It's all about the anticipation.

For the Bee (and maybe bds)

Just ordered a new G5 iMac off the Apple Educational Store (wife's a tutor at a local school).  Will let you know how I like it when it gets here (coupla weeks so they say).  Can't wait to get my hands on with Panther - and some real speed after 5 years w/my trusty Blueberry iMac which is starting to show its age, as evidenced by its last trip to the hospital.  Kids'll get that one once scrubbed of the apps and data they don't need.  Gonna get a new Canon PIXMA i5000 printer too.

Bee

Tiger's not out yet.  It was just seeded to developers.  I heard release is going to be like March 05.  I'd get it if I could.  Panther will be great for now (Jaguar's all I'm on at moment  ).  And yes I am getting the 20" version.

Frankly, it's been my observation (and others) that Jaguar is more stable. You'll have to let me know what you think.

Yep.  Close associate of General P (for Protection) Fault of the 2000th Windows Brigade.

Is it just my lousy puter, or is this site getting sloooooow?

Is it just my lousy puter, or is this site getting sloooooow?

I think there is a wreck somewhere on the information highway.  This site is intermittent slow and fast.  Another site I post on has been slow too.

..... infamous 'press any key to continue....

A tech I know just swears that that question has really been asked, repeatedly, in all seriousness.  And that the business about "it's totally dead" "is the power on?" really happens.

Don't know if he's pulling my leg or not.

That game is SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 23 to cilantro ... gee, I wonder how I ever thought up that "object." It might have gotten there quicker if I'd have said cilantro was smooth. Smooth as opposed to what? Rough? Acidy? Chunky?

Added to the crazy site folder.

I hope it's not a homeland security trick to get our data.

'S'ok. I have connections with them peeps. 

A lot of people love television but apparently some people have had enough of it, too. A new keychain gadget that lets people turn off most TVs — anywhere from airports to restaurants — is selling at a faster clip than it would take most people to surf the channels on their boob tubes.

"I thought there would just be a trickle, but we are swamped," the inventor, Mitch Altman of San Francisco, said Monday in an interview. "I didn't know there were so many people who were into turning TV off."

Hundreds of orders for Altman's $14.99 TV-B-Gone gadget poured in Monday after the tiny remote control was announced in Wired magazine and other online media outlets. At times, the unexpected attention overloaded and crashed the Web site of his company, Cornfield Electronics.

The keychain fob works like a universal remote control but one that only turns TVs on or off. With a zap of a button, the gizmo goes through a string of about 200 infrared codes that controls the power of about 1,000 television models. Altman said the majority of TVs should react within 17 seconds, though it takes a little more than a minute for the gizmo to emit all the trigger codes.

Altman, 47, first got the idea for TV-B-Gone a decade ago when he was out with friends at a restaurant and they found themselves all glued to the perched TV instead of talking to each other. No one was around to turn the TV off.

The self-described geek with a masters in electrical engineering started tinkering full-time on the project a few years ago with help from money he had earned from a company he co-founded, data-storage maker 3ware Inc.

Altman remembers spending most of his childhood unwittingly captivated by TV, watching shows like "Gilligan's Island" and others, whether they were entertaining or not.

He quit as an adult and hasn't owned a television since 1980.

He has tested the TV-B-Gone remote discreetly in many places, including in other countries, and — with the exception of Hong Kong — says he usually gets little to no reaction from others after the background TV noise and glare disappears.

But he said he would never dare silently kill the machines in places like sports bars, where patrons expect TVs to be on.

"I can be mischievous, but I'm not going to do anything malicious, and I don't want to make anyone's life more difficult," Altman said. "I just don't like TV, and I'd like people to think more about this powerful medium in their lives."

Altman does not contend that all TV is bad. "There's just so little time in all of our lives," he said. "Why should we spend so much time on something we don't necessarily enjoy?"

So beware: Next time you're at a Laundromat or restaurant, the blaring TV might just mysteriously turn off.

Yo, Bart, o master of eBay:

I really really want to get this item...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...8142818298&rd=1

...but I always lose eBay auctions on things I really want to last-minute bidders.

Can you offer any advice, like should I bid now, or will bidding so soon start running up the price?  Should I wait to see what happens?  Put in a really high bid like $50 an hour or two before it ends?  Or ?????

Thanks for the advice.  I really really really want it, and it's pretty much a one of a kind.  Haven't seen one of these in 3 years of watching.

So set the bid you are willing to pay, and place the bid on esnipe using a weird number.  For instance, $24.87. 

Interesting business model.  It puts non-users of the auxillary bidding system at a disadvatage.  It also changes the nature of the auction, perhaps in a parasitic way which threatens the host auctioneer.

Interesting business model.  It puts non-users of the auxillary bidding system at a disadvatage.  It also changes the nature of the auction, perhaps in a parasitic way which threatens the host auctioneer.

So THAT'S how I end up locked out in the last 3-4 minutes of an auction!

Waaahhh!  That's cheating!

Very quick.

Gets delivered today, and yes, the office now has a place for it. Actually there's now a place for the old Blueberry slot-loader.

Can't wait to see how easy/hard the data and account transfer set-up is going to be, plus the new router (both wireless and wired - planned for possible future laptops).

I was shown today's cool site as an example of where Internet
Web design is heading. It's full of flash and also, movies that
are available instantaneously and without having to wait for another
window to open.

There are two parts to the site. One shows stunt planes that perform
acrobatic moves high in the sky. Now imagine those planes going really
fast and maneuvering through obstacles on the ground that are only 30 -
45 feet apart and 60 feet high!

Red Bull puts you in the cockpit of a stunt plane as it goes through
one of these courses for Air Race. There's a link to a game that lets
you maneuver your own stunt plane.

You'll also find video and information on an extreme sport called
supermoto. It's a motorcycle event that combines road and dirt
track racing.

You're going to need a broadband connection and a fairly fast computer
(at least a 1 gigahertz processor). This site is as intense as the
sports it covers.

TO VISIT THIS SITE, GO HERE:
http://www.redbullcopilot.com/

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Kim

Set-up and data transfer could not have been easier - from opening the box to transfer to installation of the new router for both the old Blueberry and the new G5 about 40 mins.  And I was being extra careful at each step!

Quiet, fast, sharp display (flicker-free LCD at 1680 x1024 native), and screen real estate to burn!  The readable area is just huge compared to the old CRT iMac, different aspect ratio as well - hmmmm - wonder what a letter-boxed DVD looks like on this screen?