Home theater: Samsung 61” DLP (720p)
Kitchen: Panasonic 26” LCD (1366×768)
Bedroom: Panasonic 32” LCD (1366×768)
My Office: 2x Dell 20” LCD (1680×1050)
Servers: LG 15” LCD (1024×768)
Erin’s Office: Dell 19” LCD (1280×1024)
and the culprit:
Guestroom: Samsung 19” CRT TV
The whole “bottombar” thing is pretty nice. Plus the clean look. I’m digging Hemingway.
My own meme:
Go to Google Maps. Punch in your home address - it should take you to a view of your house at a neighborhood view - I think two levels higher than the lowest (”Street Level”). Can you, on the same map, see your work location? If you can, congratulations!, If not, how many clicks on the zoom out button do you need so that you can? Read the rest of this entry »
Both tired and disappointed, due to sleep deprivation and Syracuse losing. I feel like Gerry looks…
March Madness is upon us - Syracuse plays their opening round game tonight! I’m totally losing all brackets I’m submitting, because (as Dave Elmer - a guy I worked with at SRA - says) I’m such a homer. Doesn’t matter - so I enjoy rooting for them, and actually, the only time I ever won anything like this was taking SU to win it all with Carmelo in ‘03.
OK, so a bit too much time without updating.
Erin and Cooper had birthdays. Cooper is now 3 and had a big party at JW Tumbles which is like a kids gym. It was a hit, lots of his friends were there (pics are up on adventures) and everybody slept well that night.
Fletcher got tubes in his ears in late February, had some fluid draining out for a while, and then got rotavirus from school (non-stop spit-up and well, the other end). He seems better today - we think we’re out of the woods, but quite the ordeal for the little guy.
Went ahead and got the new Intel based Mac Mini - pretty sweet. Quite fast, double the memory, seems to be working well. One of the issues is tracking down or verifying Intel or Universal versions of all the apps. They are coming out fast and furious, but not everything is all ship-shape yet. For instance, the exporter I used to send stuff from iPhoto to gallery seems hosed for now. ffmpegX is almost there, MacTheRipper is working on it, VLC seems good but still only by using a nightly build. Some stuff can use Rosetta, but a lot of things need to be recoded. Plus, you just want to use the full power of the new box.
Following Kottke’s post, here’s a picture of 2005 in cities:
Washington DC *
Philadelphia PA *
Columbus OH *
Syracuse NY *
Duck NC
Charlottesville VA
Cerrillos NM (near Santa Fe)
One or more nights spent in each place. Those cities marked with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive days. Short and sweet. *’s are basically family, and the rest were vacations.
OK, so aside from all the software stuff announced in the Macworld Keynote (yeah, I’ll probably get iLife and iWork ‘06), the big news was the anticipated Intel Macs. They sound awesome, just not what I need right now. The laptop (and who came up with “MacBook”? PowerBook was such a good brand - I hope it wasn’t Intel insisting on some demarcation…) looks great, but not at $2K plus for us right now. I might have bit on a new iBook.
And again, sure, the iMac looks nice - but I’m happy with my Dell widescreen monitors. I basically have committed to the Mac mini path of upgrades. Well, I guess I could wait for 10.5 to come out (hopefully the mini will be revved by then) and get a new mini with 10.5 - the two birds/one stone approach. And what I was really hoping for, the whole Media Center-killer Mac mini PVR - no hints on that front.
OK, looking at things objectively, there are so many variables out there that would be an issue (cable vs. satellite, cable card 2.0, digital vs. analog, DRM and the studios, channel owners…), and Apple always tries to bring out a product without those questions. But with all the strides they were making lately on the video front - I guess I was just hoping they had made deals that could get it to happen. We’ll see, I still think this year will have a lot of change on this front.
Macworld starts today in SF, lots of things anticipated like Intel based Macs (perhaps starting with the consumer models - think iBook, Mac mini, iMac) as well as Media Center-type features…
Much excitement for the Mac faithful - my mouth is watering already.