Cold Fusion Rides Again

Area Man Once Again Invents Ultimate Future Power Source..

Uh yeah. Right. Quantum mechanics is wrong, you have a product that will be out Real Soon Now, and you've made a new kind of hydrogen. Yeahhhh.

Quick!

We have to stop MAGNETO before he gets to his SHINY, EVIL LIGHTNING CAR!

Proposal: NaGoOvMo

Instead of wasting our time with "National Novel Writing Month" and making up a cute name for it, I propose that we do something useful: overthrow our stupid fucking government, who have proven themselves in their entirety (all branches and both parties) to be wicked, venal, stupid, lazy, arrogant, and dangerous to the entire world. A clean sweep. Replace them maybe with ostriches as Robert Anton Wilson suggested.

I mean, seriously. Even my conservative Republican acquaintances can't stand these people any more, and those of us on the other side of the aisle would have no problem dumping all the Democrats too. They've had their verbal warning and their written warning. It's time to terminate them and have Security walk them out.

Anyway the thing is, we have to do it together, and we have to do it all in one month. I propose: National Government Overthrow Month, or NaGoOvMo.

Who's in?

Yes.

mysterious file/disk suck on my powerbook

I get disk I/O errors, which are the computer equivalent of coughing up blood; ominous.

They only happen with certain files. I notice it when syncing to my iPod or listening to music, for example. One music file will be a DEVIL FILE and cause the system to throw the I/O errors into the log after hanging up really badly (slow UI, processes crash, etc).

If I delete that one file then no problems for a while until another DEVIL FILE shows up.

I'm trying to figure out if maybe the iTunes-LAME script I use so I can use the LAME MP3 encoder might be contributing to this, or maybe LAME itself, but I can't see how. Maybe something is messed up with 10.4.3?