May 16
Posted: under Current Affairs, journalism, New Media Strategery, newspaper crisis, Web/Tech.
As someone who has spent much, much more than my share of time being hassled by cops for doing my job, face jammed onto the hot, stinking hood of a patrol car, I felt it necessary just to acknowledge this protest event being held at Hollywood & Highland on June 1. More and more, I [...] [...more]
As someone who has spent much, much more than my share of time being hassled by cops for doing my job, face jammed onto the hot, stinking hood of a patrol car, I felt it necessary just to acknowledge this protest event being held at Hollywood & Highland on June 1.
More and more, I find that the police have been infected by the “well, we’re just trying to be cautious” bug, spread by the geeks at Homeland Security that show up every six months with their PowerPoints demonstrating how the eeee-vil Mooslim terr’rists are going to set of a nuke right here in River City if the beat cops slack up even for a second. Sheesh. Mostly, the induced paranoia is nothing more than a fig leaf for some overzealous freaks to throw their weight around.
So yeah, join the group, send some supportive e-mails, whatever it takes. Taking a picture in a public place is not a crime. Should not be a crime. Idiots that want to clamp down on people obeying the law because they feel justified … that is the bigger danger to our republic.
I particularly liked this question from the comments on the blog: “what if a bunch of art students sat down and sketched a public place? would that be a crime?”
This image of a shirt was posted on Flickr – go there and join the group, even if you don’t plan to show up
May 16
Posted: under Found Genius Artifacts, Mac v. PC, Macintosh Madness, Vaio=Garbage, Web/Tech.
OK, someone up in Computer Heaven HATES me. I managed to completely crash the Mac. as in, "The little pinwheel just spins on the screen, and none of the buttons, clicks to key-combos does the least little thing." Happened when I tried to close out of Firefox. The whole system just hung. Had to do [...] [...more]
OK, someone up in Computer Heaven HATES me.
I managed to completely crash the Mac. as in, "The little pinwheel just spins on the screen, and none of the buttons, clicks to key-combos does the least little thing."
Happened when I tried to close out of Firefox. The whole system just hung. Had to do a "Hard Quit" of holding down the power button until the machine went dead. And now that I’ve been trying to work with Premiere Pro to import footage from the NAS, the Mac has gotten downright cranky.
I did, however, manage to install 4 extra Gigs of RAM from Crucial - for those of you shambling around wearing Apple t-shirts and mumbling "braiiiinnnssss …. brrrraaaaiiinnnssss " – a much better option than buying memory from the gottverdammt total rip-off Apple stores.
Not that all that extra mem seems to have pepped the system up much. (sigh)
I guess this is a case of the "grass = greener over in the Mac pasture." FAIL.
