For those Mac users who’ve downloaded iTunes 10 and find the vertical orientation of the close/minimize/mini-player buttons as egregious as I have:

Open Terminal:
Enter:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -int -1

and things are all good again. There may be a preference setting for this but 1/ there shouldn’t be and 2/ if there is I couldn’t find it.

Can’t find anything to help Windows users, but fuck it, it’s not like you people expect anything by way of consistency anyway.

I’m off to Cape October in May myself.

Well, I might.

As august nears an end, what does everybody have planned for the autumn?

In October, a trip to Cape May.

Probably … but I have so much invested in the head-shrinking-equipment, I’m reluctant to accept reality.

A mutual feeling I’ll bet.

Dimmer, I think you got the head giving concept a bit misconstrued.

Actually, we ‘endure’ about a week or two of 90+ temps and humidity at the end of August/early September. I know that may not seem like a lot, but when we also contend with temps that can sink to -30F and below, that is quite a range we contend with.

He probably stole it for gifting purposes: giving a little head to get ahead…

wait, no. Geronimo was buried in Oklahoma, skull stolen by Prescott Bush later.

Out for a jog in the old Magnolia Cemetery this evening, two Dudes asked: “Hey where Geronimo at?”

Really, Geronimo was imprisoned in an insane asylum in our county, but I’m thinking he was buried in Pensacola. Still. Funny question.

I’m planning for a little helping of that hopey changey thing. I know. Minnesotans can’t imagine that deep dark pit of despair that is the gulf coast summer. Eighty something degrees at six in the morning is no joke.
I’m actually going on a California vacation in October, which is a stupid time to leave Alabama. We get two decent months in the year, one of which is October, but my sister is buying. I’d be a goob to say no.

As august nears an end, what does everybody have planned for the autumn?

O HAI!

(I’ve also never seen a rental deposit returned.)

COLOR ME SUPER EXCITED!

I think that job belongs to Spazmo, but I will lend him some crayons.

Holy shit! Gratz LP! I don’t think I’ve ever got a sec. dep. returned.

And sometimes I think I did deserve it.

Today, like four months after moving out of my old apartment, my former landlord FINALLY sent a security deposit check. When I heard there was a foreclosure notice on the front door, I had figured getting my security deposit was a losing battle. But here it is, like an extra paycheck.

COLOR ME SUPER EXCITED!

Wait, LP is working for Bruce Springsteen now? Kewl!

(Even if he was born in Cambodia or somesuch.)

Did Pete predict the outcome of your first encounter? Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss!

Hey, GS. Sorry, yes, it’s keeping me busy enough. It’s roughly an hour commute and a 9-hr workday, so that’s a lot of my time right there.

But so far, so good. Crossing my fingers it stays that way: Monday marks the arrival of my new boss.

I’m guessing it’s keeping her busy…

By the way LP, how goes the employment?

Hello. Just got back from a trip to NYC. So nice to be back with the kitties, though it was great seeing old friends.

Sir Knight Gloveshot, Divine Protector of Assassins and Wayward Women.

Archduke President Professor Right-Reverand Dimmer, PHd, MBCS, DDG.

But you can call me Dimmer, like a love thing.

Title?

Most bestest good luck wishes for the novel LP. I’ll buy the hardcover.

I submitted my novel somewhere today. I am hoping to get the rejection letter by the end of the year. No I’m not. I’m hoping they love me. I’m EXPECTING to get the rejection letter by the end of the year. Rejection sucks.

GS, that sounds delicious!  I’m going over a friends’ house for dinner; the cook works at the Food Channel (as a Food Stylist, but he’s a professional chef) so ... yum! He always cooks wonderful things. I would bring that but unfortunately I won’t have time before I get there to buy the ingredients. I’ll have to make it when I come home!

That sounds tasty as hell Gloveshot.
This month I’ve been seeing a rash of recipes for watermelon with basil and black olives ... watermelon with red onions tomato and feta cheese and so forth. It sounds so wrong that it might just be great. I’m going to try one of them. Don’t come looking for me if I don’t come back, it’s too dangerous.

Speaking of Cathy Guisewhite: Why now, when we need her more than ever???
Please don’t tell me Curtis is next. I can’t take much more.

Have a great time LP. And if you really want to impress them, serve them what I created this morning. In a large tumbler I placed several bite size chunks of supersweet seedless watermelon, about a cup of plain yogurt and a 1/2 cup of white cranberry and peach juice. Took the immersion blender and smoothed it all together, and the added another 1/2 cup of the juice and stirred it in. It was, despite what you may think, very, very tasty.

Hey GS are you any where near Becker, Minn?

I am about 40 minutes east of Becker on US 10. (actually 10 flies about a block south of me.)

Going back to NYC! Alone, not with Spazmo. He can’t come. Just a weekend trip. I will miss my boy and girls the whole time, but I’m looking forward to seeing everybody again.

Were you standing on the sink again?

Nah, but I was using the shaving / make-up mirror. But even at 4x magnification it was still laughable.

Hey GS are you any where near Becker, Minn?

http://bringatrailer.com/2010/08/09/bat-exclusive-minnesota-field-of-cars/

\just back from a week holiday sailing, getting some colour on my pasty white self.

If it’s any consolation, you can now look forward to 06:07:08 on 09-10-11.

Ah crap, it is now 8-10-10. It just doesn’t ring the same.

Happy 8-9-10!

Cool! And same to you!

I saw my genitalia in the bathroom mirror

Were you standing on the sink again?

Happy 8-9-10! A date that happens only once a century (like any other date) but somehow seems kinda special.

That’s hilarious, Baldie.

The person I am thinking of de-friending just added this weird preacher to her interests. Apparently, you call in to a 1-800 number, he prays and preaches, and you are blessed with miracles (healing, love, money) if you just believe in him enough. He refers to himself as “His Eminence.”

I didn’t know anything this batshit existed. Well, I did, but I didn’t know anybody who fell for it before.

What’s everybody laughing about?

I saw my genitalia in the bathroom mirror. It was one of those “Laugh or cry?” moments…

How’s yous baldies?

LP, I meant to photograph a sign for you in front of Foster Grove Holiness Church, but they changed the sign before I got back there with the camera. On one side it said “GET OUT OF FACEBOOK AND GET IN TO MY BOOK
GOD”
the other side said “JESUS DIED FOR MYSPACE IN HEAVEN”

Holiness church is such a jealous bitch.

So Hi!
What’s everybody laughing about?
oh ...

Well, it’s James Randi‘s birthday—so it’s party time!

Does anybody know what time it is? Does anyone really care?

I know! It’s insane! The first systems I used with hard drives (and I used plenty without) were 10 to 20MB. I remember when I snaffled my first 1GB drive and wondering how on earth I’d ever fill that up…

Heck in my first network / systems management role our two primary servers (Apple Workgroup Server 95’s, named “Joyce” and “Hemingway") had 2 and 4GB each: and they supported a whole damn district council with all documents being stored on them.

Plus we were using “high-speed”, expensive SCSI controllers, and funk-tastic RAID software to get transfer rates about maybe a tenth of what is now just a cable.

Dimmer, 2TBs for $200! Just to put that in perspective, check out this price comparison.

Enjoy, Dimmer! Awesome.

Cool.

New toys: a 2TB external drive! My internal drive is “only” 320GB, and it’s full all the time. $200 for 2TB? Holy crap. I had a choice between a single disk Western Digital, or a two disk Hitachi unit. The single disk version was smaller, but otherwise had limitations: no eSATA for example. The two disk unit could do RAID 0 or RAID 1. So I went with it. Setup was a breeze: plug it in, turn it on, partition it (not required if you don’t care about partitions), and your done. Took maybe two minutes. Running over FireWire 800 it’s almost as fast as the internal drive. Very happy.

Also StarCraft II—which has a few little niggles (won’t quit all the way, sometimes a mouse click in the menus won’t register) but the game itself is (so far) super sweet.

$60 though, dang…