New Job?
The Apple store at La Canterra (rich San Antonio) will be opening soon. I checked the Sunday paper and so many stores are advertising positions, but not the Apple store. I even checked the Apple website for job openings in the San Antonio area - nothing. I'll keep looking.
My Mac has given me a new perspective on what I can and can't do. Specifically,
Comic Life 1.0. I've been a writer/story teller. And I've always had an interest in visual media. Now I can meld the two together to tell my stories with a visual, photographic medium.
So far I've been pulling pictures off of the internet to use for my test pages. But what I'd really like to do is to take my own pictures based on the story that I've written.
This is something that I've really been contemplating.
Wouldn't it be cool to have my own comic book company!
My New Favorite Restaurant
Jess and Sarah Humphreys are leaving San Antonio to go to Wichita, Kansas.
Tonight we all ate at
Sushi Zushi. It is now my favorite restaurant in San Antonio. It had the most traditional Japanese cuisine (I guess, I've never been to Japan) available in the city. The prices were much more competitive than Benihana.
I think I'll be eating ther again. Soon.
Mac Genius?
Since I bought my PowerBook I'm having to re-learn everything I know about computers.
Here's just a few things I've done recently:
- Set up a wireless network using an Airport Extreme :: internet and printer included
- Learn how to manage account usage for all folders and applications on the hard drive
- Set up a .Mac account and sync Mail to it
- Connect the iSight webcam to my .Mac account
- Enable all accounts to access the wireless network (harder than it sounds)
I still believe that Macs are much easier to deal with than Windows, but a computer is still a computer and a network is still a network.
Macs and Their Owners
Most people won't remember Apple Computers "Think Differently" ad campaign.
I don't know which ran their respective print ads first, The Gap or Apple, but they were very similar. The Gap had a black & white picture of James Dean and white fonts reading "James Dean wore khakis"
Applel Computers had a more magnanimous take on this model. Apple showed b&w photos of Ghandi, Picasso, The Dalai Lama, etc. with the slogan "Think Differently" and the rainbow Apple.
I wonder if any of these people, being age apprpriate to have lived within the technological revolution of the early 70's to present, ever really used a Mac. I'm curious what Ansel Adams could have done with Photoshop. I wonder what Bob Dylan's music would have sounded like if he did all his recording and editing on a PowerBook or what Maria Callas's personal sound project would be. What would Spielberg's first project would have been had he had access to iMovie HD or Final Cut?
These are historical people who had their effect on either the world or at the very least
their world.
I often wonder when I see culturally relevant people today - who uses Macs?
Does Woody Allen use a Mac? I'm pretty definite that he doesn't because I remember reading in his biography that he still writes his screenplays on a typewriter and then has a PA flunky reformat for production. But could Woody be an Apple man? I think he would be.
- Mos Def or the Beastie Boys - pioneers in rap/hip-hop?
- Robert Pirsig - existential author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
- Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassidy - The Beats were pre-personal computer, but they wouldn't have dared use a Windows PC?
- Jim Morrison, frontman of The Doors
These are just some of the people I imagine doing their thing on the Apple system.
Missions Game
Thank you, Sandra for taking Liz and I out to a Missions game.
Sorry I was such a fuddy duddy. Do you ever get that syrupy thick wave of drowsiness? I had a stressful day, but mixed with the heat and humidity and the strange bumps on the guy's neck in front of me. I just couldn't hang.
BTW, Mitchell's new name is now Tito Jackson.
Another reason I was sooo tired: I had to set up the Airport wireless router before I left for the game. I had left it for Liz to do, but she ran into some trouble and had to baby sit
Bebe's her sister's kids.
Once a project like that is started, it's an itch that must be scratched! A quick call to Maggie, one of Apple's tech supportists out of their Baltimore, MD office and we got it running in no time flat.
Lastly, a random thought: It takes a certain type of persons to be a temp.
12 iStep Program
I'm officially addicted to Mac culture.
Today, after work, i dropped another $500 US on iSight, Airport Extreme 802.11g wireless router, a protective sleeve for my PowerBook specifically designed to show the Apple logo and The Sims Party Pack for Mac.
Not to mention I also set up my .Mac account, so now I have a .Mac email address.
Anyone need a buddie?
Please.
Given my recent behavior, I'll pay for it if you'll be an iBuddie.
2nd Post In One Day
Liz and I are biding our time until we can move out of my mom's house (and the room I occupied while I was high school) and into our own. But our trip to Austin has really got us thinking about looking to our neighbor to the north.
First, it is always 5 to 10 degrees cooler than San Antonio. I wish I knew why. While San Antonians are stifled by 100+ summer temps, Austin stays relatively cool.
Second, Austin just has the attitude that Liz and I can adapt too. Liz and I typically make relatively common literary references. I like to call people who are overly obnoxious in public "Ignatius Reilly's" after the pathetically elistist main charater from
Confederacy of Dunces. Nobody in this town would ever understand that one. Even references to pop culture goes grossly awry when used in casual conversation in this town. Austinites can typically keep pace - for the most part. I don't think everybody in Austin is an encyclopaedia of monty python
isms. I know this for a fact because I have family in Austin.
Lastly, (and this is just off the tope of my head) Austin has a much more healthy attitude. San Antonio's idea of a health food restaraunt is a taco joint that offers corn tortillas too. Austin has a strong bicycle culture which Liz and I would enjoy. The local diet is much more diverse and offers healthier alternatives when eating out.
Blah. Blah. Blah.
The grass is always greener on the other
woman side. But it would be nice to live in a different city that is cool and close to both our families.
Man, I miss the old MTV series
Austin Stories.
The Jinx of the PowerBook
*sigh* It can't be, but the evidence *sigh*
Alas, me thinks my PowerBook is cursed.
I bought it Saturday morning. Since then I've had a blow out on the highway, on a part of the highway that has those concrete barriers on both sides eradicating any notion of a shoulder. So after driving God knows how long on the shreds of my Michelen I finally have to change the tire while laying/squatting in an ant pile.
While driving my wife's element today, I look down to dial my phone for like, a milisecond, I look back up and the traffic that was speeding along at a normal clip is now completely stopped in front of me. I had to slam on my brakes and fish tail so I wouldn't end up in the back seat of the chevrolet trailblazer stopped in front of me. It costs me over $200 US to replace the fileted piece of galvanized rubber.
The reason I was dialing my phone while I was driving home is because the electricity in part of my house (the part that houses my beautiful Apple). The good part to this is that I found a really good electrician who came out after hours and only charged me $90 US to change out the socket in my mom's room which blew out due to old wiring and ceased the flow of electricity to the following two rooms.
So I ask you: Is this coicidence? Or is this some evil machination by microsoft to punish me for leaving the evil empire and taking a bit of the forbidden fruit.
The Miracles of Marriage
Marriage brings with it certain miracles that aren't found in any other life styles.
For example, the ability for me to scratch my balls, for ten minutes, in my sleep, and my wife ask me with a straight face if I need corn starch to take away a rash.
I knew it happened because I was half awake when she asked me, and I told her "no".
But this morning when I thought about it in the shower, I couldn't stop laughing.
l wonder what else I've done in my sleep?
Super Apple Satisfaction
I've been eyeing the Apple PowerBook since the latest design came out.
I finally got one.
It feels good.
Nota Bene: This post is not a haiku, but it reminds me of one.
Casual Espionage
Probably one of the more insightful fortune cookie fortunes I've ever opened read "Life is a grand comedy to you." I kept it for quite some time adhered to the dashboard of my Bronco.
Overheard in New York is a compilation of the daily ontological recesses witnessed by wired
nuyoricans. And I thought middle-America was the stupid place.
House Warming
I went to Scott's house tonight for his
house warming party.
Liz and I brought Sophia, as we are want to do. However, that didn't bode well with the surroundings. I just wasn't ready (nor will I ever be) to have my daughter hanging around a bunch of drunk grown ups. Oh well. I love Scott, but I was tired and it gave me a decent excuse to leave.
On a better note, Victoria's was having a sale today. I bought Liz some new under attire that is more for me that it is for her. Man, I'll say it: I've got a damn sexy wife.
Thank God for three-day-weekends!
Last night we had the final installment of Liz's birthday celebration (unless you count the fact that her main gift is still being delivered and won't be here until next week). A group of us went to China Latina on the first friday of July.
I introduced Mitchell to the ways of sushi. I also got a picture of a vintage Triumph for my collection.
Even though this is a three day weekend I don't think it's going to be very relaxing.
Today I've got to make into the office for some extra curricular work and then I have Matthew's birthday party and Scott's housewarming party.
Tomorrow I have Patrick's birthday at Pump It Up.
And Monday doesn't tell what that's going to hold.
