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Monday, June 9, 2008

Steve Jobs looks like Skeletor

Someone feed this man. It's sad to watch him hobble around stage with sagging clothing and a rickety frame.

They need to come up with, you know, an Apple to feed people with.

iApple? It grows on trees. Comes in three colors. Canary Yellow. Mustang Red. Vegan Green. Also, it has a GPS transmitter in the seeds so your friends can track your location until the seed passes from your system. Then your friends will just be confused that you're trapped in a bathroom stall, leading some to wonder if you're belimic (or really kinky). You can twitter by farting.



... and I so need work to provide me with an iPhone with 2.0 software. But considering I have to fill out a form to justify the business need for a laptop, I somehow doubt it. I'm surprised I haven't been issued the standard issue slide rule, yet.


This product lackey is trying real hard to have the Jobs pacing in his speech. It comes off a bit pompous. Or is that the standard Apple aire? I sometimes can't tell :)

But it's kind of exciting looking toys, these APIs and such. Now to come up with an app that I feel like making for the iPhone.

I wonder if Steve is eating a cookie while this guy talks.

I have to LOL with his monotone voice wrt Super Monkey Ball. He's so, I'm not a gamer but I'll put up with these dorks, whatever.


Oh look, they have social networking butt-seeds with loopt. Just wrap it in nutrition!..!...?

Pissed off used car salesman is back on stage..

Yeah, TypePad.. I love the subject and content. Way to acknowledge the fact typing on an iPhone is really irritating. WoW. Yum.

The AP guy has a really cool voice. But, in some way, it's kind of eerie.. like.. he could do narrations to horror movies... and the app is so going to feed my news obsession.

Not one.. but TWO games!

Oh, Apple, please stop rubbing it in..

Woo.. water... racing.. hm.. meh..

!!!

'Band' is the shizzle.

!!!

If I was into baseball, the MLB thing looks hawt.


The medical apps are pretty neet, too.

The other game.. eh.. not too bad, either. I think the touch controls would actually be really irritating for an action/platformer.


Skeletor's back!


hmm.. the App store seems cool for devs. hmm....


mobile-me... ehhh.. I never used .mac anyway, so, bleh zzZZzzz... ugh, fast forward.. zzZzz...


iPhone 3G -- close! Too bad it's still AT&T based. I'll stick with Wi-Fi on my iPod touch and not have to worry about crap-ass AT&T "service".

Yay for GPS, brilliant

The reduced price point is getting there.. again, it's the AT&T problem. I can't wait until this goes T-Mobile. I'll wait.


Thank goodness this thing is over. I was sleeping through part of it. I hope next year's is more fun.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

PC + Mac Gaming

So, back in the day, I used to be a very active PC gamer. Running "Network Games" LAN parties and everything. I even have a legacy in regards to this. The thing is, there was this PC Game "rut" that happened. Say, at around 2000. 2001. Or maybe I just got a cushy government job and tried to cleanse myself of this gaming addiction, and well, we all know how well that worked out. At around this time, the Mac came out with a *ix-based operating system. So what's any girl supposed to do, but switch OSes? In the end, if you can't "ls" at a command prompt, you aren't running an OS worth a damn anyway.

So I switched.

For about 6 years, I've been very happy with this. I even bought myself a sweet G5 to show how happy I was.

Thing is... now PC games are good again and they look to be on the upward swing.. that, and I miss all my virtual-friends there.. It's like we'll be talking and they'll be like, "Oh you haven't played this????" (weird stare)... so I feel guilty. Everyone else is doing it... . .

So I'm going intel chipset. Dual booting. I'm convinced of this. I can't abandon the Mac completely.. but for Hellgate: London I'd do just about anything. Except, well.. I'll leave that to your imagination.

The dilemma is thus:
  • Power Mac Desktops feature an antiquated design. I just can't justify buying the same looking machine. I just can't. There's something about, "Well, why don't you fly to Akihabara and buy the parts off the black market and build a new intel machine yourself? It'd probably be cheaper, more fun, and look about the same." And, really, that'd be pretty funny.

  • The new iMacs are sweet looking but I don't think they have a good enough video card. Nor do I know how easy it would be to upgrade said video card. Also, I plan on going back for my PhD in a year, or so, so having a reduced footprint machine is great for travel/home use. My G5 takes up 90% of the space in my trunk, I have no back seat, and my passenger seat is for my purse. So, it's a bit of a pain in my ass, y'know? I like the reduced footprint of the iMac.. but the inability to upgrade? G'ah....! :(



  • I know I'm going to wait for January (new systems released) but... to iMac or not to iMac, that is the question.

    Anyone out there game with a dual-booted Mac have some ideas? Help!

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