Saturday, November 01, 2003

are you sure it's not just a display thing?

Unfortunately, yes. I've tried everything. It just hates me, is all. Thanks for the ideas though! Admittedly, it does make a pretty badassed, compact and useful spreadsheet.
One of those "little things" about Excel that pisses me off: even if you do format time in 24 hours (who wouldn't?) it still thinks you're too stupid to enter the text that way, giving you a "handy" AM/PM entry field. Why won't it just let me type in the numbers? Why does it assume that I'm an idiot? WHY?! *downloads OpenOffice*

I'm wondering about the authenticity of the dolphin picture. It looks mad photoshopped to me. I don't know, I can't imagine water ever being that red with blood, what with currents and all. (on a side note, "photoshopped" should probably added to the Oxford dictionary as slang for "doctored")

http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/ is a weird comic.
posted by Barrie , 10:16 PM Þ 

http://freshmeat.net/browse/839/?topic_id=839&orderby=&offset=660
posted by Irdial , 6:12 PM Þ 

EU Parliament Votes for Real Limits on Patentability

In its plenary vote on the 24th of September, the European Parliament approved the proposed directive on "patentability of computer-implemented inventions" with amendments that clearly restate the non-patentability of programming and business logic, and uphold freedom of publication and interoperation. [...]

http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0923/
posted by Irdial , 5:03 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 4:55 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 4:46 PM Þ 

There has been a major upgrade of BitTorrent, so go get it.
posted by Irdial , 4:19 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 2:57 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 2:49 PM Þ 

NEW YORK Pity, though not too deeply, the American press. Once the wisecracking truth seekers of "The Front Page" and the brave gumshoes of "All the President's Men," the fourth estate has fallen into such cultural disfavor that it risks being renamed the fifth estate, if not the sixth.

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.[....]

IHT
posted by Irdial , 2:28 PM Þ 

A shopping list for a new mac owner:

Bash
Mozilla 1.6A
Open Office
X11
Videolan
MySQL
Apache
Mplayer
BitchX
RAR
GPG
DivX
Celestia
BitTorrent
$your_addition
posted by Irdial , 2:23 PM Þ 



Fishermen work on a boat filled with freshly caught dolphins while a diver prepares to submerge in the blood-filled water near the fishing town of Taiji in Wakayama Prefecutre in this photo taken Friday, Oct. 6, 2003 by American anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Fishermen in this western Japanese town regularly conduct dolphin hunts during the October to April season. They've caught more than 60 striped dolphins so far this year under the government quota system which allows 22,275 to be caught. The meat is usually canned and sold in supermarkets.

Yahoo News
posted by Irdial , 1:56 PM Þ 

One for Anthony:

The mPark scheme launched on Friday is the first permanent one of its kind in the UK and aims to save motorists the trouble of fishing for loose change.

It will apply across the city centre, where 266 solar-powered pay and display machines have been installed.

Under the scheme, which was invented by Irish software firm ItsMobile, drivers calling a national hotline are asked to key in the parking meter's identification number via a voice prompt.

An electronic instruction is then sent to the parking meter, which prints out the parking ticket to be stuck on the car windscreen, displayed in the usual manner as proof of payment. [...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3229217.stm
posted by Irdial , 1:29 PM Þ 

have never managed to get a CD to sound nearly as good as a vinyl record

I suspect you have never managed to turn a $10 into a $100 note with a wave of your hands.

Hmmmmmmm!
posted by Irdial , 1:21 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 1:19 PM Þ 

I have never managed to get a CD to sound nearly as good as a vinyl record

Of course you can see a high quality phono amp makes a great deal of difference too, getting the balance of frequencies just right.
posted by meau meau , 1:11 PM Þ 

http://www.openoffice.org/
for all the spreadsheeting you need to do!
posted by Irdial , 12:38 PM Þ 

i'm with you, alun ... my relationship with excel has been one of simple warm camaraderie ... especially since i occassionally make a little extra cash making it do complicated things for people who haven't got the time or inclination to rtfm ;]
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 12:24 PM Þ 

Alison - now you have a turntable, get a Track Records (label) vinyl version of Axis: Bold as Love, and of Electric Ladyland. I have several vinyl reissues and a couple of original copies and the originals are just so much better. They're not cheap (maybe 500DKr), but buy the best condition ones you can find and you'll never regret buying them, you'll never stop listening to them, and you'll learn all about Jimi Hendrix.
And the cover art is exactly that - art.

The 'Radio 1' session LP is also worth getting, much fun.

Try e-bay.


Barrie, are you sure it's not just a display thing? Excel shortens 0.0367332 to 0.04 by default in the display, but the value in the cell is still what you really typed. Is 'format: cells: number: decimal points=x' any help? Change x to 6 and see the lot. Another thing I have probems with is entering a number like 031101 (todays date) which loses the zero at the front. Change the cell format to text to correct. Sigh. Ignore me if I'm being obvious. Excel is actually pretty good, but I've used it to death for stats and data management.
posted by Alun , 11:14 AM Þ 

This isn't to do with your art course though is it?

Oh lord no, this is a part time paying job for Quebecor (production audit). I hate it to death. There's so many numbers, I really can't keep track of it in my head... it jumbles together in a big confused mess. My brain wasn't made for this type of work... yet I can still do it way better than the dumbasses at head office...
posted by Barrie , 1:09 AM Þ 
Friday, October 31, 2003

Dear Mary, and other Blogdialians, I am glad to be of service! And yes, Excel is not my favourite program for that very reason Barrie James. This isn't to do with your art course though is it?
posted by captain davros , 11:27 PM Þ 

I have been using Microsoft Excel a LOT in the past week for data entry. I rarely refer to things as "stupid" but this program is BEYOND STUPID. JESUS CHRIST. The fact that a spreadsheet program often does not accept the exact numbers you input and replaces them with what it THINKS you input has been driving me up the fucking wall (temper fits and all that). Also I've lost my ability to type accurately. I try to find settings in Excel to make it behave in a "dumb" manner (as opposed to the retarded "smart" application Microsoft promotes) but it's impossible.
So, never use Microsoft Excel, ever. Use anything but!
posted by Barrie , 10:36 PM Þ 
posted by Ken , 9:16 PM Þ 

To counteract this effect, the low frequency content of the record is deliberately reduced, and this low end rolloff has to be corrected by a bass boost in the playback system.

Yet, somehow, a Sunn O))) album on vinyl will still have wayyy more bass and VOLUME than its compackt disck counterpart. And it's smoother, like the primordial sludge that it's supposed to be.
I have never managed to get a CD to sound nearly as good as a vinyl record when I play it REALLY LOUD. To quote Monty Python, CDs are tinny tinny tinny, and vinyl is nice and woody.
posted by Barrie , 8:01 PM Þ 

Dav, you do not know how timely that link is, thank you!

I got Mac'd up today, at long last!

What, no deets?

I did get this info through the grapevine today. Scary!
posted by mary13 , 5:53 PM Þ 

Immunologically, best protection is still likely from the single jabs

Thats all that we need to know; its better to have single jabs, Autism risk aside, if this side effect is real. That is enough of a reason to refuse the multiple jab, and have the single ones.

I got Mac'd up today, at long last!
posted by Irdial , 5:28 PM Þ 

Have a dope weekend - I need to know more about Jimi Hendrix
posted by Alison , 4:42 PM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 3:40 PM Þ 

MMR/autism link - one of the original clinical researchers now says evidence has proven that there is NO link.

To be fair, I think the original report claimed that a link could not be ruled out and was a possibility, requiring more research. That research now having been done, Dr Murch concludes that there is no causative link between the MMR jab and onset of autism.
In my mind this brings up questions of Dr Andrew Wakefields attitude to recent studies, i.e., whether his scientific opinion is unbiased and purely data-based.
300 million doses of MMR given, with very limited side-effects.
Measles still kills 1 in 2500 infected kids.
Immunologically, best protection is still likely from the single jabs, but some protection is better than none. Unsurprisingly, if parents have to bring their kids 3 times to the doctors to get the jabs a significant number miss one or more of the three.
posted by Alun , 10:41 AM Þ 

I use Turbo10 for searches when in mozilla, it still doesn't work in safari.

Sunn O))) have turned my ears to jelly. They played in near darkness, with a few candles and enough dry ice to almost suffocate the audience and not see their cowled outlines for about a third of their set.
And sticking a super-amplified ax on the vent pipe to create even more bass frenzy, that was a good move.
posted by meau meau , 10:23 AM Þ 

I tried that other search, Teoma, and eventually found a shop in Japan selling the first Spunkle CD.
posted by captain davros , 9:57 AM Þ 
Thursday, October 30, 2003
posted by chriszanf , 11:04 PM Þ 

Nice story about the battle for Search Engine Supremacy, from a business standpoint mainly.

Google still does my searching, though I've tried Teoma and it gives very different results in some cases.

Irdial in Google
Irdial in Teoma

Any others in use?
posted by Alun , 5:26 PM Þ 
posted by Josh Carr , 3:36 PM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 3:36 PM Þ 

US government-funded scientists have 'created' a fully lethal strain of mousepox and have at hand a human-lethal smallpox equivalent.

A quote says this is "necessary to explore what bioterrorists might do."

OK. First, forget the ethics thing of biological weapons for the minute. Governments want them and the US has more than anyone else so whatever crap they spout about the dangers of other nations having them until they get rid of their own is simply gross hypocrisy. There are some practical things to remember here which make the US government appear even more dangerous than we know they already are.

Only two stocks of smallpox exist, one in Russia and one in the US. In 2001 the US decided not to eradicate theirs in the light of global terrorism. Think about that for a minute. Think about exactly how that 'logic' works.

Not long after this the US started briefing the press that 'rogue nations' may have 'hidden stocks' of smallpox. Believe that if you like. One of these rogue nations said to have smallpox stocks was Iraq. Shocked?

Until the Bush administration, no live smallpox research had been funded for over 20 years.

Smallpox is kept in the highest containment facilities only. Any potential bioterrorist wanting to use smallpox would have to overcome (a) access to live virus (b) containment against self-infection (c) in vivo testing facilities and (d) currently available vaccines. These vaccines will (and do) protect against wild-type smallpox. What the US has done is fund the creation of a variant with complete resistance to the vaccine! Amazing!

Now can somebody please explain how this has advanced the war on terror, or at least, how this is "necessary to explore what bioterrorists might do."
posted by Alun , 12:51 PM Þ 

I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
posted by captain davros , 12:31 PM Þ 

!
posted by Irdial , 12:12 PM Þ 

Do I look like I have on my forehead
Do I look like I have on my face
Complain here
And rip me off
My advice to you is this

Keep your pen with a cap
Don't press your finger in the wrong socket

And to sum up
The motive of this film is
Keep your cap on your pen
Keep your dick in your pants

Do I look like
I have...
Written on my forehead
On my forehead
On my forehead

Acute
Acute
posted by meau meau , 11:26 AM Þ 

Did I say morley? I meant to say Sawyer of Napa!
posted by Irdial , 10:53 AM Þ 
posted by mary13 , 1:50 AM Þ 
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
posted by chriszanf , 9:51 PM Þ 

Oh, I love the Northern Lights. Makes me feel homesick.

I think Arc'Teryx has a fabulous line of technical jackets. Their dye-lots alone are worth it.

My favorite winter coat is my long black leather, double-breasted trench coat, circa Norway 1970. I just had it cleaned and re-died, and it is gorgeous. You can just imagine the delight when my grandmother pulled that one out of her closet and gave it to me. It is perfect armour against torrential rains. But I also sport a cream fisherman's sweater on sunny days, and a long black wool coat for glamourous meetings. And of course, the gore-tex for skiing, but I saw some lovely clips of Marylin Monroe skiing in Lake Tahoe the other day, and now I am longing for a new ski outfit ...
posted by mary13 , 8:17 PM Þ 
posted by Ken , 7:28 PM Þ 
posted by Ken , 7:07 PM Þ 

I couldn't find reference to the coat that I bought last year ... made by a german company, BUSH ( enter bush coats in google and you get a lot of info about what to wear in the outback, or the president's sartorial style ) that have come up with a fibre that allows heat out when the temperature inside becomes greater than that of your body, and traps air inside if the temperature inside drops below that of your body ... this is probably not new at all, as those of you in the know will no doubt point out, but I've never got on with mountain climbing/ski coats, as they tend to rustle and be overly bright in colour ( in the shops round here ), and so my ignorant shopper head walks around is constant amazement at being able to travel around, wearing a very light item of clothing, dropping in & out of air conditioned shops with not a bead of sweat breaking out

I can show you my hat, though ...



it's made of lama wool, was bought in a tiny village near the austrian/czech border, and is very snug ... we were visiting my fiance's aunt a week before christmas, had stopped for some coffee & cake, came out of the cafe 20 minutes later to find 3 inches of snow had fallen, and of course, we being stupid english abroad who had foolishly heeded the dud advice from friends at home, hadn't bothered to hire chains for our heavy old automatic that had great fun slipping & sliding along the ( thankfully flat ) lanes back to our evening's schnapps, schnitzel & strudel
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 5:59 PM Þ 



posted by Josh Carr , 5:50 PM Þ 

scscs
Shh...everything must be quiet around you,
secretive one. What customs are you doing now?
Your strange ways may cause you to be some kind
of an outcast, but you don't mind that. The
things from the 'other side' fascinate you.
Sounds good. Who knows why you took this quiz?
Happy Halloween, O Powerful One.


What Halloween Figure Are You? (Fun Quiz! MANY RESULTS!)
brought to you by Quizilla

Happy Halloween.... For some (stupid money-making) reason this tradition has arrived to Denmark, atleast in the shops (oh yes, Denmark is the most americanized country in europe)
posted by Alison , 5:22 PM Þ 

What are people wearing this autumn/winter in the northern hemisphere
I like to consider my clothes as costumes, when beeing a woman, knowing how much my looks means, I love pranking the fact that I am a woman and will be judged on my looks - by both men and woman
This winther I go for the "school-girl-uniform" (duffelcoat and leg-warmers) - last year I went for the "hooker-look" with rabbitfur and dark make-up...

Besides my clothes I always wear a discman in my pocket, so I can hear wonderful music instead of all the noise other people make...
posted by Alison , 5:10 PM Þ 


Patagonia make pretty amazing products. My father's girlfriend sells them at an outfitting store. I can't afford this stuff, but it's basically the best. Check 'em out.

For medium cold I wear a Winterco Board Doktor snowboarder's jacket, even though I don't board (their website doesn't appear to be working). It has excellent ass coverage that most coats just don't offer.
For REAL cold, I have a 50's or 60's vintage DDR army greatcoat. It's huge, grey, and menacing. It goes way past my knees and keeps me incredibly warm.
For a base layer (because keeping warm is all about layering) I have a North Face Salathe jacket (recieved as gift).
posted by Barrie , 5:08 PM Þ 

What are people wearing this autumn/winter in the northern hemisphere

Patagonia raincoat (20 years old), Morley Sheepskin, (20 years old) and other natural fiber coats.

Oh yes, and a smile.
posted by Irdial , 4:02 PM Þ 



Explanation: Yesterday, our Sun produced one of the most powerful solar flares in recorded history. Seen across the electromagnetic spectrum, the Sun briefly became over 100 times brighter in X-rays than normal. Over the next few days, as energetic particles emitted from these regions strike the Earth, satellite communications might be affected and auroras might develop. The flare and resulting CME, emitted from giant sunspot group 10486, was captured above as it happened by the by the LASCO instrument aboard the Sun-orbiting SOHO satellite. The disk of the Sun is covered to accentuate surrounding areas. The time-lapse movie shows the tremendous explosion in frames separated in real time by about 30 minutes each. The frames appear progressively noisier as protons from the CME begin to strike the detector. The SOHO satellite has been put in a temporary safe mode to avoid damage from the solar particle storm.

Incredible!
posted by Irdial , 3:58 PM Þ 



This is my coat. 5 years of excellent service so far. Stupendously warm. In London a thin t-shirt and this suffices in the coldest weather. In Sweden -20 C was a pleasure. I couldn't really afford it when I bought it, but it's been worth every penny. It's like walking about in a fantastic orange duvet.

And you get to look like Kenny from South Park for nothing.
posted by Alun , 2:38 PM Þ 

old leather jacket with/without lining (depending on how things go)

-

maybe saddam's WMD adhere to homeopathic principles
posted by meau meau , 2:12 PM Þ 

I need some new clothes. I'm thinking fleece/anorak etc.

What are people wearing this autumn/winter in the northern hemisphere (not sure we have any southern hemisphere blogdialians)?

Photos would be interesting here incidentally.
posted by captain davros , 1:39 PM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 12:42 PM Þ 

posted by Alison , 10:46 AM Þ 

Homeopathic medicines are simply extraordinary. You have to buy the hand made ones, which are the most effective. If you disline taking garbage like Dimetapp® or other antihistamines, Homeopathy is for you. Of course, if it doesnt work, you shouldnt take it. And if it didnt work, no one would...so do it!

Thanks for the props. I forgot to mention one important thing - since taking the homeopathic remedy, I have not had another sinus cold. This was over 4 years ago. Absolutely true.

Dav, those aren't your telephones? I was waiting in anticipation for another installation a la Captain.
posted by mary13 , 6:30 AM Þ 
Tuesday, October 28, 2003

posted by Alun , 8:26 PM Þ 

posted by Claus Eggers , 8:16 PM Þ 

The video for Kid 606's Sometime is ASTOUNDING.
posted by Josh Carr , 8:14 PM Þ 

people who are jealous of the dudes who can spend $50,000 on a system

I once listened to a sound system worth over $100,000 (to put that into perspective, that's about $10,000 more than my house is worth). It was pretty fucking amazing. There were two banks (5 cones high) of woofers on each side, and the highs and mids were handled by these big 8-foot-tall "ribbon" speakers with like 30 tweeters running down one side of each. Not to mention the HUGE Mark-Levinson mono-block amplifiers and crazy Oracle turntable. To quote Keanu Reeves, "Whoa."
But really, I'm happy with my crappy early 80's harman/kardon and Rock Solid speakers. They do the job well enough.

Those poor phones. They probably have a really nice ring, too.
posted by Barrie , 5:15 PM Þ 

Mozilla 1.5 was released on Ocotober 15!

One incredible feature I found called Bookmark Keywords allows you to set keywords for your bookmarks so you can just type goo in your browser to get http://www.google.com or dict to get http://www.dictionary.com. However, it also lets you extend that by adding variables into the address so that you can type goo american martyrs to search google for american martyrs or dict nebula to get the dictionary.com definition of nebula.
posted by Josh Carr , 3:21 PM Þ 

De-furred, disconnected, torn from their sockets and hollowed out with a special gun.
posted by captain davros , 12:58 PM Þ 

Kylie to do a song with Green from Scritti Politti

Sadly, probably not Messthetics.
posted by captain davros , 12:30 PM Þ 

That picture breaks my heart, so many of the phones seem to have been snared in order to facilitate the ease of the final cull, perhaps they were left out as bait so that further phones would come to their rescue whilst the hunters lay in hiding ready to pounce. Is it right that the phones have been defurred and skinned? Cruel, cruel treatment.
posted by meau meau , 12:26 PM Þ 

Thanks for the advice on XP. My feeling is towards the full version for those very reasons.

Sadly today on my way past the phone-mongers this morning I saw many of the breeding phones had been slaughtered and put out on display for our consumption. It can't have been long after I had seen them myself.



I know mankind has always killed, culled and farmed, but when I see things like this I question my own humanity and purpose here on the planet.
posted by captain davros , 12:07 PM Þ 

James Randi, Uri Geller... what's the difference between a raven and a writing desk?

On Benveniste, Randi and he Nature investigating team found NO EVIDENCE whatsoever of fraud. However, against Benveniste is that, if his experimental results and procedures are correct, they should be repeatable in independent laboratories. So far they have not proved so.
posted by Alun , 11:50 AM Þ 

That should have been It's hard to understand how they are able to work, when there is a possibilty you are not ingesting any 'active ingredients'. I have taken such remedies in the past to get rid of headaches / pains and the symptoms have gone. But simply waiting has been effective too. As has chewing on a lump of ginger. I've even used paracetamol successfully.
posted by meau meau , 11:40 AM Þ 

Dav, I would get an OEM XP Pro disc with SP2 streamed in. If you ever need to reinstall from scratch, you wont have to install '98 first....
posted by Irdial , 11:08 AM Þ 

Has anyone ever tried any homeopathic remedies?

I can feel the heat rising...

Homeopathic medicines are simply extraordinary. You have to buy the hand made ones, which are the most effective. If you disline taking garbage like Dimetapp® or other antihistamines, Homeopathy is for you. Of course, if it doesnt work, you shouldnt take it. And if it didnt work, no one would...so do it!

it's hard to understand how the remedies work.

Does that really matter? How many things do you use every day without understansing precisely how they work? The only thing that matters is that it works as advertised, and does not harm you with dreadful side effects....why do you think the EU is out to destroy all alternative medicine

Tens of thousands of trials have been done to ascertain the effectiveness of these remedies, over 100+ years. If anything is true about humans in the west, they are the first to stop doing something to their bodies if its discovered to be harming them.

On the same subject, did you see the TV programme with James Randi, debunking the work of Jacques Benveniste? Watching that crazy old coot Randi in action is like watching witch burner light the pyre.
posted by Irdial , 11:07 AM Þ 

aren't into listening to music

how could i NOT respond to that?!!

People who are "against" audiophiles are one of several types of looser. They are people who have never heard a real system in action (the numbers of these "people" are now legion, thanks to digital), people who are jealous of the dudes who can spend $50,000 on a system (which is why they cry like biatches about the cost of cable and amps, when "after all, it all sounds the same anyway"), and finally the most pathetic of the lot, the people who

CANNOT HEAR

Yes, these people simply CANNOT HEAR PROPERLY, and so, they are basically cripples whining about their disability. They trott out the same drivel as any other skeptic, looser and jackass, instead of simply taking their portable CD player, putting their headphones on and getting on with their life, like the people who listen to music do.

I have spoken.
posted by Irdial , 11:02 AM Þ 

"you cannot open the door because the door is already open"
It popped into my head while drawing tonight. I think the title of a Koji Asano disc.
Don't waste effort trying to open the door.


"The Rain," Sean Caulfield (my instructor). His stuff is cool.
posted by Barrie , 5:19 AM Þ 
Monday, October 27, 2003
posted by Josh Carr , 8:24 PM Þ 

Okay, here is a quote instead:

"...anybody who doesn't absolutely, totally and unconditionally enjoy food, cannot possibly enjoy sex."
Shobhaa De, Upper Crust Magazine, India
posted by Alison , 6:16 PM Þ 

"...There seems to be an overview of Brion Gysin's paintings in the shops. Hadn't realised that so much his work was colourful - only seeing it in photocopy/low-res images
posted by meau meau , 1:24 PM ..."

If you ever are fortunate enough to see the paintings and pen-and-ink drawings in person too that takes it to a whole new level, the detail in some of them is mindblowing and you can really get lost in there...
a.these
posted by THESE , 6:05 PM Þ 

Thats it, I wanted to upload a picture - But could not! How annoying!
posted by Alison , 5:39 PM Þ 

I'm a big fan of Prescription for Nutritional Healing. I'm battling my psoriasis by nutritional means. My girlfriend and I have also begun the book's recommended fasting regimen (replete with enemas!). The amount of toxins we build up in our bodies from cooked food and preservatives is astounding.
posted by Josh Carr , 3:35 PM Þ 

homeopathic
This dilution to beyond 'effective' limits theory is a famous scientific case, resulting in the public castigation of Jaques Benveniste in Nature magazine in 1988. He still works on this stuff and now believes that he can send the 'memory' or imprint of molecules across the internet...

He's either deluded or way ahead of current dogma.
posted by Alun , 2:33 PM Þ 

Here is a collection of phones I discovered whilst out rambling around one night; they'd moved out to their traditional breeding ground and were preparing to spawn. The males emit a special type of dial-tone to attract the females, and the sound is eerily beautiful.
posted by captain davros , 1:45 PM Þ 

Me, no Windows basically. Used to use Macs back in art school, was an Amiga-head for a while, tried Linux but can't get on with it, so a windoze sucker I am. I spend all day using MS at work, so it's easy to return to it at home.

still frantically digging Zwan. their tones are great.

here's one of my basses, for no other reason than it's there, or more accurately, here.
posted by captain davros , 1:38 PM Þ 

Has anyone ever tried any homeopathic remedies? I had done once, for a bad sinus cold, and it worked quite well. Tiny yellow pills in little vials, it's so fascinating.

I once had a part time job in a health-food store which sold these. They only ever seem to be recommended to counter mild symptoms and when you look at the dosage level it's hard to understand how the remedies work.
posted by meau meau , 1:38 PM Þ 

There seems to be an overview of Brion Gysin's paintings in the shops. Hadn't realised that so much his work was colourful - only seeing it in photocopy/low-res images
posted by meau meau , 1:24 PM Þ 

is anyone changing to panther (OS 10.3)? I read the specs and couldn't work out quite what my 99 quid was getting me that I'd actually need or use compared with the 10.2.6 that's already on my mac... am i missing something? (i know that's what they intend me to think...)

Apparently Expose (window shrinking) is to die for. When someone hacks the vile metal Finder I may upgrade (it's bad enough working out which safari window is active). The better X11 integration would be nice to have, I've installed so many unix bits that I'm sure don't work properly - gnome definitely doesn't. I wonder if just upgrading the free Darwin core would fuck 'OSX-aqua' up. I might just wait to buy a new computer in a couple of years (when blue & white G3's fall off the scale) -then I could go back to using the B&W for OS9 which is Sooo... fast it's unbelievable. Really. But I want other things too, more useful things.

Saw sunburned hand of the man play last week they're quite good, a bit more engaging than jackie-o-motherfucker. vibracathdral orchestra were supporting and I preferred them.
posted by meau meau , 12:40 PM Þ 

Canterbury Tales, William Caxton 1st edition, 1476, online as high-res images. Stunning.


cap'n, i thought you were a red-hat boy? or a mac man?

on the same subject, is anyone changing to panther (OS 10.3)? I read the specs and couldn't work out quite what my 99 quid was getting me that I'd actually need or use compared with the 10.2.6 that's already on my mac... am i missing something? (i know that's what they intend me to think...)
posted by Alun , 12:17 PM Þ 

windows xp - buy upgrade CD or full product? I am already running win 98.
posted by captain davros , 11:04 AM Þ 
Sunday, October 26, 2003
posted by captain davros , 9:10 PM Þ 

I saw The Dears last night. You should listen to The Dears, they are VERY good. It was one of the best concerts I've seen. They are very unpretentious and completely share their music with the audience. The music was dramatic and sad (and sometimes REALLY REALLY LOUD, I was in front row, my head vibrated at points) but the band were having so much fun on the stage.
Bands that have 6+ synths (KOOOORRRRGG) on stage are generally pretty cool as a rule. These guys really know how to make a flowing, organic din. To their credit they have been around since 1995 so they are very tight (and are excellent musicians, to boot). And they used a melodica! A freaking MELODICA!
It was one of those concerts where audience members would buy the band rounds of shots (and the band would drink them while playing). Unlike many Edmonton concerts the atmosphere was very amicable and warm. When it was all over my friends and I recieved hugs from the bandleader. Now what band does that?
posted by Barrie , 7:21 PM Þ 

Has anyone ever tried any homeopathic remedies? I had done once, for a bad sinus cold, and it worked quite well. Tiny yellow pills in little vials, it's so fascinating.
posted by mary13 , 5:51 PM Þ 

These are two books I consult if I am feeling ill:

Prescription for Nutritional Healing

Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine

Of course, I will always see a doctor if it is grievious, but this is where I start. Excellent information about nutrition, alternative therapies, supplements and disorders. But like anything, must be taken with a pinch of salt and no fanaticism. Otherwise you will find yourself drinking nothing but carrot juice and expounding the evils of yummy things like cheese and chocolate.
posted by mary13 , 5:38 PM Þ 

Antibiotics are very strong medicine and they do have side effects.

Read through these links.

Basically, when taking antibiotics, you are not only killing the bad bugs, but the good bugs too, especially those that ensure good digestion, thus the sluggish feeling. You need to take a probiotic (acidophilus and bifidus, which is found in yogurt) to help combat the antibiotic effects. Do you have a natural food store near you? They should know exactly what I am talking about!
posted by mary13 , 5:25 PM Þ 
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