Five things

[ckd]

Five things of approximately equal likelihood:
1. Verizon starts installing FiOS in Cambridge
2. Mobipocket releases an iPhone/iPod touch version of their reader software
3. Apple releases an iPod touch with Bluetooth, including tethering/PAN profile support
4. EMI reprints Peter Wolf's Lights Out album
5. Godot arrives

Comments

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping for number 5!

[yendi]

Wait, Lights Out is out of print?

That's a tragedy.

[ckd]

Yup. The cheapest of the 5 used copies listed on Amazon is priced at $99.95.

I'd also like to see Sun City reprinted, but at least there's a good reason that one went out of print....

[yendi]

$99? Wow.

Fortunately, Youtube provides the video of Sun City, although the entire album is something I long ago misplaced.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

6. the release of Duke Nukem Forever

[ckd]

True, though unlike items 1-4 I wouldn't actually care if it did happen. (If #5 happens, I'll just have to call the nearest suitable theater and ask for Estragon.)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Hey, if Guns 'n' Roses could finally release Chinese Democracy, anything can happen. :-)

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

Also, Knuth volume 5.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

this

[ron_newman]

6. Harlan Ellison publishes The Last Dangerous Visions ?

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Ha! Don't say this to Harlan, though.

[jss]

Actually, do say it to Harlan. I'll be standing waaay over there, watching from a safe distance.

[ron_newman]

(smirks michievously) will Harlan be at Boskone?

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Can we make sure there's no unsecured furniture near him when they do?

[sethb.livejournal.com]

As if. (You don't know about Harlan's attitude towards NESFA?)

[ron_newman]

Not really, please say more (or maybe you can just link to something appropriate)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

#2 sent me off to find mobipocket for j2me, which I installed, and in the process also found stanza (http://www.lexcycle.com/stanza) - acceptable workaround? (I haven't installed that yet, but it claims to support some DRMed content on iPhone/touch.)

[ckd]

It supports eReader's DRM. That's not helpful since I prefer the eReader software, which is already available on the iPhone. It doesn't support Mobipocket's DRM.

I'm sure there are Mobipocket DRM-stripping programs out there. Naturally, I would never stoop to using such a thing to read my own books that I paid for, because that would be illegal, and the DMCA is so clearly[1] Constitutional when considered in light of the ruling in Bernstein v. United States that software source code is covered by the First Amendment[2]. (Besides, then I'd want to convert the Mobipocket encapsulated HTML into something eReader would render.)

[1] HTML doesn't have a <sarcasm> tag yet, does it?

[2] Though since I don't live in the Ninth Circuit, the ruling doesn't necessarily apply.

[sraun]

kalmn is expecting Godot in, IIRC, 18-24 months.

Do you know this joke?

[ckd]

Sadly, I do not.

[sraun]

She's adopting. Her mother objected to her referring to the non-existent child as 'the kid'. So she ask her FL for help:

i suspect her thought was that i could now start referring to the kid by whatever i am going to end up naming them.

heck with that. first, i don't know gender yet, and won't for a year. second, i am oddly superstitious about telling people the names i have picked so far.

so. i need a babyname. like niblet or neo or widget or something like that. handy, clear on who i am referring to, obviously not the kid's final name, usable in polite company, yet guaranteed to make my mom make that one face.

any suggestions?

There were many suggestions. wordweaverlynn came up with Godot. And that's the one that kalmn picked.