by Chris Barrus
A post on the NYC Craig’s List is making the rounds…
Ladies,
Please help me in killing this phrase: “partner in crime”.
Why?
It’s un-funny, too precious, and it has become an awful cliche.
What can you do to help?
1)Don’t use it in personal ads.
2)Advise your friends not to use it in personal ads.
Thanks and best of luck.
Yours,
The English Language
Immerse yourself in Tiki at this Polynesian-themed apartment building.
Have you ever wished to live in a place where your neighbors appreciate a fine tiki carving, a rare tiki mug, classic exotica, a superbly mixed mai tai? Consider moving to the Lemoyne Lanai, the future clubhouse of the tiki set.
The Lemoyne Lanai is a four unit apartment building situated in Echo Park, just north of Downtown Los Angeles and next door to Silverlake. The Lanai offers very spacious 1 and 2 bedroom apartments! Off street parking! Easy access to many freeways! Hardwood floors!
Got though the major moving hump on Sunday and taking a break for a couple of days before I snag the remaining boxes of books. Advantage of living by the beach: hearing the ocean at night. Disadvantage of living by the beach: everything is damp and does not get dry.
MetaFilter points out several different stories on the legenday Oak Island Money Pit off of Nova Scotia:
There’s actually two different models of base stations. The $199 “broadband” model and a $249 “modem-broadband” model. Note that the “modem-broadband” edition comes with an external antenna jack.
…and I’m still habitually hitting cmd-T to open a new browser tab. Grrrr… Want tabs…
…as found at the Bureau Of Public Secrets.
From Apple’s Rendezvous site:
“TiVo’s upcoming premium service package will use Rendezvous technology to automatically discover Macintosh computers within the home network and determine which services they provide, allowing customers to listen to their shared music or view their shared photos on their TV,” said Jim Barton, Co-founder and CTO for TiVo. “We are excited about working with Apple on other ways Rendezvous can help TiVo Series2 DVRs connect to a Mac to deliver future services.”
OK, so how many microseconds before someone creates a way to copy the DV files in the TiVo back onto your Mac? W00t!
Just got back from the AppleStore opening in Pasadena. Big crowds there and damned if they didn’t have a 12″ PowerBook there already. Knee-jerk impressions: it’s noticably light and the small screen didn’t bug me. Most important, my big hands fit the keyboard pretty well. Still technolusting for the 17″, but I wouldn’t want to drag it around a backpacking trip in Europe.
No mention of this during the keynote, but Apple has also released it’s own packaged version of X11.
X11 for Mac OS X Public Beta is an implementation of the X Window System that makes it possible to run X11-based applications in Mac OS X. Based on the de facto standard for X11 the open source XFree86 project X11 for Mac OS X Public Beta is compatible, fast, and fully integrated with Mac OS X. It includes the full X11R6.6 technology including an X11 window server, Quartz window manager, libraries, and basic utilities such as xterm.