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I have never, ever watched a trailer more than 5 times on purpose. Let alone in a row. The animation in this will surely be hailed as "groundbreaking" When it premiers.
I hate to admit it, but I'm a bit of a mac fanboy and this seems to be the shrewdest business move yet by the company. Kudos to you Steve Jobs if this rumor proves to be true. Rather than summarize why I think this is such a good investment, I'll let a post that I stole from Mac Rumors do the talking:
You guys haven't seen what's coming. Do you think Verizon is laying Fiber to the premises just because people want 30Mbps download speeds? NO! The Baby Bells are laying the infrastructure for video services over broadband. Video over IP will be the next "big" thing when the pipes to homes get much fatter. The FCC has already made sure that Cable Ops have to keep their services open enough.
The news today that Bush did indeed do coke and smoke pot is small in my mind when compared with his discussion of how to rally support from his Christian support base. Nixon had his tapes aired, now Bush's are out of the bag as well.
Did anyone else get those "So Good" magnets in the mail? My mom is having a bit too much fun with these...
PS: Thanks for the pic Jess! 
My Wacky Mother
This article is basically stating the obvious - one's social surroundings and perspectives will influence the way that they live - but is revealing none the less. A lot can be said about the culture that we live in today and our own selfishness.
"Does what we believe about human motivation matter? In an experimental study of private contributions to a common project, two sociologists from the University of Wisconsin, Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames, found that first-year graduate students in economics contributed an average of less than half the amount contributed by students from other disciplines. Other studies have found that repeated exposure to the self-interest model makes selfish behavior more likely. In one experiment, for example, the cooperation rates of economics majors fell short of those of nonmajors, and the difference grew the longer the students had been in their respective majors."
Ok, this time I've got the mother load of invites.
Just like the last five times I've given these way, the first 50 to comment on this post will get a G-Mail invite. If they are all gone, check gmailswap.com.
This link wouldn't be so interesting if it wasn't sent to me by my own mother. Who would have thought?
Ok, so my post frequency was a bit all-over the place – Sometimes I post every 2 days, while right now it is about 2 months since the last update. I was planning a big year in review, movies lists, best albums of 04 etc.. but life got the best of me. On that note, here is what I have been up to:
1. School, School, School: This has been one of the busiest semesters of my life. Add onto this a job and a girl friend and my amount of free time becomes a negative number. Trust me when I say that I am looking forward to the reading break.
2. I just picked up a brand spanking new iBook, making the big switch. Let me tell you that I am loving it, especially considering that there is free WIFI at school, work and home. Keeping with this lack of time theme, I’ve actually downloaded and installed programs during lectures. Welcome to 2005!
So is Christmas. I'm having some downtime right now, so I guess that this blog is going to be falling to the wayside. Although I did just get a wireless internet outfit for the house at dirt cheap boxing day prices. This is being posted from my room right now. More to come later (maybe a top music of 04 section...
Like much of life, complaining about not having enough time is a truth that borders on cliche. Not to beat a dead horse, (cliche, I know) but this article that I found is one of the most brilliant condemnations of the fast paced life. I guess this is something to remember with myself working two jobs and the Christmas season approaching. Some of my choice quotes are pasted below:
"Ah, but here's the rub: Idleness is not just a psychological necessity, requisite to the construction of a complete human being; it constitutes as well a kind of political space, a space as necessary to the workings of an actual democracy as, say, a free press. How does it do this? By allowing us time to figure out who we are, and what we believe; by allowing us time to consider what is unjust, and what we might do about it. By giving the inner life (in whose precincts we are most ourselves) its due. Which is precisely what makes idleness dangerous. All manner of things can grow out of that fallow soil. Not for nothing did our mothers grow suspicious when we had "too much time on our hands." They knew we might be up to something. And not for nothing did we whisper to each other, when we were up to something, "Quick, look busy.""
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"Time may be money (though I've always resisted that loathsome platitude, the alchemy by which the very gold of our lives is transformed into the base lead of commerce), but one thing seems certain: Money eats time. Forget the visions of sanctioned leisure: the view from the deck in St. Moritz, the wafer-thin TV. Consider the price.
Sometimes, I want to say, money costs too much. And at the beginning of the millennium, in this country, the cost of money is well on the way to bankrupting us. We're impoverishing ourselves, our families, our communities – and yet we can't stop ourselves. Worse, we don't want to.
