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Tue, 23 Nov 2004

holy anise candy, batman!

There are now anise (a.k.a. licorice, or liquorice, as they spell it) Altoids. They are hawwwwsome. Go get some. NOW!!!

In other news, I made two shorter versions of the final isi ringer. They start at different places in the song that are slightly better for ringers. The second one is my new text message notification now.


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Mon, 22 Nov 2004

once-a-week!?

This whole once-a-week blogging thing sucks, except that these days I'm so busy that I barely have time to blog and nothing to blog about! I guess that's the price of getting really close to tape-out. Fortunately, I love my job.

I'm getting ready to drive home for Thanksgiving on Wednesday afternoon, and I'm getting really excited to see my parents and my sisters. It's gonna be a good drive, I think. I'm actually renting a car to go home, because I'm going to be bringing my older sister's Celica down here when I return. Why, you might ask? Well, my dad's been getting antsy to get it out of the driveway since Aziza left it there when she moved to New York. Sitting through an Iowa winter is hard on a car, and it's just wasting driveway space at this point. Moreover, driving home and back in my truck costs about the same as flying, and also costs about the same as renting a car one-way and driving Aziza's car back (since the Celica gets much better gas mileage than the truck, as you might imagine), and once I have it here, I can reap the benefits of the improved gas mileage when it's rainy and I can't ride a motorcycle to work. Of course, there's also the fact that having another car means I have another car to wrench on, and at this point Aziza's car could probably use a lot of work; woman driver, and all that. (Hooray for mysogyny! Nah, I'm just playin' ladies; you know I love you.)

Anyway, it looks like my sim is finished. I'll blog more when I get home and have something interesting to say (and nothing else but PlayStation to do.) That reminds me, I should start my packing list now...


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Sun, 14 Nov 2004

new phone, new ringer

Yesterday I bought a new phone, the Sanyo PM-8200. It's pretty hot: slightly smaller than the 8100, better camera, better screen, and an improved user interface.

Today, partially in honor of my new phone, and partially because I was bored, I updated the scripts I wrote to convert the music from isi into a midi and applied them to Final isi. The result is a pretty good facsimile of the original, at least with the patches on my phone (the 8100 and 8200 have the same midi patchsets).

If you have a Sprint phone, point it at http://web.jfet.org/~kwantam/ringers/ and you'll be able to grab it.


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Mon, 08 Nov 2004

the Incredibles

It's been awhile, hasn't it?

Friday I went to The Incredibles with Brittany, and we agreed that it was a cool movie! If you're afraid it's just some crappy movie for kids, you're wrong—it's a cool superhero movie that just happens to be animated. If (like me) you're a superhero movie freak, you really will like it.

...but enough about plot. The animation was fucking awesome! Beyond the little show-off short just prior to the movie (quite funny, IMHO), the movie itself was great overall, with only one (tiny) burp that I would even begin to criticize.

So yeah. Now you have to go see it. The power of Christ compels you.


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Tue, 02 Nov 2004

hooray for election day

I live in Texas. That means that my vote in the presidential race means jack and shit—our electoral votes have as much chance of going to Kerry as I have of ever scoring with Elisha Cuthbert. That's why I voted for John Kerry—may as well be contrarian.

My actual reasons for voting were (1) to vote Libertarian party line in all the local elections, and (2) to experience those computerized piece-of-shit voting machines firsthand. The first speaks for itself, but something interesting occured to me as I was pondering the voting machines: how the fsck do you write in a candidate? It seemed to me as if the mechanism for doing so was intentionally obscured, and that bothers me. Sure, no write-in candidate has a prayer of becoming the next president, but how about in local elections where write-ins are much more common (and have much better odds)?

I wonder if this was done on purpose, or if it's just the fact that no one knows how to do user interface design for shit...


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