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New Toy!

Everyone knows I have this thing for electronic gear with flashing lights. Well, I finally have found a cell phone that really makes my day -- the Sony/Ericsson T68i has a flashing green light and a flashing blue light. It is like a damn ship or something. Needless to say, I've got a new cell phone now.

Waiting for Unio

One of my favorite online cartoons -- done in a very odd way by the inestimable Jennifer Diane Reitz -- is, of course, Unicorn Jelly.

One of my favorite modern plays is, of course, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.

So it has been really neat for me to see Reitz have a go at WFG in her comic. The story of the play actually fits in with her storyline pretty well.

Addicted to speed

We are the master of

Keylock

Generally I really like my new phone, it is the swiss army knife of the cellphone industry and if you put any more in it, it would probably be too big. But there is one feature that I really miss from my old Motorola -- the cover that flipped open.

Category bending

While searching the web for "pistols are too militaristic" for the "keylock" story I stumbled across an essay entitled Are we too PC to Live?

Hooray for me!

As some of you know, I drive this 1987 Toyota truck -- Toy. It is a nice truck, but there is was a thing that drove me nuts about it, the cover. Toy has this hard cover over the bed, which used to be nice but the roof leaks and the back window had been broken out. On top of that, you can barely see out the back, plus with a cover you have to be on your hands and knees when you go into the bed of the truck and truck beds aren't exactly carpeted or anything. So I had this rust-causing, ratty looking, inconvenient truck cover on an otherwise kinda neat small truck.

Anyway, So I finally broke down and did something about it. Toy is now topless.

Peer to Peer pressure

Apple, you might know, has this thing called .Mac, where you can post a web page, get email, and host movies, music and pictures. Indeed, that's where I host my stuff, as the bandwidth is better than from RouseWorld. But Apple doesn't provide any community tools, like a way to search in the member sites for specific things, or have links of like-minded pages.

Sooo....