Turns out Anandtech has started providing some Mac coverage. Anand starts off with A Month with a Mac: A Die-Hard PC User’s Perspective providing his take on the Mac experience to the “uninitiated” with a hefty Dual-G5 desktop. This led to the mobile experience with a Powerbook. Most recently, he’s taken a look at the Mac mini.
Archive for January, 2005
Went to the Castle Theater in Bloomington yesterday with Amanda to see Raiders of the Lost Ark. Really outstanding theater setup. Instead of the usual uncomfortable, cramped stadium seating, the Castle has a set of squishy couches and loveseats. Much more enjoyable experience. Raiders is such a classic.
Macworld has lots of good coverage on the Mac mini. They’ve got a nice review with benchmark results, discussion of some of the available options, and even some cool findings (looks like some of the 40GB machines come with 5400rpm drives instead of 4200, and some systems may come with faster RAM, but I don’t know whether it’s actually being clocked any higher than PC2700). They’ve got coverage on disassembly with lots of pictures (opening it up and stripping it down to bare components). They compare it against a “comparable” Dell, and even provide a decent FAQ.
I’ve decided to work a bit on porting over some of my old content to the new site/format. So far, I’ve converted over the pages about the senior design project I developed with John, the UR-5beta. Figure I may put up a copy of my public key at some point, but since the only one I use with any regularity is already up at my CRHC site, I’m not sure there’s much point. I’ll probably put the archived copy of TacoLand up too, but that won’t really require any porting, since I’ll leave it in its original format. Not sure I’ll bother with much else. While the “Malaise” site was an interesting experiment, I’ve never been all that happy with the layout, so aside from a few of the graphics I developed… it’s not all that interesting. I may start a new album in my gallery to house my “original works” that weren’t photogarphic in nature, but that’s probably it for now.
Blah blah blah. Back to work you lazy bum!
Got a couple of song lyrics related websites for you. I rarely have a clue what the artist/author means when they create something, be it abstract painting, poetry, or song lyrics. So I found songmeanings.net of some interest. On a related note, have you ever heard little kids singing a song (or the pledge of allegience). As a group, they usually sound about right, but if you listen to them individually, you hear some rather bizarre stuff that sounds about right, but is totally wrong. Well, kissthisguy.com is full of stuff like that. The domain name comes from Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” (”Scuse me, while I kiss this guy…” vs. “kiss the sky”). According to the site, Hendrix was even aware of this common mishearance (?), and would play it up sometimes live.
