe come to work on my off-day tomorrow. I really stole a 9/80 from them at the beginning, so I guess that would make it square.
I was trying to move more albums onto the iRiver last night with the wrong cable, and I had a little intermittent connectivity problem. I thought I had it fixed by holding everything really still while the music moved over, but apparently it didn’t work so well.
I was letting the morose, sinister groove of A Perfect Circle’s “The Package” build up, when all of a sudden the track switched over to the middle of Seals and Crofts’ “Diamond Girl.” I don’t think you could have planned a more ironic juxtaposition.
“Weak and Powerless” is not producing any soft 70’s hits, so I’m thinking the rest of the album is okay. If they mess with “The Noose” I’m going to have to switch albums, because that song makes the whole of Thirteenth Step. Just about as much as that creepy cover art might almost ruin it.
I think there’s a fresh FAT32 partition in the works for the little MP3 player once the real cable is located and utilized.
Update: “The Noose” completes without a Better than Ezra intervention or anything of the like. “Blue” proceeds with authoritah.
Question: Do you ever see an electronic document with hyphens in the middle of a line, indicating that at some point someone must have tried to force a hyphenation at a certain location? Does it ever occur to you to wonder why someone would try to force hyphenation?
