It’s mid-October and I have no idea why the hell it’s so damn hot. This entire weekend was just hot hot. Our high here in the valley was 94 degrees today (well, yesterday now). Come on now! I thought it was suppose to be fall already. It should come down to about 80 by the end of the week so I’m looking forward to that. I don’t want to even think about how hot it’s going to be in Arizona when I visit there in 2 weeks.

So what did I do this weekend? Hmm. Absolutely nothing. It wasn’t even close to nice. Bored out of my mind really. Sundays have turned into quite the same routine lately. I get up just to go out into the living room to take a nap before football starts. Then when it does start, I basically live on my couch with my Powerbook until about 4pm watching my teams suck the big one and trying to figure out if I’m going into work crying the next day because my fantasy football team lost or not.

I think the only thing I did that was even remotely interesting was see The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on Friday. It’s a real good remake and helped a lot to get me into an even bigger Halloween mood. Nice and scary. If you’re into those type of movies, it’s not to be missed.

Yes, very productive was I this weekend. Very productive indeed. Oh well, though. I guess you have to have a weekend like this every once in a while. I think the fact that I was just low on spending cash contributed a lot to it. In fact, I might be having another Ramen week here. It’s an hour into Monday right now and I already can’t wait for this week to be over. Good luck to us all…

A little late on this one, but here it is. You can’t call it a “scary” movie, but I think it definitely fits with Halloween. Here’s Fredrick Frankenstein from the movie, Young Frankenstein.

Now Windows gets the best digital jukebox ever and it’s completely free. They also have complete access to the second generation iTunes Music Store (easily the best online music service out there). You can also now get your hands on some real sweet accessories for your iPod. No more reasons for the Window-philes to be jealous. Wipe up your tears and go get it all.

So I was trying out Volume Logic for some time today but found the volume levels to be so inconsistant while toggling the plug-in on and off. The plug-in was definitely louder and this made doing quality comparisons extremely difficult, so I wrote them:

Me: “Great idea you have here. This is exactly what I was expecting more third-parties to do. I hope it works out well, but why in the world is the volume level with the plug-in turned on so much louder than without it turned on? It’s too hard to compare the quality when toggling the plug-in on and off. Until volume levels get evenned out, there’s no way to tell whether it’s helping or not. Thanx.”

Them: “We’re getting lots of feedback on volume issues. In our testing, most folks preferred a louder setting in general. This does make comparisons hard to do. We’re looking at our options, like adding an output level slider, and reworking our settings.”

MacCentral: “Octiv, a company that specializes in audio processing products, has released Volume Logic, an audio plug-in for iTunes. It runs under Mac OS X and provides digital remastering in real-time.”

Sounds pretty neat. You can download the beta free and should remain active until Dec. 31. I’m gonna try it out right now since I’m so busy this morning.

Looks like a friend is enjoying their new T616 as much as I am. He’s also raving about this program which works with the phone. Will have to look into it sometime this week.

The monster from the 1931 film, Frankenstein, graces the background of this template. I still need ideas for about 3 more backgrounds, so let me hear some suggestions.

Here’s a nice little interactive piece on the new twenty dollar bill. It’s more than you’ll ever need to know and then some.

The next one is up. He’s Jack Skellington from one of my favorite movies of all time, The Nightmare Before Christmas. I have all but 3 more backgrounds to make for the last week of the month. Suggestions anyone?

Usually I do the absentee ballot but every once in a while I’ll visit the actual polling place. This morning I visited that place and never have I seen such a large crowd before. Yes, never has such a large group of people come together to be so incomprehensibly stupid. If by some chance you’re viewing this outside of California… send help.