…how to pronounce Linux, here’s the answer, straight from the horse’s — make that Finnish programmer’s — mouth:
Trash and the Death Star
If this weren’t so funny, it would fall somewhere between a woeful lack of suspension of disbelief and “Shut up, ya damn Star Wars geek!”
But I have to admit, the guy’s got some good points. (And, I was wondering about some of these things myself… Hmm…)
The blog is back…
Clustering is a natural characteristic of true randomness. The randomness of life’s events clustered on our household this fall, so I’ve had to let all of this sit idle for some time. I’m gradually reviving it…
No title could possibly encapsulate the randomness to follow…
…but I needed to come up with one.
Anyway…
I’m still trying to organize my life as it is captured on the platters of my new iBook’s hard drive. In the midst of doing so, I’ve been listening to some of my own recordings, including the new Inflationary Cosmology CD.
A co-worker, listening to the new CD, made the unfortunate observation that the main guitar pattern in the track “Nothing New Under the Sun” is remarkably similar to the opening of “More than a Feeling” by Boston… and sure enough, it is.
Oh well, at least I got the title right.
In other news… I just have to join the cross-linking stampede and draw your attention to this hilarious entry on someone else’s blog regarding the bizarre, Babelfish-esque cross-translated English subtitles from a Chinese bootleg DVD of Star Trek Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
There are many things to enjoy, but I think my favorite is that “Jedi Council” gets translated as “Presbyterian Church.”
That’s it for now. Back to reorganizing my existence…
Nothing new under the sun
Considering that I just finished recording a new CD whose centerpiece is a suite on the theme of the human experience entitled “Nothing New Under the Sun,” I should not continually find myself surprised that my seemingly oh-so-original ideas are, in fact… well, not. Especially when they come to me as a stroke of pure genius in the wee hours.
Case in point: I’m toying with some new ideas for a major overhaul of my personal website (far more than lazily “porting” it over to prefab blog software), and in the midst of setting up my “MAMP” (Mac OS X, Apache, MySQL, PHP — OK, so it’s not as elegant as “LAMP” but I am not yet on the “Linux is a legitimate desktop OS” bandwagon) development environment on my new iBook, the name for this new site hit me. It was sheer brilliance.
The Cortex Vortex
It was too good to pass up. And this on the same day when I had hit upon the idea of naming different-sex fraternal twins Franklin and Eleanor and nearly driven off the road in tears of hysterical laughter when SLP suggested the name “Fonzworth” (maybe you just had to be there… but truth is stranger than both fiction and SLP’s sense of humor).
So good, in fact, that naturally there were others in the world who had already found it that good, as well. Granted, there wasn’t really anything out there with the name that was like what I intended to do, but why compete with the villain from Crash Bandicoot 2… not to mention some guy in Quebec? (Do a whois, if you must.)
OK, back to Square One. Hey, maybe that would be a good name! Do you think anyone else is doing anything with it?
Postscript
Not quite the event of the century, but I ran into and spoke briefly with Scott Savol at the Mall of America Apple Store last night.