Pauls Rants & Revelations

I’ve always wanted to go to New York. I mean, I passed through very briefly but I didn’t really get a chance to enjoy the sites and sounds of Big Apple. So when I saw an advertisement for New York Tours, I thought ‘could be fun’.

I wanted to visit the standard sites central park, downtown Manhattan, 5th Avenue and the Statue of Liberty. But I also saw that the tours offered included photo tours, cruises through the harbors and bays, and museums galore. One of the more interesting one I saw was a double decker bus tour through downtown. I’ve never been on one and it would be a heck of a novelty.

There are a number of tours available so check it out to find one you would dig. I’m thinking the bus tour personally but the photo tour seems pretty enjoyable too.

Eh, I’ll decide what to do when I get there.

-Cheers

The more I use this machine, the more I wonder what took me so long to start using one.

I installed XP on a Parallels share and it runs much better than it did on a native machine. It takes about 20 seconds to start up and I have not had a problem with it even after installing all the CS suite programs and other fun things (it even plays Peggle rather nicely).

Apart from the work standpoint, I also am amazed (and relieved) about all of the communications programs I use and that I won’t be having to kill off any accounts. Using Adium for IM and Skype for calling I am still connected to the world and for email, plain old Mail works just fine.

I am a bit lacking in games but really the only games I play are Half Life, TFC (soon to be TF2), and a few other mods for same and I can run those off of my XP share. So really I’m not giving up anything. Hell, I’m even thinking about adding a Linux share so I can start really playing with that too (Boss, please let me know what flavor you run as I forgot already).

The point of this rather long winded diatribe is not so much to tell you how cool my Mac is, but rather to let those folks wanting to switch but fearing loss of data or ability to know that there is really nothing to fear.

Leave a comment if you have any questions or suggestions.

-Cheers

Well, what can I say about this weekends festivities? Only that they were a lot of fun and am really sore from it all.

For those of you without dirty minds, I was at an archery festival in Vulcanfelt (Union Gap, WA) and was shooting archery all weekend. Aside from the fun and games I got burned in the day and smashed at night (I blame the fellow who brought the rum). As for the competitions go, I got second place in the Clout shoot which is shooting at a stick 180 yards away, sucked at the royal round, and did an abysmal job in the York. But at least I had a great time doing it.

And now, Monday has come again and it is back to the grind.  But at least now I get to use a pimped out new Macbook Pro.

-Cheers

Yes friends and enemies, I have myself a brand new top-o-the-line Mac Book Pro, courtesy of my super fabulous boss and super-rific boss’s boss.

Its a strange feeling though. It took about 5 minutes to set up everything and I was off and running soon after installing apps (Firefox is a must as well as Skype and Paralells) and the whole while I am thinking “this is so easy and it works”. I am even still amazed since I got it home and started copying over info (ok, its mostly music) as I can still do tasks like write posts and not have any problems. No slow downs or lag (sweet).

Im still getting used to all of the new functions and such but its becoming easier the more I use it. Ill post pictures of my new uber mac as soon as I find the USB cable to my camera (not the built in one, my camera camera).

Oh, and to those people who contributed funds to the “get Paul a Macbook Pro” fund, I will be issuing you a refund soon.

Sorry for the lack of any interesting posts lately but I have been super busy with work and preparing for an event in a few days. I promise that after the event I will post something interesting (possibly me getting shot with an arrow, but who knows).

In the mean time, here is some fun stories to keep you distracted.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/

-Cheers