i spoke too soon

October 22, 2002, 02:48 pm

I spoke too soon. The CSS2 specification does include row, column, and cell pseudo-classes; they just aren't supported by anything I've tried it with (gecko-based Phoenix on Linux and WinXP and IE6). I wonder what the holdup is...

I was at Barnes & Noble a few months ago, I saw a book of Arthur C. Clarke's shortstories, including The Sentinel. It was like six dollars or something, so I bought it without even looking inside. I started reading it a few days ago and holy crap the typesetting is horrible! I'm serious. They have the page numbers, the authors name, and the short story title on the bottom of every page. And whatever font they chose is really unattractive. They need to take a typesetting lesson from O'Reilly.

I totally saw Maude Lebowkski at Qdoba a few weeks ago.

You might be asking yourself, I wonder what Jonathan thinks about the latest console sales figures.

Well, I'm happy to tell you: I don't care! Nintendo is smart, Microsoft is dumb.

Nintendo is doing really well with the GCN & GBA. I think they were smart to not pay Rare 8 million, especially for a development house that only makes two or three games a year.

Microsoft is still losing around 0 for every Xbox they sell. And what's really sad is that the only way Microsoft can get quality, exclusive games for the xbox is to buy the development shop that makes them. Microsoft bought Bungie, Halo was an exclusive title. Microsoft bought Rare, now Kameo: Elements of Power is going to be an exclusive (which is sad, because it looks like a fun game).

What's especially funny is that Microsoft has been making around 25% profit for all of their products for a very long time. They would normally not accept such failure. The Xbox project is nothing more than a money pit.

The long-and-the-short: fuck you Microsoft. I hope the xbox bleeds you to death.

This stuff was going to be in my entry yesterday, but it was getting unbearably huge, so I held off for today.

At lunch today, JB referred to a girl as a “butterface”. I was previously unfamiliar with this word, but JB helped me out:

butterface
A girl that has a hot body, but an ugly face; specifically, everything is hot “but her face”.

When we left, Josh volunteered his car keys, so I got to drive his Mini. Josh drives like a “drunk indian” (as my late Grandmother would say), so when I was driving my usual style (which is quite grandmotherly), he said, You know, you can let her out; she doesn't redline until way up. I think it really annoyed him that I wasn't driving rediculously fast.

Just now I was looking for an image of a Mini to link to, and I went to their website and holy fucking shit do I hate it. Not only did they recreate a browser in Flash (with their lame Back, Foward, Bookmark, and Address Bar thingies), but it's just annoying and totally unnecessary. I guess the people that are interested in buying Mini's are into annoying Flash sites.