I’ve yet to really get into the MacHeist bundle I purchased. I was investigating Pixelmator when I found a pretty good overview video from ScreenCastsOnline. I looked around and found a few more covering the software in the bundle:
Somehow I’m taking over the internet without even trying. First there was that picture of me on the Wired blog. Then the other day my Xbox 360 I bought on launch day was laid bare on bunnie’s blog. Just now I saw my serial LCD, that fbz and I had been playing with over the holidays, on We Make Money Not Art. Frankly, I think it’s just an indication that I’m not publishing enough on my own blog…
The week before I left for Europe I bought an unlocked North American Nokia N95 from Mobile City Online. At the time, I bought it for two main reasons. First, having an unlocked GSM phone meant I could purchase any pay-as-you-go SIM card off the street in Europe and it would work. Secondly, it has a 5.0 megapixel camera which meant I could leave my bulky 2.1 megapixel Panasonic FZ1 at home.
Now that I’m back in the USA, I signed up for service from AT&T and want to talk about the many many other things this phone does. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m back in Las Vegas after spending six weeks in Europe. Actually, time of writing I’m still on the twelve hour plane flight home. I lucked out and got an exit row seat, so I COULD be getting stuff done comfortably, but I’ve mostly been slipping in and out of consciousness. That’s either from a lack of sleep or because I finally decided to start on the number theory/cryptography book Fabienne gave me. Multiplying two three-digit base seven numbers together isn’t so easy on the idle brain. Luckily my rowmate had been snagging me food boxen, etc while I snoozed, so I’m not starving. Read the rest of this entry »
It just slipped past midnight in Berlin, so I’d like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I spent Christmas Eve at home eating my family’s traditional dinner: spaghetti. More out of necessity than anything since I didn’t have anything else to eat. Going through the posts from last year I was reminded that James Brown died on Christmas Day and Gerald Ford a day later. To honor these two great men I give you: dj BC 13 James Brown songs in 4 minutes and Gerry Ford on The Simpsons.
Do I plan on learning German? No. In fact I make a point to say “thankyou” instead of “danke”. I’m using it as an apology, as in: “sorry if I appeared simple in the previous conversation; I only speak English”. Read the rest of this entry »
On Tuesday, we hopped a train to Berlin. Fabienne met us at Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Europe’s largest two level train station. From there we preceded to the apartment she had found us. It’s fully furnished and has one bed plus a very nice futon. The only real issue is an unfriendly IPCop firewall. Friends from Austria are staying with us right now since there’s a tattoo convention this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
We hopped on a EuroCity train Sunday morning and headed to Prague. Bre had lived in Prague in ‘95 as part of a film production company and wanted to see how it had changed. My initial impression was not so good, we were in the new town and it looked like the iron curtain had just fallen. I was disappointed about the lack of German words. With German you can take a wild guess at the pronunciation, but I’m completely lost with Czech. How can a language with 10 vowels manage to create a sentence with none? Read the rest of this entry »
I’m a vegetarian, Bre is a pescetarian, and Sean is vegan so we attempted to hit as many veggie friendly restaurants as possible. First up was Vegetasia. The sign says Taiwanese, but it was pretty much generic asian food. They create dishes using fake meat, so even the “shrimp” actually has the consistency of real shrimp. The first time we went was the all you can eat lunch buffet. It was really weird being able to eat every item on a buffet without a second thought. The next place was Rupp’s an irish pub with an all vegetarian and mostly vegan menu. They even had vegan schnitzel and apple strudel. I ate at Vienna Tunnel Line one evening. The vegetarian selection was great, the cooking was a crap shoot. Our final two days were spent at Formosa. It only has 8 seats, but that guarantees a hot, attentively prepared meal. It also doubles as a small veg/vegan market. This restaurant hunting experience was a lot of fun and I hope to do it a few other places in the future. While trying to find Formosa we stumbled across one of Vienna’s massive flak towers. Read the rest of this entry »
I spent a lot of time with Michael and Florian from Graffiti Research Labs Vienna. They’re known for the better laser tagging software. Flo took me on a tour of the legal graffiti walls around the Danube Canal (pictures on Flickr). Another interesting stop was the paint store. It used to be a standard paint store, but now caters to graffiti artists. I’ve also got two GRL shirts now that were stenciled using pigment. Flo gave me an overdue haircut. I think he was just excited about the interstitial mullet. Read the rest of this entry »
Eliot Phillips claims to hate people and writing, but somehow succeeds with both. You can catch him as Lead Blogger on the hardware hacking empire: Hack-A-Day.
