Y'know, sometimes I hit the Expos button just to watch the little windows fly around.

Ok, you've got a cup. That's like a coffee cup. No, a real coffee cup, not an espresso shot-thing. Ok, two of those make up a pint. What? No a pint is 2 cups. It's called a pint because it's sixteen ounces of water, which is a pound. Pound and pint are the same, somehow. I guess they just started saying it differently. Ounces? Oh, I forgot ounces. An ounce is an eighth of a cup. A fluid ounce, I mean, not a...solid ounce or whatever the other one's called. It's a unit of volume, see. Then, you've got something called a long pint, which is 20 ounces, but I'm not sure that even exists except for Guiness glasses. Anyway, OK, listen, 2 pints, regular pints, is a quart. That's 32 ounces. And it weighs two pounds, I think, but I never really tested that. 4 quarts is a gallon. After that it gets hazy. Barrels I think is the next one up, and that's like 50 gallons or something like that.

Steve Jobs' Apple WWDC Keynote (link may change) is on the web tonight.

I wasn't expecting much, being a fairly recent purchaser of the Powerbook; and, if you'll pardon the unseemly outburst, jumpin Jehosephat! Man, that new Tiger's got stuff I ain't never even heard of! You got little calculators and calendars, see, zooming in and zooming out; that's what they call, er, what was it now, aw, I don't remember what. The tagline was Expos for Widgets. Which is kind of strange, considering that widgets is a fairly new thing. Sort of like on of those recursive acronyms everybody's been talking about, like GNU or LAME, it's a recursive unveiling. Stick with me, I'm a conceptual person.

Then you got OS-Level Photoshop-plugins, see? That means, basically, that you can make Photoshop-like changes to everything on your screen. And it all happens at the NS-Widget Level. Not 'widget' like before, though, this is something different. See, now, all those buttons and sliders and boxes that you see on your screen, those are called 'widgets'. And the 'NS' before them, that comes from NextStep. NextStep was the early-90's version of OS X, but for a company called 'NeXT', who produced sexy little over-priced UNIX computers to sell to universities. Too. Anyways, now Macs are UNIX machines, without all the scary free-ness of Linux computers.

Ok, so, Photoshop-plugins were the point of discussion. Oh, one more thing: Steve started NeXT after The Other Steve screwed him out of his share of Apple. Then Apple came crawling back after 15 years-too-long of MacOS 1-9 cutesiness that would've ruined any other company. No, man, Apple's got an advantage. Their entire market is made up of drug-hippies who haven't run out of money yet. Probably 90% of their user-base is between the ages of 16 and 30, which is, as we all know, Prime Hippy Demographic. And don't say "Oh Ess Ex". That makes Steve mad. Say, "Oh Ess Ten". See, that 'X' there is a roman numeral, I understand.

No, I'm not a member of the Cult of Steve. I have a Mac, and I love working on it; but I'm not yet a card-carrying brainwashed MacZombie. That's because I realize that it's a slippery slope that will lead me to using GoLive, kicking Hacky-Sacks, and, finally, paedophilia.

Stupid Mac.

Hillary Clinton just broke the Rand Barrier.

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

And she wasn't joking. Dang, when I hear things like that it just gives the the willies. It's bad enough to be similar to characters in Atlas Shrugged, but when you start quoting them verbatim, that's when it gets a little freaky.

Hillary will be president some day. Maybe in a few years, just for writing this, I'll be laying on a rack with Richard Burton's fatherly face hanging over me. "Picture a boot," he'll be saying with that velvet voice. Oh, shit, man, then he'll do that thing where he pulls out my tooth. I hate that part.

Heh. HillaBurton.

(Via: Babalublog)

Sweet.

A nicely done post from another Georgia boy, Michael King. I can imagine the twisted expression of indignation and hatred that pours over "anti"-War people's faces when they see these two smirky State-Terrorists having a laugh over the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis who weren't botherin' nobody no-how.

Fuck 'em. If they'd wiped their own asses we wouldn't have had to go over there and mop the floor with them. Here's your country, all nice and fixed. And if you screw it up, we're just gonna go back over there and do it again. Now, get to work!

Update: Heh.