Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog

So, big deal of yesterday was that David Cross (not to be confused with the other David Cross) was at Pianos for a viewing party of his new DVD. These are my notes.
Pianos, for being such a high profile hipster sort of bar, is really quite empty at 7 PM. I guess this isn’t overly surprising, it being supper time and the middle of the week.
They finally let us upstairs around 7:50, and everyone was mulling about and fighting for seats for a while. Then the time slipped until the DVD finally started at 8:15.
It was, as expected, a hilarious documentation of his tour that had produced the CD Shut Up, You Fucking Baby. Full of stoned idiots, pretentious interviewers, drunken girls, pissed off promoters, and a bewildered David, it was an incredibly enjoyable 100 minutes. There was a minor plot (which results in a great 1-2 punch at the end) which I won’t spoil for you, but let’s just say it’s hip to be square.
Oh, and there is a brief appearance by some Mr. Show people in the DVD – Bob/Paul/Brian, mostly. Bob, for the whole 3 minutes he was on, was really funny.
After it was over, David came up on “stage” (where the floor was raised 6 inches off the ground – woo!) and gave us about 20 minutes of his time, including reading an email exchange from one of the kids in the movie who didn’t feel he was portrayed “favorably”. As always, he was very low-key and down to earth.
At one point, his cell phone went off. His ringtone is Hava Nagila. After shutting it off, he said “Every time my phone rings, a Jewish couple gets married!”
The whole thing ended around 10:15, and we all sauntered home. Was a very good time, considering the price tag of FREE.

I AM LADY MARYAM ABACHA, WIFE OF LATE GENERAL SANI ABACHA, EX-MILITARY HEAD OF STATE OF NIGERIA WHO DIED ON THE 8TH OF JUNE 1998 OF HEART PROBLEMS. I CONTACTED YOU BECAUSE OF MY NEED TO DEAL WITH PERSONS WHOM MY FAMILY AND I HAVE HAD NO PREVIOUS PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS.
SINCE THE DEATH OF MY HUSBAND, MY FAMILY HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO ALL SORTS OF HARASSMENT AND INTIMIDATION WITH LOTS OF NEGATIVE REPORTS EMANATING FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESS ABOUT MY HUSBAND. THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT HAS ALSO ENSURED THAT OUR BANK ACCOUNTS ARE FROZEN AND ALL ASSETS SEIZED.
IT IS IN VIEW OF THIS, THAT I SEEK YOUR CO-OPERATION AND ASSISTANCE IN THE TRANSFER OF THE SUM OF US$50,000,000 (FIFTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY) BEING THE VERY LAST OF MY — OH SHIT THE FUZZ.

For those running Panther, all three of these you need to know about now.
1) Enable focus-follows-mouse in Terminal:
While in the terminal, enter defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES, then restart Terminal.
2) Use the alternate “show desktop” behavior for Expos�
While in the terminal, enter defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop -bool false; killall Dock – now the Show Desktop behavior compacts everything into a little window, ala Minimize In Place. Much better than shoving things off the edge of the screen.
3) Dictionary auto-complete.
Start typing into a text field, then hit F5. Bam, instant popup of possible endings to the word.
(1 and 2 are from macosxhints.com; 3 is from Mark Levin.)