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Apr. 26th, 2007
I feel the gentle winds of conventional wisdom buffeting me towards Ruby.
Is there a practical reason why I might want to do this? Coz if I learned it just for S&G but then didn't immediately start using it for serious, I'd forget it.
"Dude, Rails" is not a sufficient reason, unless you can tell me why I'd want to use Rails over any Mason-based solution.
(Referring to Ruby as "Perl 6" is from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xach, and the funniest in-joke I've heard all week.)
Is there a practical reason why I might want to do this? Coz if I learned it just for S&G but then didn't immediately start using it for serious, I'd forget it.
"Dude, Rails" is not a sufficient reason, unless you can tell me why I'd want to use Rails over any Mason-based solution.
(Referring to Ruby as "Perl 6" is from
xach, and the funniest in-joke I've heard all week.)Koss in-ear headphones are the most PoS consumer product I've had the misfortune to encounter in recent memory. What makes them so wonderfully awful is the "mute" hardware button installed halfway up the cord. It is the very definition of a misfeature.
Pressing the button kills the signal from your iPod for the duration of pressure, without actually pausing the iPod itself, resulting in you missing whatever information came up the wire in the interim. I guess if you're listening to a familiar song that you don't really care about that's OK, but otherwise, not so much.
Sadly, the button does not let you ignore it. First of all, it's huge and sensitive, so if you stuff your iPod in your pocket like I do, you end up pressing the button by accident all the time as you move around. Far worse, after about a month of use, the button decided that I didn't need to hear the left channel any more. I could still hear it if I held the button halfway down, so as far as I can tell it is indeed the button's fault.
On a tip fromxartofnothingx I just picked up a pair of Sony clip-overs. They are perfectly comfy and, 10 minutes in, they pass the "how does Ladytron's Witching Hour sound on these" test admirably. Of course I mainly use my iPod for NPR podcasts, so now I can once more hear Jack Beatty sputter indignantly in both ears instead of just my right one. This is my third set of headphone for this five-month-old iPod. I hope they last a little longer this time.
Pressing the button kills the signal from your iPod for the duration of pressure, without actually pausing the iPod itself, resulting in you missing whatever information came up the wire in the interim. I guess if you're listening to a familiar song that you don't really care about that's OK, but otherwise, not so much.
Sadly, the button does not let you ignore it. First of all, it's huge and sensitive, so if you stuff your iPod in your pocket like I do, you end up pressing the button by accident all the time as you move around. Far worse, after about a month of use, the button decided that I didn't need to hear the left channel any more. I could still hear it if I held the button halfway down, so as far as I can tell it is indeed the button's fault.
On a tip from
xartofnothingx I just picked up a pair of Sony clip-overs. They are perfectly comfy and, 10 minutes in, they pass the "how does Ladytron's Witching Hour sound on these" test admirably. Of course I mainly use my iPod for NPR podcasts, so now I can once more hear Jack Beatty sputter indignantly in both ears instead of just my right one. This is my third set of headphone for this five-month-old iPod. I hope they last a little longer this time.No IFF tonight; stuck with plan A to go to jhango's to watch Casino Royale. It's a heck of a film. I enjoyed it.
Delighted to discover that it chose to go with a gorgeous (and game-themed!) animated opening credits sequence, and I wonder if it was purposefully harkening to the animated opening of the original, very silly movie with the same title. No Herb Alpert, though.
And of course watching any movie so involved with Poker withrikchik in the room is a delight in itself. As computery wonks sometimes can't help cringing at every movie's blatantly incorrect computeriness, Mr. R will watch a Poker scene and mutter things like "Arrgh, he's splashing the pot" and "Bond raised last, so he should show his cards first, but I guess it's more dramatic this way..."
jhango's to watch Casino Royale. It's a heck of a film. I enjoyed it.Delighted to discover that it chose to go with a gorgeous (and game-themed!) animated opening credits sequence, and I wonder if it was purposefully harkening to the animated opening of the original, very silly movie with the same title. No Herb Alpert, though.
And of course watching any movie so involved with Poker with
rikchik in the room is a delight in itself. As computery wonks sometimes can't help cringing at every movie's blatantly incorrect computeriness, Mr. R will watch a Poker scene and mutter things like "Arrgh, he's splashing the pot" and "Bond raised last, so he should show his cards first, but I guess it's more dramatic this way..."