"Awake Ye Heathens!" Sorry, just listening to OSAS and I like that quote. The way it's said reminds me of Gandalf a bit. Anyways, came across an article that schdav would like. The author shares our views of running, which seems to be a minority view. I like the comment on joggers contributing to the heat death of the universe by increasing local entropy unnecessarily. I apparently am low on music balance too, since I can't order stuff right now. I should probably get more of that. Too many movie soundtracks recently I guess.

First movie of the day was The Transporter. That's just a funny movie to laugh at or when you just need a good action flic. Pure action, extremely simplistic and unbelievable plot. Just like an action flick should be. :) I liked the soundtrack on it too. It's not the stuff you'd just listen to, but more environmental. Second movie was Spider-Man 2. I liked it, except about halfway through I started thinking "wait, isn't this supposed to be in New York? New York doesn't have an El." Yea, other than that a decent movie. I liked most of its soundtrack too. I'm starting to think that based on my recent movies I may have stumbled across soundtrack recommendations rather than movie recommendations. Oh well, I listen to music a whole lot more than I watch movies.

Actually yesterday I was complaining about iTunes and its horrible latency at switching songs and how my Karma does it better. Mr. Boyum managed to find that someone wrote a native OS X output plugin for xmms, so now I'm switched back to that. One more ugly brushed metal app out of the way... Yea, my biggest complaint about OS X (and Windows) apps is resource allocation. Too often there is stuff going on in the background which for some reason takes precidence over the UI. I think that the command line is partially why I'm able to live with it - I can get a couple lines of commands out while waiting for the system to respond and show the keystrokes while it's off doing something or has to wait. That's another thing that bugs me, is the UI tries to be intelligent. If I type a bunch of stuff but the application is locked (or it can't reach that app over the network), those commands are to that window. I should be able to switch to another window or application and have all the previous keystrokes and mouse clicks go through. I'm realisizing the key reason I like X so much is it's asynchronous. It's necessary due to the client/server architecture, where the server has to queue the commands to the specific client until it responds. I've learned over the years to take maximum advantage of that fact by typing where a box will exist, or clicking where the button will be in a few seconds. Due to the way it is handled you can think ahead of the system and know it'll do what you want rather than having to watch and see. I also realized that X11 under OS X apparently has clickthrough on window selection, so I'm starting to seriously reconsider going all X again. I can live without Aqua (the title bars are too big anyways). Should be interesting to see if I can get motivated to actually dig up X versions for darwinppc or recompile all the apps for it.