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well ok, it doesn't. But I finally called up Comcast to see if DVR was available in my area cause I got conflicting info from their website. And lo and behold, it was. For an additional price of $9.95/month. Having it installed on Friday. I will now join the Tivo revolution! 'cept just not with Tivo. Now all I need to do is get an HDTV and I'll be full of tv goodness. Or not. Eh.
Actually at $250 for the value pack and probably $199 for just the unit, it's not too bad.
Went home over the weekend when my mom mentioned that she'd like to check out the flower festival taking place in Chinatown. So we mosied on down there Saturday around noon and I brought my Digital Rebel along with the 50mm f/1.4 which turned out to be a good idea cause the majority of the festival stands was inside a big tent so it was rather dim. So it was a good test of the 50mm's low-light capabilities.
Anyway, while we were there, they announced that Mayor Bloomberg was arriving momentarily but I figured we'd miss him since we were on the way out. But while we were milling about outside the tent, along came the mayor and I managed to get a shot of him:
My mom's reaction to seeing the mayor in person? Predictably, "Wow, he's kinda short." I thought I'd include this picture too since I didn't notice till afterwards that you could see Erin behind the mayor:
More pics after the break...
Just watched the first DVD of Boogiepop Phantom this past weekend thanks to Netflix and I gotta say, I'm hooked. It's a rather dark and macabre story but the way it unfolds is very puzzling and suspenseful. Worth a look.
First, the downer. My Powerbook still hasn't been fixed yet over at Tekserve. Wasted about an hour over there last night waiting to get a status report (that took all of 2 minutes at most) on the repair because their phone service for this kinda thing sucks. Anyway, they're still waiting for a new logic board from Apple so at least I know what the problem is. This is I think the 2nd time in my Apple-using existence that a logic board has konked out on me. I think the same thing happened to my previous G4 Powerbook too.
I missed most of the Super Bowl this past weekend and will refrain from making too many comments about the brewhaha over GoDaddy's ad campaign. But let's look at some numbers shall we?
Total number of ads in Superbowl: 35
Number of traffic fatalities in 2003: 42643
Number of car ads in Superbowl: 6
Number of alcohol related traffic fatalities in 2003: 17013
Number of beer ads in Superbowl: 8
Percentage of alcohol and car ads in Superbowl: 40%
Percentage of alcohol-related traffic fatalities in 2003: 40%
Number of people killed over a domain name: 0
Number of fake people killed over a domain name: 1
Number of people killed by buxom brunettes: a bunch probably but I don't think the US penal institution keeps track of female prisoners and their crimes by cup size
Number of domain name provider ads in Superbowl: 1
Number of wuss COOs in the NFL front office: 1
My Powerbook was finally repaired after only a 2 day delay. Yaaayyy!!!!! Was feeling really antsy after awhile. First thing I did was backup all my photos. =p Strange thing was they not only fixed my dead logic board, they replaced my screen too. Anyhoo, if only the lens I took in to PhotoTech for an estimate was cheaper to repair, it'd be one heck of a nice day. But oh well, still a great day nevertheless. ^o^
Well... turns out that while I've gotten my Powerbook back, it came back with another problem, although rather minor. It no longer goes to sleep when I close the lid nor does it awake from sleep when I open the lid. Gotta manually put it to sleep. So, perfectionist that I am =p, I left home early this morning to see if they could fix the problem quickly. Still had to wait an hour before I actually talked to someone even though I arrived 15 minutes after they opened. =p
Anyway, turns out that no, it can't be fixed while I wait but they can order the necessary part first and then call me when it comes in. Only caveat being I had to bring my laptop in 24 hours after they called at the latest otherwise they'd have to charge me for the part. No problem by me. Funny thing is, the part they need to order is the screen. Which, if you remember (and you should cause I wrote about it just 2 days ago =p), they just replaced along with the logic board. And apparently, if they replace the screen again and the sleep problem still occurs, the next part they'll have to look at is the logic board. Oi vay.
As long as my new screen doesn't have any dead pixels I could care less how many times they swap the damn thing.
In better news, I woke up to a new email from PalmOne notifying me that my Treo 650 was on its way! Unfortunately, the screen protectors that I just purchased for it probably won't arrive for another week or 2. My Bluetooth headset arrived yesterday and even though I bought it to use with the Treo, it currently works great with my K700 although I have to get used to having it hang on the ear. And hopefully my skin case and sync/charge cable will arrive on Monday. Can't wait! ^o^
do you feel secure? Just in case anyone wants to finally find out what Bush's new social security plan is, here's a decent writeup about it on CNN. Personally I think the whole thing's a bunch of hooey. I think the main point through all this is that they need/want to lower the amount for each Social Security check but people might not take that very well so they're wrapping all this extraneous crap around it to divert attention from that central fact. Anyhoo, this administration seems to have a pretty good track record of pushing massive debt onto successive generations so this shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone.
While I'm not denying her obvious hotness (gotta love hapas), this is a bit overboard, even for me.
Although that reminds me, I still haven't found out who the Listerine girl was.
And these too. Curse this addiction!
[UPDATE]: A good writeup/reference on the differences between the upcoming Canon Digital Rebel XT and the 20D. Either way, can't go wrong.
Just testing to see if blogging from the Treo using mo:Blog really works. =)
While visiting Mitsuwa a week or so ago I discovered they had more Gundam Ultimate Operation figurines. So I picked up 2 of the 3 Gundams they had in this new set (Set 7). Didn't pick up the third one cause I didn't like the brown desert pattern that much. And I ignore all the Zeon mecha to begin with. But when I went back the next day to get the brown desert pattern one (I figured I might as well try to collect as much as I can), it was already gone. Ah well. Anyway, just a quick pic of my current set:
These things are pretty fun. All the appendages and weapons are interchangeable apparently but I haven't messed around with that yet. Should be pretty cool though.
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