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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.

I fucking hate New Years. I think I’ve decided to never celebrate it again. I’m just not one of those millions of people (all of whom were downtown tonight) that can spontaneously and perpetually yell ‘WOOHOOO’ at the top of my lungs while pounding down light beers. I just can’t do it. Sorry. I was stuck for the better part of an hour on a light-rail train tonight along with about 4 BILLION other people. There were women peeing in cups and shit. Fun, I tell you. I did happen to be stuck next to someone I knew in high-school, though, so that was neat.

Ah, but Tai, you missed this one little tidbit of info:

But even here, the Pentium 4 beats Pentium III and Athlon chips in only one speed test: playing Quake III.

And, honestly, PCs are only good for gaming anyway. So that’s the most imporant thing to look at, even though they don’t mention if different video cards were used. That speed increase can probably just be attributed to the faster (read: more expensive) RAM used in the P4 boxen.

I had an ‘Ally McBeal’ moment at Barnes & Noble today while standing in line to buy David Carson’s Fotographics. I saw the cover of the new ‘Time’ magazine, with a picture of George Dubya on it, with the headline ‘Person of the Year.’ And all of a sudden, I had a McBeal-like hallucination of me pulling out a gun and shooting him right in his stupid forehead, and his stupid brains splattering all over the backdrop of the picture. Then, I heard Isaac Hayes in my head, and started dancing to it.