Finally!!!

Oregon Trail game on iPhone

Better not be for 3g only. This is one of the few things I remember from 5th grade and nights spent at my best friend Catherine's house. Only person I knew with a computer that year. I so want this. Bonus is my name in the picture.

Mothaflippin'

So last night I missed the tornado warnings that were evidently attacking Dallas, b/c I was inside at House of Blues watching DeVotchKa perform. Going into the venue and coming out it was perfectly normal, albeit windy. Good for me.

However, at the same time, my stupid new iphone decided to stop sending text messages. All came back with an error message. I have turned the damn thing off and on, rebooted, reset, restored. All that has changed is the network shows it has finally connected, however instead of having bars showing the signal strength of my service, I now have negative numbers. I am not sure if this means I have a fraction of percentages, or seriously negative. Now I guess I need to go to the Apple store to see what the hell is off.

Here is hoping my shiny new toy isn't so jacked they tell me to buy a new model. This is completely hindering my standard form of communication, as anyone who knows me knows to always send a text mesaage if they expect a response.

Happy Birthday Apple!

Apple celebrates it's 25th birthday of the Macintosh computer today. Thanks Steve Jobs for all your great ideas and hard work turning the company around. Now, don't die.

A Little Late on the Bandwagon....

Ok, so everyone knows I'm a big Mac nerd. I love the software, the hardware, the commercials, the design. So, thanks to Adrian's employement at AT&T changing over our previous employee rate plan from paying only taxes to paying half a normal bill, we decided to upgrade to getting refurbished original iphones. No 3g for us, we're the type to take that phone some shmuck paid $600 for and we bought for $100. Considering I bought my SLVR a few years back off ebay from China for over $100 and had to unlock it to even work on our bands, I got a good deal. Especially since said SLVR could only take/receive calls and text messages and do absolutely nothing else. And in the call department, it liked to drop or not inform there were voicemails for me to ignore.

So we bought the iphones back in October and were not able to use them until a few days ago thanks to AT&T believing their employees are not worthwhile customers.

But damn. I have not added many apps as I like free things. But even the free apps are impressive. I'm loving having all the time instant access to Wikipedia. I love that when in Barnes and Noble a few days ago, I did not have to wait at the busy information desk, I could just log in to the Hotspot since all Starbucks have converted to AT&T from back in my day when they were tMobile.

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To segway the above conversation, I love history books, especially about technological development or when I have the chance to read something that explains how life/places were in the past from a first-hand experience. Last week, Fark had a link about 2 women who went bicycling from Buffalo, NY to New Orleans, LA and back over the summer of 1944. It is incredibly long, but a wonderful account of their adventures. While reading it, I was constantly looking up information on places mentioned in the story to see if they still exist, especially the section on New Orleans, one of my favorite cities to visit. Having been there so many times, it was nice to see reference to some of the places I have see4n or been to, and to read about how they were over 60 years ago, knowing how they have changed. In the story, the writer speaks of a book about the French Quarter, which I identified as written by Herbert Asbury back in 1936, 8 years prior. I picked this book up in Barnes and Noble (thanks Greg for the gift certificate!), and have been racing through it tonight. Barely into 1800 and already incredibly hooked. Cannot wait until he starts in on times that lead to the modern age.

And to attach section 1 to section 2 here, I have been picking up my new shiny toy every few minutes to look up something different. Because, unsurprisingly, wordage and phrases from 1936 are no longer applicable, and much to my chagrin, not everything has a Wikipedia page.

Mac vs PC

And I'm a Douchebag

I'm a PC

Really. Because having 86% tof the American consumers makes perfect sense to go ahead and mock the competition. Way to go innovative marketing/advertising team!

Never Used the Toy This Well

The Etchasketchist! Try to beat him. Try it. Super double points for drawing the Mac vs PC ads. Maybe even triple.

I Think It Means Something....

MacBook Touch

Oh good f*ingchrist. (And I am not meaning you, Cabbagehead.)

I wantwantwantwantwant!!! If this comes to fruition......

I need to save money....and keep the G4 as backup for use compared to all of the first generation stripped down features this is sure to have.

The Army is Growing

The 25-Foot Apple Store Tractor Beam

Seems it is inevitable. Soon everyone will realize just how awesome Apple is and start buying all the products. :)

It's a shame I was only 2 years old

Early adopters of the iPhone weren't the only ones receiving in-store credit from Steve Jobs. In an overlooked announcement, Jobs said that early adopters of the Apple Lisa would be receiving a $7000 in-store credit.

At least I'll have the cool companions

So I have had things I wanted to post this last week. However, my overwhelming apathy and realization that only like 2 people read this made me realize I just didn't care. Add in that even though so many people really believe I don't work, I've had my ass handed to me this week and am glad or tomorrow's day off. I miss the old days when my responsibility laid on my own shoulders instead of answering for all the mistakes made everyday. Bloody exhausting being the mother hen. Here is to the bottle o bull wine already ingested and the hopeful buttload of posts to make up for the silence.

Always wanted my own dorky home accessories

Mac dock icons as pillows. With addition of scary afro-man. Yes, you too can have your own Apple pimp to cuddle with. Or, in his own words: "Jump on the bed for the true "dock effect" "

..via Growabrain

Rap the Way it Should Never Be...

Apple Renovation

"We plan to introduce our first Macs with LED backlight technology in 2007," he wrote. "Our ability to completely eliminate fluorescent lamps in all of our displays depends on how fast the LCD industry can transition to LED backlighting for larger displays."--Steve Jobs

Macs with LED backlighting due in 2007

Sweet! I better start saving now, b/c by the time I could afford to buy a new Mac with the backlit screen I'll need it b/c my G4 will be dead. And I will be as behind the times at gettinjg one of those as I was with this. Who needs shiny and new when you can have shiny and cheaper hand-me-down?

Mursi Tribeswoman

..via Cult of Mac

Disconnect

Geek Culture

How much better can you get than trying to be an apple? The picture above that one looks like a slightly messier version of our entire IT department.

New Mac Ad!

I seriously laughed my ass off

Yay Bacteria!

The best shipping protection ever

So very glad I ended up with doctor guys fully protected G4 instead. Much better than this case.

Stupid Apple Products

So iTunes deleted my bloody library. I didn't upgrade my version, I did absolutely nothing but leave my laptop on all day converting a few files from one form to another while I went to work, a rather customary process. So now I need to reload all 40 gig, as well as remake all the folders and resort. And yes, I was told to make a backup but I didn't want to take up the space. So, essentially the glitch is not my faule but the lack of forethought is. Damn damn damn. I really like myh iTunes to be organized. for bacnds I have full discography, I have separate folders for each album, let alone each band.

Nothing like starting a time consuming process over again. And playlists that were perfectly planned out for each mood and thought process. Just...gone. This is not the sort of fresh start I like.