Yes – you have heard it first. My braces are finally coming off – over 3 years of agony. I don’t mean agony as in pain but as in not being able to take care of my teeth. There is nothing like eating food and walking away with a mouthful of food stuck to your braces!
2 weeks and counting – the clock is ticking away…
TTYL
Bill
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“No, Bill… please do not hold in your feelings – this isn’t very healthy of you keeping all your emotions bottled up. You must learn to release!”
Ummmh…. OK!
Seriously – I just caught Oliver’s rant on how LEOPARD (Mac OS X 10.5) is the new VISTA. What a load of B.S. Another opinion, under the guise of an expert reviewer from a leading journal (PC Magazine), that deserves a counter point.
Yes, spaces is more of an ‘Applized’ version of what we really wanted and it doesn’t lend itself to be very functional.
I am not particularly fond of the Time Machine either – but it is made to work with the way the standard user would interact with it. What a great concept to have your local machine do automated snaps of the filesystem. Now my father-in-law doesn’t have to worry about a file he deleted accidentally a month ago. I would like there to be an ADVANCED button for Time Machine to specify the snaps and intervals and folders – I obviously don’t need a snap of my LIBRARY – I just give a damn about my HOME directory.
I will also concede that are some cosmetic nuances that need work – but I like the new dock. Get your reading glasses fixed. I can see the blue dot fine. Yes a black triangle on a semi-opaque white dock stands out more – again – maybe a setting in the Control Panel to increase the size of the dot? or the Intensity (hint, hint, Apple).
I like the clean nature of the OS, in general. Haven’t crashed once. I am running on two systems… a 1st Gen Intel iMac 2.0 which is an upgrade-in-place 10.4 Tiger system – this is my main system. my second system is a Nov 2006 Macbook – formatted fresh with Tiger.
All patched and lovin’ it – as for VISTA, I installed on a very decent Quad Core 2.4 GHz PC (my gaming system) and used it for about 3-4 days – I liked the look in the beginning – but then the sluggish nature of the OS got me thinking I needed to upgrade my system. I cannot stand the UCE either – what type of security simply only asks you to push a button to do something. HELLO – that is where most of the spyware bullshit comes from anyway – Some Yahoo, up late at night, surfing for PORN or some shit and a web page this dimwit stumbles across has a button and says “Push Me and You Can Download All the PORN You Want!” and what does the dimwit do? Pushes the damn button.
At least with Mac OS X, it makes sure you are who you say you are and forces you to AUTHENTICATE to install something on the system.
So, Oliver Rist… feel free to rant all you want – that is the American Way – that is your opinion and you are entitled to it. But My opinion is that remediating to Tiger, might prove you know less about the system than you portray. Go back to Tiger – Enjoy it – it definately was and is a good OS.
My two cents.
Bill
So I am browsing the Internet, minding my own business, reading news articles here and there and I happen upon what I can only fathom is a horribly written opinion piece on the recent (a few hours) demise of Sean Taylor, 24 year old safety for the Washington Redskins.
Found HERE.
So I am reading the ‘opinion’ piece and the title alone is very inflammatory and already relays how the article-op piece will be played out on the digital gridiron field, called MSNBC.
Here is the title:
Taylor’s death is tragic, but not surprising
Redskins player’s checkered path might have led him to being killed
What the hell is that supposed to mean? His ‘checkered’ path doomed him to having a person break into his home – his past caused that man to bring a gun with him – his past, further condemned him to death? The point of the article does relate (down at the bottom) that it is a matter of consequences and thinking through your actions before you do it. I got news for this reporter – if someone comes into my house at 2 or 3 AM in the morning – they better have a gun, because if it comes down to protecting my wife and kids – I will kill any sucker that attempts to do me or my family harm. And I didn’t have a ‘checkered’ past.
It is called being a MAN and protecting your family. Sean Taylor was a hero who was protecting his family – he wasn’t being a THUG on the street corner.
This isn’t a Kenny Rogers song – I don’t have to know when to fold ‘em or know when to hold ‘em. I have to know when to protect my family against an intruder and in a split second, I would do the same thing – and I might be the victim who dies.
But what incenses me the most is the authors usage of the victim’s RACE as a marker for violence.
…why another young black man is now dead from a gunshot wound in his own home…
That statement alone condems the opinion piece to be nothing more than sensationalistic drivel that deserves nothing but condemnation – race has nothing to do with the issue at hand, in my opinion.
Anyway – I don’t think this type of journalism lends any credibility to the online news sources. This is part of the reason I cancelled my subscription to the Mercury News in San Jose – too much of this type of writing in normal articles.
My two cents.
Bill
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