I think that Imaginary Girl is a frightfully good idea.

The new features coming in Objective C 2.0 are making me pretty happy for it as a language. I need to find time to keep using it, and not do all my coding in Ruby.

I’ve been playing with JACK again, this time having success, thanks to ALSA‘s support for it with its jack plugin.

It should be possible to package an asoundrc and init script and have an RPM that makes JACK the default output. Sample rate conversion might be a bitch though, especially choosing between 44100Hz and 48000Hz.

After Sunday’s concert by Sweet Sunny South in a gorgeous setting in perfect weather, I’m back on an old-time music kick. So today I find Hober Thinking Radio, which turns out to have a lot of the aesthetic I was after in office music. Life is good.

I found my desk!

Dear Political Activist Groups,

Please send me emails that are in a format other than the following:

Subject: Something including the words “Victory” “success” or “win”

Dear __,

Last (period of time) we (some small political event, phrased to seem like a partisan victory).

But, we need your money.

14 paragraphs about how you can help. All of which are giving money.

Really. I’ve had enough. It was clever when MoveOn was beating the GOP with political judo, pulling in this “internet” thing and making it dance and sing, airing ads and making people wonder how the fuck they did that.

That was more than half a decade ago, folks. We’re used to it now. It’s not new. Even the most technophobic corners of the political campaigning world know how to write those emails. From now on, I’ll be filing your requests for money in this bland, uninteresting, and, frankly, disengaging form directly in /dev/null.

Sincerely,

Aria.

P.S. You suck.

According to BP’s fancy little calculator thing, my carbon footprint is about 6 tonnes per year. Not bad, a third of the US average, but could be a lot better if my house didn’t leak heat like a seive.

Yesterday, I got a driver’s permit. I failed the motorcycle written (I didn’t have time to study, next time), but I passed the driver’s.

I think I have my mobile phone problems sorted out. Looks like T-Mobile’s roaming contracts are better than Cingular’s, so I can use the same towers that I’ve been using, keep my number by porting it from Cingular, and possibly be month-to-month, using a decent and friendly provider, and happy.

Time to go to Montrose to actually sign up.

So this is fun.

My phone’s been dead this week, and when I call in about a repair of my old phone, they tell me that since my usage is mostly off-network (Yay for living in the mountains!) and using Commnet Wireless’ network, that they’re cancelling my contract and that I have 34 days to find a new provider.

That’s lovely. Nice of them to actually give me a copy of the contract that I didn’t sign, and to point out this part. And for my phone to say “Cingular” when I ask it what network I’m on.

Scytrin dai Kinthra: I have a mind for it. Scytrin dai Kinthra: My mind is -O6 Scytrin dai Kinthra: but all the debug stuff got taken out so no one knows what’s wrong with me… :(

It’s all about the eggplant-feta-onion-mushroom pizza on homemade herb crust, folks.