Sitting here watching the game tonight and reading a comic book.  Doesn’t happen often, maybe once every ten years for me at this point in life.  Especially since I don’t buy comics but happened to find some at the library on Friday.  I also realize this is my next to last day of relaxation.  And it feels good.

Not that relaxation is a bad thing, but I’ve been going a bit nuts living in the Entertainment District.  Living in the small apartment makes me jealous of free-range chickens….and aware that I could never survive prison cells.  Not a chance.

But, sometime on Tuesday afternoon we should get the keys to our new home.  I can start moving our apartment belongings up and into the new house and getting things ready for our in-storage belongings on Wednesday and Thursday.  From then, I get to shine for a change.  Unpacking, including the physical lifting and moving of everything and organizing the house.

Yeah, I’m kind of nuts.  But boy will it be fun.

Celestia: Home

Finally having a chance to catch up on some stuff today.  A little free time before a hectic afternoon (and possibly evening).  Playing with Celestia.  Wondering if you could use it to create some short scenes for sci-fi.  They also have ships and other items from a range of movies/tv shows.  Star Trek for example - http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/fic_startrek.php

Schoolhouse 2 | The homework manager for Mac.

Nice looking software manager for students.  Though, at first glance, it looks exactly like iGTD.  The classcast thing looks interesting, though I wonder who else would use it.  But maybe faculty at schools with limited access to content management systems would benefit from this.

Best Life Magazine: Health & Fitness: Eat these eight foods every day to cover all your nutritional bases

How often do you see a list of 8 foods you should eat every day and each of them is tasty.  Well, except for the walnuts.  Not big on walnuts since we used to collect and crack them when I was a kid.  I think a quarter of my weight must be made from walnuts I cracked and ate in my youth.

Still, everything else looks good.  I’m eating yogurt and oats every day.  Though I’m only getting the oats because every loaf of bread on Toronto seems to be full-grain and better than the white bread we had in the States.

VLC media player - Overview

I’ve worked with VLC before. Excellent free program, but hasn’t been anything groundbreaking. Now, however, they’ve added the server download. This allows you to turn a computer into a media-streaming machine which can play from DVDs, video files or even a TV encoding card.

This might be an excellent method for recasting media from your home machine. I’m lucky enough to have a home-theater PC with a Hauppage 350 digitizer. The only question is, “Where will I watch it?” Not certain I would until this can serve to a mobile phone. But even then I’ll need a nice digital broadband package for my Treo (or an eventual iPhone, after they get it into the next version).

Thus, little help for me. But this is a great tool for faculty to be able to access media for playback. I’m not certain what the licensing for a central server would be, or whether faculty could build their own, but it will certainly happen in the future.

Don’t know if you are, but the first play of the season just started with Manning to Addai and incomplete.  And Addai is one of my key players and isn’t getting up.  Just my luck.  But I’m taking the night off.  I had a job interview today and finished up most of the stuff I needed to do for the new house.  So, I’m sitting here playing a networked version of Axis and Allies (TripleA - http://triplea.sourceforge.net/mywiki) with my friend John C back in Va.  Sometimes you just need a night off to chill and this is one of the few I’ve had lately.

Braille CDRs: They Just Now Thought of This? - Gizmodo

I thought about this years ago as a passing thought (not claiming much there, the idea is pretty obvious) and just figured someone would create a printable which would stamp on braille.  (You know, I still don’t know if they make those).  But kudos to someone for getting it to print directly to the disk.  Much less chance of mixing up labels.  I do that every so often and it is a pain getting them straight and I am blessed with good vision.

Coffee: Starbucks Makes the Leap to Single-Serve Coffee in Upcoming Maker by Bosch - Gizmodo

I’m wondering how many people will buy one of these and then decide they need another so they can have a Starbucks coffee maker across the kitchen from their Starbucks coffee maker…

Keyspan | TuneView (TVU-200C)

I’m on the fence about this device.  If it was around $100 I think it would be a must-have if you have a good music collection.  But $180 is pretty stiff for this type of functionality.  I assume the LCD screen must make it pretty expensive.

Still, I want to keep it in mind.  Now that we have an Airtunes, I’ll be constantly tempted by this thingy.

ThemBid.com » Blog Archive » Removing Backgrounds Quickly in Photoshop

When it comes to PhotoShop, every little bit helps.  I do wonder if this method would work in GimpShop.