Last of a vanishing breed
3:55 pm July 9th, 2007
Here is what is probably the last smoking room I’ll ever see at a newspaper. It is in the Le Devoir’s offices in Montréal.
Sniff.
DJ Projet’s Brand New (That’s It)
7:08 pm June 26th, 2007Available here is a quickie remix of the Beastie Boys “That’s it” that I helped DJ Projet (AKA Patrick Walters) do using Apple’s SoundTrack Pro. Henjoy.
Just watched John Elway race a car…
8:01 pm June 24th, 2007My observation:
He could play Gary Busey in the (I’m sure to be up-coming) Gary Busey story.
Fer serious.
Took a bunch of pitchers.
4:03 pm June 24th, 2007
Including this one of a seagull (shot from my 9th-floor balcony).
More on my Flikr page.
I went for a walk at the Quais du Vieux today
9:59 pm June 16th, 2007
That would be Montréal’s old port area.
I got a lot of sun and a few pictures. Here are some of the pictures.

Later I noticed that Bob Harris (of Prisoner of Trebekistan fame) seems to have figured out the last episode of the Sopranos. Very interesting.
Centre de Beauté Poon
7:54 am June 15th, 2007
I guess there’s not much I can add to this beyond that you could find it yourself in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Select on Rue Viger in Montréal, Quebec.
MacRumors.com : WWDC 2007 Keynote Live Coverage
2:09 pm June 11th, 2007MacRumors.com : WWDC 2007 Keynote Live Coverage
11:07 am Leopard shipping in October. Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. Ultimate version, $129.
11:07 am crowd goes wild
11:08 am “it’s all the same… most people are gonna buy the ultimate version :)
Ferrari 456
12:52 pm June 11th, 2007

Seen in the Uptown Coney Island parking lot, a Ferrari 456. Parked like a douche, but, hey, it’s a pretty (and pretty expensive) car.
Grillin’ 2007
9:12 am June 11th, 2007
Sam Wotring and his Aunt and Uncle at Grillin’ 2007, the Food Gatherers annual benefit. Lousy photo, but I wasn’t there to take pictures.
Jonathan Lurie was there. It was nice to see him again. He’s headed for the West Bank this week.
Just in case you think aaronx.org is a spammer…
9:02 am June 11th, 2007I added an SPF record to aaronx.org just this morning. Mail not from me should no longer mess up your inboxes.
Sorry about that, but GoDaddy leaves SPF off by default.
Racoon in a dumpster
12:14 pm June 10th, 2007Found this little guy in the dumpster at work.
I provided him a cardboard ramp to escape with and left him alone.
He (or she) was terrified.
[Update] Checked back at 12:30 and he or she had taken my hint and vamoosed.
Our national nightmare is over
3:41 pm June 8th, 2007According to IsParisInJailRightNow.com, western civilization is once again safe.
My summer’s Ireland trips
2:32 pm June 8th, 2007Mon 7/16/07 Colraine
Fri 7/27/07
Mon 8/13/07 Moygashel
Fri 8/24/07
Mon 9/3/07 Moygashel
Fri 9/14/07
Mon 9/24/07 Rathfriland
Fri 10/5/07
Sounds like Montreal is screwed.
2:47 pm June 7th, 2007No clue as to when we can get Quark 6.5 for Montreal; prolly not going on Sunday.
Stupid Sales.
[Update] Montreal’s being pushed back two days. Well, then.
Maybe going to Montreal late
3:35 pm June 6th, 2007Just found out that Montreal might be delayed.
Quark is being pissy about letting us have Xpress 6.5 (French Canadian version).
We’ll see.
Getting the hang of this wordpress stuff.
An AppleScript I wrote
8:55 am June 6th, 2007Doesn’t do a lot, really, but I wanted to test how scripts show up here.
Violà:
tell application "Safari" set theCount to the count of its windows repeat with x from 1 to theCount set theText to the text of document 1 as string log theText tell application "Finder" set the clipboard to theText end tell tell application "BBEdit" paste end tell close window 1 end repeat end tell
Looks pretty good in Safari, anyway. Oh well. Using the “pre” tags might cause some wrapping (read: not wrapping) problems, but I’ll manage.
Filling the void
3:10 pm June 5th, 2007So far today I have:
- Done a little set up on this new site
- Helped Robert get ready for what is, I think, his first solo.
- Written an AppleScript to wrap InCopy and InDesign text with pseudo-tags containing the applied stylesheet.
- Forwarded Montreal’s Quark licenses to Keely to 6.5-ize them.
Pretty dull.


