This weekend has been interesting and varied. I bought whole bunch of things, which I may or may not need– including a sheet of aluminum.

My Saturday night was spent primarily on cutting this aluminum in to a most useful widget. I now use this carefully crafted creation to keep my PowerBook from sliding off of its stand. It used to stay on there by itself, but clearly something has gone awry and it needs some help now. The method of jamming something between my keyboard and the laptop was getting clumsy, so I came up with this. It was really–interesting–cutting it with my Dremel, because I don’t have any tin snips around here, but I think it turned out well with those rounded corners!

Today at Espresso Royale I was reading a book, equipped with my earphones, upstairs in a comfy chair. Some people moved a table and sat unreasonably close to me, and I had the feeling they were like– talking about me– or something, but I could not tell because of the earphones. I was sure I was paranoid and continued my reading. When I got home I noticed my phone had “1 Missed Call” from 30 minutes prior, which means everyone around me had certainly been subjected to my loud (but awesome!) ringer for what had to be at least 30 seconds. Thanks everybody, for not letting me know my phone was ringing. Your loss for having to listen to it. The moral of the story is that the people around you are talking about you. Right behind your back.

As I sit here, and notice the wonderful fog outside, to distract me from my CS 273 homework, I think: “Man, if that fog were snow, I’d go out and play in the fog right now.”

Also, it is worth note that the SD500 digital camera records to MMC cards as well as SD– randomly I found that out this weekend…

I keep finding random bugs in MarsEdit and my Delkin Card Reader keeps malfunctioning. Its the driver, I know it is, and I can’t even force it to work:

joey% sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/CF32A.kext
kextunload: unload kext /System/Library/Extensions/CF32A.kext failed

For example, I had to reboot my computer to get the pictures off of my SD card. MarsEdit is preventing me from deleting lines using ctrl-k, even though I can successfully delete the rest of the line with it… And there is something funny going on with window positions/sizes when it is located on my second display. Whatever MarsEdit. You’re still awesome.

Oh, and my TV is malfunctioning– but it is not it’s fault! The cable signal is screwed up (I can see this on my projector when watching tv too– its just not nearly as bad) TV looks like this:

How will I ever get by? Just kidding.

* it took like 3 edits just to get this right. Another WordPress/MarsEdit/XML-RPC bug…
Bugs Bugs Bugs…