“Do I look okay, Gene?” I asked him one night when we were waiting backstage to go on the Leno show.

“Roger, when I need to amuse myself,” he said, “I stroll down the sidewalk reflecting that every person I pass thought they looked just great when they walked out of their house this morning.”

Siskel & Ebert & the Jugular

Tired of answering silly questions? Hand out this link Let me Google that for you

Following Pandora’s music genome project comes Jinni a recommendation engine for movies.

A little late for those of you that were looking for this. But you may be able to make your own by looking at the photo.
1800s Vampire Killing Kit Nabs $14,850 At Stevens Auction

I noticed a sign that the penetration of the iPhone may be shifting. You might think that only techies, nerds, hipsters, whining teenagers and those with disposable income own iphones. Yet, yesterday I noticed that the top ten applications in the iPhone store currently include one for hunting, one for fishing, one for bowling and one for war.

The happy and lucky find for me today was Guy Billout. Since I left college I’ve tried to remember this artist, since he provided so much inspiration to me. I still can’t find the exact painting that turned me on to him. I believe it was the interior of a library. There were several tall columns and tucked underneath one of them was a book. What I found so interesting about his work was that idea of something hidden in plain site and usually with a healthy dose of irony. So here is an example of Guy’s work, it was hard to pick just one. There are tons on his site.

Lately the web seems to have been reading my mind. Yesterday I had the thought that I needed to do some searching to locate GUI elements for an iPhone app that I have to comp together. While passively looking through feeds in Google Reader I came across exactly what I wanted.

On the way home I started thinking about how antiquated Classmates.com is. And beyond that I think they’ve turned really shady as it’s become obvious their business model is not going to last another year or two. I’ve had the exact same experience outlined in the first few paragraphs of the link below. Anyway, this morning I came across this article on Digg, as I was drinking coffee it danced across my screensaver. 5 Reasons I Hope Classmates.com Gets Sued Into Oblivion - PC World

I’m going to start thinking about finding a big pile of money somewhere…

More times that I can count I start thinking about things that are just silly. Yesterdays weirdness was regarding the word “click”. Click here, click now, click to save, click to launch, click to run, click to win, CLICK THIS! . As language and humans evolve together we often end up with a highly uninspired word representing something hard to define.

“What should we cal it when you interact with the computer by pushing the button down on the mouse to activate an element on the screen?”
“I dunno”
“Well what is sounds like?”
“kind of like… tap, cluck or poink or click”

I doubt that the real conversation was much different than that. At least the mouse itself got a cool name, and not “swishy magical oval”. And since the thing is called a “mouse” shouldn’t the action that the mouse does relate to it? Real mice don’t click, and if they do they wouldn’t brag about it. But I guess no one wanted to use “chew”, or “gnaw” or “make people scream” so they chose click instead.