Intype Alpha!
Intype Alpha is available for download. Super lightweight and looks amazingly clean and simple for Windows software. This app needs some attention, that's for sure.
Intype Alpha is available for download. Super lightweight and looks amazingly clean and simple for Windows software. This app needs some attention, that's for sure.
I thoroughly enjoyed a pint of Racer 5 IPA at Against The Grain in New York earlier in December. It was the best IPA I've ever tasted. I was just thinking about how I could get my hands on some more and was reminded I never mentioned it here.
The new Kim Jones Umbro collection is pretty nice. I haven't thought about Umbro since high school, but I might have to get a pair of those high tops.
Looks like I have a weekend project!
Nintendo of America, this idea needs to make its way west.
Buggy Saints Row: The Musical from Cabel Sasser is a thing of beauty.
The new Camera Finder feature on Flickr is quite helpful. It's good to see them continually making Flickr more and more useful. Coincidentally, I was reading an interview with Caterina Fake tonight.
Amy and I are off to the mountains in about 8 hours for the first round of Christmas with the Maney clan. It's always fun to hang out with the family. I will have to make an effort to take pictures this year. For some odd reason, no one ever does.
Parallels "coherency mode" has got to be the weirdest thing I've seen in a while. As wrong as it looks, that's just sickeningly convenient. We need to upgrade to Mac Pros and Parallels at work... like Monday.
Amy and I got up around 6:30am this morning and drove over to Super Target in Kannapolis. Luckily, Target had 51 consoles to sell and we were 21st and 22nd in line. Long story short, I got a Wii!
I almost, almost didn't go see Cursive last night at Tremont, but I'm glad I did. Tremont was packed to the gills, Tim Kasher was noticeably moved by size of the crowd and the opening bands were great.
The Cops could easily be described as the second coming of The Clash. There's definitely a little Ted Leo vibe to them as well, but I kept hoping they might just cover "Clampdown" if I thought hard enough about it.
Former Sunny Day Real Estate frontman, Jeremy Enigk played second and lulled everyone to sleep. His solo stuff is great, but following The Cops and preceding Cursive is not the time for emotional slow-jams.
By the time Cursive came on, the big room was as packed as I've ever seen it. Tim Kasher was in top form. The set ended with about 20-30 people from the crowd on stage singing "The Lament of Pretty Baby" and "Red-Handed Sleight of Hand." In other words, an amazing show.
Just arrived home from the ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, The Blood Brothers, Celebration show. I have to say none of the acts were completely satisfying tonight, but Celebration came the closest.
For some odd reason, they started the whole show 30 minutes before scheduled. That meant I missed Brothers and Sisters, who sounded good from the parking lot. The new Blood Brothers songs were a blur, since I have yet to actually listen to Young Machetes. Trail of Dead's set ended with a whimper instead of the usual insanity. All in all, a pleasurable experience, but not a memorable one.
Seattle has always been high on the short list of places I'd like to live. That is until they unveiled their new slogan: Metronatural. I'll let you all individually appreciate it in your own way. They even trademarked it!
Can I just say Prison Break is kicking ass this season.
Make sure you get your "I Voted" sticker before the polls close.
IEEE Spectrum has a feature on Firefox co-creator Blake Ross. Apparently, he's working on a project called Parakey that will "help people store and share their creations online."
I think I'm going to have to get one of the new iPod Shuffles. I might wait until they package them with the new headphones.
As someone with a great deal of interest in the future of PHP, I'm glad to see that Microsoft is interested in working with Zend to ensure PHP performance improves on Window servers. I'm not an advocate of either platform. As long as PHP and MySQL work the way they were designed to work, I'm happy.
Good grief. I knew Lost was going on a big break, but February 7th? I guess the show doesn't have the clout with ABC that I thought it would.
The Pentagram 2007 Classic Typography Calendar looks pretty nice. I'd like to see a shot of the 33-by-22 inch version hung on a wall, but imagine it would look nice.
The 37signals book Getting Real is now freely available to read online. You can still grab the PDF version and they've published a paperback version. I may opt for the paperback. The cover looks similar to The Elements of Typographic Style, but I'm sure it's on purpose. Glad they weren't inspired by The Elements of Style cover.
In a move I thought I'd never see, the new FCC Commissioner, Michael Copps, argued recently for more diversity in media outlets as well as more independent media ownership. This will either be very good for radio and TV or Copps will be gone in 6 months.
This graphic adapation of the 9/11 Commission Report is pretty smart. The whole idea being to "render the complex accessible." It's sad that it took pictures to do it, but I'm actually interested in reading the document now.
Radiohead has posted some new studio shots on Dead Air Space. Oddly, the first image is of Nigel Godrich navigating a mess of cable, despite the fact that last year Radiohead said they weren't working with him any longer. But, Green Plastic says they're working with Godrich again. Whoever is ultimately involved, it'll be great.
Chuck Palahniuk is starting to release details about his upcoming novel, Rant. I have to say I'm ready for a new book from Chuck.
Internet Explorer 7 is officially out and CNET already posted a review. I wasn't aware of the SP2 requirement. Looks like you don't have to worry about blocking the impending Automatic Update, Jeremy.
Nerd alert: Ben told me about about the new Media Temple server setup today and I'm impressed by the whole concept. Grid-Servers sound promising.
Birthday wishes go out to two of my most favorite people on planet Earth: Amy and Jeremy. I'm glad I get to share my life with you two.
As I mentioned before, most of Studiobanks is playing in a golf tournament tomorrow. Wish us luck throughout the day, we'll need it.
I think if there's a chance the US will have a black president any time soon that chance rests squarely only the shoulders of Barack Obama. While I'd definitely like to see him run and he's already got my vote, I hope he waits until 2012. I'd like to see McCain and then Obama, which would move the country back to a more moderate balance. I think we've seen that moving too far left or right has undesirable consequences.
Apparently, the Bush adminstration and Republican party decided this election year that the easiest way to get out of being accountable for their mistakes is to blame the Democratic party and Bill Clinton. I don't blindly support decisions made by either party, but passing the buck is just lame. Have some backbone, take responsibility.
Looks like a fellow UNCC art major is hitting it big; Nicole Atkins recently signed with Columbia Records. I know The Avett Brothers have fended off major-label offers in the past, but Nicole actually took the plunge. I hope it works out for her, she has great voice.
This interview with Troy Sanders of Mastodon conducted by his daughter makes me laugh.
Everyone needs to download this MP3 of "Hang Me Up To Dry" by the Cold War Kids and play it several times today. Definitely a Friday song.
After managing to stay completely away from the Lost until late last month, Amy and I completed our three-week, 48-episode marathon tonight. I had been trying to keep it somewhat of a secret, in efforts to keep the experience pure. Thanks to some discreet friends, we made it through without spoiling any of the story. Now that we're done, we can finally let the cat out of the bag. I'm ready for Wednesday.
This John Hodgman interview with Radar reads just like one of his Daily Show segments. No surprise he's actually a Mac user.
Keith Olbermann says everything I've been thinking regarding this whole Fox News vs. Bill Clinton mess. Watch the video for the full effect.
It was a fun weekend. Mitch getting married on Saturday afternoon was definitely the highlight. Believe it or not, I actually posted some photos on Flickr from the wedding.
As mentioned, Amy and I also attended a couple of shows. Jose Gonzalez was definitely the best of the two, since his sound really comes alive in the live setting. We only saw one and half songs of CSS and Ladytron was pretty much everything I expected. I'm sure Amy will agree the people watching at that show was more fun.
Lastly, I watched Team USA get their collective butts stomped by the European team to lose the Ryder Cup yet again.
Reasonably big weekend starting up tomorrow. Amy and I are heading up to Asheville for my brother's wedding, going to see Ladytron, CSS and Jose Gonzalez at the Orange Peel, hanging out with my Mom and trying to catch some of the Ryder Cup.
I like the work of Edvard Scott.
This XGL demo for the Linux desktop is pretty impressive. Some of the stuff is over the top, but hopefully Apple and Microsoft take notice.
The Wii hits stores on November 19th for $249.99! Wii.com is live!
All of Tristero's dishes over at Yay Can Cook look delicious. I'm long overdue to prepare one them.
I just closed two old Wachovia credit cards from college that have been carrying a zero-balance for over two years. I was fully expecting to get resistance, but they were agreeable and closed them right away. By far the smoothest customer service call ever.
Never thought I'd see the day that Brand New School updated their website.
On the heels of my last few skinnyCorp related posts, Threadless landed a segment on CNN's "On The Rise". Awesome.
I believe it was about two years ago I called Scott names in NYC for drinking Glaceau Vitamin Water. It took about that long, but now I'm addicted. If I don't have one in the morning during the work week, I feel like there's something wrong. I'm hooked.