American Tectonics

October 25th, 2007Blog0 comments

So the buzz today is all about Mac OS X Leopard. The big thing for me is Time Machine, the back-yo-ass-up application that makes it easy to CYA. I use a timed backup system (.Mac’s appropriately named “Backup”) but it’s a little cumbersome as far as these things go. I have files going back to 1995 and I carry them all with me just in case I find an idea or method for doing something way in the past. The grand total of everything I’ve written and all the supporting materials (emails, backups, previous drafts of documents, graphics, etc.) tops off at about 1 gig. I wonder how big the total will be when I croak.

Goatberg has already given the OS update his stamp of approval; his only big complaint is the translucent menu bar. Hopefully there’ll be a slider added to System Preferences to fix that. As much as I like my desktop image of The She-Hulk in a bikini, I don’t need to be able to see it through the menu.

Here is my new favorite Asian American entertainment analysis blog. BOOM!

I recommend going to this ODC show on Saturday night at the Westside Eclectic in Santa Monica. Some very funny stuff has been coming out of there lately — it is self-described as “hit or miss”, but they hit much more often than they miss. If comedy were a game of Battleship, they would have sunk my battleship. More information here.

ODC is composed of several of my esteemed colleagues: Ray Lai and Matt Hill, who consistently bring it (“it” being something between “the funk” and being “crunked up”) more than any ethnically diverse duo since Michael Jackson paired up with Paul McCartney in 1983; also there is Randall Park (aka “the Randoggy”), and Dwayne Perkins, a black man we can all agree upon — much like Will Smith. In addition there is Rick Lee, a Chinese man we can all agree upon — much like Ming Tsai. God damn can that guy cook. And I’m not talking about Ming. HEY-OHHH!