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- Ah, the VoiceOver menu
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To access the VoiceOver menu with a Mac laptop and OS X:
First, enable VoiceOver. Hit Command+Function+F5. Then, to access the general menu, hit Ctrl+Option+Function+F7.
To access the Application chooser, hit Ctrl+Option+Function+F1 twice. To access the Window chooser, hit Ctrl+Option+Function+F2 twice. To access the Item chooser, hit Ctrl+Option+I.
I'm posting this primarily as a personal mental note. These chooser menus are pretty interesting, but their access points are pretty hard to find/discover, either in the OS documentation or otherwise. Not to mention that these keyboard shortcuts don't necessarily "roll off the tongue", as it were. I can't think of a particularly good mnemonic device to attach to the multiple modifier keys.Tuesday March 6, 2007 - 04:35am (PST) Permanent Link - Celebrity Math #12
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My kawabunga.com site is undergoing some ... web hosting changes. In the meantime, here's an obligatory YouTube link to the somewhat rambling two-minute commercial that played during the Oscars.
Tuesday March 7, 2006 - 11:52pm (PST) Permanent Link - The Greatest Press Release Ever Told
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And that would be: Konami Acquires License to Use of the Academy Award Winning Song 'Time of My Life'.
I will confess - I'm something of a Karaoke Revolution nut.* And I do enjoy singing this particular song from time to time whilst at an actual karaoke venue - although I can only admit to seeing only traces of the movie on cable during 1988 or so. The only things I recall are A) something about "putting Baby in a corner"; B) the use of the Phil Spector classic Baby Be Mine (before he went bonkers); and C) this gem - sung by one of the Righteous Brothers and Jennifer Warnes, the latter of whom you might recognize from the Growing Pains theme. (You know, she does the part where it goes, "Oooo, show me that smile... ... you know we're near... the best is ready to begin...", etc. etc. as Alan Thicke's grinning mug flashes onscreen.**)
Which brings us to the press release - something of a paradox:
- Konami licensing some song for some video game is not news.
- The theme from some 20-year-old movie being used in a video game is not news.
- Yet somehow, when both are combined and published in LinuxWorld magazine, it somehow becomes news.
Of course, the question remains - will Karaoke Revolution feature a singing SwayzeAvatar? Will they keep the saxophone solo in its entirety? Will they keep it in the key of "E"? They better.
*For more info about what exactly Karaoke Revolution is... go here.
Monday May 30, 2005 - 03:36am (PDT) Permanent Link | 1 Comment - BK Performs: Video Killed the Radio Star
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Here's a little familiar piece that I learned while hanging out with this beat-up old piano in my college dorm. It's slightly rearranged from the original.
Video Killed the Radio Star (3:08, 3.6 MB)
Technical note: I outputted this one through one of Logic Express' softsynths (as opposed to the piano keyboard), which seems to allow better noise and gain control. However, it sounds pretty synthy. One of these days I'll actually try to arrange something multitimbral.Sunday April 3, 2005 - 06:12am (PDT) Permanent Link | 3 Comments - I wish search engines thought better of me.
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So I did a search on my own name, and discovered that, well, I'm a big fat nerd.
Among the search results, I discover:
- an inordinate amount of pages from my Unofficial Gameboy Tetris Home Page,
which I started on a whim in 1995. Studying the gestalt (consisting of
several dozen pages and Flash animations) reveals me straddling the
fine line between geek and idiot. It is a fine line, indeed.
- I also made cheesy MIDI rearrangements of said Tetris music back in 1996. At least I knew back then they were cheesy.
- I posted a quite personal anecdote involving the Volcano Burrito on some sort of early forum, which occurred in a Buellton Taco Bell in 1995.
- I still have resumes scattered around, dating back to 1997, which are, of course, a tad light on the work experience.
Search engines will haunt me for the rest of my days. I've read (ok, glanced at) all the articles about how people research their prospective dates through Google and Yahoo. And unfortunately, I have a pretty uncommon name. Thus, my personal life basically has been indefinitely compromised by some idle online time in my dormroom from ten years ago. This is probably stuff that the search engines, in their quest for the best and most comprehensive crawlers, only recently unearthed, mind you.
Meanwhile, I could've made Forbes' list of sexiest bachelors, for all one would know, and it'd be purged from the web within days. The cruelties of the Internet know no end.
Tuesday February 15, 2005 - 08:47pm (PST) Permanent Link - an inordinate amount of pages from my Unofficial Gameboy Tetris Home Page,
which I started on a whim in 1995. Studying the gestalt (consisting of
several dozen pages and Flash animations) reveals me straddling the
fine line between geek and idiot. It is a fine line, indeed.
