A good friend of mine has a new, unopened MacBook Air (entry level model) for sale. He’ll take $1600 for it. Any takers? Email me at ck at sampletheweb dot com and I’ll forward your email along to him. Sorry, it sold.
I want an Axiotron Modbook
so badly. It’s my next big purchase, once I manage to save up a decent chunk of money in the bank and then save a bit more to actually purchase the device. It’s my current carrot to lead me to focus on saving more money.
In any case, it’s awesome and Veronica and Mahalo Daily got a full tour of Axiotron, which has dramatically increased my gadget lust for this device. One question though: does the Modbook come with any of these stands that they show all the Axiotron people propping them up on?
Here it is:
ps—I love the laugh track cuts in the middle.
I’ve managed to do two straight weeks of my Wii boxing workout. Not only that, but I’ve managed to stick with the workout while on the road. It’s taken a lot of effort to *make* myself get up and do it while on the road. Much more difficult than when I was home. Part of that is just the added things that one has to do to get to work when traveling compared to the commute from my bedroom, to the kitchen, to my home office at home. In the home office scenario, finding the time for the workout is easier, b/c everything is set up in their routine spots and ready to go.
Here, I’ve been plugging my Wii into my Macbook’s small 13-inch screen by using my EyeTV and it’s taken some getting used to. There’s a stark experiential difference between playing on the 32-inch Sony WEGA LCD hanging on my living room wall and playing on my laptop sitting on my desk.
So even though I said originally that 2 weeks would be the key to making this workout routine, I think I really need next week to drive it home while I’m inconvenienced away from my real home. Also, next week, I need to up the crunches from 300 to 500 a day. Wish me luck.
Well, I’ve been twittering. I’ve been playing my new Wii. I’ve also been shopping. I went to Best Buy yesterday and picked up a $20 component switch box, so my HD Cable box, my PS3, and my Wii all reach my wall-mounted 32″ HDTV via the same hidden cable, which makes my wife happy. I bought Curt a replacement set of headphones for the set that Sonja flew over and tore to shreds when Kristin and I were in LA and he and Marian were bird-sitting. I also got Kristin an Apple Hi-Fi, which she’d been wanting for a while. It sounds pretty good, I must say.
I should have waited to buy it today at CompUSA, though, b/c everything in the store was 10-20% off since they’re closing down. Unfortunately, the web-advertized $679 for a MacBook wasn’t being upheld by this store where the people were incredibly rude. NEWSFLASH COMPUSA EMPLOYEES: Your horrible customer service is why your entire chain is going out of business and you’ll soon be unemployed. I mean, I was considering buying a *lot* of Wii games at a discount from you, which would have helped your company’s bottom line, but you couldn’t be bothered to stand at that glass case and let me look for just a little while longer. Instead, you rushed me out the door with two classic controllers and one game. Bully for you.
I was hoping to find a largish hard drive and a Wacom tablet for sale at the store, but there weren’t any of either. I need to get a good Wacom tablet to sketch some stuff digitally. I am going to get pt to laser-etch some of my artwork onto metal plates. Should be really great stuff if it comes out the way I’ve been visualizing it in my head.
Kristin made some mean BLT sandwiches for dinner. Evidently it was some recipe she got from Martha Stewart. It was super-tasty and filling.
What else is up? Hmm… I’m about settled on getting an iPhone after my BlackJack crapped out on me for the 3rd time since I first grabbed it and I had to reset it again.
Also, I’ve been wrapping up the last of my responsibilities at AOL and prepping for my full separation from the company on the 15th. I’m glad the Netscape team is going strong and I hope that AOL continues to support them and let them push the envelope. My.Netscape renovation is coming soon and is looking HOT. Also, the Netscape browser is like Firefox but BETTER. I love it. I use it all the time. It’s sleeker and nice and I cannot wait until the team releases it. Lots of cool little features. It’s really going to be the version of Firefox that gets out to the masses, I think, because of the strength of the Netscape brand. Think of all the Netscape 4.7 / 8.2 users out there who are going to download this new version to give it a whirl and be BLOWN away. I am so stoked.
I’m looking forward to moving on to the next thing though. I’ve been juggling a few consulting opportunities of late and there are some exciting things in the works.
I’m watching The Amazing Race right now. Boston Rob & Amber FTW! CBS should try to get them to appear as the first married couple to enter the Big Brother house this summer. That would make them the only reality people to run the trifecta (sp?) of reality TV competitions.
Kristin is upset b/c she bought a Coach bag this afternoon and when she got it home and started unpacking it, she realized it was a baby bag with a diaper thing in it. Now, she’s torn as to whether to keep it until we need it, risk using it now as a regular bag and having her socialite friends (? ha ha) make fun of her for it, or to return it. My money is on the latter, though I think she should just keep it and use it now and keep using it when we crank out a kid.
I think I’m caught up on blogging now. Later.
More pics soonish…
Update: Here’s one from pt: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adafruitlaser/406439317/
One great thing that I’ve discovered about the shiny screen on my new MacBook is that I can turn the backlighting off entirely, and in a well lit area, like outside in the sun, I can still read and write and use the laptop. Hello, long battery-life!
Check out Inkscape:
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
Inkscape’s main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development
There’s an OS X Universal build. I’m downloading it now. One of the things that I’m attempting with my new MacBook is to find Open Source free software (supplemented with some shareware) to do all the things I used to do with purchased software. Inkspace looks to be a great addition to my toolkit.
…following these instructions, on my new MacBook. Works faster than it did on my MacBook Pro. I wonder why?
… and it is driving me nuts. I did a search on Google and found that some people who have had this problem put some WD-40 on it which fixed it, some others tightened the screws next to the display which fixed it (I tried this solution but it made the casing dent in slightly so I undid it), and someone else took it in to Apple for repair and was sans laptop for a week. Eep!
Anyway, I may go see if my local Apple Store can fix it in store or replace my Macbook and transfer data in store. Either that or I’ll give the WD-40 a shot. However, I also found this post while searching for a solution: VMWare Fusion Beta « Lumpy’s Blog, and so now I’m downloading Fusion to give it a go. Hope it blows Parallels out of the water!
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