Not content with merely donating blood and loathing crucifixes, I’ve recently pumped up the volume on my new–school–vampire–club membership through a slow and steady process of hyper–intensified nocturnalism. Thanks, night–shift!
I tried going to bed early tonight. 1:00AM. It didn’t work, since I’ve laid there for more than three hours now with my mind racing and no goddamned sleep. Caffeine is not to blame, since I haven’t touched the stuff in a good 24 hours or so. The body is to blame. Stupid body.
Posted by Chris Clark on May 6, 2003 at 4:26 AM
Reports (read: rumors) regarding mutant cameos in X–Men 2 are generally over–hyped, if you ask me. I’ve already pointed out the cameos worth noting in the movie, and tonight’s scrutiny revealed little more. Jubilee does make an appearance, something I’d missed on my first viewing, though only an extremely small one; she’s in the pit with the other kids at Stryker’s lair.
Huzzah.
She also sits to Xavier’s right in the final scene at the school. Double huzzah.
Posted by Chris Clark on May 6, 2003 at 4:34 AM
Antialiasing, along with alpha–channel support (which I suppose goes hand in hand with antialiasing, given that the former could not exist without the latter) has become a prerequisite of my OS experience since Windows 2000. It was with some disdain, then, that I reported that iTunes 4 looks like ass due to its scratchy, aliased interface fonts.
Sure, the Safari developers have copped a lot of flack for their antialias adventures: browsers aren’t supposed to antialias anything below 10px; but this is ridiculous. Daring Fireball, always great, mentions a Bumppo article offering an explanation. Turns out that iTunes 4 takes its default “small” font down to 9 pixels, leaving people such as myself (and Natty from Bumppo, obviously) who’ve changed our system antialias threshold (from 8 pixels to 10 pixels) in the dust. I’ve since set the threshold back to 8 pixels, taking iTunes back to beauty, noting a few other changes hither and thither.
It’s weird that such a tiny change, a few pixels here or there, can make such a difference. I suppose this is the kind of picky brattiness that Apple likes to breed into its customers so we never switch to anything less; and I suppose I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Posted by Chris Clark on May 6, 2003 at 4:29 PM
I like haircuts. It could be that my hairdresser, Sue, resembles Geena Davis; or that one of the other hairdressers reminds me of Abi Tucker; or that Sue’s protogé, the beautiful apprentice Gemma, looks a little like Sarah Jessica Parker (sans weird chin–wart). Then again, it could be the haircut.
I get ribbed from time to time about my loyalty to an out–of–the–way hairdresser like Katz for Hair, and moreso for even going to a hairdresser where appointments are mandatory, but it’s honestly worth it. Sue is an insatiable perfectionist, something I appreciate a lot, but today was time for something new. Today was time from Gemma to try her hand at cutting my hair, and being a lowly apprentice that made today a free haircut day.
Sweet.
Posted by Chris Clark on May 6, 2003 at 5:17 PM