A "friend" and I wander into a gathering of about fifteen people in a long, narrow room. I start scatting a well-known bluesy jazz tune, and everyone joins their voices in to make this glorious sound. The music just pours spontaneously out of me, verse and chorus about fifteen times through with tasty variations, and everyone else is perfect at ( Read more... )

Why is the command to import an entire XML iTunes library (exported with "Export Library", mind you) "Import Playlist"? I thought Apple wasn't supposed to have user-interface glitches like that...

Oh well, if it successfully imports all 5000+ tracks from the XML file, I'll forgive them that.

What I learned today: Just throwing the pork in the crock pot with some chardonnay is clearly inferior to browning the pork in oil that has just cooked some onions and then adding cider to the pot. Next time, I will know better, though whether I will have the time and cider needed to do it properly is not clear. (Possible future avenues of ( Read more... )

Weird one last night -- my friends were pressuring me to write a story called "The Silvery Light of Pirates", and to edit an anthology with the same name. They got very excited showing me different graphics designs for the title on the book's cover, trying to embody that Silvery Light.

I have no idea where that came from....

Seen just now shopping laptops at Dell:

"Customize with Windows XP for an additional $150."

Anyone out there with Mac mojo have a suggestion as to why I cannot ssh onto my MacBook Pro? Putty gives me the error "Connection refused". I assumed it was the firewall, but on checking it looks like the firewall is set to accept all incoming connections. (Which sounds like a separate problem to deal with.) I would suspect it was set to not ( Read more... )

Two cheeses from Big Ten
Spring rolls (assuming we can get them rolled this evening)
Nissua (assuming the actual baking part goes okay)
$250 worth of wine, more or less to Uncle Jerry's specifications
Possibly applesauce?

So much for the 24 hours Parallels transfer -- it actually bombed out incomplete after about 10 hours. So I deleted another 30 gigs off of Finn's hard drive and now I'm trying again ( Read more... )

I love how Parallels Transporter says "Warning! It may take some time to complete the operation." It's trying to copy 60 gigs of data across my wireless network. Yeah, I suspect that may take some time. In fact, judging by how the progress bar is moving along, I'm think about 24 hours might be just about right.

Browning a pork roast in the pot as I type, gotta run down into the basement and get the crock pot so I can start a beef pot roast as well...