I just noticed that Kevin Smith will be directing one of the episodes of the upcoming Heroes: Origins.
The question would have to be: which Hero?
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Sunday, 29 July 2007
Grinderman is Coming
Almost by accident, I discovered a few days ago that Grinderman will be touring downunder in October. Apparently the first Melbourne show sold out in 5 minutes, and the following 3 Melbourne shows sold out soon after.
Fortunately, I live in Sydney :)
Fortunately, I live in Sydney :)
I never have (and likely never will) understand the attraction of the kids to MySpace. As a friend of mine remarked, it is a modern day GeoCities. Sure, I love the blinking text on the dark photos, and of course I love shouting out to all mah homies. It's just, even with a translator, I can't interpret the l33t speak. I blame the public school system (for my own inability to read it, of course!)
Yesterday, I got an email from a friend, asking me to click through to their Facebook entry. You've seen this before with LinkedIn and other social networking variants... Based on a comment from another friend about Facebook a few weeks ago, I clicked through and registered to take a look.
For all of my loathing of MySpace, I have to say, Facebook is absolutely fascinating. It's simple to configure your profile. The "add a friend" core functionality has a very clean simple interface, and the ability to interact and collaborate with others seems quite easy and simple to navigate.
But the real killer aspect of this site is in it's applications. You choose applications (which are multi-user in nature) from a list, which are then installed into your profile ready for you to use and configure appropriately. For example, there is an app of "where have I been in the world", which you then can use to compare against where your friends have been in the world. You can play Texas Hold 'em tournaments with your friends. There is a lot of useful innovation and imagination here.
Between the clean interface design of the social networking side, and then the multi-user applications, the verdict: a real time waster!
You can see why Zuckerman held out!
Yesterday, I got an email from a friend, asking me to click through to their Facebook entry. You've seen this before with LinkedIn and other social networking variants... Based on a comment from another friend about Facebook a few weeks ago, I clicked through and registered to take a look.
For all of my loathing of MySpace, I have to say, Facebook is absolutely fascinating. It's simple to configure your profile. The "add a friend" core functionality has a very clean simple interface, and the ability to interact and collaborate with others seems quite easy and simple to navigate.
But the real killer aspect of this site is in it's applications. You choose applications (which are multi-user in nature) from a list, which are then installed into your profile ready for you to use and configure appropriately. For example, there is an app of "where have I been in the world", which you then can use to compare against where your friends have been in the world. You can play Texas Hold 'em tournaments with your friends. There is a lot of useful innovation and imagination here.
Between the clean interface design of the social networking side, and then the multi-user applications, the verdict: a real time waster!
You can see why Zuckerman held out!
From the "a fact that is only of interest to me" dept.
I can now see the floor of my home office.
The blur of many long work days followed by hectic and eventful weekends has seen me regress into a fetal position on top of the papers on the floor of my cave.
You see, I live a clever double life at work; my friend/colleague Steve used to suggest I was a psychopath due to the organised nature of my cubicle at work.
As organised as my cubicle sometimes/usually is, my home office is the ying to my cubicle's yang.
Until now!
(Not quite true; I can see floor, but there's still a bit of sorting to do...)
The blur of many long work days followed by hectic and eventful weekends has seen me regress into a fetal position on top of the papers on the floor of my cave.
You see, I live a clever double life at work; my friend/colleague Steve used to suggest I was a psychopath due to the organised nature of my cubicle at work.
As organised as my cubicle sometimes/usually is, my home office is the ying to my cubicle's yang.
Until now!
(Not quite true; I can see floor, but there's still a bit of sorting to do...)
Saturday, 14 July 2007
Busy
I've barely been around for the last few weeks with a hefty load at work (boring!), as well as a fairly hectic social calendar out of hours. Highlights include:
The year is going very quickly!
- Seeing Mike Patton's "Peep Show" at the Enmore. I really wasn't sure what to expect, because he's done a pretty interesting and weird range of projects since (and during) Faith No More. Peep Show seemed to have a lot of hip hop influence in it, but he was very, very good. He's very comfortable with the crowd - seemingly always looking for the opportunity to antogonise (some things never change) which the fans always love. The supporting cast were quite impressive, including a girl named Butterscotch who would put Michael Winslow to shame as a human sound effects machine.
- Playing a poker game in the back room of a pub put together by Adam's friend Luke. Most of the attendees (12?) seemed quite hardened and aggressive, which I found pretty enjoyable as I more-often-than-not find myself as the guy throwing out the barbs. Due to the hard core nature, we cranked through quite a few games. I came first twice and second twice (no points/cash for second place). Given the beers, bourbons, pizzas and cigars I bought over the duration, I did only slightly better than "break even" after factoring in cab fare.
- Another wedding-on-a-boat for V's friend Venessa (I'm a veteran on boat weddings now :) ). V was the matron of honour, and did a good job looking after the bride on the day. Quite enjoyable overall, and (maybe it was the beers, but) some very fine speeches. V fortunately had enough to drink so that by the time I got home I was able to watch the Wallabies beat the All-Blacks in peace!
- A house warming at Nige's, after going to the ruggers with Adam to watch Wandwick nawwowy beat Norths. I had six beers before I even got to the house warming, so things only escalated once I got stuck into wine and cigars. I probably should have had a bit more to eat over the 13 hour stint.
The year is going very quickly!
Travel Amendments
After some healthy discussion, V and I have decided on a less ambitious, more relaxing holiday in September. The plan is now Monaco -> Northern Italy -> France -> Romania.
I've also decided I'll start a crash course in French.
Err.. tomorrow.
I've also decided I'll start a crash course in French.
Err.. tomorrow.
Quick Hit Mac Book Pro Impressions
To put it mildly, I've been busy lately - hence the radio silence.
Apple were kind enough to exceed expectations with an even earlier delivery of the MBP. I've been using it now two weeks, and I'm quite happy with the upgrade. Some thoughts:
Apple were kind enough to exceed expectations with an even earlier delivery of the MBP. I've been using it now two weeks, and I'm quite happy with the upgrade. Some thoughts:
- It's bigger than I expected. Yeah, 15 is bigger than 12, but the widescreen caught me a bit by surprise. Everyone who has seen the MBP has more-or-less asked the same question: "is that 15 or 17 inches?" Strangely enough, for how big the screen is, the laptop is bloody thin -- slightly thinner than my old PB12. On the positive side, I appreciate the extra screen real estate, but I tend to favour smaller notebooks.
- Man, is the screen bright! I'm pretty sure I'd have no issues seeing the screen in the noon day sun.
- I'm loving Parallels. No more am I having to go to a PC on the odd occasion when I need a Windows app. Due to patching and other Windows niceties, it actually took me about 3 times longer to set up the Windows guest compared to installing and getting Mac OS X up and going with my apps and patching.
- Obviously it's a lot faster. Everything is more or less instant, I'm guessing due to the excessive amount of memory configured (4 GB). Rosetta does a pretty nice job with PowerPC apps. Office2004 opens very quickly, not even considering the system is having to do binary translation. Even when I flick between desktops to my Windows XP virtual machine, it's literally instant and responsive after the key press of the shortcut.
- The MagSafe connector has been handy, which is suprising because it looked like a useless feature to me when Steve first announced it on stage. In the last two weeks, I've avoided near-calamity on at least 3 occasions with people tripping over the power cord.
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