Everything I type on angrystan.com bounces over to Facebook, then angrystan.com posts updates to Twitter. Everything I upload to Dailymotion winds up on angrystan.com and therefore Facebook, then Twitter but is not automatic as Youtube was.
Youtube did something that stuck in my craw, so I dumped my content and am now uploading and linking to my older Dailymotion account. I like that my proper nick is mine on Dailymotion.
Dailymotion also has fewer content restrictions. I don’t think I’m going to do anything unsavory, but I like having the option. I’m still thinking about the ladies wet-shaving video and it may be difficult to do so within Youtube’s amorphous requirements.
The Wine Tasting video has all those beeps in it because it had too much profanity, even by my standards.
Invariably I’ll get over the Youtube thing and put almost everything back, and upload new material. Today, I’m still sore.
Rarely do I think I have something to say within 140 characters, but sometimes unique content appears on Twitter. It’s never really that fascinating.
I think I’m on some kind of friend aggregator, but I don’t really remember which one.
In other words, if you’ve got one feed, you’ve pretty much got them all.
I am angrystan everywhere. I’m pretty much stuck with it now.
You want proof a truly new decade is on approaching upon the horizon? It’s not much but it will have to do.
This is the last television advertisement issued by Chrysler Division of Chrysler, LLC before its dissolution.
This is the first television advertisement issued by Chrysler-Lancia, component of Fiat-Chrysler, SpA.*
Dr. Thompson’s tide is coming back in.
*Yeah, I know.
I propose an effective maximum-wage law based on Federal tax policy.
This maximum wage shall be called a “150-to-1 policy”. The maximum wage shall be tied directly to the Federal minimum wage, and calculated as follows: read more…
As an American I consume products. I do so consistently. Like you, I would much rather consume goods. Goods are better in every way. Except some things. Hydrox. Ford Ranger. Pepsi One. Michelins …
I am about to endorse a product for the benefit of my tens of readers. This is a product I have used for several years. It is novel and gives years of faithful, uneventful service. I recommend this product as a gift for that person who has everything or needs nothing in the upcoming season of especially conspicuous consumption. It is not expensive, particularly in consideration of its utility.
All-Ett: The World’s Thinnest Wallet.
You are encouraged to investigate All-Ett and their many products for many purposes at their website.
The gimmick of the All-Ett is that contents give the All-Ett its structure. This is a revolution in billfold philosophy. When you receive your All-Ett, it doesn’t seem like much. That is the ingeniousness of the design. When you fill the All-Ett with your cards, cash, condom, random bits of paper found on the street with fascinatingly vague text upon them, &c., it’s purpose becomes clear. You may now package the evidence you carry around with you without the bulk of a typical leather or nylon sarcophagus and it’s many layers.
If you’d like a political angle, it’s green in that all materials used are ultimately biodegradable or recyclable and is an American technology produced in the United States. These conditions should satisfy both the hippies and the Fox sycophants in your life. Apparently, the original objective was to make a billfold for a back pocket without exacerbating one’s sciatica but you need not share this.
I carry “The World’s Thinnest Card Case”, in black leather and carry my cash outside the billfold.
All-Ett is the one product that absolutely lives up to its website. An All-Ett makes a wonderful, unexpected and long-appreciated gift.
Among the more distressing aspects of your new system is the tendency for application and system messages to get buried behind other windows. In the Speech > Text to Speech system preference you can set the machine to “announce when alerts are displayed” and “announce when an application requires your attention”. Do so.
While there, select a voice which you like but is also discernible. I like Alex slowed a bit.
You might wish to do the same to the preferences in iChat.
Pay as little attention as you can to the Apple-fan community. Some technically inclined Mac guys exist but you will find them through Google when you need them.
The Apple solution for external drives is no better than the other names you know, but double the price.
In every Print dialog you can make PDFs. While these are good for forwarding to people and posting, they are good enough to forward via internet to copy shops. This is why I don’t have a printer. Just across the street I get whatever I want for a nickel each page. Seven cents for 60# paper. Your mileage may vary. They do color, too.
Still seeking additional tips, criticism or addenda.
The Universe is conspiring to prevent me from sleeping, and I’m getting on with it.
Hardware:
The Tip. The tip no one will share with you. The dark, dirty secret of the Mac underground: Lose the sloppy, crappy, awkward mouse. They’re terrible. The $3 mouse you can get at Fry’s, or your regional equivalent, is dramatically more usable. I have a $8 five-button mouse from the blatantly named Discount Electronics with a prominent Dell logo. All five buttons work seamlessly with OS X. The center button brings up the dashboard. The leftmost button is F9. The rightmost button is some kind of auto-scroll mode the name of which I can’t be bothered to look up right now. As you may know the right click is the command+click. read more…
I don’t know about servers. I don’t know about streaming media. Internet telephony, stand-alone audio servers and however one connects microphones across long distance in this age …
I need technical assistance, and pricing information from people who know about such things. I shall also need more than a little assistance, ideally from someone younger and more patient than myself, to arrange Creative Commons or otherwise royalty-exempt music and not in small portions.
Once again I have seen a future and it looks stunningly like the past. There is something I do know about and I’ve reached that time of life in which I need to do something about it.
I’m probably wrong in this, but I may have finally found a Stan-shaped hole in the Universe.
No matter how you’ve stumbled upon this missive, if you have any of the about mentioned expertise please chime in.
issued August, 2009
Have we learned anything? It’s just too easy to demonize and condemn. Where I live, virtue is defined by how readily you express, “Sucks to be you.” Even if not in those exact words.
I ask the question today that I asked exactly twenty years ago tonight: When is our turn?
