Published on
May 22, 2009 at
7:31 pm
hey joker!
remember that time when you totally fucked up and spilt an entire liter of tonic water all over your hipster-kitchen-bar and in doing so engulfed your most precious worldly possessions with sugared-seltzer-water?
that was rad! …here are some highlights that you may have missed when you were cursing and biting yourself…remember how:
- your new macbook was placed neatly at the bar in front of the barstool you sit at each morning while trying to solve the world’s heath problems? yeah! that tonic water totally fucked that up! dude, that macbook was LITERALLY floating on a river of hurt…THAT TASTED LIKE TONIC WATER! dude, by the time you got to it, the soda water was still fizzing! it was as if your hopes and dreams were fizzing away! HA!
- oh..DUDE…remember how you laid the keys to your Jetta next to the Macbook? and ‘member how you think driving a Jetta is something non-capitalist-pigs purchase b/c they want german-engineering but DON’T want to be seen riding around in a BMW? and then in all your stupid-fuck-wisdom you decided to IGNORE the hell out of the nice key hooks to your imediate-fucking-left? but instead you laid your keys lazily next to your (now dead) macbook? I swear to shit, when you picked up that fancy swtich-blade-keyless-entry-thing and watched as your vodka juice ran out of it I thought I was going to piss my pants! so fuck rad!
wait wait wait…the best part is that just TODAY you decided it would be a bad-ass-fuck-idea to bring home your super-important-top-secret lab notebook that contains ALL of your super-fuck-important data and read over it AT THE KITCHEN BAR…AND NOW…well, let’s just say that that son of a bitch is holding more tonic water than your poor fuck MacBook.
I could not imagine how tonight could get worse for you! …wait what’s that? not getting laid either? damn, bro….need a hug?
well at least you’ve got your novel, “…you know…the one you’ve been working on for ten years?”
Published on
May 19, 2009 at
5:17 pm
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve had the good fortune of being able to upgrade my primary machine. Replacing my 24″ iMac is the new Mac Pro with Xeon “Nehalem” processor.
As my computing needs have evolved, I’ve grown more and more power-hungry and the Mac Pro’s Nehalem-based architecture and expandability are the perfect fit. In addition, I flanked the Apple Cinema LED Display with two 24″ Dell LCDs that are suspended above my desk with Ergotron MX Desk Mounts.
All three displays combined, give me a functional width of 5,760 pixels…and I use each and every one of them. Those fancy Ergotron MX desk mounts are amazing and allow me to rotate each of the displays into either landscape or portrait mode, depending on my needs.
My handy Apple Student Developer discount made all of this a financial possibility and I am very much in tech-love. More shots of my setup can be found here.
Published on
October 24, 2008 at
11:03 am
Today Apple Inc issued this statement opposing Proposition 8 in California:
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8.
good on you, Apple.
Published on
June 8, 2008 at
7:35 pm
so it’s become a tradition for me to make predictions on the eve of any Apple Expo Event. being that tomorrow is the WWDC, I shall once again either completely UNDERpredict or OVERpredict what Steve Jobs will have to say to the Apple-masses tomorrow morning.
here are my official predictions:
- iPhone 2.0: the long awaited 2.0 firmware will be announced as “final” and bring all sorts of 3rd party application goodness as well as full-on Exchange support, etc. also expect a few more “apple developed applications” in this release. it will be available for download…IMMEDIATELY.
- MobileMe: say goodbye to the overpriced .mac service and say hello to the all new premium offering from apple bringing over-the-air syncing of personal email, contacts, etc. MobileMe will be available for purchase…IMMEDIATELY.
- 3G iPhone: no more shall iPhone users be frustrated with lousy Edge network speeds when away from WiFi. Assuming that the major carriers (AT&T as well as international carries) will need time to field test the new hardware, expect to be able to pickup the new 3G iPhone in “later this month.”
- GPS: throw in GPS and crazy Google Maps integration when the 3G iPhone ships…oh and while i’m at it…video recording, MMS (dear god let them include MMS) and a ‘lifeblogging app’ in the new version for good measure.
- OS 10.6: given that this is a developer’s conference expect to hear about Apple’s next iteration of OSX and a complete LACK of PowerPC support. Sorry legacy users.
- Total OS Integration: expect his Steve-hood to emphasize tighter integration between the mobile and desktop versions of OSX and the new online offerings in MobileMe.
i’ll update this post after the keynote address and we can all collectively laugh at my complete and total lack of understanding of what the hell apple chooses to do with their multi-billion-dollar-company.
Published on
February 12, 2008 at
3:55 pm
in the few months that i’ve had my dSLR, i’ve been using a combination of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 to organize and touch-up (read: attempt to make something decent out of) my photos. Thanks to the handy NAPP membership that Josh gave me, I’ve slowly been moving away from the Lightroom-one-stop-paradigm.
Currently, I only use Lightroom to store photo metadata, etc and do all of my editing in Photoshop.
with that in mind, i’m looking forward to trying out the new version of Apple’s Pro photo app—Aperture. there’s a free 30-day trial upon on the Aperture site, and based on early accounts, the rewrites made to version 2 have made the once sluggish application slick and speedy.
merlin mann twittered the following about Aperture 2’s release:
Oh, so NOW I get all the fuss; Aperture is a prosumer porn organizer. Sheesh. All this “Pro Photographer” crap had thrown me off the scent.
also, this post can be filed under “n” for NERD.
Published on
January 16, 2008 at
7:11 pm
with all the news coming out of macworld, i was most excited about the new iPhone firmware release.
“umm…excuse me, what? i can customize the icons on my home screen? in any order my little heart desires? YES PLEASE!”
by 3pm i was fed up with work and school and decided to customize the hell out of my new iPhone WebClip icons and came up with the following (sorry for the shitty photo):
some dude started a flickr pool for iPhone/iTouch Webclip icons and I’m happy to be a part of it…check it out here.
hehe…phones are cool…hehe
