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What's an intel chip doing in a mac?

Okay, we've all heard the line... a whole lot more than its ever done in a PC. Last week Apple [<3] pulled an unexpected move and threw some intel chips into the iMac and the new macbook, but what does this mean? Apparently these new computers are around five times faster than the previous ones with powerpc chips, but what kind of drm is on these chips, thats what I'm waiting to find out.

I really want to pick up one of these things [but won't for a while due to my lack of expendable cash] so I will continue to drool for now. What I am also interested in is the possibility of running windows quite simply. Now I honestly think that would be blasphemy, I love OSX, but my dad pointed something out to me - what if the only reason a company doesnt buy apple pc's is because they cant run windows? Imagine the possibilities for sales if they can run windows as well as osx at full capacity.

Does anyone have one of them yet? what do you think of it?

Futurama to Return.

Futurama is going to be making a Family Guy-esk return to television.... Which has been a long time coming, in my opinion. This is such a good show, I can't believe it took so long to come back. I am so happy about this news.
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Counting Change.

So over the past month I started working in the store as a cashier at my job at a gas station-call it a promotion from full surve-but I have realized a few things. The main thing I realized is that pennies have no monetary value. If you pump $19.97 or $20.03 worth of gas either way you are going to hand me a $20, and neither of us are going to ask for change.
So my suggestion? Drop the penny, and the nickel and dime while you're at it... but at least the penny. Rounding to the nearest $.05 wont make a difference, if $.02 is down and $.03 is up then I think we will have a lot less change weighing our pockets down. Personally I wouldnt mind going to just quarters [and in my country loonies and toonies ($1 and $2)]. Rounding up and down at $.12 and $.13 it will all even out in the end. Pennies nickels and dimes used to do a lot when a chocolate bar was $.10, but when it comes to $1.37 with tax i wouldn't mind just going to the nearest quarter, i usually just put the small change aside anyways.

Bite the Bullet.

As we progress in this world it has become clear that there are two sides, the DRM people, and the anti-DRM people... unfortunately the drm people are the people making the products I use all the time, and the anti-DRM people are the consumers like myself. This means that soon enough everything will include DRM, so we are all going to have to bite the bullet and find ways around it.

Quest for the Perfect Idea...

So for a couple of years now I have wanted to write a cartoon tv show, but I am stumbling with the idea for the show. I wrote a pilot [I guess you could call it that] of a cartoon for my grade 12 english class final project and got a really good mark on it about a beverly hillbillies style plot where a redneck white trash family comes into some money and moves from a stereotypical southern united states to a stereotypical los angeles, but I never went back to the idea-maybe I should.

Tonight I was trying to think of an idea so I decided to list some of the cartoons I like and why I like them. There are the usuals, south park, simpsons, family guy, an then a couple lesser known/lesser enjoyed ones such as futurama and undergrads. So after making this list of cartoons I enjoy watching I tried to think of reasons why I liked each show, and common themes of great characters, quick wit, and good ideas quickly came about. But these are the basic necessities of any show, so what sets these shows apart from anything else? I think the plausable application to real life, yet completely out-there stories help to make these shows what they are. Still, I think to myself and cannot come up with a good reason why these shows alone can make me happy.

Despite the fact that they are not even real people I fall in love with the characters, fry and bender, peter, brian and stewie, stan, kyle, kenny and cartman, nitz and jesse, and of course homer and bart are just drawings, but I love them, they appeal to me... does this mean I have the i.q. of a piece of paper? Am I an idiot for loving cartoons? Why do cartoons bring me to tears of laughter I feel sad for fry when he doesn't get leela in those emotional episodes of futurama? Hell, I don't even feel emotions for actual people in sitcoms, I don't feel sad for eric when donna dumps him, but I can't take my eyes off the screen when nitz is having trouble with kimmy but doesn't even realize jesse likes him.

How is it that cartoons are that much better than anything else on tv? How can I write a cartoon that people will love as much as I love south park, or family guy? Do I need some sort of weird plot like futurama or is a basic everyday plot like undergrads or family guy okay, and what do I need to do to make people feel for my characters? I guess if I knew the answers to these questions I would have my cartoon and everyone would love it, but as for now I am still on the quest to write something that people will like and can't wait each week until it is on, just as I do for the other cartoons.

Apparently Apple reads my blog...

...or maybe not, but check out this old post I made way back on June 1st of this year about my suggestions for the new iPod. I go on to say "What about the ability to connect your iPod to your TV (or other screen) and play the movies you have saved on it." Wow did I hit the nail on the head with that one, it kinda creeped me out when I went back and read it yesterday.

On a similar note I went to Best Buy today and got a chance to really take a look at the new iPods. I can't believe how Apple continues to make these things that much better... The nano is so small and [despite scratch-ability] it is one of the coolest looking iPods thus far. The iPod [with video] is so sweet, not only does it have a bigger screen, but it also cut down on thickness of the device while keeping up the storage capacity. The only problem is that I got a 4G 20 gig iPod with photo just a couple months ago, so I am not in the market right now... but I guess I wouldn't mind having a second iPod, a smaller one for when I'm on the go. Still the coolest device in my opinion.

Years of google.

via Digg, Link.

The above is a link to a post on a message board where someone put up many of google's logos over the past few years. Check it out and see how many of them you can remember, my personal favourites are the salvador dali and the one of the guy drawing hit own hands.

Update: apparently google also has an archive of these logos.

When all the cold pizza is gone...

Okay, so it's 2:00 am on a saturday night and you're staving... all that's left is those burgers you thought you could eat earlier that week. Ewww, gross, soggy, slimey, disgusting buns on cold meat with gross vegetables and stale fries; I don't want to eat that, but it's all I have. Well if you're in this situation, single guy [or girl] with an empty stomach and similar fridge then you should try the method my friend/roommate Josh concocted.
We had gotten burgers earlier from Burger King [whopper wednesdays] and of course had gotten more than we could eat so we put some in the fridge. Later when we went to get our burgers out of the fridge they were even soggier than when we originally got them, so after putting them in the microwave for a minute they came out so disgusting we were ready to throw them out... Until Josh had a stroke of genious and decided to put his burger in the toaster oven; this toasted the soggy bun and solved the original problem, the bun was no longer soggy but nice and crisp.
This theory is similar to Quizno's theory on toasting subs [however when a meatball sub from Subway get soggy I dont mind]. According to Quizno's 'Everything's better toasted', and they seem right on the money with that one.

The Aristocrats

So last night I saw one of the funniest things in my young life. Honestly I am not exaggerating, this is the single funniest thing I have ever seen [in the past week, I can't remember anything before that]. There is this movie-The Aristocrats-about this joke that 100 comedians tell in their own way, I am yet to see this but this is the joke as told by cartman of southpark.

Link.
Warning: WILL offend.

I almost crapped myself whilst watching this rather hilarious scene. Enjoy.