When you buy a new Mac you get $100 off a printer. I got a Canon MP480 which is one of those scanner and printer combos. Here is a little water color I scanned in:
Well I had a little trouble with the first MacBook I got. It wasn’t able to read the Leopard Install DVD that it came with. The weird thing is that other computers could read the DVD. The drive in the MacBook wasn’t broken though it was able to read other CDs and DVDs.
I brought it back to Apple store and they gave me a new one. This one was able to read that DVD, as were the other MacBooks in the store. Weird stuff!
Anyhow, I am back up and running. I had to start installing everything from scratch. I have my itunes copied over and Vista installed through BootCamp. Time to rock and roll!
I had to give the laptop I was using back to work a few months ago. I really want to get a mac since I have to represent as a nerd. There are always rumors that some crazy new mac notebook is coming out, but back in the august they seemed sort of creditable. The macbook hadn’t been update since feb of 08 and the overall design was 2 years old. With this in mind, I decided to wait and see what apple was busy cooking. More and more rumors started swirling, crazy iphone like touchpads, entire touch display and fancy aluminum cases. However a sept 22nd apple event came and went without any announcement.
The 22nd also marked a full month without a notebook. This is tough for a nerd. There were rumors of an event on the 14th of october, but the colck ticked down with no announcement of it. Finally the thursday before the 14th apple made an announcement about a notebook event on the 14th.
Long story short… Apple announced an update to the macbooks and the macbook pro. They have new aluminum cases, a larger multitouch trackpad and better graphics chips. The processors and hd were about the same though.
I just took the plunge and got the 2.4ghz macbook. I have had for less than 24 hours but it is def sweet!
Every year there is a Arts & Crafts show sponsored by our local alternative paper, the Washington City Paper, which is called the Crafty Bastard. It is held down in Adams Morgan and in order to get there from the Metro, you have to walk right past our apartment. In order to capitalize on the fact that all of DC’s craft buying public would be walking by our apartment I came up with the grand idea of opening my own arts stand.
The city paper put up lots of signs advertising Crafty Bastard, so I took advantage of their advertising work and setup a little table in front of our condo called, Crappy Bastard. Pretty good play on words, huh?!
I made a bunch of little notecards, each hand drawn and watercolored. I got lots of people who loved the title, a few loved the notecards, and unfortunately, no one who bought anything. I was trying to sell four cards for $5. Next time I think I will just try to sell cards individually for $1.
I taped up the Man in a Fur Suit drawing in our alley… just to be random. So far it has been there a week. Either the alley is really safe our the drawing is really bad.
Well, my cunning plan to get rich selling hand made notecards didn’t exactly work. I will give details on that in a bit. However the benefit to everyone is that I will scan and PDF them. Just print these out and you are good to go!
- Made it back to DC. Miami airpopt and american airlines both suck. A lot. #
- Fort lauderdal smells like old people. #
- Fort lauderdal smells like old people. #