Mark Rushford

I need this in the worst way. Sold by Dagon Industries. They also have a key fob I’d be more than pleased to own as well.

Images are now being beamed to us directly from the surface of Mars… and I think you’ll agree they are fascinating.

You know, screw this thing. It’s TINY. If LG tries to top this with a new version of the Voyager that’s smaller and more compact (thereby ruining the perfect form factor and functionality of it’s QWERTY keypad inside) I will seriously cry… even though it won’t really impact me until around December of next year (new every two, don’t you know).

I’ve never understood this whole fetish with smaller, smaller, smaller phones. Pretty soon we’re going to start seeing bug-eyed, tiny-thumbed mutant children evolved specifically to see tiny micro-phone text and bang out long txt messages on keypads normal people can barely even see.

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Because I’m pretty heavily involved with direct/email advertising campaigns at my day job, I have a gmail account set up specifically to receive various emails from retailers, companies, etc.

I just happened to get this from Costco…

Philips 42″ 1080p LCD HDTV
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Dynamic screen contrast: 29000:1
Brightness: 500 cd/m²

$999.99

What’s the catch here? The specs look fine. I’m not completely sold on Philips as a brand over, say, Sony, Sharp, Samsung or even LG… but at under a grand for a 42″ LCD? Fuck it, that’s like a perfect second set for the bedroom or something if you had room.

Tya and I were just talking about how nice it would be to have a TV in the bedroom now that we have a nice huge bed to be lazy in…

“After traveling 422 million miles since its launching last Aug. 4, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander is aiming for a touchdown on Sunday in the unexplored northern regions of Mars. But first, it must survive what its developers call the final “seven minutes of terror” to reach the surface…”

And then it must fend off the sentient dervishes and machine-eating ape devils!

More here. Just… not about the dervishes and ape devils (sadly).

So while it looks as if things are at least partially settling down fire-wise, I thought I’d continue with operation test drive. The Joss Whedon / Dollhouse entry was actually made using a desktop blog app for Mac called Ecto, while this entry is being written in one called MarsEdit. I get between 21 and 30 days to test each out before deciding which one, if either, I want to buy.

So here’s a test video to see how that works out.

So they say the fires may be as much as 15% contained, but the planes are about to stop their flyovers due to darkness The winds have been steadily decreasing for a while now, which is definitely good, but nerves persist.

Tya and I are making mental lists of stuff we want to rush-pack and take with us if we get evacuated.

Needless to say, this is not altogether the best feeling I’ve ever felt.

So the trail / upfront video for Joss Whedon’s new offering on FOX this Fall is all over the Internet… really, I love the guy, I’ve loved all his shows, but this has 13 and out written all over it. Probably more like 8 and out with the remaining five episodes on the 13 episode guarantee being nice offered only on the inevitable “Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, the Complete Series” DVD set.
I hope I’m wrong.

I finally bit the bullet and ordered OS X Leopard for two of my Macs. I’m thinking the Mini isn’t really a good candidate for it, since it’s first gen and I didn’t really get it tricked out with anything special even at the time, so it’ll have to be an iMac and PowerBook exclusive deal. Excitement!

In other news, I’m all about getting the Wacom Cintiq whenever i have a spare grand floating around to drop. It’ll probably have to wait (more…)