Daring Fireball has posted an outstanding & highly detailed review of his new 15″ Powerbook – the same machine that arrived this Tuesday for me (minus the 2GB of RAM in my case).
Powerbook Review
Veterans Day 2005
To all of the military service men and women who serve today – who have served – and who will serve – you have my thanks on this Veterans Day 2005.
Pictures from my 2005 visit to the World War II Memorial.
New Powerbook
Completely unexpected to me, the new Powerbook arrived around 8:15am yesterday morning. Pretty impressive since I had ordered it on Thursday, it was in China on Saturday, and made it to my doorstep on Tuesday.
I’m not complaining, mind you, just impressed.
So here’s some pictures of the unpacking & process:
I used Apple’s transfer process to move over all of my applications and settings from my 3 year old Powerbook over to the new one. Took about two hours in total and I was up and running. Nothing needed to be reinstalled from scratch.
So far, very very happy with the new machine. Really enjoying the fact that the screen isn’t wobbly like my old broken one was.. the lighted keyboard rocks as well.
More to come….
Government Bureaucracy Day
Spent the day with the sidekick getting driver’s licenses (at one location) and license plates (at another location), filing for the Homestead tax exemption, and getting library cards.
Even had to take a knowledge test at the license bureau since I was transferring into Minnesota from out of state.
Fun, fun, fun.
Now to install new license plates.
Library Trip
Finally joined the library, the new reading list looks like this:
“Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center” (Daniel Okrent)
“Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (P.S.)” (Seymour M. Hersh)
“Hunting Down Saddam : The Inside Story of the Search and Capture” (Robin Moore)
“Rumsfeld’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Anti-Terrorist Commander” (Rowan Scarborough)
One reason I join libraries is so that I can read books from people or institutions that I refuse to give money to.. like Seymour Hersh. I refuse to fund this bastard, but I do want to know what he’s saying.
Just Finished: Opus Dei
Tex-Ass
In Texas for the sidekick’s sister’s wedding on Saturday. First vacation in quite awhile that wasn’t related to packing, unpacking, preparing the house for sale, or moving in. And yay for that.