The Scornful Jedi

Telling if an onion is ripe

If an onion is ripe, then there’ll be a little door and a window cut into it by the little field mice who like to live in them. If there’s no furniture inside, it’s probably still too green to sleep in.

Live OscarBlog 2008

Okay, blogging via Tumblr sucks. Go to www.ihnatko.com for further Oscar blogging.

Live OscarBlog 2008

Monologie sounds like a conventional “Daily Show” Act 1. Very funny, though. I think Stewart might be close to a perfect Oscar host. Not “too cool for school,” just a bit edgy, definitely a good fit for the event. Whoopi and Dave seemed like an octagonal peg in a septagonal hole.

Live OscarBlog 2008

Awesome cold open. That’s probably already on YouTube fifty times as I write this.

Time to wonder how the writers’ strike will affect the content here. Billy Crystal took months to work up his bits. Jon Steward swears that he didn’t write a damned word until the strike was over with.

Was this cool digital montage under the WGA limitations?

Live OscarBlog 2008

I am so totally OVER the whole “Red Carpet” thing. Red Carpets are like car alarms. Decades ago, when you could only be exposed to one or two of them, they served a useful and interesting function. But now, you can’t introduce a new kind of diet string cheese without promising a “Red Carpet Star-Studded Red Carpet Event…with coverage LIVE from the Red Carpet.” Their only purpose is to irk, to annoy, and to demonstrate to us that Mankind is hardly God’s final word in the evolution of the mammalian species.

Live OscarBlog 2008

Wow…Regis is sounding more and more like Wally Ballou with each passing year…

Testing

Just checking a quick post in anticipation of the Oscars.

That seemed to work. Let’s see if I can post long-form: Cartoon characters have it so much easier than we do. Laws of cartoon physics say that if you run out of space on your hard drive, you can just jam a funnel into the top, dump in a few more drive mechanisms from a big metal bucket, and then you’re right back in business.And so, ladies and gentlemen, I present the Drobo storage system. This $499 USB storage device is made by Data Robotics, Inc. (Drobo.com), but I’m pretty sure that DRI is actually a wholly-owned subsidiary of the ACME Corporation.You pop the front off of the box to reveal four empty drive bays. Each one can hold a SATA-standard hard drive mechanism (which are as cheap and plentiful as greed and avarice). Just buy some and slide them right in. Installing drives in the Drobo is no more complicated than inserting a frozen waffle into a toaster. No screws, no mounting brackets…just push it into the slot until the bay’s retaining clip clicks into it. You can mix and match capacities, leave some of the drive bays empty…it doesn’t matter. Dump the storage in and close the door. Drobo figures everything out all out on its own. Plug it into your computer and it appears as a standard, single USB storage device ready for formatting.”Big deal!” you’re sneering, because you didn’t have a decent breakfast and my mention of waffles has made you cranky. “It’s a RAID storage array. What’s different about that?”What’s different about it is that Drobo isn’t a RAID. Adding capacity to a RAID is a huge production. I remind you that Drobo is a cartoon device. You need more capacity? Fine. Buy another drive mechanism and slide it into a vacant slot. Presto: your computer now sees the exact same drive with the exact same contents…only it’s larger.

Testing out the “post via iChat” interface.