Author: alternateorg

And we thought all that white house monkey business was over.

In California. Be back later.

Separated at birth?

I guess it really is 2001, someone or something left a Monolith standing in a park in Seattle.


What a super fucking cool prank! (woops, there’s that F word again)

Ahh, the sweet smell of success… er, failure.

So it appears that I forgot an end-bracket in the form on the ‘A Freakin’ Message Board…’ item in the survey code. If you voted for us to add a message board, but never saw your vote count, you can re-cast it, and it’ll count it now.

As a bright-eyed 13-year old, I read Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ and ever since, it’s been a pretty special book to me. Before I lost interest in science fiction, I read the rest of the series (‘2010’ and ‘2061’), and got totally immersed into Clarke’s view of the world. I mean, what else can you say about a guy that initially made up the idea of using a planet’s gravity to slingshot into space, only to have NASA try it out and find that it WORKS? So I thought he was cool, and I’ve been looking forward to the kinds of things that were in ‘2001,’ and also the year itself. So here we are. Curious about what Clarke & Kubrick got right? Check this out.

The ‘rec_num);’>Discuss‘ links should be working again. Apparently it wasn’t really a BlogVoices problem, it was a problem with their server. So it’s up.

So I stuggled for days on trying to figure out on how to use Mini 7 as my system font (like for menus and stuff). I used the ‘Replace system font’ feature in Kaleidoscope to change it, but it would only let me set the font size to 9. Mini 7 (as the name would suggest) only works at 7pt, 14pt, 21pt, etc. So I scoured the web for some other tiny little pixel fonts that would work at 9pt instead. And this is what I found. Pretty decent site, neat navigation, but beware: once you select a font to download, it’s going ask you to register or login. Just do it. It’s worth it. One word of advice: use the Hi-Skyflipper Bold instead of the regular.
It looks nicer.