Monthly Archives: March 2007
newsfeed tag
I’ve been tagged by Aaron to post my RSS newsfeeds, and here they are, a dump from my Liferea collection. I’m always looking for good RSS feeds to subscribe to (notice the lack of annoying “news” sites like Digg, Slashdot … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
aquarium visit
Today during lunch, I went down to The Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. They are building a huge one in Salt Lake at the Gateway, but it won’t be ready for two more years, I think. In the meantime they … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
libnut
Right after I complained about how I don’t like blogging about bumps in portage, here I am writing another post about that same topic. Well, this time this one is a package addition, so that doesn’t count, right? Oh, who … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, MPlayer, Multimedia
mplayer subversion snapshots
I’m really starting to dislike me writing blog posts about stuff that I bump in portage, and hopefully this will be the last one. Actually the only reason I’m doing this one is because I want to get the ebuild … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, MPlayer, Multimedia
no more cookies
About a week ago, I was poking through my browser preferences for some reason or another, and I decided I would try turning off my cookies completely for a change. I’m not a privacy advocate or paranoid by any means, … Continue reading
happy birthday, jerk
Well, today’s my birthday. I bought myself something cool just now. I got the score to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. I remember XM Radio played a bunch of tracks from all the Star Trek movie scores once … Continue reading
Filed under General
classic storytime records
I read about this website on Earl Kress’ blog the other day, and I just have to pass it along. There’s this great website called Kiddie Records Weekly: Classics From the Golden Age which puts up a cover scan and … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
transcode snapshots
I just put a new version of transcode in the tree, this time a CVS snapshot of upstream’s development branch (v1.1.0). It won’t work with dvd::rip, though, but that doesn’t mean you can’t play around with it. Besides, look at … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Multimedia, Transcode
multimedia bumpage
I don’t usually like talking about writing about stuff that I’m just bumping in the tree, but since there’s been a lot of it lately, I figure if I roll it all into one post it might be somewhat interesting. … Continue reading
what would a unicorn do?
So I showed this image to my friend Scott, and as usual he had a great response. Steve: what would a unicorn do? Steve: “pose on a windy cliff” Scott: Jam his horn into your face. Scott: The end Friends … Continue reading