Another Word for Nerd

This is the best response to nutcases on the subway that I’ve ever seen.

Here’s even more details on the police roundup of innocent people at the 2004 RNC, this time from Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 and WBAI.

I made this nifty list (PDF) of my SRV music collection as of Saturday.

Well, i’ve got a ways to go still, but one unfortunate side effect is that I’m COLD ALL THE TIME. I normally keep the house between 68 and 70 degrees F, but right now its 70F in the computer room and I’m FREEZING. Yay metabolism!

Today I visited the Stevie Ray Vaughan memorial statue at Auditorium Shores here in Austin, left a guitar pick, and took a lot of pictures.

Its really great seeing people exercising their rights to stage a peaceful protest and then get treated like cattle and criminals.
FOUR MORE YEARS of this, eh?

In America: Flash a breast at halftime, get a $500K fine from the FCC.
In Australia: Accidentally lose a skirt during a fashion show, just laugh it off and run backstage.

I think this country definitely needs to loosen up a bit. Said Miss Universe, “It was just a pity I wasn’t wearing better panties.”

I’ve grown my Stevie Ray Vaughan collection by leaps and bounds.

So far, I’ve got the following albums:

Couldn’t Stand The Weather
Family Style
In Session (with Albert King)
In Step
Live At Carnegie Hall (2 CDs)
Live At Montreux (1982, 1985 - 2 CDs)
Nashville 1978 (Unreleased first Double Trouble album with Lou Ann Barton)
Soul To Soul
Texas Flood
The Sky Is Crying
“SRV” Box Set (3 CDs)

and the following DVDs:
“SRV” Box Set DVD (Austin City Limits unreleased footage)
Live At The El Mocambo

Just a few more and I’ll have everything that was officially released, and I have a bunch of unreleased stuff (music and video) on the way.

Everyone’s doing it, so I’ll list my favorite OS X apps as well, the stuff I consider “essential”:

• Desktop Manager, for multiple “virtual workspaces”
• MenuMeters, for CPU load graphs and memory use status on the menubar
• WeatherPop Advance, for menubar weather status
• Temperature Monitor, to keep an eye on the guts of my MDD “Wind Tunnel” dual G4
• NetNewsWire, my preferred RSS/RDF/Atom reader
• FFView, the closest Mac equivalent to CDisplay for Windows that I’ve seen, for reading comic book archives
• MissingMediaBurner, for when I need to burn some oddball CD format or make CDs/VCDs
• SuperCal to keep my monitor nice and calibrated and sharp
• VueScan for my flatbed scanners
• ffmpegX for video conversion

For the iBook, I also use

• SideTrack, to give me right-click ability with the trackpad
• uControl to remap CapsLock into another Control key
• iStumbler, MacStumbler, and KisMAC for wireless network sniffing

September 19th: I realized I forgot to list a *lot* of things.

• Photoshop Elements 2.0 - finally paid for this and got rid of my pirated copy.
• VideoLan Client (VLC) - plays any media format under the sun
• Quicktime MPEG-2 Playback Component - well worth the money.
• Azureus is the best BitTorrent client I’ve found for the Mac.
• Firefox because GMail doesn’t play well with Safari sometimes
• iLife ‘04, so I can have Garageband.
• GIMP for stuff I dont want to use Photoshop for (requires Apple’s X11)
• TeXShop for document preparation
• LimeWire is my favorite P2P app after BitTorrent
• TinkerTool lets me get rid of superflous animations and tweak system settings
• Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection Client for OS X lets me work from home some days.