Well if you want to find out, don’t use this quiz. Maybe the standards for geekiness have been shifted because being a geek is now the ‘cool’ thing. Maybe they should have actually had a geek write the questions… Read the rest of this entry »
On Tuesday night I went to see the Avalanche take on the Blues at the Savvis Center. The game was fairly good, although the ice was the worst that the players had ever seen. The score was tied nearly the whole game: 0-0 until the third, and then 1-1 until the shootout. It was fun to see a shootout, especially because the Avs won it.
Today I found out that I had seen David Aebischer’s last game with the Avs, as they traded him to Montreal for Jose Theodore on Wednesday night. I think Aebischer has a lot of potential and it is sad to see him go, but it will be interesting to see how well Theodore does in Colorado.
I gave Jaime flowers, dinner, and and engagement ring on my birthday yesterday but I got the best gift I could have gotten: she said yes.
Tonight I was greeted at my mailbox by the new self-titled MuteMath album. It continues the musical excellence that began with the “Reset” EP. Mixing rock, jazz, electronic, and a touch of experimental music, the album has a unique sound that will receive lots of playing time on my iPod (and stereo). It is only available at their (amazing) live shows and online at the Teleprompt Records store.
Valentine’s Day marks the release of Camino 1.0. It will be a great birthday present (yes, it is also my birthday). For those of you that are unaware, Camino is an excellent open-source web browser for Mac OS X. It is based on the Gecko rendering engine, like Firefox, and it has superior integration with the Mac platform. I have been using it for many years, from back when it was still called Chimera. I would have liked to contribute to the code, but school and work always seemed to take too much time. I did supply their official slogan, though. So, for my birthday everyone should go download a copy of Camino 1.0!
Disney has officially anounced their long-rumored purchase of Pixar. Is this good for Disney animation or bad for Pixar? Hopefully putting Pixar’s incredible John Lasseter in charge of creativity (chief creative officer) will keep the new Disney/Pixar productions to a high standard. If Pixar’s legendary corporate culture survives the aquisition I think we can still look forward to more great films out of them. Steve Jobs will also be on Disney’s board. What kind of impact will he have?
The Green Bay Packers have added a former Greenville College football coach to their staff as the “Offensive Quality Control” coach. This comes as a part of the Packers recent head coaching change. Ty Knott coached at GC in 2001 and has prior NFL experience, as well.
Today I ran across this side project of The Echoing Green. Pristina is a group of female vocalists (including Sarah Masen, Crissy Jeter from EG, and others) teamed up with writer/producer Joey B. of the EG. All of the vocalists except Crissy have a folk or rock background, making for an interesing synthpop sound. If you like synthpop check out pristinamusic.com and their first single
It appears that Microsoft has decided to distribute Flip4Mac in place of their own Windows Media Player for Macintosh. Flip4Mac has been superior to WMP for Mac in most ways anyway, so it is nice that Microsoft is now giving it away for free through an agreement with the developer. It seems that it does have trouble with the internet radio stations I have tried though (RadioU, Cross Rhythms).
Tomorrow marks this year’s MacWorld Expo Keynote, where Steve will introduce the latest Apple products from underneath the secretive shroud that surrounds 1 Infinite Loop. This year one of the major predictions is a media center Mac Mini. That doesn’t make sense to me. The Mac Mini is positioned to be an inexpensive Mac to entice possible switchers. I think Apple might introduce a separate media center mac. It could be slightly larger than a Mac Mini, containing a desktop hardrive with more space and performance than the laptop drive present in the Mini. It could also have room for audio/video connections (not just the basic VGA/DVI and 1/8 inch stereo jack). Will it happen? Probably not, but it seems more logical than the Mini media center to me…