MacBook Pro
Posted January 10th, 2006 @ 01:33pm by Erik J. Barzeski
What the fuck kind of stupid name is MacBook Pro?
Posted January 10th, 2006 @ 01:33pm by Erik J. Barzeski
What the fuck kind of stupid name is MacBook Pro?
Posted January 10th, 2006 @ 11:17am by Erik J. Barzeski
I followed the directions here but, for some reason, my Google map doesn't show Lake View Country Club like the official Google Map does.
I am not sure why, either. The example maps (first image) show parks and other green places.
P.S. If I try to show two Google maps, only the second one loads.
Posted January 9th, 2006 @ 03:59pm by Erik J. Barzeski
After reading this, I'm still not entirely sure what Apple's done to violate the patents (let alone whether such patents are valid).
Posted January 9th, 2006 @ 03:26pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I never hide behind a pseudonym, so I have no personal problems with this, but this law has absolutely no practical purpose and thousands of potential problems.
Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.
My freakin' Senator, good ol' Arlen frickin' Specter (who I still think was instrumental in the Kennedy assassination cover-up), snuck this one into a must-pass bill for the DoJ.
Posted January 9th, 2006 @ 01:34pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: Where will y'all get your Macworld coverage tomorrow?
My Answer: I'm going to try this site and an IRC channel or two. I'll also probably have an AIM group chat going on… I think Adium can do that now right? 🙂
You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.
Posted January 9th, 2006 @ 08:56am by Erik J. Barzeski
There are, from what I can tell, a few different ways the old "I'm With Stupid" shirt can be revived. I've only ever seen one "in the wild." Can you guess which one?
I've left out a t-shirt made for Siamese twins. Too much of a niche market. 🙂
Posted January 9th, 2006 @ 08:49am by Erik J. Barzeski
Huh? From ErieBlogs.com comes this:
I had the oil changed in my car over the weekend. As the guy was explaining the services they performed, checking the wipers, etc, he said "Normally we check the tire inflation but noticed that you had green valve caps. They're filled with nitrogen and since nitrogen doesn't leak out like air does, we didn't check them." Think I said "REALLY!" five times. Guess I wasn't paying attention when I bought my tires at Dunn Tire. My gas milage has increased about 7 percent. Thought it was just the new tires. Must be the combo of the tires and the fact that they're filled with nitrogen. Nitrogen filled tires are supposed to get 3-5 percent better fuel mileage.
Regular old air is ~78% nitrogen, and a quick Google search yielded very little fact. Supposedly ol' N oxidizes the inside of your tires less, leading to less wear. Then again, airlines fill their tires with nitrogen, but that may have more to do with a fire in the fold-up wheel compartment (and the trouble having a lot of fresh oxygen would cause).
Posted January 8th, 2006 @ 08:05pm by Erik J. Barzeski
The Bengals suddenly morphed into the Bungles once again. Their division crown was won through the second rung (better division record) as the 11-5 Steelers came back from a first-half deficit (something they've yet to do this year) to win convincingly, 31-17.
Ben Roethlisberger, he of the 63-or-so QB rating in two playoff games last year, led all QBs this weekend:
QB Team Comp Att Yds TD INT Rating Ben Roethlisberger PIT 14 19 208 3 0 Better Tom Brady NE 15 27 201 3 0 Worse
If the Steelers can continue to play as they did in the second half today, and if Bill Cowher can stop himself from committing his typical post-season crap, this team will give Indy a run.
And hey, maybe they won't be allowed to "enhance" the crowd noise this time around.
P.S. Take that, Bootsy Collins.
P.P.S. Troy Polamalu, one of the most "cerebral" players Bill Cowher has ever seen, made two of the dumbest moves I've ever seen in playoff football.
P.P.P.S. That torch? Please pass it back. A month was generous enough, no?
Posted January 8th, 2006 @ 07:53pm by Erik J. Barzeski
From this article comes a list of 10 things Owen Linzmayer hates about Mac OS X. My summary:
In other words, Owen was not really able to come up with much. Which, like I say in the last point, speaks pretty highly of Mac OS X.
Posted January 8th, 2006 @ 12:39pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Lately, I've had the need to lay out a lot of stuff in OmniGraffle lately. You know what would be nice? A "Conversion Scale." In other words, I'd draw a block and say "for the purpose of this document, this rectangle is 10 feet wide. Then I could enter sizes for things (chairs, tables, etc.) in feet and inches and OmniGraffle could scale them to the appropriate pixel size.
If I had to specify a manual ratio (1 square = ½ foot), that too could work, but the prior seems a bit more intuitive.
The only way to do this in OmniGraffle currently is to determine your own scale and keep it as simple as possible, like "1 pixel = 1 inch." This leaves a lot to be desired if the ideal scale can't be accommodated due to the size of your project area.
Posted January 7th, 2006 @ 11:16am by Erik J. Barzeski
Some people don't read articles very closely. Hint: it was a joke. Then again, some of the people commenting on the article don't even think it's a joke.
Posted January 6th, 2006 @ 03:02pm by Erik J. Barzeski
This is funny.
Now of course I need to type a lot more so that text doesn't wrap funny on this entry.
Or I could just separate every sentence as a separate line.
Then I can talk about nothing and still use up a lot of vertical space.
See? I did it.
Posted January 6th, 2006 @ 01:26pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I've considered moving away from TiVo for a long time now largely because, supposedly, DirecTV isn't going to work terribly closely with them after this year (2K6) and because HD support is expensive and/or lacking with the TiVo/DirecTV combo. The alternatives, however, leave a lot to be desired. Most, for example, can't record two channels while letting me play back something previously recorded. Some can't even record two separate channels at the same time!
Now the TiVo folks have announced that they've got a series 3 TiVo in the works for release later this year, and it looks great. I just wonder if it will support DirecTV as my series 2 TiVo does. In fact, it could do it one better just by letting me network the damn thing.
I guess DirecTV could be supported if DirecTV access cards functioned like a CableCard. Right? Really, what I am most likely to do is to get a Series 3 TiVo with Adelphia cable. I signed up for DirecTV when I lived in Florida so that I could get NFL Sunday Ticket. Now that I live in Erie, I see most of the Steelers games (though, because we're closer to Buffalo, I guess Erie stations are sometimes required to broadcast Bills games instead!!!).
Posted January 6th, 2006 @ 12:21pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Some renovation pictures (http://iacas.org/asm/room/01.jpg through 04) are up. They're building a girder truss today and will pick up on Monday and work, as I understand it, most of the next two weeks to finish things out. Then, our flooring goes down, and then we paint and trim out the room. The table is delivered end of January or thereabouts.
The rectangular window doesn't look as bad as I thought it would, and it makes the room appear larger than before, even with the supports still in the way.
"iacas.org" is my domain for, well, random stuff. Everything lives in the /asm/ directory because at one point, the thought of having ".org/asm" was funny to me, and now I'm too lazy to change it. Once, a friend's content-filtering software once blocked files in that directory because of the word it spells without the slash.
Posted January 6th, 2006 @ 11:57am by Erik J. Barzeski
From a picture I took when I visited the plastic surgeon yesterday to have my stitches removed: