Rotorglow

Long month, no posts. Where did April go? I've been away a lot, as a couple of my dearest friends got married in NYC (though not to each other). I was in New Orleans for a bachelor party. I drove a lot. The weather has improved incrementally. The Heels won the NCAA championship. The Sixers won't win the NBA championship. I've been spending a lot of time on a bid for a freelance project. My real job is about to get (even more) chaotic. I still haven't sold my old car. All last night, I sat on the levee and moaned.

I know it's nothing new, but.... jeebus!

...and I should really go to bed.

Wow. This is simultaneously admirable and tragic.

"Four seconds to cold-boot the operating system.

Pretty impressive, no? All it takes is a willingness to look at the traditional way of doing things, recognize massive stupidity, and correct it."

...of fat-free half-and-half?

Does anyone really think that the chemicals which replace the fat are healthier than the fat that got replaced?

If you want all those chemicals, why not just go with non-dairy creamer?

If you want something that's more-obviously related to milk than non-dairy creamer, but doesn't have any fat in it, why not use skim milk?

I'm no fan of skim milk, but at least it came from a cow.

I don't believe anyone should hold a cell phone while driving. But that goes double for you, Granny.

I'm here to talk to you about pine and perl, and Thunderbird.

I haven't been able to get Tiger's updated Mail.app to connect to my IMAP server. Which sucks. Because as ugly as Mail.app clearly is, I always thought it worked ok, and I had high hopes for the new version.

So instead of switching to (the lame, emasculated and inadequate) Mail.app, I decided to give Thunderbird another try. Works great, for the most part. PGP works well with it, it doesn't choke on large mailboxes, etc. I wish I could export filtering rules and copy them among machines, but maybe someday I will be able to do that.

The main thing, though, was the address book. I wanted to get my pine .addressbook into TB. But TB's addressbook didn't know what to do with pine's format, and could only convert Entourage and Eudora addressbooks into the LDIF format it preferred. So, how?

Tim has already heard me expound on this, but:

Do they drive VW microbuses because they're hippies, or are they hippies because they drive microbuses?

Ah, yes. The ol' "dig holes in order to fill 'em" thing.

Woman: Nice car. Maybe I can get a ride sometime...?


Man [brightly]: You bet. Oh. Wait. Did you mean in the car?