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Question: What's the closest you've ever been to a wild shark?

My Answer: I've touched one. 🙂 Duh (see today's other entry).

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Headed down to Snake Bight (that's a word, look it up) off of Flamingo, FL today with Charlie. Back on "home turf" so to speak (if 3 hours of driving is my home turn). We weren't sure what we were gonna catch, but we were sure to catch something!

The wind was at 5-10 knots (i.e. that really means 10-20) out of the SE - the worst direction for the southern tip of Florida. Fun. The leeward side of John Kemp Key provided some cover early in the morning, and I caught my first redfish - a couple of pounds and about 16 inches. I'll figure it out once I get the picture. Shortly thereafter I hooked into and landed a good 5 lb. Jack Cravalle that made a number of good runs. Both were hooked on a small sized black/silver Yozuri SS Minnow.

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Question: What's your chat client of choice?

My Answer: Adium. And before that, Adium.

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Adium 2.0 (still in alpha stages, I guess) rocks. I moved to it the other day when Jeff pointed out that the dock icon badging in Adium 1.6 didn't work in Panther. It's a big part of the reason why I use Adium, so I made the move.

I'm glad I did!

Wowee. IMing Nerdvana! You can re-order tabs. Full log support (sans searching for now). All kinds of goodness… and well worth a look.

Update: It's no doubt that Adium rocks solely due to my 26 lines of code!

Question: Do you defragment your hard disk(s)? Regularly? Ever?

My Answer: Never. Though erasing, installing a new OS, and drag-copying my old files back over is a pretty effective way of doing so. Then today I read this:

While we're talking about the not so well known/hidden new Panther
features: while digging through the kernel sources i've found a quite
amusing new feature built into HFS+. Namely automatic file
defragmentation.

Everytime an application opens a file for reading, HFS+ checks if the
file is fragmented and is less than 20MB in size. If so, it copies the
file's contents to a continuous region on the disk and frees up the
previously allocated blocks.

Even less reason to defrag, I guess. Some of my Windows-using friends defragmented every day!

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Sam Caughron lost a lot of my respect recently. He didn't invent app switching. Application switching has been in previous and various OSes by various companies. Sam didn't invent "the look" that he used for his app switcher, instead borrowing the "layered-on" look of things like volume and eject graphics from the OS.

I didn't agree with Dan Wood, and I don't agree with Sam. He's getting a lot of PR right now, but it's not good PR. I don't agree with the whole "any press is good press" ideology. Sam's a whiner. Instead of saying "hey, welcome aboard, now look at how our software extends on that cool new toy" he's pouting.

Update: You don't see Unsanity asking for "credit" for Labels X, do you?

The Rams beat the Steelers today in a game exemplified by a weak offense, a weak secondary, and a glimmer of hope. A dash of stupid, lame penalties, and a loss for the 1000th Steeler game, and I may just be done writing about the season. Effectively, it should have ended today. Oddly, though, it didn't: the AFC North sucks this year. The Steelers, at 2-5, are only two games out. The AFC North just plain sucks.

To do:

• Fix Tommy Maddox
• Find an offensive line
• Find a secondary
• Find a ticket to the Super Bowl, cuz they're gonna need it.

I've considered a switch in jobs this weekend. I've got a pretty stable, but only moderately well-paying job right now. It's not much of a challenge, and it's got a unique schedule (some evenings, some mornings, Thur-Mon work week). It does offer a cap of 40 hour weeks, two days off in a row, and good health care and other perks. The other job would require a 60-hour/6-day-per-week start until a product is launched, a bit more pay, and a regular M-F schedule. The first is hourly, the latter is salaried.

At this point, I am not sure what I'm going to do. I really like my free time. I like having two days off per week. I also like having money, and more of it is always good.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do. The "six-days-per-week" thing is most frustrating right now. Until I heard that, I was looking to make the switch. I could handle M-F, 8-6. That's 10*5=50 hours/week. I dunno.

Question: What's the toughest age?

My Answer: I'm watching Try Seventeen right now, so I'm tempted to say 17. However, I'm going to go with 21 or 22. You're new to the world, you're new to life, you're new to a new location, you're new to working for a living. You're born again, in a way.

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Got some CDs today. I'm going to list them here without listing my reasons at all, and I'm fine with that. Okay, maybe I'm not...

Coverage by Mandy Moore for $7.99
Up by Shania Twain for $11.99
Life for Rent by Dido for $9.99
Can't Take Me Home by Pink for $9.99
Stronger, the Remixes by Britney Spears for $0.99

The prices had a lot to do with my decisions. I find remixes interesting, and good mindless upbeat "work" music. My Up CDs have gone missing lately, so I had to replace those. Mandy Moore is a talented little hottie, Dido is a hottie too, and perhaps more talented. Pink, well, I thought I already had that CD, but I didn't, and her new one comes out soon so I wanted to be prepared.

I had actually intended to buy some Black Eyed Peas and some White Stripes. I really don't know why. I've heard the song "Shut Up" from BEP and people keep telling me I'll like White Stripes, but I don't know what to get... Circuit City didn't have any anyway. I dunno...

Question: Are you getting it? Did you get it? Did you install it? Did you like it?

My Answer: Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Duh. 😀

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Adam continues to work on our PulpFiction icons, this time taking the two sketches we liked and throwing in some color. Here's the first, and here's the second. At right, you see the colored versions.

My concerns: we've lost the little newspaper from sketch two. The carton, though a better concept, looks muddy at smaller sizes. I like both equally now, but really wish the carton idea could be pulled off better (and the newspaper thing).

But hey, I'm just one person: I want your feedback. What do you think? Be explicit, be clear, and write whatever you want. Icon design is very largely a subjective matter, so opinions matter! I've only got one - my own.

Saltwater
- Ladyfish
- Sea Trout
- Pinfish
- Lizard Fish
- Tarpon
- Catfish
- Jack Cravalle
- Barracuda
- Redfish (added 10/28/03)
- Shark (added 10/28/03)
- Snook (added 12/09/03)
- Pufferfish (added 12/09/03)

Freshwater
- Mayan Cichlid
- White Bass
- White Crappie
- (Peacock Bass)
- (Largemouth Bass)

I'll update this list as necessary, but this is where it stands today.

Question: Has the use of the Internet harmed your "real-world" or "meat-world" relationships?

My Answer: No, it's strengthened them. I use the Internet in two modes: information gathering and communication. They're very similar, but you can also think of them as "readnig" and "writing." As an information gathering device, the Internet is great. I can find the information I want quickly.

Worries were, though, that the communication aspects of the Internet would make interpersonal "meat-world" communication suffer. I can resoundingly say that that's not been the case. I may use the phone less, but I see as many people - or more - because the ease of setting up activities has become easier (i.e. "hey, want to see a movie in 10 minutes?"). Furthermore, closely related to the information (reading) mode, I have met new friends with which I share similar interests (like kayaking, or fishing, or both together).

I'm sure, for some, it's very easy to get sucked into the Web. For me, and for most people I know, the Internet has only served to strengthen (or create) real-world relationships.

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Question: What's the strongest feeling?

My Answer: I think I'm going to go with hate. This is both a highly personal question, and an odd one to be asked, because I'm trying to give an answer that's not at all personal. I've been in love, I've come close to falling in love, and I think love is great. However, love doesn't seem to consume the mind as much as those few people who've hated. By hate, I mean the deep-to-the-core kind exhibited by people I need not name. Genocide is a form of hate, after all, and I've got to think that the feeling, especially when combined with power and possible afflictions of the mind, can render its effects far more powerfully than love, its converse.

Then again, this question, and my answer, are both widely open to different connotative interpretations. This is my answer. For now.

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