| My Hairdresser, Joylene of Belen, Is a Star |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|10:16 am] |
She stars on page one of yesterday's ABQ Journal as the number one fan of Belen's champion high school football team.
I think she may have painted both the sign and the halfback. She asked me the other day if I thought it looked like a turkey, and I said no.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purejuice/sets/72157622427001969/
Meanwhile, on the field on a glittery fall afternoon this week, as Belen readied for its game with Aztec, senior wide receiver Pasqual Armijo said his grandfather, also named Pasqual Armijo, played on the 1963 unbeaten Belen team.
“That team was pretty tough,” Armijo said. “It would be an honor if we are able to pass them because they set the foundation for Belen football.”
( Eagle Pride: This Story Pretty Much Kills Me ) |
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[Nov. 28th, 2009|11:47 am] |
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Verbatim quotes from Sarah Palin interview. |
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[Nov. 28th, 2009|02:58 am] |
1. what the fuck do you even do with your family when shit is so broken on some level that it's never gonna be fixed and you still like them but stuff is basically permanently broken?
2. why does being hella drunk seem less hilarious as you get older?
3. do you throw parties or show up at parties? do you feel there is a reason why you tend toward one or the other, if you do?
4. do you get the drunk munchies? what's up with that?
5. man how do you even get a thign done. when parties occur as if by random.
OKAY I PROMSIE I WILL ANSWER THE ANSWER TIME WHEN I'M NOT TRYIN GTO SLEEP AT 3 AM.
GNITH
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| The Black Friday Guide to MacBook Pros |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|11:38 pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ikkyu2 asked me to weigh in on his purchase of a fancy new MacBook Pro and I figured now's a good time to talk about where the hardware is right now. Short summary: not a lot has changed, you can still get the same stuff as cheap last-gen refurbs, there's an imminent hardware update, and when the update comes it'll be relatively significant.
I'm writing this from my new old MacBook FB588LL. It's been running quite nicely and I don't regret its purchase one bit. Not a lot in the MacBook line has changed since July: "Same chipset, same CPUs, same graphics card, same ports, same generous 8GB/$700 memory limit." Apple's running a $100 Black Friday sale on current new MacBooks, but you can save even more with a last-gen refurb since you'll basically be buying almost the same thing. Or you might want to wait, because there are some significant new things coming down the hardware pipeline.
First, graphics. Back in June NVidia announced the 200M series GPUs. This isn't yet another minor hardware update, it's a significant update to performance, power consumption, underlying architecture, and computational flexibility. (See "What's New in GPUs".)
Second, chipset and CPU. Intel announced their PM55 chipset and Core i7 processors at the IDF in September, and both of these are fairly big deals. On the CPU Intel is ditching the frontside bus and moving to a quick path interconnect and a die-integrated memory controller which finally brings it on par with the HyperTransport bus that was in use by AMD chips (and Apple's PowerPC 970, ironically). On the chipset side the PM55 supports up to DDR3-1600 RAM and hardware-supported H.264/MPEG-4 which means maybe we'll finally get a MacBook that plays Blu-Ray and doesn't eat batteries. Hopefully.
I was going to guess that Apple hadn't built a laptop with these features because they like the $1600/$1900/$2200 price points and these parts don't fit the budget, but that can't be it because Dell have been selling 15" 200m/PM55/i7 Alienware laptops for $1800 or so. Maybe they just didn't want to rock the architecture boat because they've been pushing 10.6 out the door. Whatever the reason, Apple's "Pro" laptops seem to be lacking from a pro-level perspective. You can still get pretty much the same thing at a cheaper price if you buy a last-gen refurb, or if you can afford to wait a little you might be able to buy a significantly improved model. |
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| I am thankful for Josh Way |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|10:36 pm] |
My Thanksgiving didn't actually have one discussion of things we're thankful for; therefore I must point out that I am thankful for embedded media on my blog.
(MST fans who have not yet discovered "romeorhino" on YouTube...why not?)
"I'm glad to be able to go to any church I want on Sunday morning!"
"How great it feels to be clean, and American, and Protestant, and white, and middle-class..."
(Seriously, um, has anything changed in the Midwestern US in the last 60 years? LET'S HEAR IT FOR PRIVILEGE) |
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| That was a different Friday afternoon. |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|06:13 pm] |
So Bob and his dog Stain got run over by a garbage truck today. Literally, like in a MAD Magazine cartoon.
I found this out because I was reading in the patio when my phone said "DING" and the message was a Facebook update. A few of my friends I have set to text me when they update. Bob's one of them. His update was, basically: "Stain and I hit by truck. No phone. At home. Bloody mess. HALP"
I zipped over there to find them both bloody and shocked. A garbage truck had essentially parked on Stain's front paws and he was licking them mournfully. Bob was a bit of a scratch and dent himself. The kitchen looked, as Bob put it, "like Charlie Manson came over for lunch."
So far, so good. Remains to be seen how badly Stain's paw is injured. Bob appears intact.
This is an example of the power of the Internet, though. With no minutes left on his prepaid phone, the $200 netbook plus some neighbor's wifi plus facebook plus text alerts meant that several people immediately saw an alarm. Daniel turned around and biked back from Seal Beach on that alarm, I went across town here, and half a dozen other people immediately responded.
Here's to a fast healing dog. |
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[Nov. 27th, 2009|08:25 pm] |
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Announcement in art community that OP has for sale a tribute to Jackson Pollock painted by Kurt Cobain. Remark that said work will have to be picked up by truck, as it is on a piece of masonry. |
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