I just finished watching Koyaanisqatsi for the first time ever. Some thoughts:

• This is the first time I've ever thought "I wish I were watching this in an IMAX theatre". IMAX 3D would be even more awesome.
• There were at least half a dozen times I stared agape at the screen, amazed at the shots they'd found.
• There's so many times I've been out and ( Read more... )

Here's a little diversion:


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In the Bad Old Days of Unix graphical user-interfaces, fonts were fairly limited - no anti-aliasing, no TrueType, just black-and-white bitmap fonts (and Postscript Type1 fonts, but they're so ugly in black-and-white we'll pretend they don't exist). Every letter for every size of every font had to be drawn by hand, and Unix required a different file ( Read more... )

Today is the first day I ever found a grey hair in my beard.

I'm not even 30 yet. :(

I suspect anyone who's vaguely interested is already subscribed to my Flickr feed, but I figure I ought to mention that due to the extreme backlog of photos I have right now, I'm just going to upload them in dribs and drabs rather than waiting until I've processed all the photos from a particular event.

I've encountered a number of challenges in my limited Metacity theming experience; in the interest educating Google, I'll explain some of the stumbling blocks I've encountered so-far with my Mac OS Classic theme, and how I worked around them (or not):
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I was trying to relax this weekend, but it seems I got side-tracked into tinkering again

• Last week, I came across a kind of manifesto for something called lomography, which I'd roughly summarise as "any photo is better than leaving your camera in its bag". This is a lifestyle I've wanted to adopt for a while, but concerns about being mugged by ( Read more... )

It's been quite a while since I posted here; I guess I should mention what I've been up to.

• I got the micro-blogging religion; it's basically like IRC only you get to meet more people. My stuff is here.
• With the post-Christmas sales, I've been growing (I prefer the term 'curating') my Playstation game collection, scouring bargain bins looking for ( Read more... )

I've been taking a lot more photos than I've been posting, recently - November was hella-busy for me at work, and Christmas has a way of extending past the confines of the 25th, much further than you'd expect. Still, I've now chosen, purchased, and wrapped all the gifts I needed to supply this season (two close family members with December ( Read more... )

Two things added to my mental List of Good Things today: microwaveable popcorn and Pixar's movie Cars.

I'd never seen Cars before, even though it's several years old now. I was afraid it was going to be a saccharine paean to Friendship, Teamwork and Small-Town America... well, looking back I guess it was an ode to those things but not really a ( Read more... )