I ordered the above print from http://www.cooleycooley.com. One of the things that I find is the more cool art stuff that I go looking for, the more stuff I find that I want to put on my walls. Unfortunate but true.
Okay, I’ll confess. I bought an Apple product a few days ago. *Sigh*
I’m not an Apple hater. Really. My family had Apple products back in the 80’s before Apple was “cool”. After I saw Kevin Brown play with MacPaint, I told my dad that we needed to get one. I have many MANY fond memories of playing Infocom games for hours – and teaching me how to type in the process. We had a Mac 512, Classic, Plus. I didn’t start fooling with PC’s until the mid 90’s – when my (now ex) father in law got me into building them.
As a dude, I like being able to take something apart and fixing it. Not that I could have done that with the old Macs, but after learning how to do it, I like the control. So, I resisted for a long time on the iPod/MP3 player front. I’ve blown through a bunch of low end Creative MP3 players. I like them all, but when my Sony theater speaker system came with an iPod compatible dock – I couldn’t use them. It got put on the back burner for a while. I don’t have a CD player anymore for my stereo (other than my PS3) so after talking with my brother (who’s been using Macs for years doing graphics but oddly enough has a Google Droid phone) I picked up a used Nano compatible with the dock that I’ve got.
Despite the fact that I can’t stand the fact that iTunes jacks up if you don’t install it on the C drive – or it did, not sure if it’s still an issue or not – it was installed.
As soon as I installed it, I jacked up most of my media library as it took over and I was trying to do stuff simultaneously.
The iPod is totally cool. I get it. It works more better (mo-bettah?) than all my other MP3 players ever did.
Except………………
The normalization feature of iTunes SUCKS. So I had to go convert the entire library to MP3 and then run it through some 3rd party programs to settle down the volume jumps between albums/songs.
In other news, I rolled my sprained ankle yesterday while I was mowing the lawn. It wasn’t bad, but I screamed “OW”. None of my neighbors ran over to see if I had accidentally chopped off my own foot or something. I guess continuous screaming would bring them over.
