Church Of The Geek

It’s your not-so-friendly neighbourhood Seth back with another rant of sorts.

Recently, I got into a debate with someone about the relative ‘realness’ of my favourite pasttime, pro wrestling. Their entire point was that since the entirety of pro wrestling follows a loose script, that there fore it was “fake” and therefore not worth their time. When pressed on that point, and reminded that television shows, movies, “reality shows”, basically everything thats not a newscast, documentary, or sporting event is scripted right down to the second, the conversation was ended with me being told that I didn’t understand their point.

Yes, professional wrestling is scripted.

No, it’s not a sport in the same way that football or baseball or basketball is.

If you’re going to avoid wrestling simply because it’s scripted, then you must by that logic only watch…well, nothing. Even the news follows a script as to when segments go on and are aired, and they’re definitely edited to show one perspective or another, or edited for content. It’s not 100 percent ‘really’ what happened most of the time.

Just so ya know…

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Growl rocks. It’s one of my favorite add-on applications for OS X, but I’ve always wondered why it doesn’t have the ability to create custom notifications. Thankfully you can create custom notifications, it just turns out to be a pain.

The link below gives a not-quite detailed enough account of how to enable Growl notifications for new messages received in Thunderbird.

In order to make the setup work on my machine I had to enable the root account via the NetInfo Manager (found in Applications -> Utilities) and create a /local/bin structure inside /usr.

Be sure to follow the instructions closely. You generally don’t want to make mistakes as root.

Generally
Neil’s World: Growl and Thunderbird

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Lewis Black rocks. That is all.

The Raw Story | CNN: Lewis Black demands CNN banner disappear

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Just found this gem of a tip at macosxhints.com…

After you make the modifications listed at the link below you will be able to launch OS X apps via commands in the terminal. Believe it or not this method will actually allow you to launch applications faster than using spotlight due to the magic of tab completion in bash. I’d imagine it’s about the same speed as launching apps with Quicksilver, but for us server admin types we ALWAYS have a terminal (or ten) open.

Enjoy!

macosxhints.com - Automatically create app-launching aliases in bash

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Happy Sunday everyone. I hope you all had a good weekend and weren’t stuck at work for half of it (like I was).

But hey, I’m not going to argue with time and a half.

Here’s a few links to occupy some time with:

Fellow MarioKartDS owners rejoice! Here’s an explanation and several videos explaining how to dodge blue shells, and here is a video which explains the basics of snaking (or, how to cheat at the game without really cheating).

If you have problems getting your head around the magical workings of DNS (like I do) you should read this article.

Has anyone tried out AcquisitionX for Mac OS X? It’s a P2P app that has a large following, but I never run a new P2P app unless I personally know someone else who can give me a recommendation on it.

Long lost video fun: Randy Johnson reintroduces a bird to its maker with a fastball.

One of the reasons I think Adam Carolla rocks is that he really doesn’t care about the celebrity level of those he is forced to interact with. Case-in-point.

Want a one word, two second summary of the last World Cup 2006 game? Ouch.

Tired of roller coasters? Take a ride on the space shuttle’s booster rocket as it lifts off(quicktime). Link to source/other videos. Be sure to check out the composite separation video.

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