Within the next month or two I hope to get a new computer. This one is on it’s last leg. It really has a hard time doing a lot of the basic tasks it used to do quite well. It still only has 512mb or ram when applications are demanding more. Try having an instance of Firefox open with multiple tabs while using Photoshop and IMs. The computer lags hardcore. So, the question is, do I go with a PC or a Mac? I really don’t want to run Windows Vista, and Linux is out of the question for me. Things just don’t seem to work right with me and Linux. I’m a bit hesitant to go the Mac route because they are a lot more expensive, harder to upgrade (and more expensive to) and it’s a completely alien OS. Everyone who has a Mac tend to love it. So, I don’t know. Macs have everything that I use most often, IM clients, IRC, Photoshop, and Firefox. I’ll still have my laptop if I need to do PC things on Windows. I wish I could mess around in OSX before I get a Mac, which is how I know I don’t want to run Linux. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do? PC or Mac? Fanboys need not answer :P
This song is a very good song from the album Caf̩ del Mar РVolumen 13. Ivan Tucakov is a world music composer, guitarist, producer and promoter currently living in Vancouver, Canada. The song is a great example of Latin jazz and it really showcases Tucakov as a great musician. His guitar on the song is quite amazing and hypnotizing. Listen and enjoy friends.
A literary legend has passed. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. died last night. He was 84 years old. Slaughterhouse-Five, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, and Breakfast of Champions were my favorite books by Mr. Vonnegut. I happened to be re-reading Breakfast of Champions this week. Such a great book. Rest in peace to a great writer. He was such a great satirist influencing countless authors around the world, including another favorite of mine, Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club. His book, Slaughterhouse-Five is considered by many people to be the best anti-war book ever written and has won many awards.
GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY!
From the NYT:
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,� “Cat’s Cradle� and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater� caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan.
Mr. Vonnegut suffered irreversible brain injuries as a result of a fall several weeks ago, according to his wife, Jill Krementz.
Like Mark Twain, Mr. Vonnegut used humor to tackle the basic questions of human existence: Why are we in this world? Is there a presiding figure to make sense of all this, a god who in the end, despite making people suffer, wishes them well?
While in college I never really watched any traditional programming. I was either too busy working, writing papers, studying, or going out to watch programs on TV regularly. Since out of college, I have become a glutton with TV. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t spend all my time watching and recording shows, but compared to the regular programming I watched in college and what I watch now, the number has gone up dramatically. It could be because I have more time, better programming, or other things. I typically am a movie guy, but there is some damn good TV out there. I’ve been watching Lost and House for a few seasons now. This year, I got into Studio 60, Heroes, Scrubs, and The Office. There is a new show on NBC tonight that I’m looking forward to seeing. It’s called Thank God You’re Here. I love improv comedy, and that’s what this is. The premise is a bunch of famous TV actors and comedians suited up in a costume and thrown out onto a set without knowing anything that’s going on and have to improv a funny scene based on the setting and what the other characters say. I think this could be very funny, along the same lines, albeit with less structure, as Who’s Line is it Anyway?. So, another show to add to my list of shows I currently watch. I really should quit watching so much TV, but the shows I mentioned are so good that I can’t help but watch them.
EDIT: I forgot to mention one of my favorite shows, Entourage. Part 2 of season 3 began last night on HBO and it looks to be a great second half of the season.
24 years ago today, I was born. So was Mike Goodspeed, my old high school friend. So make sure you wish him a happy birthday as well. Tonight we’re going to the Big Bang piano bar in downtown St. Louis.