Carrie sent me this article and of course I felt the need to post it.
March 2004 Archives
As if it wasn't bad enough I spend a large majority of my day just chatting to my friends and such and listening to whatever music is nice at the time. And new from somebody kinda bored the messages from ichat are now spoken in one of the voices of your mac. be afraid be very afraid.
Don has also brought to me the brand of sony/ericsson cellphones as I am the proud owner of a P800 which if you can fork out the money is a great phone, but if your going to fork out the money get the P900 trust me.
So a semester ago I bought a 30 gig ipod. This was the first step on a very shiny very expensive road. I new it would be cool but I use it all the time and it has been very well designed and all that. A very impressive piece of hardware. I also had the opportunity to use OSX on various Powerbooks and an iMac that Eric, Carrie, Don, and Jason had. I became rather enamored with the OS and its across the board ease of use. Plus it allowed me to develop software closer to the way I like with a Unix underside to the system. These things all combined led me further down the road of shiny and expense to where I am now, which is to say the owner of a 15 inch superdrive powerbook, an iSight, and a 30 gig ipod. Don said I was a now a card carrying member of the club. I have to say this is the most expensive card I have ever owned total price of hardware is right at 3K. I mourn the loss..... of my bank account. But already the laptop has brought me joy as I just like the way it works, plus the radeon 9600 is frickin sweet with ut2k4......
and the Law won.
On one of the first few visits to Eric's place I got a parking ticket for parking across a crosswalk. I plead innocent I say, hey theres a number on the ticket to call if you have any objects or questions. So I call and i get a hold of a nice lady after the appropriate wait time. (about 20 miles worth of drive) She says here take some pictures of the intersection in question and send them to me with a copy of the ticket and I will have the ticket dropped for you. I take some pictures. I go to the ticket offices of KC and after getting shuffled around a bit I find out that the only person that has the power to drop a ticket is the prosecutor, which they don't do. All the response I got was that if i show up to a court date the ticket will be dropped with no problem. They seem to fail to understand the statement I am a student and live 200 miles away and don't have the time to drive up to say you guys wrote me a BS ticket. All the response was the same either take it to court or pay it, they could care less either way. So beaten down by "the man" I pay my 40 dollars and go on. The law won this time........
The following posts are some in number but are badly delayed as i just haven't really posted....(I know no kidding)
Ok so I am looking around for software for the p800 out of idle curiosity and I come across a couple of things that are kind of disturbing. How do you know when a particular piece of software has perpetuated itself to every platform possible. The answer to this is when the software fully works on your mobile phone. I now have all 4 episodes of doom and all of nethack to pass the time. But really that means someone took the time to make these programs work on the p800......free time i suppose.
I know l haven't posted in a while, but l thought l would try using my p800 to make a post and see how it went. Ah the combination of new toys and good information ideas.
