Here’s a handy command for the Terminal that will get and unzip the latest Mac Chrome Nightly build:

curl -O http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-mac/`curl http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-mac/LATEST`/chrome-mac.zip;unzip chrome-mac.zip;rm chrome-mac.zip

Edit: I just discovered a problem in the grub.cfg included in efi.zip that broke the Chrome application menu. I uploaded a new version of efi.zip that fixes this issue.

Note: This tutorial assumes that you have followed the directions at (http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/) and already have Chrome OS Flow loaded onto a 2GB or larger usb flash drive. This drive will be further known as the ChromeOS Drive.

Note++: It may be possible to get Chrome OS Flow working on other Intel-based MacBooks/MacBook Pros, but for all intents and purposes, this tutorial is for getting Chrome OS Flow to run on a Intel Core 2 Duo based MacBook that uses the Intel GMA 950 chipset. Feel free to use my work as a starting point if you would like to try to get it working with other models.

What Hardware You Will Need

An additional usb flash drive. (Any size or model should work.). This drive will be further known as the Bootloader Drive.

Hardware You Might Need

A usb hub or usb extender cable. (These may be necessary because having two usb flash drives plugged into your MacBook’s two usb ports may either be a little cramped or not physically possible w/o using a hub or extender cable.)

Preparing the Bootloader Drive

Open Disk Utility, select your Bootloader Drive, click the Erase tab and format your drive as “MS-DOS (FAT)”.

Download and extract the contents of this file, efi.zip.

Copy the “efi” folder to the root of the Bootloader Drive.

Plugging Drives Into Correct USB Port

The Bootloader Drive must be plugged into the first usb port (the first port from the left) and the ChromeOS Drive must be plugged into the second usb port.

Booting Chrome OS Flow

Restart OSX and immediately hold down the Option key.

Choose “EFI Boot”.

The GRUB bootloader should appear, automatically load Chrome OS Flow, display the splash screen and then stop at the Chrome OS login screen.

Logging into Chrome OS Flow

You can either log in using your gmail account username and password or by using “facepunch” as both the username and password. Enjoy.

He who preoccupies himself only with machines is apt to become like a machine. Doomed to repeat tedious routines; routines without meaning or substance. But what if there was a crucial event, a catalyst, that changes everything.

Random thoughts
Float in the subconcious void
Disconnected ideas
Dissected dreams
Coming apart
At the seams

My birthday is next week AND I also get to see Floater twice. Rock on Rocktober!

…is forthcoming. I swear.

Not as hideous as before and slightly more metal \m/ \m/

Just changed from WordPress to MovableType. Next on the agenda is to change this hideous default look…

So a few weeks back I became obsessed over a track by Katatonia called Nightmares By the Sea. I didn’t realize initially that the song was a cover until I went to do a lyrics search. Lo and behold the original song was done by an artist named Jeff Buckley. I had never heard of Jeff Buckley so naturally I looked him up on wikipedia only to discover that tragically he had drown in 1997.

In lieu of this horrible realization, I discovered that a live version (performed only 3 months before his death) of Nightmares By the Sea with alternate lyrics existed. I decided that I would try to transcribe the lyrics from alternate version, so I could have a side by side comparison with the original lyrics.

Here are the album version lyrics:

Beware the bottled thoughts of angry young men
Secret compartments hide all of the skeletons
Little girl wants to make her home with him
In the middle of the shore she wonders

“Don’t know what you asked for”
“Don’t know what you asked for”

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well were you’ll go

I’ve loved so many times and I’ve drowned them all
From their coral graves they rise up when darkness falls
With their bones they’ll scratch the window
I hear them call

“Don’t know what you asked for”
“Don’t know what you asked for”

Stay with me under these waves tonight
Be free for once in your life tonight

The alternate lyrics (from what I can make out, some of the vocal parts are not very clear):

Beware the story of all you angry young men
God mention bride shoreside as a tale to men
Sweet companion, want to live
She asked him men
To tie her men

“Don’t know what you asked for”
“Don’t know what you asked for”
Don’t know, I don’t know why
Nightmares fill my mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome, brand new to your kitchen floor
You know damn well where you’ll go

I came down knowing where id find my eyes
Down living through her bottle-size
I found her in the morning she capsized

Told you not to go down
Told you not to go down

“Don’t know what you asked for”
“Don’t know what you asked for”

All my life I don’t know why
Nightmares blind my mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome, brand new to your bedroom floor

You don’t learn or read no more

Don’t tell them
To the floor
You’re passed out asleep

Scream baby
Scream baby
Scream baby
Scream baby
Scream baby
Scream baby
Scream
Scream
Scream
Scream
Scream

“Don’t know what you asked for”

Let me tell you about living, living with someone

Comeon baby, live with me
Come live with me forever and ever
Lets go down
Comeon baby

Nightmares

Don’t know, I don’t why
Nightmares fill my mind’s eye
Your rube is young and handsome brand new to your kitchen floor
You know damn well what it was for

All the time I don’t know why
Nightmares fill my mind’s eye

Oh, I don’t why the (?) find me somewhere after sundown

Runaway with me nevermore

See how she’s layed out
Cheeks and body’s blue
She moves no more
And I writhe out in the hall
Apartment 33, huh
Still you find me after sundown
Run to me nevermore

I wish they’d stop

The title of the album containing Nightmares By the Sea, Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk, seems to make more sense in alternate lyrics context. The alternate lyrics version puts a totally different spin on the song, it seems to be telling a different story, about how his wife/girlfriend drunk herself to death and he was blamed. Where as in the album version seems to be telling the story of a serial killer that plotwise reminds me of the movie Cabin By the Lake.