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I finished Lynn Truss’s (that apostrophe there was discussed in the text - apparently that’s the correct way of doing it these days) book today (Buy Here). It’s a book about punctuation for pedantic people who know they’re being pedantic.

This book reminds me a lot of Anne Fadiman’s book Ex Libris (Buy Here).

I decided that I would like to keep a better handle on all the books I read in a given year so I decided I would start a Book Journal. I bought the journal at Mountain View’s East / West bookstore and proceeded to go to town.

Based on the content of Truss’s book I produced the following outline of punctuation points I always have trouble with (link forthcoming). I always had (have) such issues with that pesky comma!

The really interesting bit was that while at Dana Street a troupe of amateur belly dancers showed up. It was a real hoot and completely unexpected.

I loooovvvve Tiger. Yay Tiger!

All the press is pretty much the same, i must say that I love Spotlight the most though. Spotlight indexes every file on your system. I kid you not. Say you remember that you received mail from rsteans and had a file with his name on it. Invoke spotlight, type those letters and …. seconds later there’s a list of all the email with rsteans as a sender, recipient, his address book entry, everything. It makes browisng your file hierarchy a snap!

The second great feature Spotlight has is that you can launch applications with it. This is awsome because i hate browsing in the applications menu. Instead I hit the Spotlight-invoke key combination, type ichat, hit enter, and bang, the program is launching.

It spares me some of my contact with teh trackpad. I don’t like trackpadding.

The other really great UI feature is “Dashboard” whereby you can have another ‘layer’ of desktop quickly appear (and disappear) with handy applications. Here’s a pic. My dashboard has some clocks, some weather, a link into a dictionary lookup and a schweet hula girl.

Forgive the picture scaling, click on it for full-screen.

I just installed the latest release of Mac OS X (10.4 - “Tiger” and it is awwweeesssooommme. The only thing is that I lost all of my “junk mail filtration rankings” in my mail program.

So this afternoon, right before I started typing this, I checked my mail and what happened? Larger than life, a particularly adult bit of photography was plastered across my 15” monitor.

I promptly closed the window but geeezzzz.

I hope no one was peering over my shoulder (sserves them right for being an over-the-shoulder-peeker).

For the moment I’ll turn off the auto-image-load.

Electro-music pioneer Florian Schneider (second from the right on the cover of “Trans Europe Express” [LINK] and Will Forte from SNL [LINK]

me: does lauren hill have a new record out? the_social_bobcat: not sure the_social_bobcat: going for her masters degree in miseducation?

I just watched The Station Agent.

Clarkson is simply amazing as an actress, she has such fine control facially. I think she’s one of the few actress who can pluck every note on the harp that is the facial expression of sadness.

Her story is much richer being from The Big Easy . She has strong features that wouldn’t look out of place as a Depression-era moll, a society lady, or a heroin addled artiste. I’d like to see her in a more Southern role…I think she’s got the iron to do it well.

I first noticed her in the pic “High Art” with Radha Mitchell and Alley Sheedy. It’s pretty missable - except for Clarkson’s Garbo+Nico cocktail.

I finished

The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon yesterday. It was a good, light read.

It’s a mystery novel that hangs an interesting turn about halfway through and becomes a bit of a dissection on what happens to parents of children with, as the narrator calls his condition, Special Needs.

Stolen from gorillamask.net