Quarter Life Crisis Comments

ssp on TextMate

ssp — 2008-05-08T13:40:09+01:00

@LKM:
There may have been something going for BBEdit in the classic days, but I never liked it. Never heard of the other editor, probably I’m just using TextEdit for that purpose.

I have a little theory forming by which I simply prefer text editors with a green theme to their icon… at least that would neatly explain my preferences and dislikes so far.

LKM on TextMate

LKM — 2008-05-08T13:19:32+01:00

Personally, I mainly use BBedit for heavy-duty code writing, and ForgEdit as a smaller, quick-to-start text editor. I recommend both :-)

ras on MacBook screen flicker

ras — 2008-05-06T23:49:51+01:00

same here. same flicker. same swirling mystery around it. geniuses said they’d replace the inverter board, but the tons of other problems my black 13” had musta distracted them to forget. apparently wouldn’t have solved it anyhoo, huh?

Ken on Extended Ⅱ

Ken — 2008-05-06T00:40:24+01:00

I have three Apple Extended Keyboard II’s. And two iMates. I’ll be using them for long time.

The iMate is supposedly only supported up to Mac OS X 10.3.9, but I have had no problem with Tiger or Leopard, without the available driver installed. It just works. The only downside is losing one USB port, since I can’t connect my USB mouse to the keyboard.

One of my iMates stopped working recently. There’s a small thin battery inside the iMate. I’m not sure what it does, but I suspect that this battery has died. It looks like a standard electronic device battery, so I’ll go get a replacement when I have a chance. Good thing I have two of them.

Cheryl on Extended Ⅱ

Cheryl — 2008-05-04T18:50:18+01:00

Makes me glad I have an Apple Extended II and an iMate in the closet in case my Tactile Pro bites the dust.

ssp on Denkmal

ssp — 2008-05-04T12:42:51+01:00

@Atlan:
The song played at Fight Club’s end is The Pixies’ ‘Where is my mind?’ The chords of both songs are quite similar (see: FAQ, Wikipedia), but I never thought the similarity was so strong to indicate actual copying.

Atlan on Denkmal

Atlan — 2008-05-04T02:06:19+01:00

Hi, I just reviewed the movie “Fight Club” again, as it eventually came on TV this night. The endig scene while the finance towers are collapsing after the blow is accompanied by a song I thought I know as “Denkmal” from Wir-sind-Helden but it all sounded very english. SO I was just wondering whether there is a second compilation, or whether maybe Wir-sind-Helden even copied it from a english band?

ssp on Transit Maps of the World

ssp — 2008-05-03T10:17:42+01:00

How′s the print quality of your copy? The partially poor image quality, bad colour usage and frequent poor scalaing are probably the same but the colours could be better aligned.

Dave2 on Transit Maps of the World

Dave2 — 2008-05-03T03:47:35+01:00

I don’t think that the maps were ever intended to actually be in any way useful… it’s just to take a look at the overall pattern of the system and the way it’s presented to the public. In that respect, I absolutely love this book. I do wish that many of the more historic and comprehensive systems would have been given more space… even if it meant losing the throw-away write-ups of tiny systems in the back… just to get the extra information they prime you for.

ssp on Terraforming… Please Wait

ssp — 2008-05-02T12:51:54+01:00

That could totally be. I think I at least played it a few times at a friend’s or so. Hooray for earthquakes and hurricanes…

Tom Insam on Terraforming… Please Wait

Tom Insam — 2008-05-02T08:41:30+01:00

My brane tells me it was Sim Earth. It had a world setup phase like that. Sim City 2 had ‘reticulating splines’, which I love.

dan on Fleischsalat

dan — 2008-05-01T18:11:27+01:00

Eat with a buttered toast and grunt.

Karl-Heinz definitely approves. Yum.

kirkrr on Extended Ⅱ

kirkrr — 2008-05-01T03:09:02+01:00

I miss the old Apple variable split keyboard (M1242). It was the last of the Apple ergonomic keyboards, and was really great, in that if you sit up close, you spread the keyboard (hinged at the top), and really far away, you could make it like a regular keyboard. Good key action as well.

LKM on Corporate talking

LKM — 2008-04-30T10:00:07+01:00

@ssp: It’s not about opinions, it’s more about conflict of interest. I think the issue with wikileaks should be reasonably obvious; for my own benefit, I’m not going to spell it out for you. If you think your employer needs to know what organizations you give money to, I won’t stop you from sending them your receipts :-)

I don’t think it’s a matter of how seriously you take money. It’s also not (or not only) about debt. Whether you take it seriously or not, the flow of your money says a lot about you (perhaps for you not quite yet, but it will). This is somewhat frustrating for me, since I can’t really get into details here, and I don’t want to ask you to “just trust me.” Instead, I’m going to say: be sceptical. The banks sure as hell aren’t on your side in this, but neither is the government. Just because your particular bank abuses its knowledge of your finances to send you ads doesn’t mean they should give the government the same access. Your privacy is an important asset that you should not give up just to make it easier for the government to collect taxes, because you can be sure that won’t be the only thing they’ll use that power for. There has to be a way of fighting tax evasion without giving up your privacy.

Good luck with your career in the weapons industry, though :-)

ssp on Mailboxer v5

ssp — 2008-04-29T23:19:54+01:00

@murgatroyd:
Just run Mailboxer again. It wil replace the old Smart Mailbox folder it created with an updated one. In case you edited some of the smart Mailboxes you should move those out of Mailboxer’s Smart Mailbox folder first.