February 15th, 2002:

In regard to seeing “Rebound and Gagged”, various confusing factors and the appeal of cars driving around in circles to some people (*cough*SARAH*cough*) have caused us to change the date. Instead, we will be seeing the Saturday (02-23-2002) show that starts at 8pm.

Please hurry and respond if you would like to attend.

[This information has been amended]

Sarah and I are going to see the Kitchen Dog Theater production of “Rebound and Gagged” by Aaron Ginsburg at the McKinney Arts Center in Dallas. Directed by Tina Parker “Rebound and Gagged” is a comedy about getting older, getting over a broken heart, and getting over the fact that oldies radio stations have started playing “The Eurythmics”. It is the follow-up to “Straight Jacket and Tie” which won the Dallas Critic Forum Award for Best New Play in 1998.

All of the shows this weekend are sold out, so I am looking at buying tickets for next weekend. Sunday (02-24-2002) at 2pm. Tickets are $5. Is anyone else interested in attending? Tell me quick so I can get you tickets with us.

Yesterday, on my way into work, I heard a Segment on NPR’s “Morning Edition” entitled “Modern Love”. I thought it was pretty funny, so I am linking here for your listening pleasure (Real Media Player Required):

Modern Love

As a side note I would like to point out that NPR should revise their linking structure for things like the above. A much nicer link would be something like http://www.npr.org/archives/me/20020214/5/. Makes more sense to me, anyway. The URL they are offering (linked above) is atrocious, although I am sure I could trim some of that and have it still work.

I want food. Someone eat me… err… I mean eat with me.

• libgdkxft is not that great… at least not yet. I can manage to get some fonts anti-aliased with it, but the problem is with theme configuration under GTK. Even the most basic themes don’t seem to use fonts than can be anti-aliased so the system defaults to a “courier” looking font, which is unappealing. I tried overriding the font settings using gnomecc, and then editing .gtkrc by hand replacing fontset= with font= per the documentation, but that didn’t seem to make a difference either. And I know the font I am choosing is capable of being anti-aliased, as it is showing up anti-aliased in the gnomecc capplet for Theme Configuration. Even after using the gnomecc capplet for gdkxft configuration to ensure that just about EVERY font in the book is marked for anti-aliasing, most fonts are not, including those used in Mozilla/Galeon. The only thing I haven’t tried is setting my anti-aliased fonts list to “*” just for kicks. I’ll try that next.
  
• Don’t issue apm -s on a non-laptop type box even if it has an APM BIOS. It will suspend your machine, but you’ll have no way of UN-suspending it. Well, maybe there is a way, but I don’t know it. I tried the reset button, I tried the power button, I tried holding the power button, and I tried hitting keys and moving the mouse.
  
• I’ve decided that, since the Internet world is rapidly approaching a time and place where CSS/CSSP can actually be used on a majority of browsers, that I am going to take the time to learn it in its entirety, as opposed to learning small subsets of it as I need it.
  
• It seems that every time I see a new application that has been created, I get very excited about it, only to be let down when I see that it is poorly written, or written in such a closed fashion that modifications become more cumbersome than rewriting it myself
  
• Debian needs a hdparm init.d script to be included with the hdparm distribution. I might try my hand at writing one, though bash programming and init.d scripts are not exactly my forte.