The Broncos finally scored a touchdown Sunday against the Pats.. so.. here’s (quicktime format…of course) Little M showing off… (its about 15 megs…)
Monthly Archives: September 2006
There be teeth in there!
Little Miss has 4 teeth! We knew she had two coming in on the bottom, but we had no clue that she was also cutting two on the top at the same time! We didn’t find out about the top two, until she bit Janice, and left 4 tooth imprints in her arm.
Can’t get a picture of her top teeth..but you can see her bottoms here:
Little Photographer
Kael’s been taking pictures like crazy with his new camera…the quality of the pics isn’t bad, and he’s actually taking some good shots! here are a few he’s taken:
Of the elephant at the Zoo:
And of his sister at the Zoo:
And his favorite…the digger at the zoo:
Pirate Name
Arrrrr! Me Mateys.. don’t forget to be talkin like a Pirate T’day…. and get yer own pirate name here ya lazy land lubber!
My pirate name is:
Bloody Sam Flint
Every pirate lives for something different. For some, it’s the open sea. For others (the masochists), it’s the food. For you, it’s definitely the fighting. Like the rock flint, you’re hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you’re easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
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OMG its HUGE!
the new iMac arrived yesterday morning…so far, I’m still transferring stuff over and setting it up (I did make sure I setup WoW.. looks very, very nice.. with all my addons and mods installed.. I’m getting about 2.5 times the FPS that I was getting on my G5 iMac.. and thats with all settings cranked up. I’m gonna try it later with the default UI and see what I get)
Very fast, and very bright.. I’ve got the brightness on the new iMac set to one step above off, and its still brighter then the old iMac at full brightness… more after I get everything transferred over and can play with it more.
for now… here’s this shot to show the difference in size:
Pirate Day
Tuesday September 19th is “Talk Like a Pirate Day”… so… talk like your a pirate that day (duh!).
This is especially true for those in customer service fields… when you answer a phone in your call center it should be “Arrrrr me matey…what do you want?”
Shipped!
Since I ordered my iMac, I have constantly been refreshing Apple’s order status page to see when it would ship out to me (and, because everyone knows if you check on the order more often, it gets built faster)… I woke up this morning, and checked..and it shipped!
Sep 15, 2006 9:13 PM Picked up SHANGHAI CN Package received after FedEx cutoff
9:13 PM Left origin SHANGHAI CN4:46 PM Package data transmitted to FedEx
So… my iMac left China at 9:15p tonight (isn’t the date line fun when dealing with shipping?)
its on its way!
Now I get to go refresh FedEx’s page all the time…since I’m sure that will make the planes/trucks go faster…
new iPods and Movies
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, at the ‘special event’ yesterday, Apple did not introduce anything that would make me cancel my iMac order (thanks for that.. now, ship it so I can play with it this weekend would you?). Instead, Apple chose to update the iPod family.
Nano’s now look like the Minis they replaced.. including available in colors. Shuffle is now super small.. fortunately it remains priced at $79.00 so everyone who loses theirs can easily replace it (wait.. that would be personal responsibility, which apparently doesn’t exist..so I’m sure we’ll see someone who lost theirs sue Apple for making it too small).
The “regular” iPods got sharper screens, brighter screens.
of course the Movie store was announced.. 75 movies as of yesterday, with more being added weekly. The iTunes Music Store is now simply the iTunes Store. Videos from the iTunes store are now available in a higher resolution.
New version of iTunes with a very cool new way of browsing you music like a jukebox, it’ll flip through your cover art….which iTunes nicely offers to go get for you if you’re missing some (this part apparently, still needs some work.. since I’ve told it a few times to go get Cover Art, and its not finding some)
New Games for the iPod, and cashing in on the selling games thing like cell phone companies do, Apple has made the games available to purchase for $4.99 for both the “older” 5th generation iPods, as well as the new ones introduced yesterday. (Don’t tell Janice…she’ll want to buy Bejeweled)
Ordered!
So, despite the fact that I wanted to order my new 24″ iMac the day they were released..events conspired to prevent me from doing so… until today.
My new iMac has been ordered and is being built (at least, I hope its being built). Here’s what I ended up going with:
2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM – 2x1GB
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7600 GT w/256
250GB Serial ATA Drive
SuperDrive 8X (DVDR-DL/CD-RW)
Kybd, Mighty Mse & Mac OS X
I ended up upgrading the RAM via Apple because, oddly enough, it was actually cheaper to do that, then to buy the RAM from one of the normal 3rd parties I use…it actually saved me like 50 or 60 bucks ordering it from Apple.
And of course, I did all this the day before an Apple special event….
Wonder if I’ll be canceling the order in the morning, to order whatever new toy Apple introduces along with the iTunes Movie Store…
Carry Permits work
for anyone that thinks people being able to legally carry a concealed weapon is a bad thing… read this.
From the article:
“There’s not much to it,” she said in a brief interview. “Somebody tried to mug me, and I shot him.”
Yup…87 year old wheelchair bound lady, popped the dude trying to mug her. He won’t be trying to mug anyone else for a long time is my guess..