The Wachowski bros have redeemed themselves. V is a beautiful spectacle of a pro-terroristanti-warpro-surveillance-state film. Heavy doses of Shakespeare and Errol Flynn–Hugo Weaving was great as V, and naturally Natalie Portman is the hotness.
Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.
A few people (you know who you are) at the office just picked up an Intel Mac Mini. If you’re like me, you have more than a few movies on disk somewhere in formats other than QuickTime (mov). Since Front Row is the best thing since sliced bread, clearly a way to watch these movies with Front Row is in order. A few links:
For those burdened by the unholy cross of the Comcast/Motorola PVR, a bonus link for piping digital HD video from the PVR to your Mac for recording.
That is all.
Music: Pleasurehead/Seafood
Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.
Because I’m into modern furniture, I find this [blog] utterly delicious. Not only does it have an excellent listing of local designers, shops and other spots around the SF bay area, but Google maps it.
Joy.
Edit: Well designed cars go hand-in-glove with furn, so these spy shots of the 2007 Audi TT are worth seeing.
Edit 2: Well, it’s true. A friend said Audi screwed it up, and I didn’t want to believe him. They did. Darn.
A couple months ago I tried to see if it was possible to walk from Hayes Valley (specifically Blue Bottle) to the office in SOMA. While not quite technically possible, it’s close. Alleys in San Francisco early on a Saturday morning are an interesting sight.
One of my best friends John just put an offer on a place in my neighborhood. It’s a nice place-dark hardwood floors, view of the bay, and an unwarranted loft/office space above the kitchen.
He’s been looking for a few months, and hasn’t been able to find the right combination of space and location until now. I’m keeping my fingers crossed, I really hope he gets it. It’ll be good to have a friend in the hood.
Edit: So the owner countered his offer for like 5 grand more. Which is akin to the bartender at the Redwood Room asking you to pony up an extra penny for your posmo.[1]
Edit 2: Counter-counter-offer accepted by both parties. Sweet!
[1] Huzzah, I used posmo in a blog post!
Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.
28 was a good year. It was the year I saw Japan and Hawaii for the first time. Bought a house, sold a house, moved in and broke up with someone. Became a manager and helped build a huge software project from the ground up. Took a hundreds of photos, learned to cook better. Went to more rock shows, learned to appreciate bluegrass. Adopted a puppy. Slept on a plane for the first time in decades. Blogged more. Gave up on brakes and learned to skid. Introspected. Hiked to the top of a mountain, bought a mountain bike and did the Turkey Ride. Scored 400 in a game of Scrabble. Took more chances. Learned to do nothing. Didn’t snowboard once, but OK with that. 29 will be better.
We made a higher grade.
This post made in the daily Comet meeting.
WiFi wins loses.
Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.
Every morning around 7 or so, I take Pista for a walk around SOMA. Sometimes through downtown to Market Street and up to the Ferry Building, down past the Bay Bridge on the Embarcadero.
Between the crowds, the homeless, the architecture, traffic and sunrise, it makes some pretty interesting imagery.
Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.
Along with Artur, Ben & Mena and Andrew, and about a million other people who bought that first truckload at the Apple Store, I acquired my first piece of Apple hardware in 7 years (the last was a creaky 350mhz blue & white G3).
Brought it home, and immediately fell in love with Front Row. It really is usable as a media center, and aside from my main gripe about not being able to access videos on iTunes shares from my other machines, it’s near-perfect in its (rather simple) implementation.
So mucking around with the System Preferences panel, I came across the RSS screensaver module. Hm. After authenticating, I grabbed my Comet friends & family feed and saved it as an RSS bookmark in Safari.
To my surprise, not only did it work flawlessly, but it remembered the authentication cookie. So now whenever my Mac is idle, my living room shines with the most recent posts from my friends & family.
This is a beautiful thing.
Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.
Fort Funston is dog heaven. Every dog (all 100 of them at any given time, any day of the week) are off leash. The beach provides a pretty good set of natural barriers (one cliff, one ocean) and puppies just love to run into the waves.
It was low tide, but the waves were pretty high due to the wind and incoming storm. Pista had lots of fun…
Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.