Archive for January, 2007
walmart’s "bundle" scams
step 1: walmart obtains a high-profile hard-to-find item.
step 2: walmart sells this item only as a “bundle” with accessories to increase their profit.
step 3: some douche like me buys one.
step 4: walmart ships all the accessories and charges you for them.
step 5: walmart delays the shipping date of your hard-to-find item, consistently, akin to “chasing [...]
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Tags: scam, walmart
hrm.
it just occured to me.. what if.. purely hypothetically, apple decided to have an “ipod update” for all ipods that just so happened to carry an extremely malicious and contagious windows virus?
edit: it’s funny re-reading this post. something similar to this actually happened.
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Tags: apple, ipod, virus, windows
friendly reminder:
you do realize we’re nothing more than sentient animals, right?
there’s no point in ignoring the simplest (and most obvious) answer to a question solely because you don’t like it. sure you can fabricate all kinds of answers to “the meaning of life” and “why are we here”, but in the end the question is [...]
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Tags: humanity, life, philosophy
have you seen the anti-smoking and anti-pot commercials lately?
am i the only one who thinks they are getting utterly ridiculous? i’ve had pot a grand total of 3 times in my 22 year life, and i’m pretty sure that nothing i’ve seen in these commercials describes the effect it had on me at that moment, [...]
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Tags: exaggeration, government, politics, pot, smoking
thoughts
i’ve been doing a lot of thinking.. a whole lot.
it occurs to me that the world is changing rapidly enough to merit both my attention and action. i’m not altruistic enough to care what happens to humanity, but for the brief period that i exist, i would rather that MY life be pleasant. [...]
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Tags: activism, faith, ignorance, intolerance, prejudice, religion
The day after..
Just a few, very quick notes on yesterday’s Macworld.
- AppleTV only supports videos that can be imported into iTunes. It also states on the page an additional restriction: H.264 only. So I am assuming that other Quicktime formats will not sync to the AppleTV. So, basically, that kills the AppleTV for [...]
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Tags: apple, appletv, iphone, macworld
Macworld San Fran. Announcements
Source: http://www.macrumorslive.com (Pictures available here)
Apple Computer Inc. officially renamed Apple Inc. at this Macworld.
Editor: I would just like the mention that I feel it was an extremely bad idea on Apple’s part to name their media center “Apple TV” instead of “iTV”. The iPod is recognized by anyone anywhere in the world, and [...]
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Tags: apple, appletv, iphone, macworld
Winblowz
So here I am, setting on Windows, installing SimCity.. and so far I’ve had to download 2 different pieces of software just to unzip the file and mount the disc image.
Everything that is quick, easy and fast on OS X is so sloooooooow on Windows.. it took over 5 minutes just to unrar a [...]
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Tags: mac, mac os x, windows
For what it’s worth, all of these pieces of software officially now have my seal of approval. I have switched from Safari to Firefox (Mac), Bittorrent to Transmission (also Mac), MySpace to Blogger and I’ve started using Digg rather frequently.
All are worthwhile and you should check them out, here ya go:
Blogger – Google Blog [...]
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Tags: links, mac, mac os x, software
Trackpads and Barbershop
Weird combination? Hell, yes. There’s going to be a lot of strange posts for a while, I’ve had a lot on my mind and no way to let it out.
I was always wary of trackpads, even when I got my first laptop. The first thing I would do when getting it out [...]
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