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Thick

I went to get my hair cut yesterday. I’ve been going to the same place for like 8 years and see the same woman everytime. I called in the morning and made an appointment. It comes time to go and I wander down there, walk in and just sit down. The girl at the desk was busy with another customer but having been a regular for the past 8 years, I felt no need to annouce my reason for being there. “Hi, you must be Mark?” The inflection in her voice telling me that she actually didn’t know. “Um, yeah…”

I ignore it and go in. After the usual pleasentries we get down to business; “So what do you want?” “Well, it’s getting cooler, so I’d like to grow it out a little, so let’s not take much off; you know, just a trim…”

40 minutes later, I have a full summer hair cut with my hair parted on the wrong side. “Do you want a blow dry?” “No, if you blow dry my hair I’ll walk ot of here looking like Oral Roberts. I don’t even own a comb let alone a blow dryer…” She immediately goes for this gooey shit that she always tries to put in my hair. It feels like bacon grease and I swear I have to shampoo 3 times to get rid of it. “Uh, I hate that stuff, do you have anything else? Just something light so it doesn’t get frizzy”

Every time the same thing… Blowdry? No. Part? Opposite side that I came in with. Bacon grease? No thank you. And $35 for my trouble.

Having another go

I’ve decided to turf my tech site. Given that my blogging has fallen off, I’m not sure why I thought having two sites would be a good idea. I still don’t know how much I’ll be blogging but this might be a start. I did have fun putting the page together; I still enjoy it more blogging though.

In other news that know one cares about, my iPod (that’s number two for those of you keeping track) is back at Apple . Less than a week after I got it, I started seeing the same lock ups that I did with iPod number one. *fumes*

After I got my PowerBook, I reformatted the iPod to use Apple formatting and started syncing with the PowerBook. Same problem. I really thought (hoped) it was something to do with my Windows machine, but apparently not.

Well, alrighty then. Let’s ease into this and not over do it on our first day back in the blogosphere. Late…

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One week in

Well, it’s one week into my move to Appledom and it’s blissful. I know my way around OSX pretty well due my previous jobs but the PowerBook is all new to me.

I’ve moved my pictures over and a few of my documents but I’ve decided to make a clean break from my previous computing life and start anew. My old W32 box will always be around so there’s no point in moving everything off of it.

Some thoughts in point form (because point form takes up more room and makes it look like I’m actually blogging something meaningful)

  • light sensing keyboard. too cool for words
  • trackpad. use 2 fingers to scroll and navigate back and forth, 1 to move the cursor. very nice but takes a little getting used to
  • mail2. awesome spam filter, kinda odd interface, smart folders rock. good enough
  • dashboard. sad ripoff of Konfabulator, so I just use Konfabulator now that it’s free.
  • spotlight. finds everything, no stupid dogs
  • airport. who knew wireless was cool? ;)

    • Apple could up with an updated PowerBook anytime and I’d be fine with it; this thing is everything I could want in a laptop. I’m going to pickup a hard drive enclosure and throw in one of the spare hard drives that currently litter my apartment. Maybe another stick of RAM too but both of these items are just nice to have.

    I think the only thing that was missing was some of that lovely, protective film…

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