Archive for July, 2002

And you thought American Airlines was scary…

July 19, 2002

I just successfully flew my first flight in Flight Simulator 2002 from Chicago (KORD) to Ottawa (CYOW) in an Air Canada Airbus A330-300. I was able to land it, with Ben’s help, on the run way, in the center, on my 5th try.

Unfortunately, I was also trying to fix an annoying bug while my plane flew on auto pilot so I didn’t get to pay enough attention to the graphics and the landscape.

They Might Be Awesome

July 18, 2002

I just returned from a They Might Be Giants concert with David Hyatt, Brendan Eich, and Tom Eich. The concert was great. There was a lot of music from the new album, No!, as well as plenty of good oldies like Don’t Let’s Start and Birdhouse In Your Soul.

I picked up two shirts and a new CD of “rare” songs titled They Got Lost.

New 20GB iPod’s released

July 17, 2002

Apple has released a 20GB version of the iPod. I am getting one of these.

Oh my…

July 15, 2002

Who in the world would interview Gerv about Mozilla things? I would rather read an interview with one of Ben’s sheep.

Thanks, UPS

July 15, 2002

I worked from home today so that I would be here when UPS attempted to deliver two packages I have been waiting for. One contained some CDs I ordered from Canada, including a David Usher album and some Moist albums. The other contained my tickets for the Wednesday They Might Be Giants concert in San Francisco at the Fillmore.

A little after 6:00pm, they finally arrive with my packages. I’ve always received packages from UPS between 11am and 2pm. Seems like they could have shown up a bit sooner.

Now I’m hungry. I must eat.

David loves fruit

July 15, 2002

David just signed on to AIM at his new job.

<stuart> did they fire you yet?
<david> no, but i’m sure it’s just a matter of time

I figure Apple will fire him within the next two weeks after he starts 8 new projects and abandons 7 of them.

About time

July 15, 2002

So as you have probably heard by now, AOL finally rid itself of random-project-starter David Hyatt. He has taken a job at some fruit company called Apple where he is supposed to start today. He is supposed to arrive at 8:30am, but I have my doubts that he will actually make it there on time since he usually came in to work around noon at Netscape.

CD ripping fun

July 14, 2002

I’ve begun the process of re-ripping all of my CDs to MP3s in preparation for purchasing an iPod. Unfortunately, I have around 130 CDs I want to rip and I’ve only got about 25 of them ripped so far. I’m using CDEX to rip at 192Kbps at high quality.

New hardware

July 14, 2002

I picked up a GeForce4 Ti 4600 and a Sound Blaster Audigy today for my new machine. Playing Neverwinter Nights at 1600×1200 is great.

Vrrooom vrooom

July 12, 2002

I got a new machine here at work. It is pretty sweet. 2.2GHz P4. It is very fast.