Art is beautiful. Nothing more to say.
I am a huge fan of the Christmas holiday & I have a lot of special memories of my mom associated with it. However, when it is over, I am damn happy it is over. Toward that end, I thought I would share with you a killer cover of a very non-rock & roll Kayne West song. May it help to sanitize your brain of the Christmas cheer. Enjoy.
Mornings are usually a pretty tough haul for the bug, but this morning he lit up like a spark plug when he saw the stuff waiting for him under the tree. Being a Daddy is a pretty cool gig.
No less historic than 9/11, but certainly far less unifying, was the election of Obama to be the first black POTUS. It really is too bad we are still too young in evolutionary terms to be as vigilant in love as we are in hate. I am still naive and idealistic enough that I still want to be proud of my country. This day, I was. Completely and utterly.
A few weeks ago I purchased my first Mac. I custom ordered a Mac Mini online, upgrading just about everything I could so it would be future proofed for a couple of years. My experience has been overwhelmingly positive.
Pros: The biggest pro for me was that it was set up for “normal” use, right out of the box. Usually the first few days with a new computer are consumed by tending to all the operating issues like setting up preferences, tending to security fixes, downloading updates and removing or installing what I generally need (or attempting to). There was simply very little of that with this Apple product.
Cons: My issues had less to do with the Mini in general than it did with Apple’s iTunes. I have a huge multi-media collection and figuring out how to get all of the items transferred legally to this machine was a pain. The fix came in the form of setting up a network with my pc & authorizing my Mini and PC to share the damn “things” I purchased. Easy enough, I guess, and less a knock on the Mini than it is on iTunes and DRM’d files.
I now have 3 boxes to choose from, a pc running Vista, a pc running Ubuntu, and a pretty little Mini running Snow Leopard. For romantic reasons my first love is the box running Ubuntu, but the Mac running Snow Leopard is a more utilitarian, more “rational” choice. I will continue to improve my use and understanding of Linux, but from here on out, I am guessing that my $$ will go towards a Mac. Undoubtedly though I can say screw Windows.
For the 40 or so folks that inexplicably (!?) check this blog on a somewhat regular basis, I apologize for the lack of updates & the poor editing as of late. To the second issue, I have been posting from my phone and on the road or late at night, which apparently leads to some pretty poor posting on my part. Mea culpa.
Fred’s not dead and has been transplanted into a far more spacious 10 gallon aquarium tank. He immediately burried himself in the mulch and hid. His new crib also sports a brand new, indoor pool. Fred also has a (temporary?) new companion in his fancy new digs:
an earthworm.
(this is a pic of his former crib. New pics will be posted from time to time.)
The last week of politics have defined, for me, the contemporary Democratic party as an impotent wishing well & the lack of boldness in leadership is unforgivable. Keeping Lieberman in the caucus demonstrates to me the weakness and weenie-ness of Reid.
There is a strong & bitter gusty wind up here. I have the courage and notion (if not the will) to allow it to blanket me and carry me to a more demanding, more radical place.
It seems I am both truant and vagabond in this political mess. I no longer identify with my party. If the “overhaul” of the healthcare system passes in its current state, I will not vote for any incumbent Democrat for an indeterminate amount of time. I’m going rouge.
UPDATE: karma points redeemed! The snake, after sitting in a plastic cup for an hour or so, somehow revived himself and is living comfortably inside a nicely padded micro-climate in the office where I work. Pictures of “Fred” will follow.
