In answer to the question as to whether Baltimore Inner Harbor ever freezes over, the answer is yes.
Electric rental boats hibernate through the winter.
Photos taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP SD.
The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayers
A small print of Jean-Leon Gerome’s The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayers is taped to the wall in front of my desk, a reminder of the struggles endured by those who have gone before me.
In related news, lions like humans.
Opera Bork!
“Hergee berger snooger bork bork bork!” – MSN via the Swedish Chef. That is priceless. Utterly priceless.
In other news, a mild db fluke has been rectified. I will upgrade to MT2.6 when the time and opportunity present themselves, along with a bunch of other code revisions. Soon, my pretties, soon.
Goodah! Redux
Knorr Real Chinese Sooo-uup! Goodah! (1.6MB MPEG-1 video)
“Asinine and Benighted”
Tonight I have a group exercise in the sound booth at MICA: we each need to record a 2-3 minute reading of any text we choose. I’ve narrowed my selection down to either Lamentations 3 or The Ultimate Flame. Which should I read?
Update: I did the Flame. In my Home Shopping Network voice.
Quick Dock Applications
OS X users, you can get a quick Apps popup by simply dragging the Applications folder into the right side of the Dock. While clicking on it will bring up the applications window as expected, right-clicking (or Ctrl-clicking or click-holding) will bring up an Applications menu, just like an old-style Apple menu or Start button.
Struggle for Crack Block
“True Believers.” This is a bit belated, but Vaughn and Bryan, the brave souls behind Rebuilding Madison, had a feature story in City Paper last month. The struggle to redeem the crack block continues, and Bryan’s firsthand account can be both troubling and inspiring to all concerned Baltimoreans.
Via that, we have 2321, another Baltimore watchdog blog from another part of town. And on a related note, Brian has an interesting revision for the goofy “Believe” campaign.
Tiring Tuesday
Woke up late, missed a subway by seconds, walked down Lexington Street to catch the light rail and had to circle around to Saratoga because of an overdue public construction, missed the Light Rail, got my order messed up at KFC (2 pc. Original Recipe with Mean Greens), missed another Light Rail, got a dead outlet setting up my interactive terminal at the Grad Exhibit and had to move the pedestal — with eMac atop it — across the room, lacked a mini-to-quarter-inch adapter on the DAT recorder for a late-night Sound 1 project, still haven’t read my Barthes essay for Thursday, and am up late again, so that I’ll probably lack sleep when I wake up in the morning.
Yes, it has been a devil of a Tuesday.
On the up side, I did finally manage to set up the pedestal and eMac for my interactive piece at the Grad Exhibit (opening on Friday!), got to record an interesting interview for the Sound 1 project about dogs and the preparation and consumption of azucena, had dinner with a friend from school whose company never fails to brighten my day, got home in time to catch Futurama, and I’m joining some classmates for all-you-can-eat sushi at Shogun tomorrow.
It’s been a relentlessly tiring and uncooperative Tuesday, and weariness has soaked into my bones with the cold and the snow; but I will try not to falter, I will lean on the Spirit, and in Him find strength and rejoicing.
Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
Movieloaf
Favorite quip from Mystery Science Theater 3000:
“I don’t think this is a real movie.”
“It’s more like movieloaf.”
“Yeah, made from real movie parts.”
The Postmodernism Generator
From the Postmodernism Generator. The fun part is that they have all their buzzwords and catchphrases down pat; this stuff really does sound like an authentic postmodern philosophy paper.