Axodys

I’m bound for Auburn, WA later today for some summer high school basketball. Looks like it’s going to be fairly cloudy based on the forecast and 10° cooler than Spokane as well.

Prior to departure I’ve got to get my car’s emissions checked. Washington State requires that all vehicles get checked every two years prior to license renewal and my tabs have just about expired. Although there’s an emission inspection facility right next to where I work, I discovered yesterday that they’re only open from 9AM to 5PM and I arrived right at closing time. *D’oh!*

Whoa! Not only did I not get around to submitting a little content until just now, but I managed to miss my dinner as well.

On the way home from work I decided to stop at Office Depot and look at some desk/table furniture. I didn’t find exactly what I was looking for though. Or at least I didn’t find anything that motivated me to start spending money.

I ordered Terminus last night when I found out it had finally been released (simultaneously for Mac, PC, Linux in fact). Tonight I realized that there’s a demo out. Time to find out if it’s as spectacular as it’s looked in everything I’ve read so far.

The Sonics didn’t have much to work with this draft, but based on size, age and position this guy sounds like a Nigerian Shawn Kemp.

Unsurprisingly, no Gonzaga products were drafted this year. It’ll be interesting to see if any catch on as free agents. Personally, I thought Richie Frahm had the best shot based of the group to get drafted based on size, shooting ability, and athleticism, but perhaps his mid-April foot injury made teams wary.

Hmm, I see that my Cisco 675 DSL modem got some mention (along with many competing products) in Macintouch back in March.

I think I need to take a nap. I’m feeling really sleepy at the moment, but I suppose it could be because my apartment is around 80° or so. Actually I don’t think it’s quite that hot. If only I still had that trusty Casio watch with a digital thermometer that I had back in middle school.

Oh, joy someone’s firing off a Saturn Battery in the park outside my building.

Speaking of rockets, this inventor in Bend, Oregon is going to be launching himself in a rocket he bulit in his back yard. I hope he succeeds, but if he doesn’t… like one Slashdotter said, we’re looking at a sure fire Darwin Award winner.

I’ve mentioned assembler.org before, but I just found out today that it’s new and improved (thanks Jason). Go check out the genius of Brent Gustafson now.

I finally installed Darwin 1.02 on a spare partition for fun and enlightenment (a remarkably easy process actually), but I don’t know if I’ll be able to do anything particularly useful with it without a fair amount of effort. Considering the MacOS X beta should (hopefully) be out around the end of July when Mac World New York rolls around there may not be a whole lot of point. There don’t seem to be a whole lot of binaries available for Darwin at the moment and the rumored X Windows port seems fairly mythical as well. I’ve tracked down a few references in mailing lists and in Apple’s Darwin site , but no binaries (or source for the matter).

Dave Winer had a couple significant announcements for Mac users today on Scripting News. First off, Frontier 6.2 should be released tomorrow if no last minute bugs crop up and it will be available on a sixty day trial basis as well. Secondly, Dave announced that a carbonized version of Frontier for Mac OS X will be released at a later date!