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The Macs are Back

Best Buy has macs, Mosquitos, Uptime, and Crazy modem.
Blogger Post #26

Yep, Best Buy has macs again. They have been going on and off their website all week, but it seems they will now stay. They are also available at a few stores (not ours) and are to be featured in “several ads” as of tomorrow, not known yet if this means weekly circular or on-line ads though. Currently, the website lists emacs, imacs, ibooks, and powerbooks, plus keyboards, mice, and displays. Interesting note: Apple displays use a proprietary ADC jack for connection, that carries power, USB, and DVI signal to the monitor, but only the PowerMac carries this jack. The only other mac capable of connecting to an ADC display is the PowerBook 15″ and 17″, which have DVI output but require an adapter for ADC. So Best Buy sells the displays, and the PowerBooks, but not the adapter, and no PowerMacs, making the displays unusable. Perhaps they are waiting for the G5 to sell Powermacs. We will need to wait and see.

Ok, went to a bon-fire last night and was ravaged by mosquitos. I look like I have a disease or something now. Mom keeps yelling “put this on,””put that on”. “It’s not working woman!!!!!” All that brings relief is itching, but there are too many!

I made it to 4 days, 3 hours before restarting. At about the 4 day mark though, a glitch in the finder made dragging stop. For some reason, when I clicked an icon and tried to drag it, it didn’t move. Fiddled with stuff for a while, but finally gave in and restarted. At 5 days 7 hours 31 minutes now (11:40 pm).

Yesterday our cable modem was running rather slow for a while, as was several peoples I hear. So at around 8 pm I was downloading a file and got this insane download speed, and was really freaked out. Ran a speed test at DSLReports.com and got this. Yes, 1.8 MBit, on a 768 kbit line. Thats more than double our standard speed. Heck, Charter only offers up to 1.5 MBit to consumers. It (sadly) returned to normal after about an hour.

Well, can’t think of anything else. Guess I will talk to you all tuesday at blog #27.

nick

Why aren’t you people buying my stuff?!

24 (late)

Late (kinda), Allergies, Bad Boys 2, Hurt, Cable, Software reviews, Cousins are gone, and My Birthday!.
Blogger Post #24

It’s the first time, but I did it.

I’m late.

Technically not though. I generally post a day late, but only by like an hour, not 23. Oh well.

My allergies were REALLY bad last night, went to bed early.

I did see Bad Boys 2 last night though. REALLY good movie. Definitely see this in the theater, don’t wait for the DVD (If your waiting for the VHS, I will kick you, no, really). You don’t need to have seen the first one, but it was a good movie so see it anyway, got to help a little.

So I hurt my back, and hit my shin with a sledge hammer, well now I whacked my knee getting out of the shower. Dislodged my knee cap or something. I suck.

Finally got CATV and Ethernet upstairs. My TV cable was kinked though, and the reception is suffering. Am going to check the connections, try our amplifier first, but will probably need to re-run the cable.

Downloaded Konfabulator and CandyBar, Both really cool. Konfabulator puts Java widgets on your desktop. You can choose from 1100 pre-made or make your own, anything from weather to calendars and mp3 controls to system uptime monitors (at 3 days, 10 hours and 29 minutes now). CandyBar replaces all the finder icons system wide. Folders, disks, the trash, network files, audio files, movies, toolbar icons, all of it. Konfabulator is free, though they do ask for a donation. CandyBar is $12 something shareware, free for like 2 weeks.

My cousins and everyone is gone now, (woohoo). My other uncle is supposed to be in town in a couple weeks for his high school reunion. Haven’t seen him in 7 years, since our first year on Wagner.

BTW, my birthday is September 8, just 36 days away (HINT HINT). I will be 21 and no, I will not buy you alcohol (without a bribe anyway HINT HINT).

Well thats all for now. Back to normal schedule, as if I hadn’t missed.
Number 25 on Tuesday

nick

“I see fraged people”

23

But I dont want to, Should I move?, The boys, I hurt, Daredevil, and T-shirts.
Blogger Post #23

I dont want to do this, I want to go, but you are making me do this, so I am going to do it poorly.

I want to move the blog. Nothing wrong with it, I just think I am going to try and put on Apple’s server. Something like homepage.mac.com/nslyax/blog. That way it would be with my website, and I could move to movable-type maybe, for more features. I don’t know.

Just a few more days and the boys will be gone. Thank god.

I hurt. Hurt back BAD yesterday. Lidocaine patch and a soma later at least I was asleep and couldn’t tell I hurt. Definitely hurts again though. Then today I missed and whacked my shin with a 5 lb. sledge.

Saw DareDevil. Pissed me off, but a good movie. Won’t give anything away.

Got my T-shirts in. Want to see them you got to ask, I don’t want to explain. Anyway though, I bought one on ebay, and she had a second that hadn’t sold, so shipped to me. Cool.

Ok, off to lay down because I hurt. LAUREN, I NEED A MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!

bye,
nick

remember: it takes 3 lefties to make a righty, or something like that

22

The secret, Tawas, and Secret revealed.
Blogger Post #22

Well, I guess I can tell you all now…

But I will wait, for the hell of it.

So what is there…
We went to Tawas today with DJ and Pat. Showed them all the stuff on the way. Water intake in northern Arenac County, Alabaster where the gypsum is mined, Omer. You know, all the good stuff.

Ok, now I’ll tell you.
My mom went to the casino Tuesday night and was playing $.50 machines, but started running low. So she moves to $.25 machines. She’s playing one, and sticks a few quarters in the machine next to her. Ching, ching, ching – Jackpot.
A 2004 Chrysler Sebring Convertable LX, $26,500. her cost, $.50 and $1,700 in taxes.
So there you go. It’s a beautiful car, that’s what we took to Tawas today.

Ok, not much else, can’t even think of a decent quote to end with.

See you all later, Wednesday…
nick

untitled

Uncle is coming, MacWorld, KungLog, LinkSys, and Later?.
Blogger Post #18

Well, Im sitting here waiting for my uncle and his family to come in. I had to clean my room today in preparation for their visit (aka unpack, finally) and found a bunch of stuff for the website, so hopefully I can get that up soon.

MacWorld has come and gone with little hoopla. This was likely the least exciting MacWorld since I started following them. We could have at least gotten the new monitors or keyboards/mice for the G5s, might have boosted sales. We did get the new G5 commercial though, which is on CNN and CNBC every 15 minutes, or on apples website if you prefer.

Still using KungLog, though I’m not completely sure why. Funny note, the spell checker thinks KungLog is spelled wrong, hah. Anyway though, maybe I will start using all these special features, maybe I will go back to just the web form, I don’t know yet.

I need to make it to BestBuy tomorrow, while the Linksys Wireless AP/4 port Router is still $59.99. Even if I get it though, its only as good as our current router till I get the AirPort card for my laptop. I’ll let you know next post.

Ok, they should be here soon, will try for a second update later tonight. If not, see you all on Monday!

nick

Why Aren't You Reading This?

Is it time?, Brother’s birthday, MacWorld, WebSite, the Vu, the Counter, it’s Jason’s fault, and You might all be famous.
Blogger Post #15

I think this is blog night, seems early though. I guess this is it, why not?

Today is my brothers birthday, turned 18. That means 2 months, minus a day, until my birthday. I will of course be 21, although I dont drink. Ohh well, Happy Birthday Chris!

Next Monday is MacWorld New York, now Create or something. There was a news release from Apple that the G5s will be there, running 10.2.7 though instead of 10.3. Also, there are rumors that the new displays and keyboards/mice will be there as well, and perhaps the 15″ Aluminum PowerBook. I guess we will need to wait and see.

No new work on the website, though I do have plans for some additions to it over the weekend. Perhaps it will happen, perhaps it won’t.

I just had the weirdest deja-vu. The same episode of Futurama was on, I was writing in the blog, I was just messing with the dog, all seem like before, wierd.

According to the counter, there has only been one visitor. I had it up to 2 when I put up the last post, plus the one from today when I checked it, and it said 4, so that leaves 1. Thats pretty crappy. I blame Jason, his being MIA since late last week really hurts the count, since he’s the only regular visitor. Speaking of my readers, unless you have an objection I might post the full list on the blog in a week or 2. Yes, the complete list of all 12. Actually, due to the fact that most of you don’t read regularly, it might be better to only post the names of those who do ok it. I don’t know, I’ll figure something out.

Ok, that’s enough for now. See you all later.
nick

Firework People, and People Counters

The counter (that isn’t there anymore), Website update, Stuff for sale, Fireworks and people, and Brother’s birthday.
Blogger Post #14

Ok, quick, go to the bottom of the page and come back, I’ll wait……..

See it! Now I can keep track of you freaks. It even tells me where you were before you got here (if you linked only, not if you typed it in) so I can tell if you were on my website, since its the only place with a link here. I also updated the website, getting some pictures up there right now, its not much but its something.

I have my PowerBook up for sale at macrumors forums so if you want a decent laptop send me a message. I also have 2 printers, a scanner, 2 cdrw drives, a cdrom, a palm m125, and a lot more. Essentially if you want some type of computer part let me know, I probably have it.

Went to 2 of the fireworks shows this weekend. Thursday we went on a bikeride because my mom tried to avoid them, friday we watched them on the middlegrounds, and saturday we were at Stretches bar on Henry, about a half mile from where they were launced. I realized on Saturday that everyone watched fireworks for different reasons. Kids watch them for the bright colors and different shapes. Drunks watch them for the loud bangs. I seem to watch for the science of them. That we can control black powder that well, make it shoot a ball hundreds of feet in the air, make it shoot out in specific direction, and can make nearly any color is really amazing. I dont know, maybe its just my mind creating funky reasons for going every year, who knows.

Well, I think thats it. Want to mention that my brother’s 18th is this wednesday. You all have a good week!

nick

p.s.
I didn’t gripe about anything, how often does that happen!

Happy Independence Day!!!!!

Happy 4th of July!, Molly is back, New site, Babble, the G5s, WiFi, and Ren and Stimpy.
Blogger Post #13

Ahh, another post. It’s 12:07 right now so that means it’s the 4th now, so lets begin with a happy Independence Day to you all.

Molly is back from the vet. We took her in Monday, but due to several “veterinary emergencies” they were unable to due the surgery until tuesday morning, and she came home Wednesday. She goes back next week to have her stitches removed, but is nearly back to herself now.

I finally have the new site up. All the coding of it is done, but there is a severe lack of content still at this point. I will slowly work at it, knowing me very slowly. You can go check out the main design though, bitch about whatever is there so I know what to work on.

I hate this part, I need to write more, but can’t come up with anything useful. I could keep babbling like this, but you don’t want that. I could go on like this for a long time, but need something useful, something at least partially important.

The case of the new G5s is starting to grow on me. The lack of drive upgrades is still a pitfall though. Maybe with hard disks being of such insanely high capacities will alleviate this some, but there is still the no second optical drive/no removable media drive thing. Ohh well, perhaps in 2004.

I still want wireless. My laptop is sitting on an end table in the front room, and either I just sit in front of it, or disconnect all the cables but the ethernet and sit with it in a chair. What would be nice though, is if I could disconnect that last cable. I want too much stuff for this ibook right now: Wireless card, more memory, 10.3 Panther (when it comes out), AppleCare, and I still haven’t even paid it off yet. Like I said a few weeks ago, I gladly accept donations…

Ren & Stimpy is back, 2 episodes every thursday. The first, at 10pm is the “new” version, written and animated by the original crew. The second, at 11:30 is the “classic” version, digitally re-mastered of course (everything is now). These are the classic ones, “Space Madness”, “Happy Happy, Joy Joy”, “Log”, etc… You know what, they are not what I remembered. I could swear the annimation was better, these things look like old “Loony Toons” episodes, but they’re what, 6 years old?

Ok, thats enough for now, it says its 12:40 now so I been typing on and off for like 33 minutes, thats enough to me.

See you later,
nick

Sorry Again

Anniversary mishap, Missing puppy, Apple is screwy, and Work.
Blogger Post #12

Well, back again. I would like to begin by mentioning that anniversary thing again. Perhaps I didn’t make the hoopla that I said I would here, but it was an exciting event for me none the less.

My puppy (if a 50 lb. 6 month lab can be called such) is gone at the vets. She was taken in about 8 this morning to be fixed, but due to several emergencies at the vets they were unable to get to her, so she will need to stay an extra night. They should perform the surgery tomorrow morning and we can pick her up on Wednesday. I miss her.

Apple is now screwing with us again. They released updated G4 systems in May (I think) running on a new motherboard and 1.0, 1.25, and 1.42 GHz. When the G5s were announced a week ago, they dropped the 1.0 and 1.42 GHz G4s though. No big deal, but it seems they also went back to the previous motherboard. They claim this is to “provide the lowest cost computer possible” and “to allow users to continue OS 9 booting”. I see this as bull crap, but there isn’t much you can do.

Tomorrow I need to work with my mom, and of all places were doing landscaping 2 houses over form our old house (our ex-neighbors neighbor). My mom’s friend that sold our house, is selling this one as well and “needs the appearance of the yard updated” (you should see it, its only a slight understatement, hah).

Well, that would seem to be it, I’ll see you later,
nick

The Four Announcements

Blog timing, Sidebar links, Vervante problem, and Brother’s big day.
Blogger Post #6

Ok, a few announcements this time:

First
I finally have this timing thing down. Rather than that every 2nd day thing that never works, I am going with an every 3rd day schedule. I chose this because it is less frequent and thus easier, and because thats the schedule I seem to have been following without knowing it.

Second
I actually put real links on the sidebar now. The link to my home-page should work, let me know if not. The .mac web-page I have is rather lame, I am working on a new one.

Third
That Vervante bookstore thing has been resolved. They sent me an email reporting that Apple has stopped the publication of the books, and noted that any ADC member can print out the entire book from Apple’s ADC site. Fat chance, they’re like 300+ page books and I don’t feel like using a ream of paper plus 3 ink tanks. The good news is Apple now “recommends” the O’reilly series of books, and they now even carry the ADC seal in the corner. I plan to purchase a few of them soon.

And Forth
And MOST Important MY BROTHER GRADUATED
Woohoo, you go girl, err, boy. I really am proud of him though. It has been a tough few months and we really did wonder if he would make it sometimes, but he did it.

Ok, I am tired and need to work tomorrow, so I’ll see you all later.
nick