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Wednesday May 31st 2006

Potpourri:

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I got some kudos for a lil’ mini-movie I did with a Brent Simon track and Google Earth. I believe this is the first time I’ve ever received an award on the internet for something. Yeah, and you thought internet awards went out of style in the late 90’s. Ha!

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I got schooled on my own message board by a hawesome fan because I wrote the phonetic M as MEXICO instead of MIKE (they are typically written in all caps). However, it was cool someone actually noticed. I use MEXICO for the the M because my father always says it as such, as did most of his amateur radio friends in the K1MUJ club.

And in case everyone didn’t realize it by now, yes, I am the guy who runs hawesome.com. People are still going there daily. People are still linking it all over the place. People still can’t get enough of Shane saying "HO DUDE.. FUCKIN’ HAWESOME!" and so on. Unfortunately it has not acquired a Wikipedia entry yet. I was hoping it would. Maybe someday. :-)

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Speaking of Pop, he should be heading to Inverness in less than a month. At some point in the next few weeks he should be about sixty-ish miles north from me.

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Work has been going well. Can’t complain, really. Even if I did have reason to complain, I wouldn’t blog about it (The Golden Rule: Never blog about work). :-) There is one thing I have noticed from the hardware I’ve been working on concerning laptops, and that is the best laptops ever made are only manufactured by two companies: IBM and Apple.

Out of all laptops I’ve seen come my way that are over ten years old, the ones that run the best are the Thinkpads and the Powerbooks - no doubt about it. The LCD displays are still in very decent shape, the keyboard keys all work, the hard drives still spin up and do their thing, and yes, you can use them.

Were I to pit the Thinkpad against the Powerbook, the Thinkpad comes out on top there. The chassis are better and the screens last longer.

Funny thing about the older Powerbooks is that if you were to use it as they were meant to be used (no network connectivity whatsoever, minimal graphics apps and printing), those laptops actually perform quite well - even today. If you needed something that was graphical in a minimal sense, simple and easy, a Powerbook 5300 would work fine’n'dandy. I would probably use it for writing mostly. Heck, I’d probably even get an old Laserjet 4 and have a nice lil’ writing/printing machine. The only problem is that you can’t use a Mac like that for anything else. Well, nothing else I could use it for anyway. And it would have issues writing files that both Windows and that particular Mac could understand. Oh well.

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One of my co-workers is entertaining the idea of purchasing an ‘86 Nissan 300ZX. Reason? Some of them had digital dashboards. Digi dashboards were a big thing it the 80’s. Corvettes had ‘em, S-10 trucks had ‘em and several foreign makes had them as well, including the 300ZX.

There is just something unbelievably cool about a digital dashboard. I remember the one I had in my ‘94 S-10 Blazer. Loved it - and it was a selling point. All my friends loved it. If I had the chance to get a car with one I’d do it in a heartbeat. The car that comes to mind is that 1986 Corvette which had an all-digital dashboard. The thing just looks fucking cool - ’nuff said. But.. a ‘Vette is not exactly on my to-do list at the moment.

And to anyone who might come across this, yes, I know digital ‘boards will fail without warning - it happened on my Blazer once. I know that sometimes they’re not as accurate as needle gauges, but so what? It looks awesome. I hope he gets the car just so I can see the dashboard in action.

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