Monthly Archives: September 2007 - Page 2

How to Spend my $100 Apple Credit

Posted by on September 24, 2007 4 comments

Apple gave all the early adopters a $100 Apple Store credit. I’m having a little trouble deciding how to spend mine.

Some options:

  • $100 Credit + $29 = Apple’s Bluetooth Headset. My current earpiece is old and busted, doesn’t hold a charge very long, and has miserable sound quality. This could be a good option.
  • $100 Credit + $29 = Leopard, the next update to the Mac OS is set to drop next month. Getting that for $29 out of pocket could be a good thing.
  • $35 of the credit on an Incase Multifunction Sports Case for my iPhone still leaves me with $65 to buy an iTunes gift card or save towards Leopard or the bluetooth headset. There is a $30 Belkin, but I tend to trust the Incase stuff more.
  • $100 Credit = .Mac account. I’m currently running a trial that will expire soon. I’m not exactly using all the features, but they are handy and maybe I would use them all more with the 10gb of space. I do like the Web Galleries in iPhoto, and you need .Mac to use those..

Thoughts?

And tasty, too!

Posted by on September 21, 2007 4 comments

21st Century Citizen is talking today about the PB&J Campaign. Apparently, eating peanut butter and jelly sammiches can save the planet!

From the PB&J Campaign website:

Next time you have one you’ll reduce your carbon footprint by saving the equivalent of 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions over an average animal-based lunch like a hamburger, a tuna sandwich, grilled cheese, or chicken nuggets.

That’s about forty percent of what you’d save driving around for the day in a hybrid instead of a standard sedan.

If you were going to have a ham sandwich or a hamburger, you save the equivalent almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.

Hockey!

Posted by on September 19, 2007 No comments

The 2007-2008 NHL Season starts for the Capitals on October 5! I can’t wait.

Here’s a blurb from a DCist Interview with Capitals owner Ted Leonsis:

DCist: What are your goals for this hockey season?

TL: My goals for this coming season are simple: have the team go on a steep incline of improvement, qualify for the playoffs, then see what happens once we get there. The rebuild is over. We will always seek to improve. We will have more young players fighting for roster spots, but we now have enough depth–a good mix of young stars and veteran players and good chemistry and coaching. We should up the bar now on our expectations. “If not now, when? If not us, who?”

It’s awesome to be hearing “The rebuild is over” — seems like the Capitals have been on a 5-year rebuilding plan for about a decade.

Sigh…

Posted by on September 19, 2007 2 comments

D.C. Vote Measure Blocked In Senate

Republican lawmakers yesterday blocked the Senate from taking up the D.C. vote bill, a potentially fatal setback for the District’s most promising effort in years to get a full member of Congress.

The vote was on a motion to simply consider the bill. Fifty-seven senators voted in favor, three short of the 60 needed to proceed. Without enough support to vault the Senate’s procedural hurdles, the bill is expected to stall this year and possibly next year.

In other news, it’s 1:30 AM and I need to go get my laundry from the dryer and re-dry whatever inevitably didn’t dry. I haven’t done all the cleaning I want to do. My motivation sucks in the evenings. I need to take a day off of work just to stay home and work on the apartment.

Quite a “Welcome Home”

Posted by on September 17, 2007 No comments

So, sometime over the weekend my upstairs neighbor must have dropped an ACME-style anvil on their floor. I came home Sunday night to a rather large whole in my bedroom ceiling.

The ceiling is made up of these large, heavy sheetrock tile things that seem to be bolted to the wooden crossbeams above. I’m not talking about the lightweight plaster tiles you see in offices, but the really heavy material I guess they make walls with. I know now, that there is nothing between that sheetrock and the hardwood floor of my upstairs neighbor. No insulation or anything was visible. That explains the large amount of noise I always hear from up there.

Anyway, one of these large tiles, and half of another were in my bedroom floor when I came home last night. That will be fun to clean up tonight, so that I can have the building management take their sweet time in coming out to look at it. I really need to move because I can’t live someplace where there’s a chance the ceiling is going to collapse on some expensive electronics, or worse — my head. I guess I need to start saving up for first month and security deposit for my next residence…

I’ll post up some pictures when I get a chance.

EDIT: Here are some pictures.

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