Soulja vs Scott

I was in my office when my wife called me and said to come in the living room. I walked in, and she told me to turn my attention to the new video playing on BET. I looked, and there was the new ridiculous song from Soulja Boy. Can't remember the hook - it was something ignorant with some yelling involved or something.

I just shook my head, like she knew I would. She laughed. This was her little joke because she knows that I'm not fond of the little kids' music that I'm forced to play when I DJ the middle-school parties. How ironic - being a DJ and not liking the music that you play. (that's why my most favorite gigs are the 30-something crowds)

Anyway, I shook my head, went back into my office, and continued listening to Jill Scott's Live in Paris album.

Grown folks music.

Ain't gon' hurt nobody...We're just dancin' baby!

Hey! I didn't know Kid 'N Play had their own little 9-issue comic book series! Awww, ain't that cute. Makes me think about one of my all time favorite movies... House Party! (We gon' get what? Get funky!) I think I got every line in that movie memorized.

"Oooh! You're wrinkling my school clothes! Oooooh!" HAHAHAHA

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My new mug

I went to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center this weekend in Cincy. Got me a souvenir. Ain't it nice? :)

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Mac needs "stability fixes"????????

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Well, there certainly are a whoooole lot of tweaks and fixes included in the latest Leopard OS update. I even see a few STABILITY fixes in there.

Now that I'm a Mac owner, I'm privy to these updates and what-not. Prior to, I never would have known that Mac's required software updates. In fact, it seems like everytime I turn on this Mini in the couple of months that I've had it, seems like I always see that little Update icon bouncing around. When I go see what the big to-do is, I see a list of some hefty-sized updates it wants me to download.

Hmmm - they're certainly not putting THAT little factoid in the commercials... :- )

Macbook air hands-on

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Got a hands-on introduction to the Air laptop today. It felt a lot more sturdy than I thought it would be for its size. Also seemed like it was handling heat dissipation pretty well. If it wasn't for the outrageous price it might make for a pretty good compliment to a moofing lifestyle.

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Vista ain't so bad

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I read an interesting article talking about the upcoming service pack for Vista and XP. Some of the folks commenting on the article started the standard debate among Windows OS users about how XP is better than Vista (aka "Vista sucks").

I actually upgraded to Vista on my main machine a few months ago. I did it for a few reasons. One, I was doing my personal bi-annual "build myown monster machine" routine, and so I figured I might as well put the latest and greatest on this new machine, especially since I knew my hardware was beefy enough to handle it. Also, I know that Vista will ultimately become the OS of choice, despite what the critics say, and I made the decision that I was ready to deal with the standard headaches of the early-adopter until Vista got nice & stable & popular.

Anyway, I thought some of the comments in the article were both quite ignorant and quite eloquent. Check it out:

• "if XP can perform 5% better than Vista...it means Vista is crap..."
  - I would say it a different way - "Vista has a ton of new features, has a fully-overhauled and visually pleasing graphic interface, and with all that it only performs 5% slower than XP..."
  
• "XP can perform better on older computers and Vista requires some pretty heavy hardware to be useful..."
  - I think it's funny how people still want to be able to use their grandmother's hand-me-down computer for the next 20 years, and if something new comes out that doesn't work well with their hamster-driven machine, they have a problem. Nevertheless, as someone pointed out, if you actually go price a new machine these days, you'll see that you can buy a new machine that is fully Vista-capable, plus some extra memory, for as little as $400 if you shop right. If your money is too funny for that expense right now, then sure, stick with your Hyundai without making fun of our Escalade.
  
• "Notice how few folks are around saying that XP's an abortion and Microsoft should have stopped with Windows 98? The trend is already starting to turn around in exactly that way for Vista versus XP..."
  - Amen, brother.

It's true that we as consumers basically tell folks like Microsoft, thru our behavior, that we want NEW NEW NEW and we want it NOW NOW NOW. So when they speed-push the new stuff to market, it's funny how we then complain when a few bugs got thru in that hurried process. Oh well, I guess we'll all have to wait and see how this new generation of OS's turns out. Tho I have a suspicion that I already know..... ;- )