After last night's nostalgia trip, I dug up a tracklist for an album I used own in college, and assembled a youtube playlist of same. As noted therein, some of the versions are wrong, and some of the sound is pretty ropey (and indeed, some of the videos are simply sequences of stills, but I spent at least a few minutes trying to find the best ( Read more... )

I think ultimately, I want all these RSS feeds and what not turned into RFC[2]822 messages and fed into either a news spool or a mailing list.

Someone on MetaFilter is all agog over this camera-pointing-at-interactive-LED-sign page, apparently unaware that you could do such "amazing" things on Netscape's site in 1995 or thereabouts.

I just read possibly the funniest non-technical thing I've seen amidst jwz's writings, and it brought to mind the following conversation:

Ralph: how d'you take your coffee?
Waider: Black, no sugar. Student coffee.
Ralph: same way as JC's keyboard, then!
Waider: *much laughter*
See, I used share a room with JC in college, and JC had an Olivetti 286 ( Read more... )

I went to Messrs Maguire last night for the first time in ages. Seamus was on the bar, greeted me like a long lost friend, and comped me a half glass of IPA so I could try it (it's their limited run "seasonal brew" for this, er, season). Man, that was nice. Spent the rest of the night chatting with friends and drinking IPA (it was yummy. I could ( Read more... )