I received my birthday present from M&D this morning, and spent part of the day settling in with it. It’s an 8GB iPod Nano to replace my now defunct 30GB iPod. I debated awhile between black (again), pink or red. Finally decided I was tired of black and the red made me think of U2 ads, so pink it was! No soft petal pink this, but a bright, flashy pink! Pink just the color of my raincoat and matching umbrella. Pink that you just can’t find in nature. PINK! It makes me happy just to look at it. :)
I’ve named it Jake. Engraved on its flip side it says:
M&D – April 13, 2008
Not hardly…
No one else in the entire world can appreciate my total amusement factor based on those two small words as much as my Mum & Dad. We all laughed like fools as soon as I said, “I called it Jake”.
(No, I don’t know anyone named Jake.) But still… Jake! FTW!
Sunday, November 11, 2007
We were reminiscing the other day about “When we went to college…” (oh so long ago):
- Mobile phones were briefcase-sized car phones
- We were only able to access The Internet while sealed within the thick glass walls of the computer lab during set hours with a monitor watching over you the entire time
- MP3s were a fantasy that had yet to come to life, hell CDs were still relatively new technology and barely portable</lli
- We saw the launch of AOL for DOS. DOS!
…ah, those were the days. :)
Now I have a cell phone that fits in my pocket, alerts me with any song I choose, allows me to check my email, chat in various formats with friends and locate my exact position on Earth all while listening to the 100+ CD quality songs it holds. Oh yeah, and actually talk to people. ;)
I’ve never seen a full episode of 24, but this is still hillarious! Hard to believe this sort of technology was “cutting edge” not so long ago. Even funnier to me is that this “pilot” would have taken place two years after I was out of college!
Link courtesy of (via ): 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
Monday, September 24, 2007
I spend a helluva lot more time watching football than I ever have before.
Funny how you don’t realize how much you’ve missed a thing until you’re back to doing it again. No, not football. Reading! I recently discovered PaperBackSwap.com. I’ve only received four books and read one and a half so far, but that’s far more than I’ve read in a long time. (Harry Potter
hardly counts.) I’ve come back to reading for pleasure every day, and it’s made such a difference in my state of mind. What a stress-buster!
I’m about ten pages from being done with Stephen King’s On Writing
, which was just such an interesting and fun read for a book supposedly, well.. on writing. :) In addition to that I’m reading The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
by Jasper Fforde and rereading Colleen McCullough’s A Creed for the Third Millennium
. Maybe I should start reviewing books?
Good times!
EDIT: I write with so much FILLER. I just had to go back and hack it out. ;)
