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Lots of reformatting, and Taxes.

My computer was running kinda yucky, so I did a reformat. It has been over a year, so it needed it. Notice that I saved the blog this time though, so no 1 week downtime, yeehaw!

I need to reformat the iMac too, since I finally figured how without needing it’s broken CD-ROM.

I received my state tax refund, federal should be in my account on the 8th. Yeah for money!

OK, thats all for now, have more sorting and back-up to do.

nick

There’s no reason for fighting if it’s not on a Hockey rink, but then again I’m a figment of your imagination, so do what you have to.
– your inner frat boy

Diet Vanilla Cherry Dr. Pepper?!?

Dr. Pepper, Library, Poll, Gloves, and Apple x2.

Yes, the longest name of any soft drink I know of. And redundant too, since Dr Pepper is cherry anyway, even though nobody knows it. ( I didn’t know till I realized the similarity between Dr. Pepper and Jolt Cherry Bomb).

Ohh no, my Library card is going to expire soon! Well, 2016, but that means I’m, like half through. The website lets you check fines and such, and request books. You can say “I want this book” and it will be at your local library soon, even if the nearest copy is at the UCLA library across the country! It’s cool. (I kinda feel weird, endorsing the library, like a commercial on PBS.)

New poll is up. Kinda sad, only 4 people. Used to have like 6. Ohh well, at least I have my hundreds of googlers.

I mailed my gloves today, back to Dockers. The stitching came apart between the fingers, and Kohl’s doesn’t have them in stock anymore.

iTunes/Pepsi starts back up today. If you find a winner, and aren’t saving them, I want them.

Also today, new PowerBooks came out. Faster processors, 8x DVD burners, drop protection, and scrolling trackpads. And a price drop!

OK, I’m off to do more nothing. Back Thursday.

nick

Police spent several hours attempting to save a fish trapped under the ice. Despite their efforts, it died shortly after.

A bit late

Trip, Ketchup, and Poll.

OK, so I’m late, not the first time.

I just got back from Warren, because my brothers keyless entry wouldn’t work. He stopped at his friends house last night and was coming home for the weekend. So he is at ABC Warehouse now trying to get it all fixed.

Funny thing, the trip back always seems shorter, unless you don’t actually go anywhere, then it all blends together into a long boringness.

I learned that Heinz produces 10 billion packets of Ketchup every year. Thats insane.

I think it’s new poll time. Will work on that before next update (Monday).

OK, thats all.

nick

… we sadly announce that the Year Of The Monkey is about (on 2/9) to be superseded by the Year Of The Rooster (or the year of the Green Chicken if you use the Five-Element Systems). Oh joy. Nothing funnier than a green chicken. In better news, it’s going to be the year 4702 in China so they’ve probably already engineered time travel. Perhaps they can go back in time and change 2005 to the Year Of The Jedi. Patience we must have…

I Really am a Geek!

Downtime and Geekitude

Well, the website went down last Wednesday as I attempted to post the NAIAS pics, and took 2 days to get it all back. Now, yesterday morning, it happened again. Thankfully Apple restored my data on their own. It isn’t particularly great to fear your $99 a year backup server can magically delete your files on a whim, but at least its all fixed.

Anyway, what else…

I took a geek test. They gave me a little graphic for my score, but it wont work in blog, so I have to just say it – 97% – whooyah. I retook and managed a 100% with some cheating, but the 97 is all me. You too can take said test here.

Think thats it for now.

…Friday…

nick

“Because your waste is a terrible thing to mind…”
Rothchild’s Sewage and Septic Sucking Services

Maskafagino

Poll, News, Nerd, and VH1.

Hey all.

If you haven’t voted yet, please do.

I have really big news, but the NDA says I can’t tell you. Too bad.

I have been watching alot of VH1’s I Love the 90s lately. Is fun to remember.

OK, till Tuesday.

nick

If you die in a game, will running defrag bring you back?

Saginaw, Part Deux!

Saginaw continued, Chinese, and Little stuff.

So, back to where I left off…

So I was looking for a connection between Apple and Saginaw, and still haven’t found much. I did come up with a few possibilities though. The first is that some Apple employee is from the area. The second is they threw a dart at a map, or some other coincidence. The third (and favorite) is that it could be a sign of the future. There are currently 101 Apple Stores worldwide, 99 in the US. After some looking, I found a list of the 500 largest metro areas in the US, here are Michigan’s part of the top 500:

12 Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI 4,452,557
31 Warren-Farmington Hills-Troy, MI 2,391,395
38 Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI 2,061,162
87 Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI 740,482
127 Lansing-East Lansing, MI 447,728
132 Flint, MI 436,141
169 Ann Arbor, MI 322,895
175 Kalamazoo-Portage, MI 314,866
201 Holland-Grand Haven, MI 238,314
217 Saginaw-Saginaw Township North, MI 210,039
248 Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI 170,200
260 Niles-Benton Harbor, MI 162,453
263 Jackson, MI 158,422
285 Monroe, MI 145,945
305 Battle Creek, MI 137,985
312 Traverse City, MI 131,342
367 Bay City, MI 110,157
385 Allegan, MI 105,665
405 Adrian, MI 98,890
450 Midland, MI 82,874
491 Owosso, MI 71,687

And, if you add up Bay City, Saginaw, and Midland, you get:

140 Bay City – Saginaw – Midland 403,070

thus, we are top 150 nationwide (in theory, there is likely an overlap between Saginaw-Bay City, etc…). Now, consider that in Michigan, we have Apple Stores in Troy and Novi, and the one in Grand Rapids is coming this year (they are currently hiring actually). Between those three, the Detroit and Grand Rapids areas are mostly covered. This leaves Lansing and Flint ahead of us. Granted, there are other considerations other than population, like major colleges and universities (Lansing of course has MSU, Flint has Kettering and Mott, and Saginaw has Delta and SVSU).

OK, so we probably have a while, and Saginaw was probably a coincidence, so what.

Anyway…

Jenn, Scott and I went to Old Great Wall buffet on Friday, was good as always.

Room is still going.

Poll is back, vote or die.

Jenn and I are going to NAIAS Tuesday (and maybe Apple Store), Tim might be coming too. Info Wednesday.

Thats all.

nick

If everybody was weird, then nobody would be.

MacWorld, and more

MacWorld, Profits, Saginaw, Room, and Grandma..

So MacWorld was Tuesday. Apple came out with a new Word Processor, to replace AppleWorks, a new low-cost computer, a new iPod, and some more. New program, Pages, is like word, but from Apple. It looks cool to me. The Mac mini is $499, 1.25 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 40GB HD, and a Combo Drive (CD-R/RW, DVD). And the new iPod shuffle is just $99 for a 512 MB or $149 for a 1 GB. At first I was un-excited about the shuffle because of its lack of a display, but I am becoming more and more accepting of the idea since I realized that on my iPod I mostly just set it to shuffle and pay no attention to it, other than maybe jumping to the next song occasionally. All-in-all, a good MacWorld.

Also, yesterday, was Apples quarterly profit report. They have, to date, sold 10 million iPods, 4.5 million in the last quarter. Thats amazing.

Apple has also posted videos of some of the features of Tiger (OS X 10.4) and if you watch the video of Dashboard, the weather widget gets set to Saginaw, MI. Of all the cities, how? Why? Well, I tried to figure it out. I searched the web for anything connecting Apple to Saginaw. I came up with not what I wished for, but I did get some results. I will post them Sunday (Yes, I am doing a 2 part series, I figure you have enough Mac stuff already).

OK, stuff you care about now.

I am working on cleaning my room, slowly. I still have work to do though.

Grandma is getting better. Much more coherent.

I think thats enough.

Til Sunday,

nick

“That guy really twists my dreads”