Over The Edge

A zillion years ago the town I grew up in finally got cable. The remote was wired and the selection, although better and clearer than what was available via the rabbit ears and tinfoil extensions, had a lot to be desired. BUT...

I remember a movie called "Over The Edge" starring a very young Matt Dillon - he was a punk in a small planned community with "youth issues". I loved the flick, and I just came into an article on OVER THE EDGE - An Oral History of the Greatest Teen Rebellion Movie of All Time and an accompanying thread at Metafilter - The Greatest Teen Exploitation Flick - it also points to the flick, carefully embedded in YouTube in 10 segments, but with "iffy" quality. Still worth a watch...

BTW - The music in the flick was AWESOME! Cheap Trick, Hendrix... good times!

The Legend of Neil

I guess I am starting to get a feel for some of the web-only series - I have followed The Legend of Neil and The Guild. I mention those shows together as both series have common elements - Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh. And I am now seeing many of the characters, well, everywhere. Vork, from The Guild, was on General Hospital yesterday. Hmmm... a few days ago there was an awards show on that had given an award to Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (which also had Felicia Day in it). I also like Dorm Life.

Lets just say that lately I am getting more entertainment from my internet connection than from my TV connection.

I'm just saying.

Working the Music Library

The last little while I have been working on optimizing my iPod experiences. I HATE building a digital music library. There are ALWAYS some tags that are not right. If you trust a music tag database (such as iTunes or the one CDex checks) most have "problems". Then you try to gank album art, and that usually comes up either "can't find" or it gives you the wrong thing. Very frustrating. I wish iTunes had a music subscription service, like the Zune does.

Straightened out much of the mancave. I didn't have any idea I had that much shit. Need to box up what I don't use and sell it or whatever.

Apollo 13 - The Rant

I just wanted to comment - I loved the movie. I hate the DVD I have (bought from BB, no less). Wide Screen Collector's Edition - and in order to make it look Wide Screen they "trimmed" picture from the top and bottom. The scene where Lovell tells his wife, at Halloween, that he has been moved to the primary crew of Apollo 13, his daughter is wearing "boots" when I see it on satellite. In the DVD, that is chopped off, so I never see anything. Wide Screen makes people feel they are getting "more" movie - NOT LESS. The individual responsible for this should have his or her karma severely adjusted into negative aspects. Just like my faux aspect-ratio.

I'm just saying.

C64 Emulator on the iPod Touch

Running basic... even though it shouldn't. And Apple pulled the program from the App Store after a few days of being available. The emulator dropping down to basic is what got it "yanked", and now, with the possibility of no additional game sets to add to the C64 library, I am not amused that I spent $4.99 for it.

The rub is that I don't think the emulator running basic is all that useful. You have to "Tap" the code into it, and I am not sure you can "save" shit. I went through that with a Commodore Vic 20 many moons ago - nothing worse that typing in a shitload of commands and having the beast kick out "Syntax error in..." (we all know that the syntax error might fault there, but the zorched code could be anything that attaches to that statement).

Truth be told - I guess I could have seen it coming. The emulator boot screen says "Basic Disabled" and something giving hope that it can be enabled at a later date, and then there was a review that gave the secret for enabling - in settings make it so that the keyboard "stays" then while running something, go to the numeric interface and hit "run stop" and it drops you down to basic. It works, as you can see in the pic.

This is not the first time I felt "had" on an App. Take iBlogger, for instance. I posted this with my iPod Touch via iBlogger and embellished it later on the PC. iBlogger adds much "whitespace" to posts (xhtml based breaking space tags fore and aft pics, etc...) and I just don't care for it. I HATE WYSIWYG EDITORS!

And the crowd wonders why people Jailbreak the Touch.

Windows Vista & ReadyBoost

Vista had a neat thing built into it - it has the ability to take a thumbdrive (up to 4 gigs) and use it as ADDITIONAL memory to keep Windows from stashing data on the hard drive. Writing and retrieving from the hard drive is much slower compared to writing and retrieving from a flash drive. This feature is called ReadyBoost. My understanding is that thumbdrives can wear out when too many write operations are performed on them, but with these drives going for about $12 at the local WM here, I am thinking that it might be OK to burn up a thumbdrive every year or two for the performance boost.

I'm just saying.

He might could be a gay fish.

Watching the gay fish episode of South Park. Kinda reminds me of someone named... nah, too easy!

Nothing to report, really. Work. Miller High Life. iPod luv. I do have a new ringtone - an imitation of an oriental woman saying "You so STOOPID!" done by a very talented ex-chocolate cake shotter who shall remain nameless here.

Much Dixie Chick love, also. Listening to NOTHING but the DC's and the BBC's Foundation radio thing of the previous post.

And Homer is licking his feet.