]> http://www.applefritter.com/blog/1416 en http://www.applefritter.com/node/20889 I just recently subscribed, can you tell? As of 2007-04-26 I have 113 movies in my queue, not that anyone gives a hoot: :P Seven Samurai Recommended based on your ratings 4.4 Stars UR Foreign To Have and Have Not 4.0 Stars UR Classics Le Cercle Rouge 3.6 Stars UR Foreign MI-5: Vol. 1: Disc 1 3.8 Stars NR Television The Maltese Falcon Recommended based on your ratings 4.1 Stars NR Classics Chinatown Recommended based on your ratings 4.2 Stars R Classics On the Waterfront Recommended based on your ratings 4.1 Stars UR Classics MI-5: Vol. 1: Disc 2 NR Television MI-5: Vol. 1: Disc 3 NR Television 24: Season 1: Disc 1 4.5 Stars TV-14 Television 24: Season 1: Disc 2 TV-14 Television Dark City 3.8 Stars R Sci-Fi & Fantasy 24: Season 1: Disc 3 TV-14 Television 24: Season 1: Disc 4 TV-14 Television 24: Season 1: Disc 5 TV-14 Television 24: Season 1: Disc 6 TV-14 Television True Romance 3.8 Stars R Drama Barton Fink 3.8 Stars R Independent Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 3.6 Stars R Comedy The Brothers Grimm 3.2 Stars PG-13 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Lost in La Mancha 3.1 Stars R Documentary ... And God Spoke 2.8 Stars R Comedy Munchhausen 3.2 Stars NR Foreign Metropolis Recommended based on your ratings 4.0 Stars NR Foreign La Femme Nikita: Season 1: Disc 2 3.7 Stars TV-14 Television La Femme Nikita: Season 1: Disc 3 TV-14 Television La Femme Nikita: Season 1: Disc 4 TV-14 Television La Femme Nikita: Season 1: Disc 5 TV-14 Television La Femme Nikita: Season 1: Disc 6 TV-14 Television Dr. Strangelove Recommended based on your ratings 4.4 Stars UR Classics Paths of Glory 3.9 Stars UR Drama A Scanner Darkly 3.2 Stars R Sci-Fi & Fantasy Wild at Heart 3.9 Stars R Drama The Killing 3.8 Stars UR Classics Rashomon Recommended based on your ratings 4.3 Stars UR Foreign Sunset Boulevard Recommended based on your ratings 4.0 Stars NR Classics A Streetcar Named Desire Recommended based on your ratings 4.0 Stars PG Classics The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 3.6 Stars UR Foreign Lawrence of Arabia Recommended based on your ratings 4.3 Stars PG Classics The Bicycle Thief Recommended based on your ratings 4.0 Stars UR Foreign Once Upon a Time in the West Recommended based on your ratings 4.0 Stars PG-13 Action & Adventure Yojimbo Recommended based on your ratings 4.4 Stars UR Foreign Ran Recommended based on your ratings 4.2 Stars R Foreign Bound 3.5 Stars NR Drama Network: Special Edition 4.1 Stars R Drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 3.5 Stars PG Drama Dog Day Afternoon Recommended based on your ratings 3.9 Stars R Drama Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 3.8 Stars PG Comedy Sanjuro Recommended based on your ratings 4.3 Stars UR Foreign Lust for Life 3.6 Stars NR Classics The Quiller Memorandum 2.9 Stars NR Thrillers Gigi 3.7 Stars G Classics An American in Paris 3.7 Stars UR Classics Diabolique 3.5 Stars UR Foreign The Set-Up 3.7 Stars NR Classics Unleashed 3.8 Stars UR Action & Adventure The Big Blue 3.5 Stars R Foreign Wings of Desire 3.9 Stars PG-13 Foreign The Seventh Seal 3.8 Stars UR Foreign Chocolat 3.9 Stars PG-13 Foreign The Double Life of Veronique 3.9 Stars R Foreign Blue 3.9 Stars R Foreign The Decalogue: Disc 1: Films I - III 3.9 Stars NR Foreign The Decalogue: Disc 2: Films IV - VII NR Foreign The Decalogue: Disc 3: Films VIII - X NR Foreign The 400 Blows 4.0 Stars NR Foreign White 3.8 Stars R Foreign Tideland 2.9 Stars NR Drama Red 4.0 Stars R Foreign Jet Li's Fearless Recommended based on your ratings 4.0 Stars UR Action & Adventure Hero 3.8 Stars PG-13 Foreign House of Flying Daggers 3.8 Stars PG-13 Foreign Legend of 1900 3.6 Stars R Independent Blow Up 3.5 Stars NR Classics La Dolce Vita 3.8 Stars UR Foreign La Strada: Special Edition 4.1 Stars UR Foreign 8 1/2 3.8 Stars NR Foreign Cinema Paradiso 4.2 Stars R Foreign Il Postino 4.0 Stars PG Foreign Au Revoir Les Enfants 4.1 Stars PG Foreign Atlantic City 3.4 Stars R Drama Five Easy Pieces 3.8 Stars R Drama The Last Picture Show 3.8 Stars R Drama The Conversation Recommended based on your ratings 4.0 Stars PG Thrillers The Rocky Horror Picture Show 3.5 Stars R Independent Midnight Cowboy 3.9 Stars R Drama Papillon 4.0 Stars PG Action & Adventure Eyes Wide Shut 2.9 Stars R Drama The French Connection Recommended based on your ratings 4.0 Stars R Action & Adventure Bullitt 3.8 Stars PG Classics Easy Rider 3.7 Stars R Drama Tommy 3.1 Stars PG Drama Three Days of the Condor 3.8 Stars R Thrillers The Getaway 3.6 Stars PG Action & Adventure Cool Hand Luke 4.1 Stars UR Classics The Graduate Recommended based on your ratings 4.0 Stars R Comedy Un Flic 3.5 Stars NR Foreign Quadrophenia 3.6 Stars R Drama Bonnie and Clyde 3.9 Stars R Classics Shane 3.8 Stars UR Classics The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Recommended based on your ratings 4.0 Stars UR Classics Breathless 3.7 Stars UR Foreign Le Samourai 3.8 Stars PG Foreign Bob Le Flambeur 3.7 Stars PG Foreign L'Avventura 3.7 Stars UR Foreign Henry Fool 3.4 Stars R Independent Dazed and Confused 3.9 Stars R Comedy The Unbelievable Truth 3.5 Stars R Comedy Slacker 3.1 Stars R Independent Waiting for Guffman 3.8 Stars R Independent Fay Grim 2.9 Stars R Independent Releases on DVD May 22, 2007 Written on the Wind 3.4 Stars UR Classics Imitation of Life: Double Feature 4.0 Stars NR Classics Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:05:27 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/20877 During the torrentially rainy weekend of 15 April 2007 a neighbor's 100 year old 100ft tall white oak attacked my backyard, with these results. [img]http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dankephoto/images/garagetn.jpg[/img] [img]http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dankephoto/images/crushedMBtn.jpg[/img] The garage now slants at about a 5 degree angle from vertical. The '68 280S Benz got crushed at about the rear wheel line. Yowzaa! Homeowner's insurance apparently will pay for the removal of the tree off the garage (and car), and will pay for the repair/replacement of the garage, but I'm SOL on getting any $$ for the (un-insured) car. snif, snif - at least it seems to have completely missed the '83 GTI . . . dan k Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:02:49 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/10816 This here's a blog on my TAM-with-iBook-guts hack. [b][url=http://www.applefritter.com/node/10473]This here[/url][/b] is my initial forum topic on the subject. That's it for starters, okey dokey? :coolmac: ------------------------------------------------- 8 March 2007 Holy crap, it's a year later and I haven't done jack on this here project. Hmmmph. ------------------------------------------------- 11 April 2008 Holy crap, it's two years later and I _still_ haven't done jack on this here project. Double Hmmmph. dan k Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:57:00 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/9267 Various web goodies I come across and wish to share *today [b][url=http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/]Peak Oil[/url][/b] - if you don't know, now's the time to learn. Wise up folks, it's really coming and it's beyond scary! *2007.01.15 [b][url=http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt]M$'s Vista sounds like a massive boondoggle.[/url][/b] Here's a [b][url=http://badvista.fsf.org/]whole web site devoted to BadVista[/url][/b] - looks like a nightmare to me! Apparently, Hollywood controls M$'s Vista's amazing security 'features', [b][url=http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/D/6/5D6EAF2B-7DDF-476B-93DC-7CF0072878E6/output_protect.doc]read this M$ white paper.[/url][/b] [i][b]aagh, I accidentally deleted most of this blog![/b][/i] :( Thank goodness for BDub's BUs, which he most graciously sent me. Thanks! *2006.11.14 Erm, $200 for a [b][url=http://podbrix.com/itemdetails.php?PID=540842596]limited edition 1984 EvilBlockCompany set[/url][/b] . . . Maybe I'll just make my own, dammit! *2006.07.11 A [b][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerbook]very nice PowerBook timeline on wikipedia[/url][/b]. *2006.07.02 whaaa . . . ? [b][url=http://www.google.com/search?q=%22in+30+seconds+with+bunnies%22](movie title) in 30 Seconds, with bunnies[/url][/b] And speaking of sharing, isn't it time you taught your children about File Sharing? Here's a [b][url=http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/spoofs_satire/files_are_not_for_sharing/]suitable primer[/url][/b] to help with those awkward moments. *2006.07.01 Uhhhhhh, OK . . . metrovoyeur - odd, but interesting, you'll have to [b][url=http://metrovoyeur.buzznet.com/user/journal/]visit[/url][/b] to find out. All right, it's downright creepy. Sexy(?), but creepy. *2006.06.05 Ever wonder how drive makers estimate [b][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/MTBF]MTBF[/url][/b] (or [b][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annualized_failure_rate]AFR[/url][/b] as as Seagate calls it nowadays?) [b][url=http://www.digit-life.com/articles/storagereliability/]Here's a Seagate-authored explanation[/url][/b]. And hey, how about the ol' SCSI vs. ATA question? Wrong question, according to this Seagate white paper - [b][url=http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf]link to a PDF[/url][/b]. A nice explanation of why [i]Enterprise Storage[/i] drives cost so much more than [i]Personal Storage[/i] drives. *2006.05.01 [i]entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem[/i] or KISS! (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) May Day brought me this [b][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_Razor]treatise on Occam's razor[/url][/b], a very useful philisophical and scientific tool. As a counter-point, also read about [b][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabtree%27s_Bludgeon]Crabtree's bludgeon[/url][/b]. *2006.04.14 Daring Fireball - John Gruber's [b][url=http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/asinine_and_or_risky_ideas]take on Apple's Boot Camp.[/url][/b] *2006.04.12 [b][url=http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/printables/060403roco01?print=true]Vanity Fair article about Sir Jobs[/url][/b] *2006.04.11 [b][url=http://www.serendipity.li/cia.html]The CIA - America's Premier International Terrorist Organization[/url][/b] Truth? or lies? Or something in between? If only half of what is alleged is true I think I'll vomit. *2006.04.10 Sick 'n' tired of registering at a website just so's you can read a !)*&%&$ article? [b][url=http://www.bugmenot.com/]bugmenot.com[/url][/b] to the rescue! Which I picked up on a visit to the good ol' [b][url=http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com]webpagesthatsuck[/url][/b] site. (thanks to astro_rob for pointing it out) Wow! The great links just keep on comin'!! How many of y'all recollect [b][url=http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html]M$'s Bob?!?[/url][/b] And [b][url=http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html]this one[/url][/b] makes me feel sick - a customer of mine recently dumpstered an early Xerox Star system before I could call dibs. snif, snif . . . *2006.04.01 Grrrrr, I can't believe I got outbid on [b][url=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9703943876]this![/b][/url] [i](for future reference, it was an eBay auction for a bunch of Mac CPU accelerators, one of which was a Daystar unit with adapter for IIsi, I sniped @ $170 and got beat.) :'( [/i] *2006.03.30 Apple rumor sites are a dime-a-dozen, but how many [b][url=http://www.crazyapplerumors.com/]Crazy Apple Rumors[/url][/b] sites are there? Hmm??!?!? Thought so! *2006.01.22 VirtualPPC anyone? [b][url=http://www.gibix.net/dokuwiki/en:projects:sheepshaver]sheepshaver[/url][/b] *2006.01.19 Figures, someone already has an [b][url=http://mactree.sannet.ne.jp/%7ekodawarisan/imac_intel/imac_intel01.html]iNteliMac apart[/url][/b]! *1998.05.11 From faraway 1998, Mark Anthony Collins had [b][url=http://www.macopinion.com/columns/macman/better.html]some interesting observations[/url][/b] on possible Intel-based Macs. *2006.01.12 The new Apple probooks use ExpressCard slots, here's [b][url=http://www.expresscard.org/web/site/standardsummary.jsp]some details[/url][/b]. *2006.01.04 Where're the eBay deals? Why in misspelled auction listings, that's where! [b][url=http://www.fatfingers.co.uk/]FatFingers[/url][/b] can help find those deals others will probably miss. *2006.01.02 [b][url=http://www.isquint.org/]iSquint[/url][/b] makes ripping video to your new videoPod ezy-peezy. *2005.12.19 interesting assortment of adhesives at [b][url=http://www.micro-tools.com/Merchant2/adhesives.htm]micro-tools[/url][/b], which outfit also has (unsurprisingly) a nice selection of interesting tools, with a particular concentration on camera repair. *2005.12.06 Derived from "The Music Genome Project", [url=http://www.pandora.com/][b]Pandora[/b][/url] tries to answer the question "Can you help me discover more music that I'll like?" Gack! I hate the Flash-based ads though! Answer? [url=http://flashblock.mozdev.org/][b]FlashBlock[/b][/url] for FireFox! *2005.12.04 Just watched again one my favorite movies of all time, Mike Judge's [url=http://www.bullshitjob.com/officespace/][b]Office Space[/b][/url]. Man I love this flick - cleaning the fish on the TPS reports . . . just effin' brilliant! *2005.12.03 [b][url=http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/appletmlist.html]Apple's list of trademarks[/url][/b] *2005.11.21 [b][url=http://www.govliquidation.com/]Military Surplus and Government Surplus Auctions[/url][/b] - [b]Oh yeah![/b]. I like the $2.25 mil [b][url=http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=722180]helo sim[/url][/b] for $6,500, or howsabout a 'repairable' BAC/Dassault-Breguet [b][url=http://cgi.uksurplus.com/auction/view?id=716304&convertTo=GBP]Jaguar GR1[/url][/b] fighter aircraft? [b][url=http://muttscomics.com]Mutts[/url][/b], my favorite 'strip! (eg: my avatar) *2005.11.19 [b][url=http://www.templetons.com/charles/jesus/]Jesus - a Bible in Modern English[/url][/b] *2005.11.16 [b][url=http://macdrivermuseum.net/]Mac Driver Museum[/url][/b] [b][url=http://laptops.home.att.net/]LCD/laptop repair shop[/url][/b], lots of interesting infos and links *2005.11.14 Introducing the Revolutionary [b][url=http://www.sleeptracker.com]SLEEPTRACKER®[/url][/b] *2005.11.12 some of my PowerBook hacks pages [b][url=http://www.powerpage.org/archives/2005/11/powerbook_hacks.html]mentioned on O'Grady's PowerPage[/url][/b]. {Gollum-voice} flattered we are, yesssss {/Gollum-voice} *2005.11.08 Cool hitech at [b][url=http://www.defense.gov/transformation/articles/index_news_archive.html]US DoD[/url][/b] *2005.11.05 [b][url=http://www.jesusoftheweek.com/]Jesus of the Week[/url] [url=http://www.rubyonrails.com/]Ruby on Rails[/url] [url=http://www.livejournal.com/users/blinkytreefrog/80660.html]On Becoming a Woman - A tale of many unspeakable dangers.[/url] [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/magazine/30feminism.html?adxnnl=0&adxnnlx=1130947835-H97lGnx7ZWV2QWbGXadxhg&pagewanted=print] Maureen Dowd's column - What's a Modern Girl to Do?[/url][/b] (might need to sign up w/NYT to read) [b][url=http://www.engrish.com/]engrish.com[/url][/b] [i]*date added[/i] Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:49:35 -0800 http://www.applefritter.com/node/9194 Just a post - from my wifi Palm M500. I picked up a xircom wireless adapter and it.s pretty cool. dan k Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:04:23 -0700 http://www.applefritter.com/node/9054 [b][i][url=http://www.mwscomp.com/python.html]And now[/url] [url=http://www.pythonline.com/]for something[/url] [url=http://www.intriguing.com/mp/]completely different.[/url][/i][/b] cream a stick of butter cream in 1 cup of brown sugar (or white, or whatever) blend in 1 egg + 1/2 tbs of vanilla extract + 1 tbs milk stir in 1 cup flour + 1/2 tbs baking powder + 1/2 tbs baking soda + 1/2 tsp salt stir in 1 cup uncooked oatmeal and a cup or so of raisins drop thumb-sized blobs onto a greased cookie sheet and bake at ~325F for 10 minutes or so cool on a rack til cool enough pour a glass of milk eat cookies and drink milk Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:29:43 -0700