Cool Screensaver If you are not totally Olympiced to death, there is a great screensaver with really nice pics of handsome athletes available here thanks to photographer Greg Gorman and the United States Olympic Committee. This works for Mac and PC, though the Mac is Classic only. I am in love with a freestyle skiier for the time being, by the way.
Robert X. Cringely posits here "How the Best Thing for Apple, for Users, and Even for Microsoft, Would Be an Intel Version of OS X." I'd certainly buy it, particularly if you could still get to the lovely BSD UNIX bits underneath when you wanted to. Until I recently started using a UNIX box again, I had forgotten just what a pain-in-the-ass X Windows was, and ... it still is (imagine my surprise). Granted, CDE hides many of the warts, but X Windows has never struck me as elegant whereas (what little I know about) MacOS certainly does.
Cringely plays the egomaniac role rather well – I particularly like his column's subtitle: Caught on a planet of peril, he dared challenge its monster rulers.
Okay, it may be rude to use one blog to point to another one (even a really good one), but I'm really not the overly mannered type anyway . If you're a fan of "Tom Tomorrow's" (aka Dan Perkins) This Modern World, go check out his site at http://www.thismodernworld.com . He's added to his archive of comics with an almost daily blog of email exchanges, random rants, etc. Very entertaining and useful site for us fans of Sparky The Penguin.
Like his father before him... Shrub makes a mark in Japan. Mixing up "deflation" and "devaluation" in a speech in Japan, Bush's latest gaffe shook Japanese markets sensitive to the value of the yen. Interestingly, the story linked above points out that RayGun made a similar misstatement in at a G-7 Summit back in 1987.
Cultural news and notes... A lot of folks here know I'm nuts about live music. But there's a show coming up that is sort of a high-water mark for me. The Pat Metheny Group is playing Bass Concert Hall on Thursday, March 28th.
I got tickets yesterday at HEB and there was still a good supply of the best ($56.75 w/ $4.75 svc chg) seats available. The cheapest ones were $20+svc chg. As a near lifelong fan (been listening since about 78-79) it's hard to know what to expect. They recently put out a new CD, "Speaking of Now" which will probably be featured for at least part of the set.
If you're familiar with PMG, you already know whether you're going or not. I've noticed it's the kind of music that seems to provoke strong opinions both ways - people are either obsessive fans (like me) or dismissive. And the fact is that you've probably heard Metheny's playing whether you recognized it or not. He's colaborated with a lot of artists including Bruce Hornsby, Carlos Santana, Chick Corea, Joni Mitchell and others. His solo performances and PMG compositions have been featured on dozens of movie soundtracks.
But if you've never directly experienced this particular variety of rock/pop inflected jazz, consider picking up the cd and seeing them at Bass. I guarantee a musical treat unlike any in my experience....
Hello all: Life is good here...returned from Amsterdam relaxed and pleasantly um, vacated. Found the fedex notice on my doorstop informing me that the G4 iMac I ordered on 1/7 arrived that day (yes!). So I'm typing this post from it's flat panel coolness. I guess I just wanted to gloat about that. ...
