Archive for March, 2004

Citizen Kubrick

Saturday, March 27th, 2004

Citizen Kubrick is a fascinating article in The Guardian that details Stanley Kubrick’s extreme obsession with possessing and organizing the entire informational space about every subject he was interested in.

“Somewhere else in this house,” Tony says, “is a cabinet full of 25,000 library cards, three inches by five inches. If you want to know what Napoleon, or Josephine, or anyone within Napoleon’s inner circle was doing on the afternoon of July 23 17-whatever, you go to that card and it’ll tell you.” “Who made up the cards?” I ask. “Stanley,” says Tony. “With some assistants.” “How long did it take?” I ask. “Years,” says Tony. “The late 1960s.”

Definitely worth the read.

Harbin Ice Festival

Friday, March 26th, 2004

R Todd King has some great pictures and commentary on his website. Particularly cool are his pics of the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival.

The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both farenheit and centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the cold, the residents of Harbin celebrate it, with an annual festival of snow and ice sculptures and competitions. great_wall_ice.jpgImage and text taken from RToddKing.com without permission.

Mailinator

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004

Mailinator may be our new best friend. From their site:

Its no signup, instant email. Here is how it works: You are on the web, at a party, or talking to your favorite insurance salesman. Whereever you are, someone (or some webpage) asks for your email. You know if you give it, you’ll be on their spam list. On the other hand, you do want at least one message from that person. The answer is to give them a mailinator address. You don’t need to sign-up. You just make it up on the spot. Pick jonesy@mailinator.com or bipster@mailinator.com – pick anything you want (up to 15 characters before the @ sign). Later, come to this site and check that account. Its that easy. Mailinator accounts are created when mail arrives for them. No signup, no personal information, and when you’re done – you can walk away – an instant solution to one way spammers get your address. The emails will automatically be deleted for you after a few hours. Let’em spam.

I’ll definitely be tryin this out.

Connecting Two Linksys WRT54G Routers Together

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004

I stumbled upon a FAQ on Linksys’ site, and found it so useful that I had to share it. How do I setup a WRT54G behind another WRT54G? tells you everything you need to know about connecting two WRT54G’s together to essentially give you three more ethernet ports (and another wireless access point), all on the same network.

Calling The Pussy A Cunt

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

The woman who lives directly below us is loud and has a temper. The other night, I felt a dull thud in the floor, as though something large and heavy had just fallen in Heather’s apartment below. And then, a second later:

HEATHER (screaming as loud as possible): Oh, fuck, Madison, I could fucking KILL you!

-Beat-

HEATHER (screeaming even louder): Jesus! Shit! Madison! Bad girl! Bad girl!

-Beat-

HEATHER (sharply): Madison, you stupid fucking cunt!

Madison is Heather’s cat.

Taco Bell

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

Last week, we went on a recent binge of eating out instead of cooking at home. After a few pricey meals, my wallet was a smokin, but we still didn’t feel like cooking. The answer: Taco Bell.

We brought home our Gorditas, Mexican Pizza, Quesadilla, and Bean Burrito, put the food on the table, and sat down to eat.

MARGARET (to me): Ugh, you need to take out the trash! It stinks! ME: I just took it out this morning! MARGARET (embarrased): Oh. I guess that’s our food…

A New Voice

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

Just a quick note: I’d like to welcome Abel to the authors of w00t. Abel is a good pal of mine, and a regular w00t reader, so it seemed natural to give him an account.

So, welcome, Abel! (Abel, I leave it up to you to edit this post or to write a new one introducing yourself in more detail, should you care to do so =-)

“Hey everyone. Glad to be part of the w00t family. I’ll do my best to post only semi-random stuff. Bah, who am I kidding?” ~Abel.

IRC’s Best-Of

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

www.bash.org collects transcripts from IRC, highlighting some pretty funny shit.

Heh:

[AgentSmith] It seems you have been leading two lives, Mr. Anderson. In one life, you are Robert Anderson, assistant cook at a Jack in the Box in Mesquite….in the other…you go by the chat alias “Randerson”…spreading homosexual propoganda, lying, and being a generally immature pest… [AgentSmith] One of these…has a future. [Randerson] LMAO OMFG where’s the phone, I have to tell Dean about this [AgentSmith] How can you use the phone when you cannot…speak? *** AgentSmith sets mode: +m

Windows Shortcuts – Updated

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

Was researching for more Windows XP keyboard shortcuts, and came across an excellent Microsoft page: Keyboard Shortcuts with Windows XP Home Edition. Noting that this was for XP Home, I tried to find a page with key shortcuts for XP Pro, and found this. Not entirely helpful. Still, I’m grateful for the XP Home page, I just wish they’d get their act together and update the Pro page, too.

Urban

Saturday, March 13th, 2004

urban800.jpg (click for higher res)

Saw this in SoHo at Spring & Broadway, thought it was worth a photo.