I have a shiny new

I have a shiny new iMac sitting on my desk now at work. Too bad I don't get to keep it. It's a tricked-out machine, with a 17" LCD, 1Ghz CPU, 512MB RAM, SuperDrive, Bluetooth, AppleCare, the works! It's a sexy little machine, I didn't know how I'd react to the wide aspect ratio display, but I like it, a lot. However, the mouse is an abomination. I tried to use it, after half an hour I yanked it out of the keyboard and dug up a Microsoft mouse. I don't know what retarded designer at Apple thinks that piece of crap mouse is something that anyone would enjoy using for an extended period of time, but they should be fired, then beaten with all unused mice that people have sitting in drawers, because they can't tolerate them.

That said, I love the machine, it's going to the end-user soon, I'm just whipping up some documentation, and doing some testing on it first. SPSS 11 loads s-l-o-w-l-y on it, but everything else is quite snappy.

Woo hoo! J Dylan is

Woo hoo! J Dylan is going with me to Vegas in March.

Holy cow! I just noticed

Holy cow! I just noticed that John has gone beardless. This freaks me out, I don't recognize him in that picture at all. I'm guessing he did it in an attempt to hide from the faculty he has to support at ISU, that, or his beard was infested with some type of insect. That picture has probably been up for days, the things you miss when you use an RSS aggregator!

Woo hoo! J Dylan is

Woo hoo! J Dylan is going to Vegas with me, well, not really. He'll be there at the same time as me, but I'm flying from Minneapolis on the 15th, and he's flying from Omaha a few days later. Also, he's flying in a Fokker plane to get there. I just like saying Fokker.

I'm playing around with the

I'm playing around with the newly released 3Degrees beta today. It's kind of fun being able to easily share music with your friends during your workday, you have a common soundtrack for your lives now. I hope the next feature they add is webcam support.