Crassmas shopping.

[reddragdiva]

But first, the news.

• Infrared photography (courtesy hbergeron) - quite a lot of digital cameras and video cameras do near-infrared. Contains nature, nudes and nudes in nature.

• A spam carol.

• Remember those Canadians bombed by the USAF in Afghanistan?

• Lord of the Rings by other authors.

• Applauding Leader Bush is now mandatory.

• Happy birthday to teknoirangel and squiddity.

Finally got my Commercialmas shopping out the way in Camden yesterday for the household. (Since three of the four read this, I will tell you later what I bought. I was particularly pleased with one find, and am just waiting for the recipient to open it so I can tell you all.) A few refreshing ales in t' Dev after with cyberpunkgrrl, Fallen, alixandrea and darkgoblin.

I was "working" today and am "working" tomorrow and Friday. Wednesday is a dinner at home, and Thursday is a two-party kind of day (health allowing), with myself and Liz attending upon marnameow and sbp and then naughtypixie and juliann.

I am seriously contemplating the Jenoptik JD2100f - I was reluctant to get it as it wouldn't arrive before Liz returned to Australia, but I find myself liking the idea of it more and more. And it talks to Linux, so FreeBSD should be at least feasible. Experiences, anyone?

I expect I should go and do some work now ... ahh, why spoil it.

Comments

[naughtypixie.livejournal.com]

By the way, i was truly impressed with the viral power of the internet today. That spam carol (which you linked, and which actually was my inbox... ish) has since left livejournal and been sent back to me in email as a "really cool xmas carol by someone" from a technophobe relative who I know doesn't have a Livejournal or the internet at home and generally has luddite friends.

Of course, trying to say "I wrote that" means your automatically branded a liar as no one writes anything you read on the internet.

[reddragdiva]

Congratulations! You have now created cubemail. If that's something to be proud of.

(Should include: "X bits of cubemail".)

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I am also "working" tomorrow morning and all day Friday. Expect many stupid comments to everyone's LJ posts.

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

fankyoo! :)

[reddragdiva]

Just remember to use the musical knowledge gained from the TG box for good evil.

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

*grin* i will find some poor unsuspecting child and teach them more about throbbing gristle than they ever needed to know... [although that statement sounds excessively wrong ;P]

i just woke up and you were in my dream! you and diva (http://www.livejournal.com/users/reddragdiva) went on an expedition to taiwan because you wanted to manufacture miniature models of dangermouse...

[reddragdiva]

You mean me and dmh, yes?

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

yes... *grin*

this is what happens when i try to be 'normal' and am awake during the daytime... my mind is rebelling.

[seoceia.livejournal.com]

Lovely infrared photo stuff! Yumyum!

Not enough of a balance for the Bush related stupidity though. :-\

[philosophrclown.livejournal.com]

then finding out that those canadians where bombed by americans speeding their tits off..

yeah gotta luv america saying drugs are bad, then drugging up the army....

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Any camera with removable media wil become $nix-patable with a pluggie-innie-thingumie that reads the card. You just mount it like a new drive.

In other news, the Purds has the XBox mod chip. Adam!

[reddragdiva]

"$nix-patable with a pluggie-innie-thingumie that reads the card."

Yeah, but that's another bit of hardware to buy.

"XBox mod chip. Adam!"

Ah, so you've gone with calling it Adam after all?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

It's cheap hardware, though, and has many uses.

I think Adam is the right name for the XBox. I've been thinking it over a little too much, and Snider is more suited to a sacrificial Windoze box.

[ali-in-london.livejournal.com]

This does rather beg the question. What is everything else called? And why aren't you calling the gaming box Xander?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

The PS2 is called Xander. It's a sad Buffy-geek network. Erm, my kickass machine is called Buffy, Sean's is Spike, the solaris box is Dawn, my laptop's Tara, Sean's is Willow, Sean's baby-poots is Faith, when the Psion had Linux on it was called Gachnar (tiny demon), the mp3 dump is Giles.

Scarier again is that we *think* about this, and there are reasons behind the names.

Now you'll have us pegged as the worst Buffy/pooter geek crossovers and run screaming from me.

[ali-in-london.livejournal.com]

ali@spike:~ >

You were saying....?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Hee!

Ooh - moloch, who is the hosted box, is called moloch because he's on the internet. It made more sense pre-dsl I think.

[reddragdiva]

Adam is just the right name for the XBox - a creation assembled over a long time, at tremendous expense, for purposes of great evil, who turns out to be, uh, a bit crap. Since it'll only make sense to give him a hostname when he has a chip in his head, it's even better.