Since when are ten-year-olds so intimidating? I mean, I can stomach the fact that my bones are too brittle to ride a skateboard anymore, but throw a three-piece suit and some wingtips into the mix and this little shitstain makes me feel like Barbara Bush.

new vice up

Pam, why are you talking to Paras here? You are across the room from him!

i completely agree qith Paras, but as per usual, i have no idea what he is talking about.

however, he did forget to mention, that bed bugs are not fun to deal with. not fun at all.

have we missed any good bad movies lately???

Ok, I don't really want to belabour the point, but I feel the need to clarify, having some experience here, and I just bought an hour of internet to kill time before the train, so:

- Tay, you are correct, calling a dual-core 3 gig processor a 6-gig is misleading (it's exceptionally false advertising)

- That said, depending on how independent two tasks are, you can potentially get a dual-core to run twice as fast as a single processor. In fact, because of cache effects, you can potentially get a dual-core to run more than twice as fast as a single 3 gig processor (ie. faster than a 6 gig processor).

- Also, you can just keep adding processors. There are different effects you have to consider at the less-than-20-processor level than you do at the 100s-to-1000s of processor level, but it's not impossible. Supercomputers (with 100s to 1000s of processors) are indeed room-sized. But dual-core means two processors on one chip, meaning it's not unreasonable to put 4 or more processors in a desktop. (The specs for the next-gen consoles claim up to 7 semantic processors, and you've seen how big those are.)

- You are right, single-processor development will continue. But what you have to understand is that getting two processors to run 1.5 times faster than a single is much cheaper than increasing the speed of a single processor 1.5 times. It doesn't mean faster processors won't be developed, it just means that they will be designed to work in tandem with others to get greater speed benefits.

All right, I'm done.

hmm... I checked mint records to see if neko case was touring these days, but alas she is not (but I didn't think so considering that she's busy working on her new album).

HOWEVER, Carolyn Mark will be here on the 30th at the Sidetrack!!!

She'll be here for a whole week after that at Folk Fest too.

But it's still not neko... ;(

I want to marry neko case; I'm in love with her voice.

hey, I think I saw the pirate girl in cobrasnake too. At least, I'm positive I saw that girl with the pirate get-up SOMEWHERE before...

Just so you know: there's a MUCH better Our Mercury show that night however...

yee haw, popping cherries.

so... back in Hinton... yee haw... no more highway work for me - we're goin' back country from now on, so Jere and Dana, you got a rare treat... seeing me at work! :)

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the rest of July. Fly safely home, you travellers, and um, I'll see you all in two months... unless you're going to the Folk Fest. I dunno about this job. I think I'm glad it's only two months... but we'll see. You'll probably read a lot of ranting from me if things get a bit un-fun.

Okay, have a blast with all the shows coming up, those you're playing in Taylor, Eric, Eric and Jere, and those you're going to see. Those of you working: don't let work drag you down too much this summer; and those of you not working: what the fuck are you doing indoors? Get outside and enjoy this weather, so that you can legitimately bitch come winter.

Anyway, yee haw, counting berries.