Steve just always seems to be able to calm me down

Yesterday I ended a post with some pessimistic remarks about apple being destroyed and what not (ok maybe not in so many words but i was thinking it). Well I finished watching the webcast of Steve Job’s keynote and wow he always seems to have a way of calming me right down. Now for some reason I don’t feel too bad about the whole change over to intel. I wont be tattooing bunny rabbits to my thigh and wearing feathers for underwear but I don’t mind the change as much. Its weird to thing think that the one building closest to the onramp for 280 made an OS X intended for intel chips for the last 5 years. I am still, however torn about what to do next. I was going to buy myself a mac at the end of the summer, but then I was like i’ll wait till macworld and then get one cause that is when all the upgrades would come. But then I hear that they will start shipping macintel (god I love that name) by this time next year. However it always is dangerous and often a bad idea to adopt the first generation. The transitions would be complete by this time 2007. I cant wait that long. I didn’t even want to wait for macworld to buy a mac. Right now I am leaning toward screw it I will buy a cheap little intermediate mac with some of the money I make over the summer. I think a mac mini, something i planed to but back in april anywayes, would be a good one to last 3 or 4 years until I buy a good third or fourth generation macintel.

apple got podcasting right

i am right now and i mean right now, watching the webcast of Steve Job's keynote speech at today's WWDC. yea the one where he announced apple would switch over to intel. i havnt gotten to that part yet but i saw this one this that is really so cool. there are a few choice pod casts that i listen, twit being the very best, and i have to say all the podcasting software out there is not that easy to use. everybody likes to say how great and easy ipodder and ipodderX are but i have them and tried using them and they really are not easy at all. they are tough to use and difficult to understand. you can force yourself through it but it really is not very intuitive. well i heard a few months ago that the next version of itunes (4.9 i think) will support podcasting. to be honest i really did not care at all. i just figured it would be some kind of streaming url entering little dialog box but after seeing steve use it for realizies i find i was totally wrong. well as wrong as i can be seeing as how i am infallible. their podcasting system seems so amazingly easy to use and intuitive. it will be sort of embedded into the itunes music store. there will be a section of the store or something with lists of thousands of podcasts that you can just click on and listen to and all it takes to subscribe is a push of a little button. there there is a menu in the playlists area that looks sorta like the internet radio part of itunes now. oh and the best part and my favorite part is that if it is a podcast with music or pics the album art in the corner will change when the song does or the topic or whatever. and even better than that is there can be chapters. you hit some button and a list of chapters and corresponding album art or pics comes up. now i am excited. it will be great until apple goes out of business for switching to intel.

A Breif History of Colonialism

Sorry that most of you have already read/heard this but i am a little bit burnt out right now and I dont feel like coming up with anything new or original. Then why do it you ask? because it again feels like a while since anything was posted here and i have been jonzen for a fix for a while. so i am posting for posting's sake. i guess i have been living too close to hollywood for too long now. anyway, on to the mediocrity.

from my history paper a little while ago:

"Imagine for a moment you are sitting in your room alone, not hurting anything, but content none the less. All of a sudden your unlocked door is kicked open and a strange man comes in. He says how wonderful this place is and how great he is for discovering it. He then claims that all he can see, your entire room and everything in it is now owned by some guy named Steve who apparently this man is not. He then grabs your wallet off of the table it had been resting on and opens it up. He says, “oh and what riches this land will bring to the great Steve. He shall be so proud of m-AACHOO!” The man sneezes and you fall over and die. “Bless me,” says the man as he walks over your fresh corpse to grab some more of your stuff. This would be a familiar occurrence if you were ever colonized by a European power anytime after the sixteenth century."

its no type type type bla bla bla but it will have to do.