Slippery Slope

alternateorg on July 3, 2001

This song-parody line possibility just popped into my head. I’m posting it because if I don’t, then I’ll just keep thinking about it and eventually will end up doing the whole damn song, and no one wants that: (sung to Depeche Mode’s ‘Blasphemous Rumours’) “I don’t want to start any MacOS Rumors / but I think that Jobs’ got a sick sense of humor..” Okay. That’s it. No more.

MacTrivia.com up then down

alternateorg on July 2, 2001

So MacTrivia went live recently. Then it went un-live:


Well, we were open all day on July 1–and we were hammered with visitors! …basically, the script we
chose to use couldn’t handle the barrage of traffic simultaneously.

So hopefully it’ll be back online soon. I didn’t even get to try it out.

'You never know, Franco.. It could have been wonderful..'

alternateorg on July 1, 2001

Okay, so I just posted a comment to the AI post, and mentioned Jude Law with a link to the IMDB, as I just did. And, did know you know that Ewan McGregor and Jude Law were roommates at one point? How fucked-up is that? Two of my favorite actors in some of my favorite films, and they were roommates. If you can pick out the reference in this posts headline, you get a nickel.

I also just noted that most of the posts on this page start with ‘Okay,’ or ‘So,’ or ‘OK.’ And this particular post starts out with ‘Okay, so.’ I’ll try to work on that, I promise.

AI: Apple Inside

alternateorg on June 30, 2001

Okay, so being the Apple-dork I am, I’m probably the only one in the packed theater showing AI tonight who recognized that a futuristic-looking thing in a laboratory was in fact an Apple iSub..

As far as the movie itself goes… It was definitely interesting, like Kottke I found myself not sure if I liked it until the very end; and like him, I did. Most people in the theater, however, did not. I chalk it up to the fact that most Americans cannot read between the lines, even if those lines are drawn very large, with giant spaces between them, and the lines themselves say ‘Read between us.’

Locked images

alternateorg on June 29, 2001

Okay, so I don’t know how they did it, but if you try to just Control-click on a comping image and copy it to the clipboard at GettyOne, you can’t. Either Photoshop tells me ‘Could not copy clipboard contents because an unexpected end of file was found,’ or it simpyl doesn’t register that I tried to copy it in the first place. Basically, it forces you to Control-click and download the image to your hard drive, which you actually can do. Weird.

Perfect

alternateorg on June 29, 2001

So, as a Mac-user, I probably take great industrial design for granted. But my gaze just happened to fall on my Apple Pro Mouse and it hit me for the first time since I saw one for the first time that this object seriously is a thing of beauty. One of the most beautiful thigs ever created. I’m not kidding. Perfectly functional without too many ‘features,’ like the rest of the PC world’s mice.. you can launch a fucking rocket with those things with 12 buttons, and yet Apple sticks to the single-button mouse. Because the mouse has one use, and one button takes care of that wonderfully. Fuck that scroll-wheel shit, I say.