Apple

Mighty Mouse

I went to the Apple store the other day, and picked up a Mighty Mouse. I was a bit concerned, because I’d seen a lot of ‘I can’t right click’ and ‘I can’t get the scroll button to work’ complaints online.

Apparently, these people have some issues… because for me.. it works pretty good. And my mousing habits are..a bit different.. then most.. I’m left handed, but, because I spent so much time working on ‘shared’ computers with windoze users at various jobs… I mouse with the left hand, but don’t flip the buttons like most left handed mousers do.

So far (and its only been about 2 days) I’ve got no complaints.. I haven’t installed the software that lets me program the two side buttons.. but I can reliably right click, left click, and scroll left/right and up/down. My only issue? the default sensitivity for the scrolling wasn’t working for me,so I’d end up ‘clicking’ the third button.. a quick trip to the system preference pane cleared that right up though..

Overall.. a good mouse.. you do need to learn not to leave your fingers resting on the buttons, otherwise you will have problems right clicking (this is not a problem for me.. apparently, I don’t leave my fingers resting on the mouse.. since I didn’t have to change how I do anything).

I think everyone should go out and buy one or two.

Just Stuff

5 days and counting

Till the theatrical release of Serenity, the movie based on the Firefly TV series. Go get in line now, buy your tickets and make sure that everyone you know goes to see the movie on opening day.. give it a huge opening day.. and then go see it a few more times so we can either get some sequels or maybe get the series brought back!

If you haven’t seen a trailer yet… here’s a link to one.

Janice and I are going Friday to one of the matinees (hey..that’s when we’ve got a sitter for).. so I’ll post my thoughts on it Friday Night/Saturday morning

Adventures with Maryn

Trapped!

This is the view out our front door right now:

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And the view out the back door matches.. we’re stuck in side.. no way out!

Ok.. granted..its just plastic held on by masking tape.. the outside of the house is being painted today… and the people doing the painting were nice enough to come by, offer us $10.00 to let them hook their power-washer up to our water faucet.. and then they went and trapped us inside..

They appear to have neglected to tell us that if we were in the house when they taped it up.. we’d be stuck in it (for..over 3 hours now..and no sign of them finishing anytime soon) or..that if we happened to not be home when they taped it up…that’d we be unable to get into our house…

Good thing I’ve got the day off.. I’m not sure work would understand me calling in ‘trapped in the house with no way to escape”

Current Events

Odd Criminal

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So.. I go to work tonight.. and the first thing I’m given from Sarah..is this link. It involves the police arresting a man who chased a few women through a park, while naked and masturbating (the man..the women apparently were fully clothed).

I have a question regarding this quote:

Police arrested a man who they say jumped out from behind a bush, shouted “I’m naked,” and then chased two women down a street.

Umm…if you’re naked when you jump out of the bush..really, what’s the point in having to announce it? Is that incase they weren’t sure if you were really naked? save them from having to think “Hey..I think that guy that just jumped out of the bush, might be naked..I should look again.”

I’m also curious about him chasing them while masturbating (again..he was masturbating, the women? apparently not so much). How fast could he possibly have been running while trying to rub one out? Its not something I’ve ever tried..but something tells me that the guy couldn’t possibly have been setting any records for a 40 yard dash…I would think his run had to have been more of a fast walk…

And at 5:15 in the morning..it had to have been on the chilly side… personally, if I was gonna jump out of a bush and chase someone naked down the street.. I’d do it when it was warmer out.. I’m thinking 80 or 90 degrees is a good temperature for that…

Just Stuff

The End of the World!!!

Well.. at least according to the Weekly World News..by way of Yahoo.

It seems NASA has discovered a planet devouring cloud of Dust… and its headed right for us!

My favorite quote from the article:

“The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting- edge ideas in theoretical physics,” announced Dr. Albert Sherwinski, a Cambridge based astrophysicist with close ties to NASA.

“The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is imminent.”

and if you’re curious.. apparently our imminent destruction is less then 10 years away.. the giant, planet eating dust cloud is scheduled to devour us on June 1, 2014 at 9:15 Eastern Time. Start planning your end of the world parties now.. rack up those credit card bills.. after all..they can’t collect from you if the whole planet is dissolved!

Just Stuff

Script Writer?

If any of you have ever wanted to write a Star Wars movie… or write anything thats officially sanctioned in the Star Wars universe, now’s your chance!

According to IGNFilmforce the great one is starting to look for screen writers for the planned Star Wars TV series. So if you’ve got an agent..make sure they contact George..if you don’t have an agent.. send him an email or something!

Adventures with Maryn

More Names

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Janice and I were watching TV tonight.. and the trailer came on for Serenity, while it was running… it occured to me that there were some very good names in the series, that I hadn’t thought about adding to the ‘list’… so.. here’s my revised list:

Serenity Jaina

River Jade

Kaylee Jaina

Zoe (umm…I can’t think of a good middle name for Zoe)

Maryn Jaina

Asajj Jade

Mara Jade

Vegas Gold (Ok.. really.. I wouldn’t do that to the kid… but… its a good stripper name)

Aeryn Jaina

Adventures with Maryn

Unique Lawn

So, I was reading FARK tonight at work, and I found a link to this article. It seems a guy in Omaha was a bit upset about the city telling him he had “excessive grass and weeds” in his yard.. to get back at the city, he exercised his first amendment rights.. and mowed his response into the lawn.. while no one will say anything other then ‘it was a two word expletive’.. I have a feeling its ‘fuck you’ as, that would be my response to someone telling me that I needed to mow more often. Here’s my favorite quote from the article:

City codes dictate that lawns taller than 10 inches can be ticketed, but Parks and Planning officials said that unless the grass that formed the expletive met that criterion, there was nothing they could do to force its removal.

My guess is, that the city (and neighbors probably) will be a bit more careful from now on about asking this guy to mow his lawn…