Absurd Singularity

After this, I can't, in good conscience, get anymore gadgets for the rest of the year (In other words, Erin will definitely kill me if I do). Hell even I pondered long and hard about this one. But the price was too good to pass up. Damn you Best Buy and your $350 in-store rebates!

Went to L & L on Fulton today... so good, but not
cheap! Had #1 combo - rice, salad, shredded cabbage,
short ribs, fried mahi mahi and fried shrimp. $8.99.
Almost finished all of it, but I also ordered two spam
musubi. Very tasty too! $2.99. Huge though -- fills up
those styrofoam containers normally used for burgers.
Also bought some Hawaiian drink, "Ahola Maid" -- which
was $1.30 or so. Total was $15. Good thing I biked for
two hours yesterday.

Funny thing is, I think the rice was as good as the
meats. So clean and fluffy! The salads (macaroni and
garden) were a little disappointing. I'm not sure if
you're supposed to eat the shredded cabbage, but I did
anyway.

I wish I took a photo, but I got it before coming to
work.... here's their website:
http://www.hawaiianbarbecue.com/

So for the first time as a Best Buy customer, I let the sales guy talk me into getting their extended warranty for $300. Well, not that he really talked me into it; actually it was more like it was late Sunday afternoon and I just wanted to get home so I didn't want to waste more time arguing with the guy about not buying the damn thing. But I didn't really want the accursed warranty.

So on the way home I kept looking through the warranty brochure for a return policy and lo and behold, you can cancel the warranty within 30 days and get a full refund (as long as you haven't used the warranty within that time to repair the item already). So I figured ok, maybe the people working the Returns & Exchanges counter at the store will care less about warranties than the sales people and not hassle me about it. You would think, right? WRONG!

Problem with being such an early adopter is you have to wait around for all the third-party apps that you're used to to be updated. WeatherPop earns the distinction (if you can call it that) as the first lil' app that I use that released a 10.4-compatible version.

But so far, Tiger itself is pretty sweet. Spotlight is pretty much Apple's souped-up take on LaunchBar so it'll be interesting to see what happens to it after a few months.

Dashboard, while very snazzy, has one major flaw/difference when compared to Konfabulator. It runs a bit more like a traditional app. So you have to hit F12 to activate Dashboard, and then all your Dashboard widgets appear on screen. With Konfabulator however, their widgets actually float on top of your desktop so they feel like they're more constantly available. I like the Konfab way of handling the widgets but the Dashboard widgets are pretty well done.

Oh, and in case anyone does the same as me, the instructions for enabling Postfix (so you can run smtp off your machine) for 10.3 still works.