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Cool music and spaces in San Francisco
Last night I saw This Can't End Well ( http://www.thiscantendwell.com/ ) and Victoria and the Vaudevillains ( http://www.victoriavband.com/ ) at the Lost Church ( http ( Read more... ) -
What a year...
So... I haven't posted in a *long* time. One post a little over a year ago. But otherwise a gap of two years. Back then, Facebook and Twitter were just starting to take over the intarwebs. Honestly, I still haven't grasped Facebook. I sporadically remember to check it because people are there a lot. And I could never really get into twitter, ( Read more... ) -
Comics are weird
OK, so I'm re-reading The Invisibles. I'm on the first storyline of Volume 2, where they pick new roles based on elements (air, earth, fire, water, spirit), which they do by drawing colored scraps of paper out of a hat. The roles have been mentioned before, but not really explained. Ragged Robin draws air, which is what King Mob had. So she's ( Read more... ) -
Batwoman: It gets worse
So... Three years after being introduced with much fanfare, Batwoman finally gets her own feature (and cover) in this week's Detective Comics. For the character who is supposedly DC's most prominent gay character, her profile has been extremely low. Heck, Obsidian gets more panel time. Not to mention Renee Montoya, who has assumed the identity ( Read more... ) -
Republicans have no foreign policy clue...
Do they not get that the absolute *worst* thing that we could do is put our fingerprints all over the Iranian uprising? Right now it's a totally home-grown operation no matter how much the clerics point fingers at us and the U.K., and everyone knows it. Us jumping up and down about what's going on over there will do nothing to help the protesters ( Read more... ) -
Fuck you, twitter...
So I gave in and got a twitter account, in the wake of dwineman (an old college friend who now has hundreds of followers on twitter) visiting a few weeks ago. I find myself inexplicably fascinated by it, especially since concise statements are not my forté. Also, I've given up pretending to dissociate "ixat_totep" from my real identity since ( Read more... ) -
Safari 4 beta: Awesome, yet FAIL
OK, so Safari 4 runs Yahoo mail so much drastically better than Firefox that I think I'll keep it for at least that. But there is no easy way to just add different search engines to the search bar. On Firefox this is trivial. I don't do plugins as a general rule. I get them for major things (like Firebug for debugging web apps). But I don't go ( Read more... ) -
Browser Wars: Safari 4 vs Chrome
So... Apple has very wisely decided to take advantage of Google's absurdly slow progress on Chrome for Mac OS to put out the Safari 4 beta, which blatantly appropriates as much of Chrome's feature set as possible. It also implements ( Read more... ) -
+2 to pretentiousness
I have decided to start drinking absinthe. I purchased a bottle of Emile Pernot Vieux Pontarlier at my favorite local wine/liquor store (http://www.swirloncastro.com/ but watch out the site plays music- it also makes it look like they only have wine, but they have quite a bit else) and ( Read more... )