Thursday, November 01, 2007

I Am Possibly The MOST Insecure Person on the Planet

Reha: Oh, I love her! She has to be one of my top ten favorite and interesting people I’ve ever met and known.

Jon: Yeah… She’s great.

Moments pass.

J: So, this “top ten” group of favorite people…

R: Yes?

J: Am I on that list somewhere?

R: Of course, Jon.

More moments pass.

J: So in comparison to M., am I higher on the list or lower?

R [eyes rolling so hard she might have permanently injured herself]: Jon… I don’t know.

J: Who else is on the list?

R: Jon. It’s not really that kind of list.

J: Am I in the top five? Top 8? Like, did I make the playoffs? I mean, number 8 seed, that’s not great, but I still have a shot, you know. I could totally be the dark horse and make it into the finals.

R: We have got to get you some serious therapy.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Words! Words! Words!

I have foolishly signed up for NBloPoMo and so updates will not only be daily for the month of November, they will also be FULL OF AWESOME, at least until I run out of things to say on a Sunday afternoon in late November and start writing about my belly button lint.

To Wit:

“Have you ever really looked at your belly button lint, man? It’s like a tiny little fuzzy WORLD in there, man.

Duuuude.”

Anyway. That’s the gig, starting tomorrow.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Hi! I’m Four and Tonight I Shall Be Your Nemesis

I’m NOT tired!

I don’t wanna have a bath!

I want to have my cell phone [toy] in the tub! I won’t get it wet!

I PROMISE! GIVE ME BACK MY CELL PHONE! I HAVE TO CALL MIMI!

I AM NOT TIRED!

Taken approximately three seconds after getting her out of the tub. And obviously, she’s buck nekkid under that black square where she fell fast asleep on our bed.

Yes, that is the cell phone in her little clutches.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Angelic, For Once

I took this photo a couple of weeks ago when Reha was one one of her “Go Around the Country and Be Gone for Weeks on End” business trips.

She was gone for two days. BUT IT FELT LIKE DECADES.

After a particularly trying evening of my trying to get some stuff done on the house, trying to coax certain members of my family to do their homework, and getting food into bellies, I exploded and knocked everyone unconscious, just to get them to STOP MAKING NOISE AND GIVE ME SOME PEACE FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIVES.

Aren’t the adorable? Don’t worry, I photoshopped out the bruises resulting from the explosion.

Sleeping small people == Double plus good.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Things That Work in Leopard (OS X 10.5)

Installed Leopard on a spare internal HD on my Mac Pro (2 x 2.66 GHz Dual Core with 5 GB of RAM)

Here’s what works:

Growl (1.1.1)
Twitteriffic (2.1)
TextMate (1.5.6)
Server Admin (10.4.7)
Workgroup Manager (10.4.4)
Linotype Font Explorer (1.2.2)
Quicksilver (this would have been a deal breaker had it NOT worked) (B52 3813)
CS (photoshop and Illustrator), but they complain loudly that they are missing stuff
Office (old version, too v.X)
Coda (1.0.2)
CSSEdit (2.6)
TextExpander (2.0.2)
Adium (though it won’t let me log on via AIM, which is odd) (1.1.3)
iWork ‘06 (Both Keynote and Pages work fine)
Camino (1.5.1)
Firefox (2.0.0.7) (I haven’t tested any plug-ins, but I’m assuming most would be OK?)
iPhoto 6 (6.0.6)
LittleSnitch (1.2.4) (though things are coming up “kernal_task” instead of an app like “Mail")
CyberDuck (2.6.6)
Colloquy (2.1)

Here’s what does NOT work:

CS2 from my old drive
CS3 from my old drive
CS InDesign
Jon from blurbomat and I could NOT get iChat screen sharing to work. AT ALL. Much lameness. We are both on AIM. Maybe screen sharing is only a “local” thing?
Managed Accounts from OS X Server (10.4) aren’t working. I don’t get a prompt to make a mobile account. This is stinky on many levels for me. Hopefully, once I get my servers updated to Leopard Server, all will be well again.
Apple Remote Desktop (3) Says I have to update the client software. Won’t even let me serialize the program. Will try software update. This is “grumpify-ing” as well. Update: I updated the Remote Desktop software to 3.2 (after a fresh install) and now it’s happy.

CS3 is a bit of a special case. It HATES, and I mean LOATHES, to not be on boot drive. Adobe spews all kinds of crap EVERYWHERE on your hard drive in every little nook and cranny. I’ll try re-installing CS3 and I am pretty confident it will work.

I hate the default icon set.

The new Mail is pretty awesome. iCal might not be the lamest thing ever, though I’m withholding judgment until I play with iCal Server in Leopard Server.

Here are the User-Agent Strings for Safari on Leopard for the truly dorky:

[26/Oct/2007] “GET /rntlogo.jpg HTTP/1.1” 304 - “http://ransom-note-typography.com/” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10”

Jon (blurbomat Jon, not me Jon) has a much more interesting “first look” here.

UPDATE: Re-installing CS3 on the Leopard boot volume did the trick. It’s fine now.

Proximus

 

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