I’m no apple fanboy but I love the free services I’ve gotten from them. I dropped my ipod mini and it wouldn’t start up. I sent it in and got a new one in a couple days, for free. The battery in my macbook stopped holding a charge. Known issue. Free battery after warranty was voided. A really little crack started in macbook and I took it in. They replaced the cover, along with the keyboard and touchpad. Free.
Yeah, I know I pay for that somewhere along the line but to get shit without paying on the spot is fantastic.
May 7, 2008
Driving to work this morning, I said to myself, I think I finally get Hail to the Thief. On my way home from work, I said to myself, this album is worthless.
One of my favorite arcs in fantasy stories (comics, movies, books) is when two unrelated badasses, who are often previously developed as the mysterious bad guy, become aware of each other. It’s so great because from the protaganists point of view, you become amazed at their individual powers, not really knowing their limits, just that the hero has to dig deeper than he ever has before to defeat them. So, it’s really unknown who is stronger when they match up against one another. And, if they both are “evil”, the author will often soften up one side, so it is easy to root for one guy. But it’s even better when he just lets them duke it out and you there’s no good guy always wins type of shit going on. It’s just a display of who’s a bigger badass.
This doesn’t even have to relate to supernatural shit. It can be two guys you meet in a story who are both wise sages or two leaders of random armies or just two badasses who face off. They don’t even have to fight, it’s just sometimes mind blowing to see those interactions.
You know, I have no idea what I’m talking about because now that I think of it, I can only think of one example, in the anime Rurouni Kenshin and I sure as hell don’t remember those names.
May 5, 2008
Here’s a real interesting guy who has a good attitude about stuff. I found it while searching for discussion of twitter vs facebook status. I can’t think of more than two or three friends I have in real life that are hooked into the geeky new shit, so I’ve never been interested too much into those services but you can tell that they’re about to blow up and everyone is gonna start letting everyone know everything that they’re doing (to a degree). To which I say, fuck that, I’d rather edit my thoughts and post them on this stupid web sight.
May 4, 2008
“ Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
Randy Pausch
I’d almost rephrase and say it’s when you don’t get what you expect.
I really should categorize all the different types of sleep: fitful, nap, cautious (like in class or on airplane), restful, nightmarish, segmented, after working out, switching time zones, drunk, vivid, and the pass out. There’s lots more but my favorite is sleep that is the deep deep hibernation, where I only intend to take a nap but I wake up the next day, or I can’t remember waking up or turning over the entire night.
The best part of that sleep is the moment I wake up from the alarm. It’s as if I’m swimming deep down in the ocean, in the dark (cause I almost never remember these dreams) and as I start to surface, things become brighter. Then I break the surface of the water in my dream and I open my eyes in real life and for a moment I’m living in both places and I’m totally confused about where I am. That may seem bad but once I get my bearings, I feel completely renewed.
