On my way to kayaking yesterday, I walk past two little boys playing in the park, arguing, “I wanna be the nerd”, “No, I wanna be the nerd”. Assuming they were playing a neo-traditional version of polar opposites (cowboys and indians, cops and robbers), I wonder what they didn’t want to be. Google offers geek, dork, jock, hipster, and bully.
Nerd vs ?
April 8th, 2012A song about Seattle?
April 6th, 2012I can’t tell if United States of Electronica’s Vamos A La Playa is ‘set’ in Seattle, or if it’s just wishful-familiarity. They sing about
Alki
Golden Gardens
Madison Park
and
Lighthouse Beach
Is there another city that has all four of those features?
Our Lady Peace in Seattle
April 5th, 2012I noticed flyers yesterday, for an Our Lady Peace concert, at the Crocodile. It is the first band I’ve seen playing there, since they re-opened, that I would actually want to see. But the price is $30, and that’s just not going to happen. I don’t like them that much, for one thing, but more importantly, I can’t imagine any show that could fit into the Crocodile, that is worth $30. Maybe they really have spiffed things up enough inside to make it worth that sort of investment, but since they didn’t magically add 4,000 sq ft, I don’t see how.
You are not helping
April 5th, 2012Me: I need you to move this call to fnX(), because it calls GWT.create, into the view layer, instead of the presenter layer.
Dev: Here, I replaced the call to fnX() with a direct call to GWT.create, still in the presenter layer.
How useful of you (AIX)
April 4th, 2012Turns out you can re-size (at least if your are only growing) partitions on a live system, under AIX 7.1, even stuff like / and /var . Color me surprised.
Distorting Reality
April 3rd, 2012There’s a distorting influence, within the realm of last.fm, if you are just about the only person who listens to a selection of musicians. The system marks them as similar, because you alone listen to them, even though there’s radical differences in actual style between the actual artists. So it’s amusing to see it say that Academy of St Martin in the Fields is a similar artist to Capone. I suppose they are both European.
Cork Failure in a screw-top
April 2nd, 2012Not being super experienced with wine, I’ve never actually had a bottle where the cork went bad on me, but I’ve heard of the concept. And today, I found out it can happen with a screw-top. The banding was still sealed, but the screw-top didn’t match up with the threads, and just spun round and round. There was no visible sign of leakage, but there seemed to be an awful lot of play for an ‘unopened’ bottle. I moved on to the next bottle, and it seems OK.
LOL
March 31st, 2012I really and truly did laugh-out-loud. Not get-me-kicked-out loud, like the drunken group in front of me, just a good-time-amongst-similar-folk level of laughing. I hadn’t realized we’d be getting to see Kristen Schaal, as well as Eugene Mirman and the main event, Bobcat. Everyone did a great job, and even the annoying people couldn’t ruin my evening. If anything, it was an added bonus to see someone get trashed by every comedian. They walked out after Bobcat called the loudest-lady of their group an ‘old whore who thought she was here to see Poison’.
After the show, they had an ‘awkward party bus’ in the back parking lot, with two costumed individuals inside, but sadly it was quite full by the time I got there, and the next-to-last regular-bus home was only minutes away, so I didn’t stay and see if a spot would open up inside for me.
And we are back =)
March 31st, 2012Thank goodness it was only a minor problem, and all has been restored.
He’s My Best Friend
March 27th, 2012There are many songs that I sing along to, yet never really listen to the lyrics all that closely, and so eventually discover I had a completely incorrect interpretation of the song. My understanding of the lyrics led me to think of this song as being about a closeted gay guy and his crush on his best friend.
I’d like to blame some of my confusion on originally hearing these songs on old school cassette tapes and my cheap-o boom box. I’d like to. But, “it’s palm sunday over and over”…well, I have little excuse =p