Oops. I almost forgot that today is the twentieth birthday of Macintosh. That would have been bad.
I find myself awake reasonably early on a Saturday, with a long list of items that need doing, but nothing that really wants doing, if you see the difference. In fact, I’ve been slacking pretty hard (oxymoron alert?) the past couple days, and think today might be a good day for some recreation, rather than trying to get things done. Maybe a trip to the Ice Palace or something…
Yesterday morning, just after the daily blogging, I headed outside to shovel the sidewalks. It was nice, since there were a couple inches of light, fluffy snow, and I made it outside before anyone had tramped it down. I got to talk to a neighbor gal from two houses north of me. I’m slowly meeting the neighbors, and they all seem like fairly nice folks so far.
I also got the invitations for the housewarming sent out, which involved buying a new ink cartridge for the printer. Ugh. I did a greyscale design, figuring that I could print that with black-ink only, but my printer insisted on doing some of the greys with colored ink. Rather than redesign, it was easier to just go buy the color cartridge.
My other big accomplishment yesterday was catching up on some sleep. I didn’t realize how tired I was in the morning, but after eating some lunch, I decided I needed a nap. Five hours later I woke up, feeling fairly refreshed. Wow. The strangest part is that it didn’t screw up my sleep schedule last night at all. I went to bed about the normal time, and woke up about the normal time this morning. I guess I just needed some extra down-time. Yeah, it means that not as much work got done as probably should have, but I’m not going to worry about that just now. Monday will come soon enough.
- Scott McGerik’s post on Keys Cafe from earlier this month has turned into a discussion of where to eat breakfast in Minneapolis. So far, nobody’s suggested the perfect breakfast place, so if you’ve got good ideas, head over there and make many people happy by suggesting a good place.
- Perhaps you’d like to treat yourself to a little penguin smackin’? I think you probably should. I got 310 or so on my best shot, but the pop-up where the pengy stuck in the snow beak-first was probably most amusing. [accordionguy]
- zipdecode is a cool Java applet that shows you visually how zip codes are organized. Just type the digits of a zip code, and watch the area covered get smaller. [boing boing]
- Jim stumbled onto this Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer duet of Bob Marley’s Redemption Song. Cool. More at the Cash website (click the music link). [jim]
- Nerds with far too much time on their hands. Dean Goes Nuts dot Com. [jim]
- The Lisp2Perl compiler lets you use perl regexps and such in lisp. I’m not sure whether the lisp folks or perl folks are going to be more appalled by this, but if ever you wanted a programming language in which to do write-only programming, this might be the one for you! [ntk]
- Andy Hertzfeld is collecting Folklore of the early Macintosh. That’s a nice project, and there’s already plenty of fascinating history there. [scottk]