I've got a seriously bad "anime addiction". So much so that I've completely run out of room to store my DVDs. I'm just piling the DVDs on top of each other in any free corner I have. I'm running out of corners.
(Click either of the above to see all the photos, there are 7 more of different corners)
Basically, I need a new shelf to store the anime DVDs that are just laying about. I'd like a big-ish one that is specifically designed to hold DVDs. It must be attractive (and being made out of wood helps, although it could be black and wood). It must be from a place that delivers in the US. It must not be from a place that delivers using Airborne Express/DHL. Those crazy people deliver to the apartment complex's office and never tell you or they never deliver it and tell you 2 weeks later. No way I am dragging a 50 pound unassembled box up 2 flights of stairs (to the 3rd story) in 112° heat. It just isn't happening.
Anywho, I don't like the shelves that have each level too far apart to hold DVDs. If you look at my other photos, you can see what I have now. I really like the design and the woodness of the two identical shelves, but I really hate how very, very few DVDs they hold.
I'd really appreciate any suggestions on DVD organization furniture.
And you can always see the anime I currently have (along with a few non-anime titles I tested DL with but am too lazy to delete) at http://www.unsanity.org/rosyna/dvds/. I kind of wish Geneon, ADV, or FUNimation would give me some freebies since I spend so much on their anime.
I'm still getting all caught up on various items since WWDC. Bear with all of us while we handle the transition from WWDC to working full speed again.
The more and more I think about it, the more and more I think the C|Net article on Apple switching to Intel was a planned leak. Planned as in it was orchestrated by the Apple PR machine. Now, before you paint me as a paranoid-conspiracy-theory-lovin' coot, hear me out.
C|Net released the article after the market closed on Friday, June 3rd. This could have been planned so that the sudden announcement on Monday didn't spook investors and analysts into reducing the target price on Apple's stock thus causing it to crash suddenly (which should have happened anyways, more on that later). It also could have been pre-leaked so that developers that would be at WWDC on Monday had time to absorb the possibility of this information being true. And it'd give them a chance to cry out all their angries before the keynote so they wouldn't go completely psycho on Jobs right there and then.
Furthermore, only once before while Steve Jobs was at the helm of Apple since his second coming has he commented on a rumor. Namely when the G5 specs were accidently released on the Apple store online and Steve Jobs called it a "Premature Specification". Otherwise, even if past rumors have been true, they were never mentioned in the keynote. With this Intel thing, Jobs gave credence to the "rumor" sites by stating "It's True" which seems extremely unlike him. Unless it was a planned thing after all.
Also odd about how the Intel thing was leaked was the fact that Apple still hasn't filed any lawsuits trying to find the sources of this leak. Odd considering that Apple's been filing lawsuits (or trying to gather information to file lawsuits) against everyone left and right. And yet nothing was filed against C|Net or the like.
The reasons why this entire thing now seems like a PR stunt to me has a lot to do with the language of the original C|Net "article". People said it couldn't be true before since the language and the things that were said were lacking any real technical information whatsoever. The article said that Apple was switching from IBM to Intel chips and then cited Portables and consumer based Macs such as the Mac mini would be the first to sport the new Intel chips. But none of those machines use IBM's G5s. They all use the G4 which is made by Motorola/Freescale. You'd think that any "executive" would know the difference. But they wouldn't if they were in the marketing department.
The article also is very favorable to Apple's past switch from the 68k to the PowerPC. "Apple successfully navigated a switch in the 1990s from Motorola's 680x0 line of processors to the Power line jointly made by Motorola and IBM." Rather than stating the more expected, "Apple also attempted a rocky transition in the 1990s from Motorola's 68k line of microprocessors to IBM's Power based line of PowerPC chips. A transition that was never completed as much of the code in the Mac OS pre-OS X days was still 68k based." Or something like that... But I don't even remember that line being in the original draft of this article. Am I going insane?
Basically Apple had nothing to lose by "leaking" this story. They ensured that it wouldn't be as harmful to Apple Employee's bodies or Apple's stock price as it could have been if it were a complete surprise. Even without that, the article reads as if it were written by a marketing droid.
I'm posting this now since we'll all be attending WWDC starting Sunday (today, but in like 12 hours or so).
Please note the demo period is intentionally short. 4 hours apart. I think the Dutch are a very attractive people.
This is the first beta release of Silk 2.1. This is primarily for Tiger compatibility.
TinkerTool is no longer necessary to get Silk to completely change the theme font in Cocoa applications. Fear, comprehensively.
I've also added an option to disable antialiasing. Only one person ever requested this "feature" and I have no idea what they were on to want to have that feature. While I was working on Labels X 1.7, I was playing around and found an easy way to disable antialiasing, so I added it to silk. Nothing like rubbing burlap all over your body, eh?
If anyone can test on 10.3.9, it would be MUCH appreciated. 10.2.8 support has been sadly dropped. Too many things have changed inside silk to test thoroughly for support. Yeah, pretend that makes sense.
I'm also interested to see what happens if you have a theme font enabled for the finder and download something to the desktop.
Things I need tested:
- Make sure that all the options can be turned off and on for an application without it causing a crash (it will cause some weird display issues, but nothing serious).
- If you are replacing a theme font, don't forget to add a substitution rule. Even though this shouldn't be necessary, it is for some applications that don't respect the Appearance Manager. IT DEMANDS RESPECT!
- Make sure that all the options actually work. Especially theme fonts for preferences and other weirdo dialogs that developers created.
Version 2.1b2
- Dropped Mac OS X 10.2.x support.
- The font panel in the preference pane now only shows the font names and no longer shows any effects or sizes that aren't valid for Silk.
- No longer need to setup a substitution rule to get the location field in Safari to respect the theme font.
- Fixed a problem that prevented newly installed fonts from appearing in the Silk preference pane.
Version 2.0.7b1
- This is a free update for registered users.
- Tiger Compatible
- No longer crashes iCal 2.0
- Added an option to disable antialiasing for fonts. Because I can.
- New Registration System. Registered users are able to click the Update Now button to quickly and easily update their registration. The new serial number works across users so if you have permissions to write to /Library, all users will get the new SN automatically.
- TinkerTool is no longer necessary to get Silk to completely change the theme font in Cocoa applications.
Get it at: http://www.unsanity.net/beta/silk-21b2.dmg (2.05 megs, I don't know why this one is smaller than the last one)