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Spirited Away review

First off, my buddy John Taylor’s first major commissioned website project is now online. Check out the Posterman site if you’re into classic movie posters.

Mari may have slacked a bit on the Friday Five action over the past month or so, but that’s okay. She’s a busy woman. Her Friday Fives are all caught up now, though!

Last and possibly least, we have… this. I can’t think of anything truly clever to say about it, though. I’m counting on my faithful readers to make up for it in the quackbacks, okay?

I’ve posted wishlists before, but usually just for media items. This time I want some hardware:

I rely on music to balance my soul and maintain what semblance of sanity I possess. When my current set of cans finally give up the ghost, I want to replace them with a pair of these. Oh yeah.

I love taking pictures, but my 35mm camera doesn’t get much mileage. I admit it: I’m cheap and lazy, so buying rolls of film, getting them developed and scanning the results into the computer is just not my thing. I want a decent digital camera. Something like, say, the Olympus D150-Z or the Kodak LS420 or the Canon Powershot Digital Elph S230… a decent entry-level sub-$300 digital camera. (I’m open to suggestions, actually. All the websites in the world can’t really tell me exactly what to get.) Thank you, dpreview.com.

I’d ask for a portable music device, but so far none of them support Ogg Vorbis. Maybe next year…

Thanks to my neighbor at leuschke.org, we are proud to present some jumping cats.

It’s cute. The perfect anodyne to a crazy and stressful workday. You’ll see. Would I lead you astray? (The cats were strays, but I digress.) I promise, no Flash animation is involved.
Galvanized Into Action

A couple of years ago, Ben and I received an amusing voicemail message at the office. Some teenybopper downloaded the “Kisn” screensaver, installed it, then got in trouble because somebody set a password. And somehow it was the radio station’s fault that they didn’t know how to use a PC. In the name of eeeeevil, we saved the voicemail message for posterity. (190k WAV)

A couple of entries ago, I quoted Mystery Science Theater 3000. How did I quote an MST3K episode I don’t even know the name of? Easy, I had this delightful clip to guide me. (730k WAV)

Update: Mari went and ruined everybody’s fun by calling to let me know that I had left the poor waif’s phone number in that voicemail message. I’ve edited the file appropriately. Aren’t we such good, responsible citizens?

Gee Dubya isn’t exactly on a roll lately. First there’s the absurd “fool me once” episode. Then there’s his concept of “embetterment” in Israel. And now this. (Thanks, Rooba!)

My theory is that they’ve buried Dan Quayle under a load of latex costuming and passed him off as a Bush. Hey, have you ever seen the two of them together? (Of course not. That amount of stupidity in close proximity would probably spawn some sort of tear in the fabric of space-time, or some nonsense like that.)