surrender.

so. i have acquired a mac.

a white macbook, in fact. core 2 duo, 2.16 ghz, 1gb ram, 120gb hdd.

i've been doing some coding in my spare time, while he's at class or at work, and i'm finding it difficult to concentrate in the very hot, computer-filled office. having a laptop i can use to earn a little money (always one of my favourite choices in Darklands) actually became something of a necessity. and since i can run windows on the macbook, it became the obvious choice

parallels is kind of crashy, though. i might have to just go with boot camp, in the end.

we bought it on the same deal we bought his two years ago... student discount, free ipod. now i have a blue 4gb ipod nano. it feels much less sturdy than my old ipod mini. i'm half convinced it'll snap in half if i put it in my jeans pocket.

i'm still getting used to the whole mac way of doing things, but at least my mouse works.

also, happy summer. the solstice was at 2:06 pm EDT yesterday. and today was just absolutely gorgeous weather.

off the bell curve.

i went out looking for a new cellphone yesterday. i've had a nokia 6820 for a cuople years now, but technology keeps moving on, and i had the urge to see if it was worth it to try and take advantage of the upgrades cingular keeps offering me.

it isn't.

oddly enough, the 6820 is perfect for me: it makes calls, it's relatively small, and it's easy to text-message on (all hail the full QWERTY keyboard! hail!) i checked out a fancy walkman phone from sony-ericsson and another high-end s60 symbian phone from nokia. with neither of them could i figure out text-messaging. and i neither need nor want a blackberry/treo/pocketpc phone. i don't need a phone that can sync with an exchange server and track my calendar and my gas mileage and when the next krakatoa eruption will happen.

apparently, someone has decided that mashing 26 characters onto 8 keys is a good idea. the 6820 has a shitty camera and it scratches up my ipod, but for what i use a phone for, i can't find a better one. "aha," you say, "why not wait for the iphone?" i'm not even going to consider the iphone. for that kind of money, i'd rather have a PS3. honestly. even if there aren't any games for it. unless someone else is paying, i guess ;)

this is what i get for not using a phone like everyone else, apparently. very sigh.

blogger is on crack.

why is my blog archive suddenly in spanish? there doesn't even seem to be an option to change the language.

wtf?

just for posterity's sake... picture