Author: Steve Riggins

Tonight I will be talking, along with Terry, about the iMovie class we taught in October at MacCamp. The usual multimedia issues apply – Charles called asking how we’ll present the audio. He came through with a banana plug adaptor. Hopefully that works. Steve singing “A little less conversation” with a slightly sore throat could… Continue reading Presenting

I am sick, picked the flu up somewhere. Just got back from the store (took tylenol so I could drive, 100+ fever sucks) Got soup, water, gatorade and Gollllllddddmember! Yeah, baby yeah! Trying to be upbeat in a downbeat world 🙂

Burton is now selling a $1000 ski jacket with a built in iPod. The left sleeve has a control panel that can be used through gloves, which plugs into the ipod in it’s own pocket inside the jacket. Very cool!

I put on weight, I’m hungry, I want cookies, but I have to resist. That sucks! As easy as my life has been the last year, why has it seemed so tough?

I am easily amused! As seen on The Screensavers…. Poke the Penguin!

TiVo recorded the Anna Nicole Smith show. She wears fake nipples. Three thumbs down. ’nuff said.

Sometime in the wee hours of the morning I got the Palace plugin working! This plugin takes text spoken in Palace and calls an AppleScript located in the Palace directory. That script then calls a Cocoa app I wrote over the weekend to speak the text. Now I can add features like queuing of speech,… Continue reading It’s Alive!

12 hours later my Cocoa application has the properly syntaxed command I wanted. Turns out, Script Editor caches data about your application, so I spent about 10 hours wracking my brain as to why nothing I tried worked. I finally quit Script Editor, opened my script again, and it worked. UGH! Now onto the hard… Continue reading Shoot me, I have a headache

I had a really nice date with a woman I met online. We had lunch, saw the latest Bond flick (her idea!), shopped and talked. Anyone who likes South Park is a friend of mine! I hope we hang out some more. I started working last night on a solution for my Mom, so she… Continue reading Today was a great day!

Those who know me know that I don’t read very much. I just finished the Lord of the Rings trilogy, some 20 years late. Now, onto Asimov’s “I, Robot”

Eminem’s uncle sold their family home to a lawyer for $41,000 recently. Now on EBAY, this auction is over twelve million now.

I went down to the PMUG offices tonight to use the SuperDrive in an iMac/800 there to burn my first DVD. It was a 10 minute movie of three of the iMovies from the iMovie Class I helped teach in October. I had saved the DV movie ahead of time, which was ~2gb in size.… Continue reading My First DVD

This is a week of thanksgiving for those of us in America. Times are hard, not so hard for us as in the rest of the world, but these times do tend to bring out the insecurities in us all. To those friends of mine starting new lives, we have the thanks that life brings… Continue reading Thanksgiving

I saw Maggie off tonight. She is headed to LA, then to Sydney, to live with Sarah in the wild (or not so wild) outback. I was around at the beginning of their budding romance, during the trip to Timberline, witnessing them making googly eyes at each other, sharing fog drawings on the bus window,… Continue reading From Timberline to Sydney

I’ve been blessed in my journey through life. I have had friends, family, a wife. Some things have changed, some have stayed the same – All have made be a better person. I’ve been lucky enough to spend a couple of days with Maggie and Sarah before they leave for Australia. Sarah left this evening,… Continue reading Experiencing life

I can tell you one thing – Skipping a wire, while nice to save the time, is painful! My teeth are telling me “You dumbass!” Add in the rubber band doing it’s thing, and I think I need some advil.

I got my first rubber band for my braces today. I only have one, from the right upper rear tooth (#7) to the front lower teeth. It makes eating on the right side a pain in the butt. The idea is to pull the lower teeth back so my bite is correct. On the good… Continue reading Rubber bands suck!

If you like wartime strategic/shooter games, be sure to check out: Battlefield 1942 Ryan and I played for 5 hours the other night, using Roger Wilco to communicate. It was reminiscent of my Magic Edge days. You can play 1 of 5 roles, from scout to engineer, and drive up to 35 vehicles. The game’s… Continue reading Battlefield 1942