My new MacBook Pro (which I’ve named Eve, keep reading) 15.4 inch is here. After travelling through China, Alaska, and Indiana (not to mention Western Massachusetts), it is finally where it belongs.
Why the name? Two reasons. One: Adam and Eve? Eve is the one that takes the apple? Apple computer? Get it? Har. Two: AppleGeeks. In the comic, Hawk (the protagonist), created a robot girlfriend powered by an iPod named Eve, and since Eve kicks 4$$, I figured that the name fit. 😛
TO GARAGE BAND!
I recently installed StumbleUpon (which is great, once you’ve rated some pages), and while stumbling around the Typorganism ASCII-O-Matic was suggested. This thing is great, it lets you upload a photo (sadly it has to be a 60 x 50 jpg, and the colors get a bit messed up) and then choose text or squares, color or b&w, and then it generates the image in ASCII art. It truely is amazing.
I gave it this picture:
(that’s Buddy Christ, for those of you who can’t tell)
And it gave me this:
It even generates the html for you! 😀
While on the Apple trailers page (zomg Clerks 2), I came across this poster:
And I couldn’t help laughing out loud. I opened up the trusty Gimp and spent about an hour crafting this:
😛 For those of you who don’t get it, please watch some Monty Python. It’s the Spanish Inquisition (whom nobody expects). Their main instrument of torture is The Comfy Chair (dun dun dun), so I had to make this picture….
We are teenagers, we need the freedom to do what we want. We are nerds, we need unrestricted access to our computers and the internet. We are boys and gamers, we need to party and we need soda, games, and 24 hours to do so with.
This is my message to my friends’ parents, in response to Cutter’s parents’ being completely…ignorant, to say the least. Read his latest post, and understand his predicament. His parents promised him a party (his parties kick ass, except when his parents make us go to sleep at 1) if he helped set up the graduation party. He did that, and spent all day doing that. Then he had to stay at the party (until 11:30), even after all his friends left (I wasn’t there). By that point there was no point since it would only be an hour and a half until the parents put them to bed. A day wasted doing something he didn’t want to do.
Then, to top it off, his parents lock the door to his basement (where his computer is) the next day. They seem to have this idea that if they don’t let him near his computer, he’ll stop wanting to use it and do better on his homework. Except that by doing that it makes it so that any time he gets near a computer, schoolwork gets shoved to the back and he uses it for whatever the hell he’d be doing if he could be on the computer like a normal person, resulting in no improvement in grades (no offence to Cutter, that’s my opinion there).
This isn’t even as bad as my friend Matt. His parents are extremely strict. He isn’t allowed to drink (real) soda, or eat (good) food (meaning stuff that isn’t organic and naturally flavored), he’s not even allowed to walk home from school. He has an iPod Nano (the first one I ever saw), but his parents always have it because he’s being punished for something or another. He doesn’t have internet access anymore because he’s being punished. He has a RAZR, but when his mom dropped hers in a lagoon she took his for 2 weeks to replace hers before she got her own. He’s starting to rebel though. He wears his hair long now, drinks a coke a day, and (since I showed him how) ignores calls from his mom on his cell :P. He gets yelled at a lot, but I’m proud of him. I don’t like his parents much. 😛
DI’s parents are cool, and so are Noah’s (if a bit oblivious to his true violent nature :P). But still…My parents kick all their butts. Tee hee.
I’m watching the shipping page on FedEx (practically 24/7…Look, I graduated. What do you want for nothing?!), and my MacBook (still no name yet, but someone suggested a good one…Now if only I could remember it) has officially been to more cool places than I have. It came from China (I’ve never left North America), and is now in Anchorage, Alaska (which is more Northern than I have ever been). To get here, it will have to cross the Canadian Border…That’s so cool. I envy my laptop now 😛
I have a feeling I’m going to get it on Tuesday the 27th 🙂
Well, my friend Darth Imperios left for Malaysia today, and is staying there until September 5th. 🙁 Well, have fun DI! I’ll take good care of your computer, no worries 😛
(Speaking of which, I still don’t have my computer yet… 🙁 )
This page is crazymazing. Crazy and amazing. It’s a photo mosaic app, but it’s never-ending. Every image is used with other images to make one larger image, but the image itself is made out of tinier images which are made out of tinier images and so on…It does an amazing job of it, but it tends to repeat images too often, and it even uses an image to make a larger version of the same image, which is cheap. Still, it is amazing.
Grrr. For graduation I got a 15.4″ MacBook Pro, with a 100gb 5200rpm hard drive, 1gb of RAM, a Radeon x1600 Mobility, and also the 2-3 day shipping. We placed the order last night, and today Apple posted the estimated arrival date of my computer:
That’s a full week from now. A full week. And I ordered 2-3 day shipping! I can’t believe that. It’s logical, though. It ships the 23rd because they have to put together my not default model. Then there’s the weekend (nothing ships), then 3 days (to be on the safe side, they use the larger of 2 possible estimates, because it’s 2-3 day shipping), landing on the 28th. I’m going to Cape Cod on the 30th for a week, so I might only get 2 days with my baby before I have to leave it behind…
To make matters worse, my girlfriend is going to Florida tomorrow morning and she gets back during the week I’m away. I might have to bring my laptop.
Also, I need a cool name for my computer. Any ideas?
Today I graduated from 8th grade (yeah I’m pretty young, never mind that. :P). I made a speech at the ceremony, and it was great. 😀
I wore a ThinkGeek tie, which says TIES SUCK in binary. Very cool 🙂 I’ll post some pictures later, but for now…ordering my computer! 🙂
*Phew* After one day, forum.agebuilder.org and www.agebuilder.org are back online, with no hackers or malware present. I would recommend a virus scan on your computer anyway, especially if you’re using IE. 😉
