Daily Archives: January 4, 2004

Current Events

Busy Day!

Oh where to start… do I talk about Britney’s marriage to some guy she went to school with? The Mars Rover? The Europeans’ still missing Mars craft?

Let’s start with the dumbass down in Florida (click here ) who not only shook her baby (causing Shaken Baby syndrome, cranial bleeding, and eventually death).. but since apparently that wasn’t enough for her.. she also BIT her 10 month old baby on the back, leaving visible bite marks. Then she can’t even keep her story straight to the cops, she apparently thought she had a boyfriend who abused the baby, and then seems to have remembered that she isn’t actually dating anyone. Lock her up, toss the key!

So… that brings us to space exploration! In case you missed it… late last week the European Space Agency landed a rover on Mars…and lost it sometime after it entered the atmosphere.. to date, no attempts to contact it have been successful including a couple of attempts from NASA’s Mars ships (en route to Mars at the time) to pickup the missing rover (Beagle 2) signals as Beagle’s landing site was flown over. Yesterday, our rover landed and today it made contact with us, sending it first pictures. A few days ago, we sent a probe into the tail of a comet to grab a handful of meteor dust so space programs everywhere are busy….maybe we’ll end up back on the moon soon.

and of course…Britney Spears tied the knot early this morning to a childhood friend….of course the article states that she’s going to have the wedding annulled, and mentions rumors of her being so drunk that she couldn’t walk…. wonder if she had a chance to consummate her marriage before she passed out into a drunken stupor?

(you can find links to all these articles on CNN.com, and probably every other news site out there)

Just Stuff

Broncos and Playoffs

:sigh:

Unless you live in a cave (in which case, how are you reading this?) By now you’ve heard of the Broncos’ incredibly poor performance in today’s playoff game against Indianapolis

Apparently, there was only enough room on the Charter flight out to Indy for the Offense, and the Broncos were forced to leave their Defense here in Denver…because they certainly didn’t show up on the field to play the Colts today! So, it looks like the best thing about the Superbowl, is going to be the commercials (hey…maybe the rumors of Apple running a 20th Anniversary commercial are true).

On the plus side…. the Raiders sucked even more then normal this year!

Just Stuff

Entertaining Read

For those into RPGs, and Fantasy reading, here’s a quick link to the first part of a short story written by Ed Greenwood (he basically designed the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for Dungeons and Dragons). Click here

I thought it was entertaining, and I’m looking forward to the second half, when ever Wizards of the Coast posts it on their site.

Apple

2 Days till MacWorld

MacWorld Expo San Francisco starts Tuesday with Steve Jobs’ keynote speech.

For us Mac geeks, Macworld is like Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years, Kwanzaa, and our Birthday all rolled into one. It has historically been the big event where Apple announces new products, both hardware and software. In recent years though, they’ve been trying to get away from only making announcements at MW.

Some of the rumored products that are rumored to be announced Tuesday are:

G5 based Xserves in both 1U and 3U enclosures

Faster Powermac G5s

an “iBox” which is rumored to be a Apple produced set-top box (think TiVo done the Apple way, with integration into the iLife Apps)

Revised iLife Apps

“mini-pods” – smaller, cheaper iPods currently rumored to be in 1 and 4 gigabyte capacity.

I have no idea about the reliability of these rumors, I read them all on various rumor sites like: macrumors.com appleinsider.com and thinksecret.com