Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Richard’s Tweets for 2008-01-31

  • The repair of your MacBook Pro is currently on hold, pending receipt of a needed part. We will notify you when the repair is complete. #
  • I’m super excited about tonight’s debate. #
  • University of Nevada sent me email. I’m done applying to college and have never heard from them before. Where’d they buy my address? #

January Conclusion

For January, I vowed not to talk about people behind their backs. For the most part, it worked. I completely recommend everyone to try this out. You’ll feel better about yourself.

Richard’s Tweets for 2008-01-30

  • Best way to deal with a committee - ask them if they’re meeting their goals. What? They haven’t defined their goals? There’s the problem. #
  • Rather than bookmarking stuff, I’m staring them in Google Reader. What a novel idea! I can’t believe it took me this long. #
  • First hour using my G4 Cube to replace my MacBook Pro. Slow. Tiger. #
  • Spaces, I know you crash and take my windows away from me, but I miss you. I can’t live on a single desktop. Unfortunately, I have to. #
  • Great band that I’m in like with: Athlete. #
  • Migrating my iTunes library to the Cube was a snap. Copy to external, alias. iTunes doesn’t care. One reason I love the Mac. #
  • For each day that goes by, I feel like my support of chosen political candidate becomes more important to me. #

Richard’s Tweets for 2008-01-29

  • Just realized that the backlighting on my MacBook’s screen is uneven… Gurr. #
  • @mitchjoel There’s more to the Mac than the dock… MUCH more. You owe it to yourself to use a Mac… you’re new media, you know that. :P #
  • Way to go, Randall of XKCD. http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/28/obama/ #
  • Anyone know a sound guy who can tell me if iTunes’ "Sound Enhancer" is crap or not? #
  • Doing my favorite thing to do before going back to school… listen to This American Life. This time, episode #16, "Economy". #
  • I’m watching @ronaldl79’s stream right now. Oddly entertaining. #
  • Actually, the entertainment value isn’t odd. I take that back. #

Sayonara, MacBook Pro

My MacBook Pro is making a pilgrimage to Apple’s laptop technical support center in Texas for what is hopefully a SuperDrive replacement. In that time, however, I need a computer to use.

My answer is my G4 Cube. For the next week or so I’ll be living with a 450mhz, 640 megabyte (RAM) machine. This’ll be fun. I’ll be sure to give my thoughts on the experience.

Richard’s Tweets for 2008-01-28

  • @ronaldl79 I saw an eight year old girl at Rambo tonight. Figure that one out. #
  • Yay, 25 million free songs! Now I just have to use Windows and forget about putting them on my Apple-branded portable device! Fantastic! #
  • @mollywood I loved your its/it’s freak-out on BOL today. Awesome. :D #
  • @chrisbrogan Pidgin.im! #
  • @drewdomkus I regret selling my 12" PowerBook. It’s the best mac ever, basically. #
  • Why are wireless to ethernet bridge adapters so expensive! I’m not paying 80 dollars to get my G4 Cube reliable wireless. #
  • I’m so lame. I *can’t* wait to have a Student Council meeting tomorrow. I love leading meetings. #
  • @cspenn Good FAFSA criticism today, especially for the school code lookup. Let’s hope this gets fixed next year. #
  • @mollywood Found a theme - it comes with new DRM. It pings the DRM server 30 times a second to fight piracy. Bogs down your SQL database. ;) #
  • I start my last semester of high school tomorrow. It’s unsettling. #