Left: 10.5 on the video workstation. Right: 10.4 on my workstation. Both machines have the same versions of the same software load, though 10.5 seems to have (obvious) issues with this version of Compressor.

 

11:04 <@solios> [Wall Street Journal review of Dinosaurs In Their Time]
11:08 <@xeno> Apatosaurus louisae -- a bulkier cousin of Diplodocus that was named for Andrew Carnegie's wife
11:08 <@xeno> hah
11:08 <@xeno> hahaha
11:08 <@xeno> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
11:08 <@xeno> "Honey, I named a dinosaur after you! The BIG FUCKING FAT ONES."
11:09 <@rez> Andrew Carnegie is now my hero.
11:09 <@solios> \o/
11:09 <@rez> Nothing says "I hate you" like naming a fat reptile after your wife.
11:10 <@xeno> yeah, really. what'd the apatosaurs ever do to him?!
11:11 <@ejp> andrew didn't do the naming.
11:12 <@ejp> "A. louisae was named by William Holland in 1915 in honor of Mrs. Louise Carnegie, wife of Andrew Carnegie who funded field research to find complete dinosaur skeletons in the American West."
11:12 <@xeno> ejp: do we fuck with your illusions?
11:12 <@ejp> yes.
11:12 <@ejp> pretty much constantly.
11:12 <@xeno> oh.
11:12 <@xeno> well.
11:12 <@xeno> good.

22:03 <@ejp> You know, I really really much prefer The Wire's one case=one season flow instead of all the other crime shows's one case=one SHOW pace.
22:12 < solios> yes, one case one season is fantastic.
22:13 <@ejp> medical stuff like house can get away with. crime stuff it's just stupid.
22:13 <@ejp> I never realized *how* stupid until The Wire.
22:13 <@ejp> I CAN HAS SEEN TEH LITE!
22:13 < solios> yup.
22:13 <@bda> Louis and I were talking about The Wire at lunch, trying to get Jenn to watch it.
22:13 <@ejp> AND IT WAS GUD! NOM NOM NOM
22:14 < solios> the 42 Minute Formula is shit. I piss on its grave.
22:14 <@bda> Indeed.
22:15 < solios> I love The Wire not just because it's good, but because it's the first show that has an attention span similar to mine.
22:16 < solios> B5 did a good job with the Overplot but was still ultimately a bunch of episodes with a few scenes of a longer story interlinked. I haven't seen any scifi that gets close to The Wire's intricacy.
22:18 <@bda> solios: BSG coulda. Pity about the suck.
22:22 < solios> bda: yeah, BSG almost went there.
22:22 < solios> then it decided it would rather be a shitty fire-and-forget soap opera.
22:23 <@bda> "Hey, you know what isn't interesting at all? The plot. Let's go pretend we're As the Spacecruiser Turns and shit."

The yay thing about a new calendar year? Updating the © on the loc, dcr, gridlock, ATC, gravicon, and ppac websites.

This is done in a completely different way on each site - flat files in some cases, varying types of CMS templates in others. A very deeply nested PHP include in one case. Fortunately, having dealt with this thing before and realizing I'd be dealing with it again (and again, and again), the CMS-managed sites all have their footer includes (the bit with the ©) clearly labeled.

The month is less than eight hours old and a bit that usually nags me well into the spring is all done and taken care of. Hopefully the rest of 2k8's to-do list passes in similar fashion.