Went Honda’s site to check out the new Civic, saw some pics of the Si, damn, I like it!! That black one, the second to last one in the gallery, looked SOOO NICE!
Alright, if I move up to the city next year I’d get one as a commuter, save some gas u know… LOL… Don’t think they would have a Hybrid version of the Si though… 😉
Google page searches for Microsoft content
heh, funny stuff…
That’s 1TB of storage, it has 4 250GB drives inside, diam! Should be enough for your pr0n data…
So I need a new TV for the condo, I left my old Sony Trinitron in my house in Austin. Well, I need a new TV anyway, it’s been a while. 🙂
I considered getting a plasma monitor, I went to Costco a couple of times to check them out. I usually start my shopping at Costco, mainly because of their excellent return policy (and then I check Amazon next, because of their shipping and return policies, and my Amazon Prime membership, ;))… Anyway, Costco had a Vizio 42″ HDTV plasma for $2k, I found this very long thread about it and sounded like everyone agreed it’s the best deal out there. The thing is though, I kindda need to get HD feeds for an HDTV, and I almost never watch TV live, time-shifting is key, I don’t like watching commercials and I want to watch all the stuff in my own time, usually early weekend mornings… Problem is, there is no HD TiVo yet, and my condo’s patio is not facing the right direction for SAT TV… I can get HD feeds from Comcast but I would have to be there to watch them, which sucks…
So, I’m going to pick up a regular 4:3 TV from Costco, they got this Sharp 32″ flat tube for cheap… When TiVo-HD comes out I guess I’ll consider bring it back to Costco to upgrade to an HD plasma, by that time they should be only around $1.5k, LOL.
And if I do movie nights, I can reserve the 16-seat theater at the clubhouse… I need to check if that costs anything… It really shouldn’t coz there is like a $400 HOA fee… there are 264 condos, that’s $105k a month of HOA fee, which should really more than cover all the fancy stuff they do in the clubhouse and the pools and what not… good thing I’m renting it, that’s a lot of money for HOA fee for a condo. tsk tsk…
Now, I wonder when Sling will have a version for OS X… 😉
How To Deal With Change
This is a really good blog, highly recommend subscribing to this RSS feed…
Fedex delivered my AppleCare Protection Plan (APP) for my PowerBook, I just activated it online. I’m not sure why they actually have to send me a box that contains the number, instead of just giving me the number online, or better yet, ask for my serial number and personal info, and add it to my records when I pay for it. Strange it seems…
This is actually the very first time I bought any kind of extended warranty, I always thought they were waste of money, like those they try to sell to you at Best Buy, and they always made me feel like an idiot for not buying it. Another reason I’ve been buying stuff from Amazon instead. APP is different though, especially for a portable. Sherry bought her dual-USB iBook G3 from eBay and it turned out the it had AppleCare, she had sent it in for repair so many times that it paid for the cost of APP several times. And they even gave her a brand new iBook G4 in the end. Well, she could’ve got one without APP, but she probably wouldn’t have sent it in for the repairs that were not related to the logic board problem.
Very cool! I knew about this for a while but have never seen the pics… and no, it’s a PortalPlayer chip inside… Should’ve bought some PLAY stocks, but that would’ve been unethical… 😉
Katrina’s real name: global warming:
Xeni Jardin:
Snip from Boston Globe story by Ross Gelbspan:
Although Katrina began as a relatively small hurricane that glanced off south Florida, it was supercharged with extraordinary intensity by the relatively blistering sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico. The consequences are as heartbreaking as they are terrifying.
Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.
The reason is simple: To allow the climate to stabilize requires humanity to cut its use of coal and oil by 70 percent. That, of course, threatens the survival of one of the largest commercial enterprises in history.
In 1995, public utility hearings in Minnesota found that the coal industry had paid more than $1 million to four scientists who were public dissenters on global warming. And ExxonMobil has spent more than $13 million since 1998 on an anti-global warming public relations and lobbying campaign. In 2000, big oil and big coal scored their biggest electoral victory yet when President George W. Bush was elected president — and subsequently took suggestions from the industry for his climate and energy policies.
As the pace of climate change accelerates, many researchers fear we have already entered a period of irreversible runaway climate change.
Against this background, the ignorance of the American public about global warming stands out as an indictment of the US media.
Link (thanks, Bruce Sterling)
A related item, from a 2001 National Geographic story:
[T]he North Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico regions can expect increased hurricane activity in the next 10 to 40 years. The number of major hurricanes has more than doubled in the last six years. The increase is part of a long-term climate shift that is likely to persist for several decades (…)
Link (Thanks, Ole Eichhorn)
Found Hot Shots Golf Open Tee for PSP on eBay for $25 with Buy It Now, so now it’s on its way to my hotel room. 🙂 Seems like it’s a fun game…
