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Google Chrome
Sep. 3rd, 2008 05:20 pmOkay, so let's talk about Google's new browser, Google Chrome.
For the authentic Google Chrome experience, Windows users are invited to download it now and use it to read the rest of this post. The current version is 0.2.149.27, available from the website linked above.
( a doot doot doot )Cilantro!!!
Aug. 31st, 2008 04:32 pmWhooaaa what the hell!
Okay so you know cilantro, right? Cilantro is this herb which has the unique property of tasting like food to some people and like metal and soap to others. It has been suggested that this is due to a compound in it which only some individuals have the ability to taste, and experimentally determined (Heather Noxon and Alex Meyer, 2004, Genetic Analysis of PTC and Cilantro Taste Preferences) that a distaste for it is apparently directly inheritable.
I have always found dried cilantro to have a pretty objectionable taste, but not to the point where it was a total dealbreaker if something had dried cilantro in it. Today, though, I had fresh cilantro for the first time, and HOLY SHIT. It tasted like a dead penny took a shit in my mouth! It was just this horrible acrid metallic taste, and it was seriously physically painful. I still feel like I ate the Statue of Liberty or something. I kind of got the chewing-on-foil sensation in my teeth, too. Goddamn nasty.
Okay, so. Here we go.
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“It’s like the moon is crashing into the Earth," complained Rob Carney, a 25-year-old data analyst in Boston, “and there’s fire and everything is burning, and everything is wrong.”lmaolmaolmaolmao
~kickin back in iraq~
Aug. 29th, 2008 06:48 pmMy cousin, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
toxicjelly, is vacationing for a year at scenic Joint Base Balad Resort in Iraq on the Army's dime. He left a couple days ago. Everybody wish him a nice vacation.
Here is today's German Joke
Aug. 26th, 2008 07:59 pmF: Aus welchem Stahl macht man Autos in Polen? (Of what Steel do they make Cars in Poland?)
A: Diebstahl. (Larceny.)
>TAKE BUTT
Aug. 23rd, 2008 11:38 amSo I'm going to try and enter the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. You should all learn Inform or something between now and the 30th of September and enter as well.
Did any of you people ever play those sorts of games? If so, what was your favorite? I was always partial to Infocom's Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which you can play online in a weird Flash-based thingjob on the BBC website, but be warned — it is really hard). Bureaucracy (also designed/written by Douglas Adams) is pretty good as well.
I am going to rig up a pressure pad by the side of my bed such that when I get out of bed the theme from Matlock will be played
(0118.50) tgies: they'll be like "tgies report ur assets send us your records of all ur assets."
[...]
(0120.32) tgies: then i draw a picture of myself
(0120.35) tgies: with a ton of muscles
(0120.43) tgies: standing on top of a cop car and bazookaing a health food store
(0120.58) tgies: and send that to the irs
I also need a pet bat sitting on my shoulder and there should be a caption to the effect of "TGIES FIT TO WRECK YA" or "THE FOR-REAL DEAL"
Oh yeah, I won some beatboxing contest a week or so ago :???: Got a bunch of gift certificates and stuff. OKOKOK
Nashville next weekend. I was hoping to do Portland, but Things. things >:(
Also Monopoly is playing the Amphitheatre and my job sucks ok bye
Tomorrow on tgies: how to wind up spending fifty bucks on pizza for two (it involves italian restaurants with long names as well as not paying attention to which two bills you randomly pull out of your pocket when you leave a tip (actually i just told the whole story so i got nothin for tomorrow (whoops (i'll make another here's-a-bunch-of-songs-i-like post instead))))
Books I have purchased in the past week or two:
- Dave Barry's Money Secrets, Dave Barry (the humor writer, you know. he just lies a lot about the economy. it's great)
- Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English, James Cochrane
- Anatomy of a Home Studio, Scott Wilkinson
- The Everything Home Recording Book, Marc Schonbrun
- The Billboard Illustrated Home Recording Handbook, Ronan MacDonald
- Collins Dictionary of Electronics
- Pan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie, Adam Mickiewicz
- A New Selected Poems and When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone, Galway Kinnell
- Collected Poems 2003 ed., Philip Larkin
Books I bought the last time I bought a bunch of books which I still haven't finished: A few
:readin:
Hey, who wants to sell me a Casio SK-1? I had one a while ago, but I gave it away (I know! Who gives away an SK-1! I don't know! Me, apparently!). Anyway, I really need to use one in a couple of things I'm working on, and I don't want to deal with freaking eBay, so I'm hoping somebody can sell me one directly. :F?
Anyway, on the topic of sound, here's something very small from the other day when I was noodling around on one of my new keyboards. Features truncated CR-78 samples, sort of polyrhythmic delay, and envelope-following filters. envfollow.mp3
I have a pretty decent sunburn :(
air shows are great
Aug. 16th, 2008 06:13 pmhee hee
Highlights of the air show:
- MITSUBISHI A6M DAMN ZERO IN REAL LIFE WHAT THE HELL also lmao the announcer said "jap" you can't say that. NOT EVEN FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY
- The MiG-17F is basically awesome; Randy "Complete Maniac" Ball was flying it and he did a bunch of low passes with full afterburners at upwards of 550 kn
- but the F/A-18 was faster and better in every way. they made a point of this. reds go home.
- USAF did that "heritage flight" thing they do where an A-10, a P-40, and an F-15 (three generations of aircraft) buzz around in formation for a little while.
- "And now: thrust reversers"; C-17 touches down and immediately rolls backwards very very fast
- Fagen Inc. showed up with their MX-2 ethanol-fueled stunt plane, right? And the announcer was making hell of a deal about how it is ~environmentally friendly~, right*? Well, that's exactly when it chose to belch a ton of soot all over everybody. It was the weirdest thing. I'm still picking soot flakes out of my stuff. Unsurprisingly, the pilot then "[saw] something he [didn't] like" and went back in early. I'm not sure what that was about; I bugged the Fagen guys, but they were pretty tight-lipped about it.
- Why did they play Kraftwerk's "Schaufensterpuppen" during one of the aerobatic demonstrations? I think this is a good question
* The ~environmentally friendly~ bit was repeated for the C-17, so I don't think that these guys have the same definition of "environmentally friendly" as everyone else
I received something in the mail today
Aug. 14th, 2008 08:03 pm
Yeah, that is John Flansburgh.
More later.
