MacBook in my near future…

My G3 iBook is finally reaching the end of her usefulness. After 4 good years, the poor girl just doesn’t have what it takes to satisfy me anymore. She’s not fast enough. She overheats too easy. She can’t do the work I need her to do anymore. And, she whines all the time. It’s time to upgrade to the new slim, fast, quiet, smooth, pretty MacBook. I’d go with a Pro, but they’re just too expensive for my budget, and besides – I can get the regular MacBook to do what I want just as well, for less money! I’m going to order her online, but I’ll have to get the funds first. Hopefully she’ll be on her way by the end of the week. I can’t wait!

WOW – was this blog entry suggestive enough for ya? I just couldn’t resist.

Woman to English Translator

My wife is going to kick me in my nads, but this is pretty much true. 😉

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Motricity in the News

Motricity, the company that I’ve been working at for almost 2 years, has just raised another $40 million in funding. In Q3 of this year, we should be moving into our new building in the American Tobacco Historic District as well. You can read the latest article in the News and Observer HERE.

Car? Divorce? Car? Divorce?

If my wife wouldn’t divorce me, I would SO buy this 1992 Toyota MR2 with only 38K miles. 😉

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It’s at a dealership across the street from where I live, and is valued at around $5,100. It’s not a particularly fast car, but handles like a dream and is Uber reliable. It looks like it is in really good shape too. Man I’d love to take that thing to VIR once a year for Holiday Laps. I’ve been wanting one of these ever since the 80s MKI models.

Star Wars ASCII – Hillarious and Somewhat Impressive

The entire Star Wars movie in ASCII characters. Open a Terminal/Shell and type the following command :

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Then sit back and watch the hillarity. (I know this will work for Mac OS X and Unix/Linux. It SHOULD work for Windows too but I’m not sure.)

Whining – Guitars

Errrrgh! So, I finally have the guitars I’ve always wanted but now they all need work. The Carvin DC-200 needs its intonation and action fixed. The Peavey Wolfgang Special FR needs its action fixed, and the Peavey Wolfgang Special ST needs its intonation adjusted. Dammit! That’s a big chunk of change to get all that work done. The Carvin was my main axe for years, and has only been tweaked once, so it’s definitely due for some repairs. The Peavey Wolfgang Special FR is a 1998 model, and I’m not suprised it needs some work. (Let’s just say it’s an “experienced” guitar. 😉 ) The Peavey Wolfgang Special ST just needs the Tune-O-Matic adjusted so that it’s intonation will be correct. That guitar is brand new, but sat on a shelf for a long time before it found a home in my office.

Anyway, it looks like I’m gonna have to prioritize what gets fixed first. I can’t afford ~$300 worth of guitar adjustments in one lump. Like I said earlier – Errrrghhh!!!

It’s like comparing Apples and Apples

Apple Corps (the Beatles’ record label and tax shelter) is suing Apple Computer for a third time over the Apple trademark. In the 80’s when Apple Computer was a startup, Apple Corps sued Apple Computer over use of the Apple trademark. A settlement was reached where Apple Corps agreed to “share” the Apple trademark as long as Apple Computer never sold music. Now, with iTunes being a huge money maker for Apple Computer, Apple Corps is suing again. Apple Computer contends that the agreement reached in the 80’s does allow Apple Computer to sell online data transfers, which is all iTunes does.

Legal rangling aside, I don’t know what Apple Corps’ problem is. Apple Corps is not a huge record label that makes it’s money from selling, producing, and packaging music from a wide spectrum of artists. As far as I know, Apple Corps only releases Beatles CDs and DVDs and facilitates the distribution of profits to the Beatles and their heirs. So, with Apple Corps’ only product being Beatles media, and since the iTunes music store does not sell any Beatles media (nor does any other online music store) what are the damages to Apple Corps?

Come on guys, let it go.

SciFi Channel – We have 3 shows

Geez. The SciFi Channel really is a steaming pile of Bantha pudu. They have 3 shows that are good, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, and most of all – Battlestar Galactica. The rest of their programming is overly priced filler. Just about every week they have some new SciFi Pictures Original movie based on, 1) A killer animal of some kind, (remember all the killer mosquito movies like “Skeeter.”) 2) A killer storm of some kind, 3) A dude a sword and a dragon, or finally, 4) A killer animal stalking a dude with a sword in a killer storm. I honestly have a hard time not laughing out-loud everytime I see one of those “SciFi Pictures” commercials while watching Battlestar. They’re just terrible. It’s obvious that the people running SciFi Channel have no idea what a real SciFi fan wants to watch. I do have to give them just a smidge of credit though. Tthey do get it right one day a week, Friday. But that’s only a 14% success rate.