Today, I went to the hearing and speech clinic. It was the first time I’ve gone in 6 years, and it wasn’t too fun. After running the tests and charting the results, the audiologist then showed me results from today, 6 years ago, and 13 years ago (there were more there, but they weren’t necessary to make the point). I’ve been losing my hearing at a high rate over the last while, it seems, in both ears. »
for me to poop on! Triumph can’t poop on the Planet, but he poops really well on Colin’s site. »
Saturday night I ate sushi and watched Gozu. It wasn’t planned this way, but they worked well together. Gozu is a pretty F’ed-up movie. It starts out as movie about a Yakuza gang and quickly turns into something else entirely. Supposedly its partly a tribute to David Lynch; its certainly just as bizzarre as a Lynch film. I wouldn’t say its a bad film, but when the audience is desperately trying to infer some meaning from the film, and there’s none there at all, it can be frustrating. »
On my list of things to do, right after ‘write a quoridor clone in C# / GTK#’ is ‘learn ruby’, followed closely by ‘learn rails’. So, I’ve been reading Loud Thinking, David Heinemeier Hansson’s blog (the creator of RoR). Today, DHH talks about this new RoR based site, odeo. Odeo isn’t live yet, but it looks promising. The whole thing revolves around podcasting, letting people publish their own feed, or subscribe to feeds based on folksonomies, like flikr or del.icio.us. »
Sometime during my transit to school yesterday, I lost the cap off my USB thumb drive. Phil provided me with one of those green PS/2 to USB connectors, which worked as a cap for a while (i.e. till I got home), but considering the relative size of my thumb drive to one of those things, it looked a little stupid. A little stupid was no good at all; it had to be a lot stupid! »
A man of his word, Mr. Johnston did in fact install Ubuntu on his computer. There were a few hick-ups along the way, but those can be attributed to the fact that we used a beta-quality nightly build of the install CD, and should not be held against Ubuntu. Phil’s laptop, on the other hand, was an absolute nightmare. Ubuntu, Fedora, Madrake, Gentoo… it Pwn3d them all. Only Vidalinux actually installed with a minimal level of hand-holding. »
Dear Mr CBC, Thank you for providing Ogg Vorbis streams. Love, James »
A workshop proposal submitted by elijah, fer, mariano, pbor, and I was accepted today for this year’s GUADEC in Stuttgart, Germany. It’s about showing new people how to contribute to GNOME. Not that you have to wait till GUADEC to get involved, you can just point your favorite IRC client at #gnome-love on GIMPNet </shameless plug>. Oh yeah, and they’re holding GUADEC in a frickin’ castle. »
My girlfriend and I saw Constantine today, which was like The Punisher (2004, not 1988) without the suck. The devil sports some rockin’ tattoos Snacks for the film included a 15 pack of Mashmallow Peeps. Those buggers are delicious, and they gave me a great idea. So, next time I get some peeps I’m going to try making a peep sandwich, fluffernutter style. That thing should either be the best tasting sandwich ever, or flat-out kill me. »
That’s right, the Planet now has the Ace of Spades himself, Geoff Johnston. »