Gadget Dudes’ Disease, Continued

brother matt said regarding my bad luck w/ gadgets that that is a sign that I need to simplify… If it was only that simple #

So, how did I spend my Christmas day and the week? Juls’ computer at home hasn’t been working for a couple weeks and my son is soon going to be moving to Northern California sans-computer, so I decided to put together two systems for them from the various retired PC hardware bits tucked away in my apartment. Yeah, I’m a geek. Simplify, ha! Now my apartment is buried under with the bones of three dismantled PCs in the pursuit of putting together two other systems. Ack.

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Vacation = Nonstop-Teching Out

• hi ho hi ho, off to Fry’s to return the wrong size memory I go… #

• twitter’s been down all day, Saturday just cancelled and i’m still loading software that no one will care about… i need a beer #

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Happy Christmas, Data

Really corny “Christmas Story” StarTrek:TNG-style…

Thanks Rhea C via Pownce for this one.

• merry christmas y’all… heading to sis’ to see the rest of the tribe, looking forward to share more of my brother’s homebrew. all is good #
• merry Christmas y’all may u find great peace, love and affection 2 day and everyday! #

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Holiday Sweater.. Happy Christmas

A little twisted, but funny Holiday video.

Thanks Veronica Belmont for the heads-up on this one via Twitter (she’s in the first few seconds of the video. She says, “No, I’m not one of the chicks making out…” Damn).

Happy 60th Birthday Transistor

The little device that changed is all. Check out the drama behind the invention at PBS’ Transistorized. (Leo Laporte mentioned this last Sunday as being invented on the 16th… obviously a highly controversial date…. ). jbb

Gadget Dudes’ Disease

So, two weeks off, what to do? In view of my recent problems with gadgets one might think that I’d want to take a vacation away from the tech. Alas, it’s a sickness. I mean, I woke up this morning thinking about how i can “fix” things, like when iTunes breaks on the MacMini because the G4 sometimes gets “lost” for no known reason. It’s a disease. I know. I was flipping through some old “pre-blog” journals and i used write a lot more about my set-up, thinking out loud through whatever tech problem i was dealing with. So, be thankful that i only do this like whenever vacation time hits. Drobo, I’ve got Drobo on the brain.

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The Growing Tech Carnage Around Me

I’m concerned. Things are breaking around me and it’s really beginning to get really expensive. The bad part is that I’ve been so busy that I’ve had to just brush it off and keep going until I find time to deal with it. In late October I had a 19″ LCD start to flash off and on when it’d wake from sleep or at boot-up. Then after I upgraded to Leopard my Matrox DualHead2Go, which lets me connect two LCDs to my MacBook Pro, made everything look green (the red part of the spectrum was “lost”). Then a little over a week ago I was in a hurry to leave and I couldn’t get my expensive Jawbone bluetooth headset to disconnect from it’s charger and I managed to break the part that fits in your ear when I wrestled it from the wall. Argh… Then tonight, long 13-hour day, I disconnected my iPhone from the audio jack in my car and plugged in my V-Moda Vibe Duo earbuds and there’s no signal in the left channel. Holy Shit! (Fortunately, when I tested the iPhone with another pair of earbuds there was sound in the left channel so it was the earbuds and not the iPhone… Ack!). I do not want to even calculate the technology carnage that seems to be growing around me. Damn… I wonder how many of these things I bought with my AMEX card and whether “buyer protection” can save my ass. Ugh. JBB

Music: Daily Giz Wiz 462: Mp4Watch from the album “Daily GizWiz” by Dick DeBartolo with Leo Laporte

p.s., 12/20/07 7:01: One of my Ott-Lite fluorescent desklamps just burned out!!!

Verizon’s Just-Like but Better (Kind’a) Phone

Reading the latest “return to us” brochure from Verizon, I noticed that their next-gen phone, Voyager, looks an awful like another phone released last June (image on the left from brochure). But when I went looking for images of the Voyager on the Internet most of them were slightly turned, perhaps to lessen the obvious “we’re a iPhone knock-off” aspect of the phone. Interestingly they boast a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, differing themselves from that other touch-screen phone [feigned disgust], ah, and the profile also reveals that the Voyager is much… thicker. jbb

Sick Day in December

• 2nd sick day of the school year (1st was in September). Chicken soup tastes good. sub plans need to be finished, then needed slumber. zzzzz #
• home, sick w/ the first cold of the season making breakfast b4 going back to bed, listening to live macbreak weekly #

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Sunny Sunday… love the blinky lights

• Sunday morning, why do you have 2 be so bright when all I want 2 do is build a pillow fort? Opps, left Xmas lites on all night. Happy place. #

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