Jay McGavren's Journal

A shame that I never really listened to this song closely before - it could have been a theme song for the past 3 months.

> Look at the earth from outer space > Everyone must find a place > Give me time and give me space > Give me real don’t give me fake > Give me strength, reserve control > Give me heart and give me soul > Give me time, give us a kiss > Tell me your own politik

-Coldplay, “Politik”

Now, see, this is freaking cool...

Vox is doing a really good job integrating varying media. Let’s say I went on a trip, and I took some photos, shot some video, and recorded some audio. Before, when I wanted to share it with everyone, my workflow went like this:

-Write a LiveJournal entry recounting the experience. -Upload photos to Flickr. -Upload movies to YouTube (actually, I don’t even do this part). -Upload audio to… well, I don’t do that either. -Copy the journal entry to an e-mail for my family (‘cause they don’t read my journal).

Now, Vox has potentially reduced the whole thing to this:

-Recount the experience in an e-mail, attach the photos, movies, and audio, and send it to my family, with a BCC to my special Vox posting address.

On Vox, the whole thing will be packaged up in a single nice journal entry. On top of that, the images will appear on my images page, the movies on my movies page, and the audio on my audio page (which can also be subscribed to as a podcast).

Hot damn, this is nice. Where the hell is my LiveJournal importer?!

Yes YES! YESSSSSSS!!!!!

> Republicans concede majority in Senate > “Democrats sealed their Senate majority Thursday when > Virginia Republican George Allen conceded to Democrat Jim > Webb.”

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061110/NEWS07/611100407/1009

Two keys that need to be removed from the modern PC keyboard...

“Caps Lock”, and “Insert” (which typically toggles insert/overwrite mode when typing).

I would just disable them, but I have applications that use both. (Dammit.)

Our ancestors spent most of their day on their feet. If they wanted something to eat, they hunted it, scoured the forest for it, or worked their fields to grow it. If they wanted to go somewhere, they walked. If they wanted something another person had made, they bartered a physical item that they had made with their own sweat and toil.

I spend most of my day sitting on my ass. If I want something to eat, I walk to the refrigerator. If I want to go somewhere, I drive my car. If I want something another person has made, I pay money earned with great mental exertion, but almost no physical exertion.

As a result, I am fat and weak, and by standards of natural selection I do not deserve to live.

Today I have decided I am going to rectify this situation.