Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Mr.External is in the house!
The 160GB USB2.0 hard drive I ordered showed up today, except that they put a 200GB drive in there so I got @180GB to deal with, I freed 17GB of video & mp3 files (bittorrent and GBA movies, not porn) from the internal drive. I will continue the plan to mp3 every CD in the house soon.
The 160GB USB2.0 hard drive I ordered showed up today, except that they put a 200GB drive in there so I got @180GB to deal with, I freed 17GB of video & mp3 files (bittorrent and GBA movies, not porn) from the internal drive. I will continue the plan to mp3 every CD in the house soon.
500 mark again!
Exceded my 500 allowed blocked domains with earthlink mail.
Wow.
Exceded my 500 allowed blocked domains with earthlink mail.
Wow.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Holy Macworld!!!
I haven't seen all the stuff yet, but a $499 headless iMac is there. A Flash based MP3 player iPod? Yeah, I think I will be buying that this evening.
I haven't seen all the stuff yet, but a $499 headless iMac is there. A Flash based MP3 player iPod? Yeah, I think I will be buying that this evening.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Sometimes you have to mess with them...
Harken back to a fine yesterday where the early evening was to be spent shopping. A $30 CompUSA giftcard burning it's way through my wallet, a bluetooth mouse on my mind. I had in line an IOgear mini mouse, as I seem to like how crampy my hand feels.
Out to the CompUSA on Touhy Ave to buy I go. Straight to the Apple section, as I like to oreint myself there. 3 off-duty employees are crowded around an iBook using it to rip tracks off of a CD to make a compilation, trying hard to stare me down to go away. Eventually I do, and make it over to the mouse section and look at the 2 bluetooth mice they are offering, a Microsoft one (no out of principle) & a Logitech one that looks way too complicated for me (must've been around 17 buttons on that sucker). I grab an IOgear mini off of a rack and head off in search of help.
One of the off duties runs up and takes out the employee I was going to ask, where they start shooting the shit and don't even look up at me.
I spy another guy unpacking a box and start asking him questions. Questions whose answers need more than the "no" he kept saying. "No they don't or no you don't carry it?" were my responses. So I give up on him, as I was made to feel I was obviously bothering him, and my $100 mouse purchase seemed to be beyond the scope of any employees there.
I got a little upset. I wandered back over to the iBook that was now left idle and noticed that the CD burning in iTunes would finish soon. So I waited around and when it finished, I yanked the CD and deleted the tracks out of iTunes.
I blatantly made it look like I was shoplifting the CD and then hid it in the stacks.
I was hoping for a confrontation so I could go ballistic, made myself super shifty looking and braced myself for the ordeal ahead.
I left the store and nothing happened.
Harken back to a fine yesterday where the early evening was to be spent shopping. A $30 CompUSA giftcard burning it's way through my wallet, a bluetooth mouse on my mind. I had in line an IOgear mini mouse, as I seem to like how crampy my hand feels.
Out to the CompUSA on Touhy Ave to buy I go. Straight to the Apple section, as I like to oreint myself there. 3 off-duty employees are crowded around an iBook using it to rip tracks off of a CD to make a compilation, trying hard to stare me down to go away. Eventually I do, and make it over to the mouse section and look at the 2 bluetooth mice they are offering, a Microsoft one (no out of principle) & a Logitech one that looks way too complicated for me (must've been around 17 buttons on that sucker). I grab an IOgear mini off of a rack and head off in search of help.
One of the off duties runs up and takes out the employee I was going to ask, where they start shooting the shit and don't even look up at me.
I spy another guy unpacking a box and start asking him questions. Questions whose answers need more than the "no" he kept saying. "No they don't or no you don't carry it?" were my responses. So I give up on him, as I was made to feel I was obviously bothering him, and my $100 mouse purchase seemed to be beyond the scope of any employees there.
I got a little upset. I wandered back over to the iBook that was now left idle and noticed that the CD burning in iTunes would finish soon. So I waited around and when it finished, I yanked the CD and deleted the tracks out of iTunes.
I blatantly made it look like I was shoplifting the CD and then hid it in the stacks.
I was hoping for a confrontation so I could go ballistic, made myself super shifty looking and braced myself for the ordeal ahead.
I left the store and nothing happened.
