¶ 9:46 AM

  OK, so I finally got Xbox Live hooked-up yesterday, and so far I am not sure I like it. I played some Moto GP at first. It is a fun motorcycle racing game. It is tough to master, but I definately felt myself getting better. Well, the people playing were generally pretty cool. The game has good intigration of the Xbox Live system. In the game lobby it displays a icon next to the people with headphones and the icon lights up when they are talking. In the actual race you only hear the three people nearest to you, so the chatter isn't overwhelming. On the other side of the scale is Mech Assault. It is a fun Arcade Mech game, but I am definately not used to the Mech idea. The biggest problem is the fact that after you play a live game you don't go back to a lobby, but get kicked back to the first live screen. This means you have to find another game everytime. You can hear eveybody on your team during the game so it is a bit chatty, but not to bad. In the lobby you can't tell who is talking, so people tend to act pretty stupid. I played about 2 minutes of the Whacked demo (a CRAZY game show thingy) which seems to inspire people to yell into their mikes and boast about "Being the best" and such. Really lame.

Things Iike:
-Moto GP demo
-Mech Assault (on the whole)
-Short work week
-Turkey

Things I don't like so much:
-Some people on Xbox Live
-Shooting your own team mates in Mech Assault because you forget which color you are (Dohhhhhh!)
-Having to decide between Mech Assault and Metal Gear: Solid 2 Substance.  ¶ 10:11 AM

  I hope nobody thinks this to stupid, but I added a link to my Amazon wishlist.  ¶ 5:12 PM

  Well, I have decided that I really don't like this color changing background as much as I did yesterday. I just hope it doesn't annoy you as much as blinking text.

Things I like:
-Sleep, wonderful, beautiful sleep . . .
-blogging
-Turkey (Thanksgiving on the mind)
-The Bare Bones Guide to HTML - for the most derided tag ever

Things I don't like so much:
-7 days till Turkey Day
-Airports  ¶ 11:51 AM

  Signs of the end of the world: "What would Jesus drive?" - a CNN exclusive
"N.Y. considers putting homeless on old cruise ships" - another CNN exclusive

OK, I mean, I like that people are thinking about alternatives to SUVs and trying to house the homeless. But, I mean, is this really the best they could come up with. Is this the solution? I have an idea: "What would Jesus do about the homeless in N.Y.?" A new joint effort by N.Y. Mayor Michael Bluemberg and the White House Office of Giving Federal Funds to Religious Charities* We all know Jesus wouldn't drive an SUV, but did you know that he wants to put homeless people on cruise ships? You bet ya! He sure is a keen guy. Heck, lets send them on a nice one way cruise to somewhere else. I mean it works for N.Y.'s trash, why not the homeless? Remember, not agreeing with this is both sacreligious and unpatriotic.**

*note 1: Without knowing it I got this one pretty close. The real name is the "White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives". The "White House Office of Smashing the Separtion of Church and State to all Crap" was my other thought, but it seems a little harsh.
**note 2: The preceding was satire. I don't actually know what Jesus would do. But if I did . . .   ¶ 4:58 PM

  Dzones - a host a friend told me about! (this is more of a note to remind me to check it out again later than a real recomendation or anything).  ¶ 2:16 PM

 
I'm New York City, the Big Apple.
What US city are you? Take the quiz by Girlwithagun.  ¶ 2:33 PM

  OK, so probably no one is reading this, and I think I may have done something to fix this. A couple of co-workers in the library have weblogs that get a fair amount of hints and they have generously offered to link to mine. So hopefully more people will be reading this.

Things I like right now:
-Portland Indy Media
-Being busy at work
-Reading "The Mismeasure of Man" by Stephen Jay Gould
-BookCrossing! (2 entries)

Things I don't like so much:
-Being to forgetful to bring a cat-5 cable to work so I can splice it.
-Not being able to hook up to Xbox Live (2 entries)  ¶ 2:27 PM

  Well, for the first time in at least 2 weeks I don't feel sick. I am dead tired, but I guess thats what I get for staying up late last night. Anyway, I wonder if anyone is reading this? If you are would you send me and e-mail. On with the show:

Things I like right now:
-My iPod (still)
-Getting rid of "standard" cable
-Survivor

Things I don't like so much:
-Being tired
-Not being able to hook up to Xbox Live (grrrr)  ¶ 2:22 PM

  Check this out! Best Flash Clock Ever!  ¶ 12:58 PM

  Well, I got my iPod yesterday. Woo Hooo! I really love this little guy. It has all of my music on it (1918 songs!) and all my contacts and addressbook stuff, and I still have a few hundred Mb to spare. I really can't recomend this enough. The headphones sound great, and the little wired remote is nice as well. I shipped off the extra iPod (see my last entry) yesterday so I should have relatively full bank account in a couple of days.

Things I like right now:
-My iPod
-listening to music on the bus
-Not being as sick as I was yesterday

Thing I don't like so much:
-Not being able to listen to my iPod at work
-Still being sick (for like 2 weeks now)
-Missing a day of work  ¶ 9:43 AM

  I am the dumbest person on the face of the earth. I am not sure why I would relate a story that confirms this on the internet, where anyone could (but probably won't) read it, but what the hay. So I go to the Apple Store Online yesterday to order my iPod. This is, of course, a good thing. So I pick out my 10 Gb iPod and a headphone jack splitter (so I can share the joy) and I go to the checkout page. I dutifly fill out my credit card info. I then quickly lookover my order and press checkout. Then I look at the resulting page. There is my order for TWO iPods and a spliter. So I do the worlds biggest double take and then realize that I must have still had a iPod in my shopping cart when I went and picked out my iPod. So I call Apple and talk to a really nice guy who explains that the chances that I will be able to remove 1 iPod from my order are slim to none. He tells me to call back today. I do so and talk to a very nice lady who tells me the same thing, but that she will try to cancel the extra iPod. If she can't, she tells me, I will just have to send one of the iPods back. Well, here's hoping for just 1 iPod.

Things I like right now:
-My iPod
-Apple's customer service
-my last blog entry (empty entries, hah, I crack myself up)

Things I don't like so much:
-My tendancy to skip over important details like, oh say, the total price for the most expensive ecommerce order I have ever done
-Extra iPods
-Not being able to blame someone else for my own stupidity  ¶ 12:49 PM