iMac G5

November 14, 2005 at 10:05 pm · Filed under Points In Time

Today we recieved our early Xmas present to ourselves. A 17” iMac G5. While Robin has a Mac laptop we had no real place to get our workdone. The home PC is well, a Windows PC, and Windows is just not cool enough. I’ve been reluctant to work on my Ti400 laptop. It’s just too slow to get anything real done. By real I mean pushing Photoshop, working on DV material, pressing DVD’s.

Now we can.

Now we can fly.

I can say honestly Apple is beating Microsoft. I’ve come from the old school, I’ve been through the hate Apple years. I’ve railed against the walls and then I took my own medicine and with OSX the taste is good. It gave me another couple years out of a laptop that would not have survived in other worlds. My appetite was unsaited though. How could I justify my dream of a six thousand dollar dual G5. That’s quite unrealistic, but Apple’s current iMac just takes the cake. It has enough horsepower and a fantastic load out for truly a skinny price. It is smooth, sleek, and due to it’s *nix heritage can take the pressure. I look forward to evolving my workflow another level by having a tool that is a pleasure to use.

Now if Apple would just not turn out to be a monopoly in disguise the world would be perfect. I guess if I had a choice between evil’s I’d go with Jobs.

-a

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MPAA & RIAA at it again

November 4, 2005 at 7:24 pm · Filed under On the Radar

Their at it again. The MPAA and RIAA proposing a triple bill to try and lock your consumer content rights away. Get busy, and contact your representative!

Action Alert: Horror Triple Bill for Digital Technology

This Thursday, the heads of the MPAA and RIAA presented to the House Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property their plans for the future of digital technology. They gave the House drafts of three bills they would like passed: the Analog Content Protection Act, the HD Radio Content Protection Act, and the Broadcast Flag Authorization Act. These proposed laws are truly a horror triple bill.

For high-definition television (HDTV), the MPAA demands every receiver must have, and obey, their broadcast flag. For new radio technologies, the RIAA will restrict you to recording radio shows for a minimum of 30 minutes, for a maximum of 50 hours. And all analog to digital video conversions will be forced to watch for, and obey, a concealed signal, refusing to digitize any image that contains a key watermark.

If any one of these provisions passes, it would be disaster for you and for innovation.

Visit our Action Center, and warn your representative of what Hollywood’s horror bills would do to the digital future!

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Quote: George Bernard Shaw

November 3, 2005 at 7:49 am · Filed under Quotations

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
— George Bernard Shaw

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Functional but not yet finished

November 1, 2005 at 8:55 am · Filed under In my Kitchen

A friend and I were discussing homeownership yesterday and talking about how much it costs to really furnish a house for both functional and artistic value. It’s a helluva lot more than anyone ever thinks about in the short-term.

Kitchen alone since I’ve moved in (4+ years ago) we put in: new appliances, 2k tile, 1k countertop, sink, etc, 2k additional wall mounted shelving/racks/etc, 500

Now we’ve got to save to find the perfect collapsable dinette or pub table which generally runs 250-1500.

Who would have thought you’d spend 5k+ upfitting a rather small kitchen? And this is just one room of a home that has absorbed quite a damn lot of money.

Not griping, just realist jargon. We’ve pretty much run out of funds for the time being. We’re at quite a functional state but missing our table kind of sucks. The laundry area now has wall shelves which has drawn up an amazing amount of material thus giving more space everywhere. We purchased a few wine racks w/ stemware holders and that’s looking real nice. Pulled everything out of the pantry and cabinetry and restocked it in a way that makes more sense and takes advantage of the space better.

It’s been a great learning and growth experience that has taken us about two months if we condensed all the lag times (4 mos if we don’t). Due to the push here though it’s forced our hand in other parts of the house which are now re-evolving, and being short on capital really pinches you where it hurts. You can see possibility but the wallet is just dry.

Oh well, more savings goals and pushing onwards. This has been very worth it.

-a

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