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September 30, 2007
Three words, one revalation...
... Adult
... Footed
... Pajamas
... Quite possibly mankind's greatest acheivement
That's right folks. Adult footed pajamas. You can find them on Amazon.com and you can also catch 'em on the epicenter The Big Feet PJs Co..
Don't front, you know you want a pair.
Better yet, they come in FREAKIN' CASHMERE!!! With a dropseat! Yup, that means you can open your backdoor if you get a bit too toasty... or whatever else you might be opening your backdoor for... good lord the images won't go away!
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September 09, 2007
This almost made me cry...
... because it reminds me so much of what being a gay kid was like:
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Nothing is quite as pristine...
... a world of unicorns created by a gay 8 year old!
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Amazon.com Uses Technology to Help People in Need...
...but it needs your help!
Today Amazon.com utilized a subsidary called "Mechanical Turk" to help aid officals in a search for a lost aviator in Nevada. His name is Steve Fossett and you might recognize him as the guy who flew around the world in a balloon or the first guy to ever fly around the world without refueling. He has been considered missing since his flight failed to return.
Mechanical Turk is a service that automates things that require the human touch. In this case, Mechanical Turk is utilizing Google Earth to display satellite imagery of the areas where Steve might be given his flight path and simply asking that people look at them and flag it if anything appears to be there. For instance, if you see wreckage from a plane, or Steve himself.
This effectively covers more ground than the search organizations could possible cover with the man power available to them and is, in my opinion, one of the most oustanding uses of the web to date.
You can help too! Just click here
Help Amazon make a difference!
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September 08, 2007
Ice adds "Bromance"...
... to his vocabulary. From the urban dictionary definition, a bromance is an unusually (and or emotionally) close relationship between two heterosexual males. I'm in love with this new phrase... it's pure greatness.
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September 07, 2007
Apple Announces New Goodies...
... and Ice gets busy creating a wish list for them.
Apple had one of it's infamous "media events" on Wednesday. This event focussed on the evolution of the iPod & iTunes. I was really excited by some of the announcements. First off the iPod brached a new direction in it's product offering. We now have the iPod touch. It's got all of the same stuff on it as the iPhone except the phone functionality. It's sizes are a bit limited at 8gb and 16gb, but it shares a really great new feature with the iPhone in that it will be able to purchase songs from the iTunes store over wi-fi. This is the first time people will be able to purchase iTunes content on the go! Apple is calling this awesome new feature the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store.
The iPod touch not only features this new version of iTunes, but also gets you some of the coolest aspects of the iPhone as well. For instance: the Safari Web Browser (over wi-fi, no edge), YouTube, and the multi-touch features of the iPhone's display.
Amongst the less important, but still neat feature list of the iPod Touch, there is also a Starbucks Music feature. When you are in a Starbucks, this feature allows you to see information regarding what song is currently playing. This feature will also be pushed to the iPhone. The more prominent part of this feature is that Starbucks will be offering free wi-fi music store access at Starbucks locations to iPhone and iPod Touch users.
In addition to the iPod touch, Apple rebranded the standard iPod model as the iPod Classic. It's very much similar to it's predecessor in design and functionality, but it has an even larger capacity. It comes in either 80GB or 160GB models. I'm eyeing the 160GB version in silver myself. In fact, I just added it to my Wish List on Amazon.com!
Along with the increased storage capacity, it shares a revised user interface with the updated iPod Nano. The new UI features a variation of cover flow, and keeps album info and art on the same screen as your playlist to minimize the number of clicks to get where you want to go.
Aside from the software visuals, it has also been graced with a very sleek, sloped-edge design that's not too far a departure from the original design.
There was also a new iPod Nano! This thing is so tremendously cute! It's very short and chubby and I want one but I can't really justify it with the iPhone, an 80GB 5G iPod, and soon to be 180GB iPod Classic. Alas, whoever can justify it will get spiffy new features. Video for the first time on a Nano, The same revised UI as the iPod classic (complete with coverflow), and an extremely high res screen. If you buy it in 8GB it has some cool "pastelish" colors along with a silver and a black. The other option is a 4GB model (good luck fitting video and music on that) but it only comes in Silver.
Last- but not least, we have the iPod Shuffle, who's only relevant update were different colors and the addition of a Product {RED} model which isn't exactly red but it's for a good cause so I won't gripe too much.
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Bon Voyage Boise...
...Hello home!
I'm on vacation at the moment. I went to stay in Boise for a while, which used to be my refuge for when things her got a little out of my control. It was great because I would see the people I loved and missed and I could fall back into that laid-back "boise" lifestyle. It's a feeling like nothing is dire and everything is going to be OK in the end. That just wasn't there this time around.
People's lives have changed so much in the last 2.5 years that it honestly felt like I wasn't visiting them, but I was visiting the people they had eventually become. I couldn't just pick up right where I left off this time and that kind of hurt. I guess I realized that you can only be a significant part of the lives of those in your immediate proximety. You are pretty much relegated to being a part of the memories of those further away.
There was also this unsettling feeling like they were reliving the past a bit by me just being there. I was like some crazy retro weekend to them. Just a stop-gap of memories before they went back to their current lives.
It's always difficult when you realize how much time has changed the playing field I suppose.
The beneficial part of the whole experience was that I really felt closer than ever to my friends here at home. I was constantly texting Ashley as if to feel like she was there with me. She was like the only thing I talked about the entire time I was in Boise! It felt like I was half a person. That's a really creepy feeling because we aren't even dating...
I did have Austin with me though, which was pretty cool. I stayed at his place and we watched movies and stuff. Austin and I have some very similar core personality traits. We are both home-bodies, we both like indie-esque music. When it comes to movies though, we are very different people. Austin likes him some drama movies. I'm OK with drama, but action, comedy... those are more my gigs.
Oh... did I mention that I got to see a couple new iMacs live and in person?
Boise has a Mac store. It's not an Apple store (as in it's not owned by Apple), it's this cool little store called "Mac-Life" which is superior to the little kiosk Apple stores you would find in a mall, but not quite as swank as the bigger, stand-alone Apple stores you find in the wealthier cities.
They had all sorts of Macs and Mac software. It was fun.
I saw it all through this codeine induced daze though as my Dr. in Boise (yes, I keep a physician there) told me I had broncitis and prescribed with magical cough syrup that made me feel like I could fly and made me literally dream sleep while awake. As in I was resting, and dreaming, and yet still able to stand up and walk around and hold conversations. It was pretty damn swank. I think it's in my best interest to lay off of it though as my broncitis is starting to go away.
I did get to eat at TGI Fridays while I was in Boise as well. This is a huge thing to me. If you've never been there and had their Jack Daniels Flat Iron Steak... well, you simply haven't lived. It's all that and a bag of chips... or rather... a side of garlic mashed potatos. Boise has some great potatos.
So I left Boise is a fairly big hurry on Wednesday, just wanting to get away from that vacant feeling like I was there as a guest not there to visit my former home.
I needed some "personal items" from Wal-Mart on my way home. So I roll up to this dinky town in Oregon (I hate OR by the way. Almost as much as I hate Maine) and I go in, and I'm shopping for "personal items" and all the sudden these TV cameras swoop around the corner and surprise the person in the isle a little ways behind me. They start talking about how she won some sort of local news station contest.. .and there I am "on film" in the background holding "Personal Items."
It was a rather interesting experience and I recalled why it is that I do the majority of my shopping online. So if any of you live in a dinky town in OR and saw me on TV, It's not what it looks like.
Now... off to write my next blog about the swank stuff Apple just announced!
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September 02, 2007
Vacation in Idaho...
... for freedom amongst spuds. I missread the brochure, thought it said studs = )
I'm off to a quasi vacation/doctor appointment in Idaho. Yeah, I know, those two things don't really mix well. I've been having some trouble finding a decent doctor in this area though so I have decided to go back to the senile old coot I used in Boise because, aside from having no bedside manner, he was a decent doctor.
That's the pitstop though. For the most part, while I'm there I'm just going to rest up.
The last two months I've put in WAY too much time at work and I really just need some sort of vacation so this would be it.
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