Since I don’t a) gloat that much, or b) have a forum other than this in which to gloat, you all get to hear the news. I am seeing Radiohead on Wednesday in San Francisco. I’m driving up tomorrow (from San Diego). From all accounts, these tickets are rather hard to come across, and yet my friends seem to have luck when it matters. I’m very excited.
This year started out sucky, but so far it’s getting much much better.
Okay. It’s gone on long enough. Now, I know that there’s a little eCafeNet link on the sidebar, but I bet you haven’t clicked it. I think it’s about time that we acknowledge and thank 808 (aka Tai) for his wonderful generosity for hosting Alternate on his server, via his (and Michelle’s) eCafeNetwork. We get decent traffic here, and never once has he bitched that I don’t pay for it. 🙂 It’s his site, too, but I think it’s worth mentioning that eCafe has great hosting at a great price (not for free like Alternate, but good enough). So here’s that link again, in case you didn’t click it the first time.
Okay, so I’m happily drinking my Red Bull this afternoon, basking in the warm glow of caffeine and whatever else it has in it, when I remembered something: When I was a kid, every now and then, we’d get our hands on a crazy citrus-drink called ‘Super-Socco.’ It was in a silver can, not unlike Red Bull, with pictures of soccer players all over it. Does anyone else remember this? It had a really really sour citrus-y taste, which I realized is kinda what Red Bull tastes like, only not really. Am I a freak here, or does anyone else know what I’m talking about?
I’m just waiting for this to go live. Something tells me 808 will be better at it than I.
I think I just discovered something: I really hate the term ‘just so you know.’ What it’s basically saying is: ‘I think you’re a total moron, and that you will never figure this out on your own, so I’m going to tell you this out of the blue.’ It’s a very simple statement…’ I’m going on vacation, just so you know.’ But it’s even worse when it’s its own sentence…
“Before you get that approved, it needs to go through me. Just so you know.”
Grr. Makes me mad. And by the way, Cats are from Mars. Indisputable evidence. Just so you know.
I just stumbled across this via K10k. It’s called OpenLGX and it seems to be an open-source, cross-platform Flash development application that has more robust capabilities than either Macromedia Flash 5 or Adobe LiveMotion:
Multi platform- Linux, Windows, Mac, and even PocketPC (light version)
Much more stable than other multimedia applications and solutions. Needs a fraction of the resources, drive space, ram, etc as the other alternatives.
Native support for .mp3, .avi, .3ds, .psd and several others. Import your mesh, or your image and not lose a thing (animate layers of a .psd, import Lightwave, etc.).
Full export compatibility with Macromedia Flash Player (v4 or v5) as well as the LGX player that supports a true 3d gaming, 512 bit encryption (no, that is not a typo, you can make banking apps with this), and is completely modular so new advanced or custom features can be added without ever needing to upgrade the installed plug-in (and is fully Open Source). If you can code it, you can bring it into LGX is our goal. Enable the web, not bastardize it. 🙂
Now, it’s not unknown that I tend to dislike Flash, but I’m down with anything that empowers the community and can help shift dependency away from A Gigantic MultiNational Corporation.
Is that an original Macintosh or a Palm Pilot? By the way, it runs the BeOS, which is the only interesting thing about it.
Today, Kottke waxes philosophical about how great the internet is. It’s a nice read. Also, he mentions Sigur Ros, the really nifty Icelandic band (?) that I suggest you check out. Only not from our server, as you’ll see when he posted his MP3 to find out who the band was, his bytes/second usage skyrocketed.
So there’s a new poll up. Vote if you feel like it, vote if you don’t.
The. New. Computer. Arrived. Today.
