Good Bye Unused POTS… a bit late

• contacted ISP 2 go DSL w/o the phone line. need 2 cancel w/ my POTS 1st. attempted 2 do that on the web. failure. 2 many hoops,wiil try l8r #
i hate being honest, DSLextreme would wave the “move” fee ($60) 4 dryloop if i sign up 4 a new year, but i maybe outta here in june, ack #

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Music: Mac OS Ken: Day 6 No. 2 from the album “Mac OS Ken: Day 6″ by Ken Ray

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Macarthur Leaves Mainstream News ‘Cause They Don’t Get It

It’s no news that mainstream media doesn’t get it, but it speaks to Amber Macarthur’s character and values that she’d rather take her smarts and talent home versus becoming a network talking head.

It seems clear that the model is no longer for citizen-journalists and blogs to espouse to become part of the mainstream machine but for them to use their tools to build the community that will make the “mainstream” into the “once was.” jbb

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Why Playing “Keys” is Better than Guitar

Amazing Young Organ Player Rocks Out – Watch more free videos

And why “GH” is for posers… and I’m a guitar player, so I should have some insight into the matter. jbb

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Adrift

“The same is true of ships. They are very big and are driven by strong winds. Yet, by using small rudders pilots steer ships wherever they want them to go.” James 3:4

I’ve been adrift for some time. And I’m by no means at all sure of my course, location or destination. But in the smallest possible, possibly meaningless way, I felt a small wisp of hope Friday.

I don’t know how others go from tragedy, to disappointment, to failure, and still come out praising god and proclaiming that all is right in the universe. I go through the minor inconvenience of loneliness and seemingly persistent unanswered prayers to find meaning in a mate, and I’m pitched in the direction of not being able to hear His voice at all. I hate the notion that my core philosophy on life and spirituality is so dependent whether my social invisibility and lack of any intimacy in my life gets the better of me or not. How can the truth of ones life be so entirely self-centered? I don’t know. An e-harmonette from two years ago contacted me last week, and Friday she agreed to meet me for coffee Sunday afternoon. She preferred the afternoon ’cause she has a Biblestudy in the evening. Sometime after that conversation and listening to the late Mark Heard I remembered a small touch of hope I’d seemed to have lost.

I don’t have any illusions beyond finally meeting this friend and possibly finding someone to share my long neglected love of sushi with. But that was enough for me to actually entertain the possibility of going to church this next Sunday, or maybe even learn a few Mark Heard songs. It scares me that I can toy with the idea that Faith is largely delusion and then decide that life is still okay, just ’cause an attractive brunette returned my call. Obviously this story is far from done. jbb

I’m In Chains from the album “Stop the Dominoes” by Mark Heard

ps., I really miss Mark Heard…
All typos courtesy my iPhone

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Back in SoCal, Life Returns to “Normal”

• First day back w/ the kids. i miss macworld… #
• Worked on the school’s info/PR brouchure Tuesday, job well done thought I, sent it via email to the printers, IT blocked it 4 being oversized. ack #
• While I was @ MacWorld, my sub took a notebook from my kids that had the yearbook’s interviews, all of them, now it’s MIA, $h*t!!! #
• Friday, love you, but I’m a week being yearbook deadline and need to produce 40 in 3-days. Yeah! #
• wow, that made no sense, week “behind” yearbook deadline and 40-pages needed to produce… yikes #
• So, the net result of reporting broken computers in my lab is IT, playing w/ the settings causing the remaining computers 2 stall or fail #

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Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds

While we wait for moi to post my macworld pix & vids here’s Mahalo Daily’s compression of Steve Job’s keynote speech. Very creative, guys…

BTW, besides chatting with Geek Brief’s Cali Lewis (right), I met the adorable Veronica Belmont (left), who commented on the Gelaskins cover on my iPhone… [sigh]…

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Life Back to Normal

• World is back 2 normal: watching GB v. NYG @ Taco Beach – only women here are employed by TB. Life is weird that way. #
• So, NYG squeaked one on GB, Pats plane will have to go down for them to lose the SB. yawn. GB v. Pats would have been a better game. Zzzz #
• Fustrated, 2 hard disks failed 2 mount on mac os x, running drive genius & getting no love. dealing w/ the possible loss of photos & vids #

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Music: GBTV #0297 (medium) | GeekBrief.TV from the album “GeekBrief.TV | Medium Format” by Cali Lewis

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Computer Games on a TV look like Crap & Why Kids Love ‘em Anyway

K, I can troubleshoot the hell out of an lab-full of aging CRT iMacs with 35 energetic 12-year and 13-year olds pounding these relics from the late 90s into submission. But some things get past me. I mean, over Christmas break when I finally got around to seeing if I could get some of my old PC games to run on my MacMini, which is connected to my old school CRT standard def TV, it dawned on me: games meant for a PC monitor look like crap on a standard def TV. My DVD collection and video podcasts look great on the 10-year-old 36-incher. But even the first gen Age of Empires was completely illegible on my TV. Damn. And Duh!

But because I use the TV mostly for DVDs and don’t even watch broadcast TV on it (’cause I cut the cable over a year ago), I have a hard time justifying buying something fancier. I don’t know, it seems silly. But then again, I am the guy who just spent a shit-load on an external back-up system (le drobo) and three 500GB hard drives when it became clear that the drives I was hoping to use from my G4 tower were … um, of the wrong vintage. Damn.

I don’t know why I keep feeling the pull to get into computer games. I’ve never really been a gamer. But part of me feels like interactive computer environments are going to be a serious part of education. I mean, they already are a part of any kid who spends any time on them; girls on chat and myspace and boys on some MMORPG or pr0n. Ack. On a marginally related note: Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, the genius behind the “Zero Punctuation” game reviews, rocks:

Music: (I Know) I’m Losing You from the album “Earth Tones: The Essential Rare Earth” by Rare Earth

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I think I Have A Real Gadget-Addiction Problem: drobo

drobo “the data robot” just arrived, I’ve absolutely no time 4 new stuff b4 macworld, but that’s never stopped me b4. Mtaskng: write & setup a new techtoy #

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Music: Save The Day from the album “My Private Nation” by Train

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fiRst daY bAck

• wahhh, xmas break officially over today. i miss sleeping in already #
• definitely 1st monday back. Got all the macs up & running but students couldn’t access their folders, i forgot 2 turn 2 turn on the server’s external hard drive. ack! #

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Music: eMaccast 2008.01.08 from the album “MacCast (Enhanced) – For Mac Geeks, by Mac Geeks” by Adam Christianson (Mac Geek), Victor Cajiao, Ken Ray

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