Month: December 2005

i’m number two

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probably not going to be much activity here for the next few days, what with the holidays and all.

in the meantime, if you google jamie howard, i am no longer number one. i am number two, behind some swimming machine (with apologies to kurt vonnegut).

here is the number one jamie howard.

now if, swimming machine jamie howard, you (along with my other fifteen readers) would kindly link back to the queer jamie howard, i can perhaps regain my rightful number one google ranking.

not that i care or anything.

update: i’m now number three. jamie howard the professional wrestler, who has about 36 aliases, is now number one on google with his imdb page with its lousy wrestlemania “movie” credits. and jamie howard the swimming machine is number two. come on people.

not that i care or anything.

and the truth is?

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another uneventful commute. i wish everyone was as lucky as i am…evidently, contrary to what i previously said about resourcefulness, it’s not getting any easier at all for a lot of people.

i’m waffling a bit on my opinion of the union. yesterday the other municipal unions held a press conference where they stated that the same law (the taylor law) that prohibits municipal workers from striking also prohibits management from bringing pension issues to the table as a bargaining chip.

the truth?
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what, me worry?

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here’s a link to a very comprehensive list of all of the maintenance procedures you should regularly perform to ensure that your windows pc is safe, secure, and runs well:

windows pc tune-up guide.

it also serves as a comprehensive list of all of the things i never have to waste time doing anymore, now that i’ve switched to a mac.

i know…sometimes i’m a smart ass. but, honestly, why are you still using that pc?

new york still works

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if you have money, that is.

isn’t that the new york way? well, it shouldn’t be.

if you don’t have money, or you need to go to work in an outer borough, you are pretty much out of luck this morning. that’s the big problem i have with this transit strike. it doesn’t hurt people with resources–it hurts people like the strikers themselves, or people in worse situations.

so here’s the story of my morning so far.
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the nathan lane reality bubble

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nathan lane talking to katie couric about “brokeback mountain” on the “today” show:

“it’s really when [ledger] said, ‘this thing gets hold of us the wrong time, the wrong place, we’re dead.’ i thought, ‘what do you mean, like the a&p? you’re in the middle of nowhere! get a ranch with the guy! stop torturing these two poor women and get a room! what’s the problem?'”

i hereby proclaim nathan lane to be an idiot who needs to venture out beyond new york and los angeles. except for the torturing the women part, which has a modicum of truth, this is as clueless a point of view as i’ve seen uttered in quite a while.

animated singing santa hack

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now this is the funniest thing i’ve seen in ages.

you know that ubiquitous 5-foot dancing talking santa they sell at wal-mart? well, this artist/hacker decided to reprogram it to, well…

let’s just say that santa has now been bent to this very creative guy’s will. at the artist’s request, i haven’t linked directly to the videos of santa in action, but the links are on the site and you have to watch them. i’m not going to spoil the fun, but they have to be seen to be believed.
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it had better work

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what a night.

about 6:30pm yesterday we had firemen come into the building for some unknown reason. in a separate incident at the same time, the paramedics came for someone. and, in a third separate incident at the same time, a pipe burst in the apartment above us, sending water cascading down the living room wall.

that would be the wall where my mac mini was plugged in.

to say the least, i am not pleased.
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transit strike apprehension

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the new york transit workers may be going on strike tomorrow at midnight. and if they do, my commute to work is going to be much, much more difficult.

it’s easy to take the subway for granted, and of course, even easier to take the workers who run the system for granted. and i am, of course, a big supporter of unions and don’t mind a little discomfort if it means that a whole lot of people get paid better.

still, it’s a big unknown and there’s some trepidation associated with that.
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quote of the day

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sometimes you don’t need a lot of words. sometimes i just feel like being an epigrammist, or an epigrammatist. take your pick.

so here’s my short but pithy quote for the day. apropos of nothing. i thought it up while daydreaming today.

“i avoid the middle of the road. that’s where the trucks can hit you.”

pretty good quote, huh? use it the next time someone tries to make you a political pragmatist. i think i got there first with this idea. if i didn’t, please let me know.

why didn’t you think of that?

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or, also, why didn’t i think of that?

this guy is trading up for items starting with a red paper clip, with the ultimate goal of trading for a house.

he’s already traded up to a snowmobile, and now the story is all over the internets and the media, so you just know this guy is eventually going to get his house.

as well he should. brilliant idea. you go, trading up to a house guy.

in other news…
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not smelling it

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the maple syrup, that is. i’m not smelling it.

supposedly, the smell of maple syrup is all over manhattan, and it’s inexplicable. some people think that it’s a chemical weapons dispersal test that the government is conducting.

i’m not that paranoid–since i didn’t smell it last time and since i’m not smelling it this time i’m going to assume that it’s not a government conspiracy.

here’s a map of where the smell has been reported. those little map dots are all around me.

i feel a bit left out. i want to smell the maple syrup too.

hdtv hell

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well, not quite irate. and not quite hdtv hell. the hdtv is hooked up to the cable box, and i have hdtv, and it looks spectacular, but there are a few caveats.

there’s something called hdcp copy protection that your tv has to have enabled in order to hook up the explorer 8300 cable box to the all-digital dvi port.

my tv has this hdcp copy protection.

but the cable box can’t find it. so i can’t use the all-digital connection from the tv to the cable box. i have to use the component connections, which are fine, but then that means that my dvd player doesn’t have the highest quality connection it can have, because the cable box is using those outlets.

so when i play a dvd it looks less than spectacular.

i will add here that my mac mini has a digital dvi connector and my lcd computer screen has a digital dvi connector. and when i plugged those two devices in, they both worked together flawlessly and perfectly. why is that? it’s because apple knows how to build something. if apple built my cable box, i’m sure i would be writing about some other subject and not griping about how none of my electronic components work together. because it would all just work.

the cable guy is coming on the 20th. i’m not optimistic.

grrrrrrr.

the easy way out

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i’m busy at work today and have to leave early for my annual checkup at dr. kamlet’s office, so i’m going to just repost an email i got this morning.

and i’m in such a hurry that i’ll even leave the capital letters intact. banner day for queerspace.com.

it’s a very funny letter written in reply to a comment by dr. laura. who knew that old gasbag was still bloviating? i guess she is. if anyone knows the source so i can give “jim” proper credit, please let me know. this may be the oldest circulating email on the internet for all i know–i don’t have time to check it out on snopes.com.

read it after the jump. that means click “more”, in case you don’t know what a “jump” is.
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