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Why Aren't You Reading This?

I think this is blog night, seems early though. I guess this is it, why not?

Today is my brothers birthday, turned 18. That means 2 months, minus a day, until my birthday. I will of course be 21, although I dont drink. Ohh well, Happy Birthday Chris!

Next Monday is MacWorld New York, now Create or something. There was a news release from Apple that the G5s will be there, running 10.2.7 though instead of 10.3. Also, there are rumors that the new displays and keyboards/mice will be there as well, and perhaps the 15″ Aluminum PowerBook. I guess we will need to wait and see.

No new work on the website, though I do have plans for some additions to it over the weekend. Perhaps it will happen, perhaps it won’t.

I just had the weirdest deja-vu. The same episode of Futurama was on, I was writing in the blog, I was just messing with the dog, all seem like before, wierd.

According to the counter, there has only been one visitor. I had it up to 2 when I put up the last post, plus the one from today when I checked it, and it said 4, so that leaves 1. Thats pretty crappy. I blame Jason, his being MIA since late last week really hurts the count, since he’s the only regular visitor. Speaking of my readers, unless you have an objection I might post the full list on the blog in a week or 2. Yes, the complete list of all 12. Actually, due to the fact that most of you don’t read regularly, it might be better to only post the names of those who do ok it. I don’t know, I’ll figure something out.

Ok, that’s enough for now. See you all later.
nick

Firework People, and People Counters

Ok, quick, go to the bottom of the page and come back, I’ll wait……..

See it! Now I can keep track of you freaks. It even tells me where you were before you got here (if you linked only, not if you typed it in) so I can tell if you were on my website, since its the only place with a link here. I also updated the website, getting some pictures up there right now, its not much but its something.

I have my PowerBook up for sale at macrumors forums so if you want a decent laptop send me a message. I also have 2 printers, a scanner, 2 cdrw drives, a cdrom, a palm m125, and a lot more. Essentially if you want some type of computer part let me know, I probably have it.

Went to 2 of the fireworks shows this weekend. Thursday we went on a bikeride because my mom tried to avoid them, friday we watched them on the middlegrounds, and saturday we were at Stretches bar on Henry, about a half mile from where they were launced. I realized on Saturday that everyone watched fireworks for different reasons. Kids watch them for the bright colors and different shapes. Drunks watch them for the loud bangs. I seem to watch for the science of them. That we can control black powder that well, make it shoot a ball hundreds of feet in the air, make it shoot out in specific direction, and can make nearly any color is really amazing. I dont know, maybe its just my mind creating funky reasons for going every year, who knows.

Well, I think thats it. Want to mention that my brother’s 18th is this wednesday. You all have a good week!

nick

p.s.
I didn’t gripe about anything, how often does that happen!

Happy Independence Day!!!!!

Ahh, another post. It’s 12:07 right now so that means it’s the 4th now, so lets begin with a happy Independence Day to you all.

Molly is back from the vet. We took her in Monday, but due to several “veterinary emergencies” they were unable to due the surgery until tuesday morning, and she came home Wednesday. She goes back next week to have her stitches removed, but is nearly back to herself now.

I finally have the new site up. All the coding of it is done, but there is a severe lack of content still at this point. I will slowly work at it, knowing me very slowly. You can go check out the main design though, bitch about whatever is there so I know what to work on.

I hate this part, I need to write more, but can’t come up with anything useful. I could keep babbling like this, but you don’t want that. I could go on like this for a long time, but need something useful, something at least partially important.

The case of the new G5s is starting to grow on me. The lack of drive upgrades is still a pitfall though. Maybe with hard disks being of such insanely high capacities will alleviate this some, but there is still the no second optical drive/no removable media drive thing. Ohh well, perhaps in 2004.

I still want wireless. My laptop is sitting on an end table in the front room, and either I just sit in front of it, or disconnect all the cables but the ethernet and sit with it in a chair. What would be nice though, is if I could disconnect that last cable. I want too much stuff for this ibook right now: Wireless card, more memory, 10.3 Panther (when it comes out), AppleCare, and I still haven’t even paid it off yet. Like I said a few weeks ago, I gladly accept donations…

Ren & Stimpy is back, 2 episodes every thursday. The first, at 10pm is the “new” version, written and animated by the original crew. The second, at 11:30 is the “classic” version, digitally re-mastered of course (everything is now). These are the classic ones, “Space Madness”, “Happy Happy, Joy Joy”, “Log”, etc… You know what, they are not what I remembered. I could swear the annimation was better, these things look like old “Loony Toons” episodes, but they’re what, 6 years old?

Ok, thats enough for now, it says its 12:40 now so I been typing on and off for like 33 minutes, thats enough to me.

See you later,
nick

Sorry Again

Well, back again. I would like to begin by mentioning that anniversary thing again. Perhaps I didn’t make the hoopla that I said I would here, but it was an exciting event for me none the less.

My puppy (if a 50 lb. 6 month lab can be called such) is gone at the vets. She was taken in about 8 this morning to be fixed, but due to several emergencies at the vets they were unable to get to her, so she will need to stay an extra night. They should perform the surgery tomorrow morning and we can pick her up on Wednesday. I miss her.

Apple is now screwing with us again. They released updated G4 systems in May (I think) running on a new motherboard and 1.0, 1.25, and 1.42 GHz. When the G5s were announced a week ago, they dropped the 1.0 and 1.42 GHz G4s though. No big deal, but it seems they also went back to the previous motherboard. They claim this is to “provide the lowest cost computer possible” and “to allow users to continue OS 9 booting”. I see this as bull crap, but there isn’t much you can do.

Tomorrow I need to work with my mom, and of all places were doing landscaping 2 houses over form our old house (our ex-neighbors neighbor). My mom’s friend that sold our house, is selling this one as well and “needs the appearance of the yard updated” (you should see it, its only a slight understatement, hah).

Well, that would seem to be it, I’ll see you later,
nick

I screwed up.

Well, I missed it, I blew the whole fricking thing.

You know what though, right now I dont care. I feel sick, I’m hot, I’m tired, and I dont care. I appologize to everyone, and guarantee I wont miss the next anniversaries, whenever they may be. I am going to bed now, just wanted to appologize, see you all in 3 days.

nick

The G5

Well, I was late. I have a good reason though, several in fact, and here they are:

Yes, its coming. The leaked specs were all true too. Up to dual 2.0Ghz 64 bit PowerPC 970 processors, up to 8 GB of DDR RAM on an 8GB/s bus, 3 PCI-X slots, an AGP 8x Pro slot, Serial ATA, Firewire 400 and 800, USB 2.0, an external Wi-Fi antenna port, optical and analog audio in and out, and more. All this for $2999, or just $1999 for the single 1.6Ghz. Plus, the preview of Panther, Mac OS X 10.3. This too will be an exciting release, as it sports 100 new features. Panther will be available by year end, and the G5 by august. AND, a new version of ichat, and a new $149 firewire webcam.

I was rather tired last night after all of that, and then I was in Caseville today delaying the update further. But here it is, so there you go.

What else, uhm, the website. I haven’t worked on it in a few weeks now, so figure I minds as well just post what I have, including some new pics. Should be up soon, hopefully before next post, you’ll read why. So there is that.

Also, I am now counting down to my massive 1 month super-fantastic-over-hyphinated-gala-o-rama-celebration. And, this is the 10th update, making it an extravaganza itself. The 1 month anniversary will be on the 27th, 3 days for now. So, I am not going to correct the schedule, but instead leave it to its now altered state so that there will be a post on the big day. Was it a coincidence that this happened, or was it planned? You may never know, unless you read the next sentence. It was a coincidence, I actually just realized it.

And finally, I need to complain about something. Hmm, I wonder what (sarcasm, so hard in writing). The G5. You should see it. IT IS THE UGLIEST COMPUTER APPLE HAS EVER MADE. Seriously though, the sides are not all that bad, and the back isnt so bad either, but the front, eghh. Its just so, well, plainishly ugly. I dont know, I just think the case needs some more work. Also, it only has room for 1 optical and 2 HD bays. The Quicksilver had 4 HDs, and optical, and a zip and the Mirriored Drive Doors had 4 HDs and 2 opticals. The Industrial Design Group needs to get their stuff together and go back to work.

Ok, thats it then, go away until the big party.

nick

Missed a whole post!?

Well, I competely missed the last post. I was out at Jason’s, and have been rather tired the past few nights, so decided rather than making it late I would just skip it. So, here it is, my newest post.

Lets see, hmm, Harry Potter. Wow, why the heck would anyone sit in a bookstore at midnight for a book this bad? I’m sorry, but I just don’t get it. Oh well, we will just move on.

The Apple G5 Spec leak. Wow, I hope you didn’t miss it. For whatever reason the specs for the new G5s were released on the Apple Store at about midnight last night, and disappeared by 12:30. The specs can be found online at several places, so I wont bother repeating them here. Weather they are the true specs, we wont know until Apple wants us to. Was it a hack? Was it a goof? Was it steve screwing with us? Only time will tell.

What else. My brother has a vehicle now, but no license yet (where as I have a license but no vehicle, maybe we should get together more often?). Its a 1978? K5 Blazer. Its this weird gold color and silver. Its not bad shape for what he payed, and seems to be a decent vehicle.

Ok, like I said I’ve been tired so thats all for now. Sorry about leaving you all (all 10 of you) waiting for the update only to make it so small.

See ya,
nick

Is it that time again?

I was sitting here and I thought “I think it’s blog night.” Actually, I didn’t think it, I IM’d it to Jason. And I didn’t have the ‘ in it’s, since I don’t use much punctuation in IMs, but you get the point.

I just got done watching “the Recruit” and it was pretty good. My cousin fell asleep when he watched it, and so did my mom, but I thought it was good. Al Pacino was perfect for the roll. Colin Farrell, well, he’s a great actor and all, but he just seems so much like a Brad Pitt clone, or at least a fraternal twin.

Going back to that opening, I am reminded of seventh grade. Mrs. Coates class, and those free writes. Suchyta is the only person that will really remember them, since he’s the only person who reads this thing that was in the class, but they were great. He even helped me in writing a few of them. I wish I knew where they are. “The Sock” and “Untitled tale of the Porta-Potty guys” (yes, I know thats a title, just shut-up), I dedicate this post to you, wherever you are.

I missed the SMUG meeting this past Thursday. I normally go every other month, but decided they suck too much to go again. Ohh well, maybe they will improve sometime.

I would like now to express my newest bitch (I know, its like a regular column in my rant). ichat, Apple’s AIM client, seems to have a major flaw (other than not sending links right). When I put up an away message, nobody gets it! If you click my name in AIM, and then do the info thing, it will display the message. And if you look next to my name in ichat it will display. But, if you message me, it doesn’t send the message. Instead, it just sits there as if I am too rude to answer, and I feel kinda bad, but am trying to re-focus that as rage at Apple. Maybe in the new version it will be fixed.

Delta canceled one of my classes. CST-126, Network Cabling and Media, doesn’t it just sound easy? A class about running network cable? Ohh well, maybe in the winter semester. For now, I need to find a 4 credit course for fall.

Ok, later…
nick

Cellphone Complaints

Well, here we are again. Its been 3 days so time for another update. Actually, for the first time I almost posted early, on Sunday, but decided not to.

Anyway, first on the agenda this time is you people. That I know of there are 7 of you people so far, but who knows how many there really are? Well, I suppose that blogger knows, they could just count the IP addresses that have requested the page. But getting to the point, I would like to know how many of you there really are, so I am going to try to set up a guest book or something, or maybe some way for you to just reply to the posts. Honestly, I don’t know how to know for sure other than requiring that you ask for a password to view the blog, and that would suck so it’s not going to happen. We’ll see.

Next up is, uhm, I forgot. My dog just walked up and tried playing and I lost whatever thought it was I had. Ohh, my website. I have a new one in the works, as I said in the last post I think, and its going better. There was more, but I’m not remembering it.

This week I am upset at cellphone companies. It seems that the cellphone I want is not in production. The closest I have seen is the Motorola t270 (no not the new 720, the 270) which was discontinued. It’s a no frills simple cellphone, similar to the current v120 except it can accept a bluetooth adapter. Yes there are bluetooth phones out, but they are nearly all Sony-Ericssons and only work on GSM networks, which suck. The t270 however was for CDMA, which is good. Hopefully later this summer when Motorola releases their new phones they will come out with something to my liking.

I am also upset at the carriers, for charging up the ass. You need to either sign a crappy contract or pay nearly MSRP for the phone, you end up paying either $.50 a minute or getting a plan with more time than you actually need, and you cant get the phone you want because it doesn’t seem to exist. And by the way, what good are unlimited night and weekend minutes if you need to spend them on the phone?

Ok, so what is the point? I’m not even sure but I think it has to do with me NOT getting a cellphone. At least not for a while. I see too many problems with a cellphone right now, and have many other things that I actually NEED or that I simply want more. Things like my car insurance, paying off the loan for my ibook, getting an airport card, and a few books I want to name a few. And yes, if you would like to donate, I will be happy to accept. Please e-mail or IM me for specifics.

Well, I think thats it for now. Remember to read crazyapplerumors.com because it is always hilarious, and I will be back in 3 days. And, if I get the urge to post sooner, I will do it this time (which probably means it will end up being MORE than 3 days this time).

Until next time,
nick

The Four Announcements

Ok, a few announcements this time:

First
I finally have this timing thing down. Rather than that every 2nd day thing that never works, I am going with an every 3rd day schedule. I chose this because it is less frequent and thus easier, and because thats the schedule I seem to have been following without knowing it.

Second
I actually put real links on the sidebar now. The link to my home-page should work, let me know if not. The .mac web-page I have is rather lame, I am working on a new one.

Third
That Vervante bookstore thing has been resolved. They sent me an email reporting that Apple has stopped the publication of the books, and noted that any ADC member can print out the entire book from Apple’s ADC site. Fat chance, they’re like 300+ page books and I don’t feel like using a ream of paper plus 3 ink tanks. The good news is Apple now “recommends” the O’reilly series of books, and they now even carry the ADC seal in the corner. I plan to purchase a few of them soon.

And Forth
And MOST Important MY BROTHER GRADUATED
Woohoo, you go girl, err, boy. I really am proud of him though. It has been a tough few months and we really did wonder if he would make it sometimes, but he did it.

Ok, I am tired and need to work tomorrow, so I’ll see you all later.
nick