http://www.sweetcucumber.com Just Talking Trash. Wed, 14 May 2008 16:29:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thirty-five days since I stopped smoking, and counting... wow, it's been a trip. I must say it has gone easier than I feared at first. Mind you, "easier" does not mean: easy. Going cold turkey from three packs a day to nothing in one day is not something to be er, ... http://www.sweetcucumber.com/35-days_211/ http://www.sweetcucumber.com/fourteen-days_209/ http://www.sweetcucumber.com/smokefree-for-10-days-now_207/ Apparently there is something called "The Red Bull Music Academy" (in Canada), and I have no idea about the what/where/when whatsoever... Nevertheless, I stumbled onto a recent interview they did with one of their lecturers, a certain Don Buchla. :-) It's a very long interview, and it takes some knowledge (about ... http://www.sweetcucumber.com/don-buchla-passing-the-acid-test_206/ As you probably just noticed in utter astonishment and mild disbelief, Sweet Cucumber's blog theme has been changed. Duh! It's completely designed by me, and it's absolutely not inspired by anything whatsoever. Doh! It'll look slightly better when you have the Chicago font installed. You can find the Font Suitcase here (Mac ... http://www.sweetcucumber.com/sweet-cucumber-os_203/ A totally amazing series of photos of the preparation of the Discovery Shuttle. Very rarely seen by the general public... To me, this is ehm, rocket science (pun nr.1). It goes way above my comprehension how on earth (pun nr.2) human beings are able to put together something like this [and ... http://www.sweetcucumber.com/space-shuttle-processing_201/ Why oh why do people never listen to me, or believe me !? Sometimes people say I'm crass, or rude, or I say unfounded things [to stir things up]. But really, I'm not, and I don't. - When I claim that doing sports is generally unhealthy, people laugh with/at me. Yet I am ... http://www.sweetcucumber.com/say-no-to-h2o_200/ I was hard at work on my computer, when suddenly one of my certified diskettes had a failure. So now I have to reinstall GEM 1.0. Darn. I must have lost at least 360Kb of work ! http://www.sweetcucumber.com/man-work_198/ Sometimes IT-technology can be a wonderful thing. Especially when it's applied properly to a Mac. As if I have nothing else to do -- about 4 or 5 incoming design jobs, my music, my music app development, a bit of life itself, etc -- I decided to hack into theme development ... http://www.sweetcucumber.com/mamp-cssedit_197/ More BandWidth Gobbling on that Sunday with one hour less... Todays' theme: hair. God, I was so much in love with Marsha Hunt, way back in the 70ties. Women with long hair equals goodness. Disproportionality. Plastic wind-up toys, Godzilla, Zero's & tanks. What more can a boy want ? icanhazcheezburger.com, always good for a smile or ... http://www.sweetcucumber.com/bwg-sundays_188/