As an Apple fanboy, it gives me great pleasure to see Macs out "in the wild." I already point out any Mac appearances in television or movies, which my girlfriend mocks me endlessly for, but that still isn't as cool as seeing regular people using them in everyday situations. Example: I am sitting in Panera Bread right now, and of the 10 or so people using their laptops, four of them are on MacBooks. Pretty friggin' sweet. The OS X marketshare may still be at like, 6%, but the real world ratio is definitely going up.

now playing on iPod: Pat McGee Band "Anybody"

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now playing on iTunes: PMB "Can't Miss What You Never Had"

Labels: GOTW, personal, site, tech

whoops, I haven't posted here in over a month. my bad...

got a Mac? and TiVo? and a 5G iPod? then go here and follow instructions. also, download iSquint or ViddyUp/Podner for conversion purposes.

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in the mornings, I have a set routine. the last thing I usually do everyday before leaving the house is sign onto Yahoo! to check my mails. well, this morning there was a little surprise waiting for me:



I was a bit surprised. I mean, I know I'm popular and all, but shit... 4000 emails? I'm not Strong Bad over here. so I open up my inbox, and discover that some creative e-thug has sent out tons of spam emails advertising a 'Canaddian' (sic) pharmacy using addresses such as r2xqmy@ES.com, and since I have my email set to catch mail sent to invalid addresses, I received hundreds upon hundreds of bounce messages from people rejecting 'my' spam. so I cleared out my inbox and spam folder, and shortly before 11a went to work.

fast forward to like, 20 minutes ago: I get home and check my mails. I am then greeted with another surprise:



this in the space of six hours, folks. so I clean out my inboxes, again, then go ahead with changing my settings to make another address my catchall address. the point? not sure. I just really hate spam.

now playing on iTunes: Coldplay 'Scientist'

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Now playing on iTunes: stellastarr* "My Coco"

Well if you're one of the 2 readers who frequent this, you'll notice the absence of the gray backdrop and in its place a drab Blogger.com default scheme. Reason being, I gave in to popular (among people I know anyway) opinion and downloaded Mozilla Firefox for my web browsing needs. Upon doing so, I found that my blog page wouldn't load correctly, so I vainly spent an hour or so looking for a new skin that was pleasing to look at. I suppose next time I just need to get off my ass and learn how to code CSS.

Firefox isn't the only new thing for me; yesterday I started sporting the Kyocera SE47 slider phone. Sweet. It's a pretty nice little phone, it doesn't take up a lot of room in my pocket and it's loud as hizell unlike the LG I had for about a year. So that's cool. Yay for materialism.

On other fronts: Failure Sports One is still holding out and not making themselves available to cable or satellite outlets. Oh, and I'm still making better onscreen graphics than they ever will [yet another example]. So eat my ass, Pohlad. I get my Twins info from ESPN.com or Yahoo, my baseball-on-TV fix from Extra Innings, and a good dose of Herb and Gordon curtesy of WCCO. Hah, looks like you LOSE, motherfucker! Wait, that makes no sense...

Oh and by the way, I was lying the other night about putting up a new post after finishing my homework.

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Now playing on iTunes: Tom Petty "Rebels"

BWWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! guess who's up a lot later than they should be? If you gave up, or just don't give a shit: it was me. And still is.

I picked up MVP 2004 Monday night. I also saw my crush du jour, but that's a whole different topic. The short story is, I played the hell out of it. From when I popped 'er in the old gamecube till like 3:30 or 4 im the morning it was nothing but BASEBALL BASEBALL BASEBALL. what a fucking sweet sport. and finally, a game that does it some justice. First, my disappiontments: 1) no Barry Bonds, 2) no expansion mode, 3) no Joseph P. Mauer. I fixed those player gaffes pretty quickly but I'm still disappointed no expansion franchises can be creatred. ehh... the third thing I did in the game (besides fixing Joe and Bonds) was found a Dynasty Mode™ based on my beloved Twins. Then I played some games, first as the Twins, then as the AAA-level Rochester Red Wings, then as the AA-level New Britain Rock Cats. SWEET!! Building on All-Star's deal from last year they gave every team their real-life minor league counterparts, and it's as fully interactive as the big club. ramble ramble blah blah blah.. anyhoo, this game rocks my socks. It should be on the top 11 list of any serious sports gamer.

Well that'll do it for me. Finally getting tired now.. ~ E

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