Monthly Archive for November, 2004

links for 2004-11-30

links for 2004-11-29

Gravatars

“Comments” are one of the most neglected areas of this site, so I am happy to annouce that I finally got around to adding Gra­vatars func­tion­al­ity to this site’s com­ment post­ing. If you have a Gra­vatar, I’d love to have you post a com­ment and show it off. If you don’t have one, get one… they’re a nice way to per­son­al­ize your comments.

I’ve been admir­ing both Casey’s work on Jess’s weblog, and John Oxton’s impli­men­ta­tion, and cam­paign to reg­is­ter Gravatars… it’s kind of nice to see com­ments get their due…

I would sus­pect that the Six Apart people are think­ing about adding some­thing like this — it seems almost ready-​made for Type­Key. But, we’ll see.

UPDATE: I noticed today that Waferbaby also added user icons…

UPDATE #2: Zooiblog too

links for 2004-11-28

links for 2004-11-27

Giving Thanks

“roasted”, posted by nedward

We’ve started a Thanks­giv­ing tra­di­tion in our little family, choos­ing to forgo the exhaust­ing trips to the ances­tral Buf­falo, in favor of cook­ing our own damn Turkey for our friends. Pres­ley called it the “Orphan’s Thanksgiving”, and she cer­tainly didn’t dis­ap­point. I’m going to be hap­pily eating Turkey for the next 10 days

Thanks to Pres­ley, Macy, Lind­sey, Toby, and every­one who called up to wish us well last night. And thanks for the 7 bot­tles of wine that we poured.

links for 2004-11-26

links for 2004-11-25

J. Crew iPod case

jcrew-ipod.jpgA friend at work came in today with a rather inter­est­ing iPod case — one that she got from J. Crew.

Avail­able for $29.99, in yuppie-​rific blue, green and pink.

Here is the description:

Made from the same pure Ital­ian silk as our ties. With leather. Clear vinyl screen cover; remov­able neoprene-​lined flap for extra pro­tec­tion. Leather-​covered metal belt clip.

This strikes me as odd, since J. Crew is hardly in the busi­ness of craft­ing leather cases for con­sumer elec­tron­ics. But, per­haps it just illus­trates what a cul­tural icon the iPod has become.

links for 2004-11-24

Say ‘no’ to MAX cat

max cat makes you vomitFYI: Our cat Katya started barf­ing after we switched canned cat food to MAX Cat Lite Chicken & Lamb, and now both cats won’t touch the stuff.

They weren’t raised dumb, you know…

links for 2004-11-23

links for 2004-11-20

Pixies

pixies
“Pixies”, posted by nedward

I’m excited — in less than two weeks, I’ll finally get to see live one of my favorite bands — the Pixies.

I’ve been talk­ing about it for more than a year now, and it feels like we ordered the tick­ets a year ago, on a morn­ing where I woke up with gum stuck in my hair.

Did you get tickets?

We’ve got a couple of extra tick­ets for 2 of the Mass­a­chu­setts Pixies shows:

If you’re inter­ested, email me: ned [at] suckahs.org

links for 2004-11-19