Yesterday, Maryn turned 1 month old! She’s doing good.. getting big, her hair is starting to lighten up too. Maybe one day, she’ll be bigger then her poodle.
Monthly Archives: January 2006
More Firefly!
Well.. maybe..See, there’s this group who’s trying to get a second season of Firefly produced in either a Direct to DVD format, or for download straight to your computer. Right now, they are just trying to gauge interest. So go here and let them know you’re interested.
Jobs takes over Disney!
Well.. his first step towards taking them over at any rate.
Disney and Pixar officially announced that Disney will be paying Steve (and, the rest of the Pixar stockholders) about 7 billion dollars to have Steve come take them over… err.. I mean to have Pixar merge with Disney Animation.
Steve goes from being the largest individual shareholder in Pixar, to being the largest individual shareholder in Disney, and a seat on their board (next step, CEO.. probably by Disney’s next annual shareholder thingy)
Here’s the link to CNN’s article on Pixar taking over Disney =)
Crack reporting skills
So, I’m reading the website for one of our local news stations.. and I come across this article about one of the school districts adjusting start times to try and better match when the kids will actually be awake.. this on its own, is good.. and not at all why I’m blogging about it…it also mentions in the article, how some students are against the idea.. like this guy:
I really don’t care what the studies say,” says 6th Grader Lucas Fireman. Some students are organizing a resistance against the plan for several reasons. One of them is it may create daycare problems, especially for adolescents who baby-sit younger siblings. “I have carpools I have to go pick up. I have young kids in other schools, I have to pick them up,” says Fireman.
Yes.. apparently, the later start (and coinciding stop) time of school will be preventing this 6th grader from Driving car-pools, and picking up his younger kids from their schools..
Is it any wonder I don’t actually try and get information from our local news?
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money!
Apple had their quarterly conference call last night.. announced the best quarter in company history, beat analysts expectations (again)..
Apple posted revenue of US$5.75 billion and a net quarterly profit of $565 million, or $.65 per diluted share, in this 14-week quarter. These results compare to revenue of $3.49 billion and a net profit of $295 million, or $.35 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.
And so what happens? why, of course, because its Apple we’re talking about, the stock drops in price… /sigh/
Oh well.. it’ll go back up
Take that Mike Dell!
Yesterday (Friday the 13th!) A very interesting thing happened…
Apple became worth more then Dell!
At the close of market, this is how it looked:
Apple up 1.2989 to 85.75, Market Cap: $72.13B
Dell down 0.15 to 30.55, Market Cap: $71.97B
Not bad.. think we should call up Mikey and tell him that its time to close Dell and give the money back to the stockholders? (for those that don’t get the reference, in an interview Michael Dell was asked what he would do with Apple, and he said close it down and give the money back to shareholders)
Wonder how that crow tastes?
Toddler Wisdom 12
I want to be Kael when I grow up.
The actual conversation took place in the Dr.’s office yesterday. The Dr. had given Kael some tongue depressors to play with..so I asked him if he wanted to be a Dr when he grew up. He responded “I want to be a docor when I gwo up” followed by a brief pause and then “NO! I wanna be KAEL when I gwo up!”
2 week checkup
Maryn had her 2 week checkup today…the little chunk has gained back her birth weight, and then some! She weighs in at 8lbs 1oz….a 3/4 lb gain since her appointment two weeks ago!
The doc says she’s doing excellent!
Keynote Announcements
Oh..where to start, where to start..
New Hardware goodies:
x86 based iMac, using a dual core processor… available today, same screen sizes (17″ and 20″) new ATI x1600 video cards… Price point seems about the same as for PPC based iMacs.
Powerbooks are extinct, they have now become “MacBook Pro”.. ugh.. hate the name.. but, the specs look good, also a dual core chip..15.4″ screens with the same resolution as my 17″ iMac (1440×900)…these don’t ship till Feb… if someone wants to get me one as a Anniversary/Birthday/Valentine’s day present, I won’t complain..otherwise I’m waiting till the x86 based Power Macs come out (WWDC maybe?).
Favorite new feature on the x86 Macs introduced today? The magnetic power adapter on the Macbook Pro.. If someone trips over the cord, it just gets pulled out of the machine without (hopefully) damaging anything… very Shiny..
New Remote Control for iPod, has a built in FM Tuner.. nothing else on the iPod front.
New Software Goodies:
iLife 06 – Update iApps.. some nice new features that further integrate with .Mac.. and a new iApp.. iWeb.. to make building and publishing a website easy (as long as you use .Mac for all your hosting needs apparently)
iWork 06 – Minor updates nothing major.
10.4.4 – will be released today.. no news on what kind of goodies are packed in it, except for more widgets
Quicktime 7.0.4 – Wasn’t mentioned at the keynote that I know of, but is available now in software update..appears to be minor fixes and improvements
Ummm…I think that’s everything..pretty good stuff announced, I’ll have to watch the streaming keynote later after Apple posts it.
Keynote Time
Steve is starting his Keynote speech now, and the Apple Online Store is down…that can mean only one thing!
We get new goodies! New Goodies!
Shiny!