iPhone apps and ereader shopping

Do I want Papers or Write Room for my iPhone? Will it be useful? (I have both apps on my MBP.)

Or would an ereader of some sort be more useful? How do you justify the large upfront cost of one? If a Kindle has the highest availability of stock.. then that makes most sense. The Kindle DX makes more sense for PDF access.

Geektool 3

I successfully set up some Geektool “geeklets” on my MBP this weekend. This is cool because I figured it out AND did it successfully. I did need some help to figure out where scripts should go so that Geektool sees them based on the command/etc. So now I can add more!

I need to learn more about scripts and commands and stuff. My ignorance annoys me. Need to pimp out my windows desktop now too.

I might collect Geektool 3 links that are actually useful here. Cause some of the “tutorials” on youtube are total crap…and you have to make sure you are seeing Geektool 3 and not an earlier version.

Graduate school

So far… I’m learning how much I don’t know.

In other news…

I don’t know how to actually spell afghan. Sigh. Thought that looked weird when I made that post last night.

Knitted aphgan part 1

The first square that is the attempt to make an aphgan/blanket is complete. 11 more squares to go? I’m knitting double strand synthetic yarn and I have very little experience with knitting.

I’m not doing gauges or anything fancy, just attempting to keep squares same/similar in size and square like… will that change as I go? I don’t know.

Updated!

I’d like to say new look for a new year and I intended to do this… but yea, not so much.

I’m attempting to focus a little more on different things in my free time, like knitting, and reading, and writing here.

Though, it might be more video games, since it seems this has been a computer game Christmas for me and the other half. We have soo many games now!

I need to find a MAC app I like for blogging.

TSA

Have the terrorists really, finally, “won” ?

If this continues, fuck flying anywhere. Also, I fail to see how this is not harassment.

Flow chart of awesome

This is cool. It involves bacon and hummus so automatically it is made of awesome.

Banned books

Top ten most frequently challenged books of 2008

Out of 513 challenges as reported to the Office for Intellectual Freedom

1. And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
   Reasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group
2. His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
   Reasons: political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, and violence
3. TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series), by Lauren Myracle
   Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group
4. Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
   Reasons: occult/satanism, religious viewpoint, and violence
5. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
   Reasons: occult/satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, and violence
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
   Reasons: drugs, homosexuality, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, suicide, and unsuited to age group
7. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar
   Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group
8. Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, by Sarah S. Brannen
   Reasons: homosexuality and unsuited to age group
9. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
   Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group
10. Flashcards of My Life, by Charise Mericle Harper
    Reasons: sexually explicit and unsuited to age group

from here.

I like how Scary Stories still makes the list. Curious about some of these though. Do I add any to my reading list?

Einstein Bros Chicken Bagel Wrapper

So I decided to try something different at Einstein Bros today instead of the regular bagel with hummus. Shoulda stuck with the hummus.

This is also trying out the wordpress iPhone app…