Another Word for Nerd

Here’s mine.

I finally broke down and bought a 30G iPod Video (black, of course) a couple of days ago.

No, not that del.icio.us, I’m talking about Delicious Library from Delicious Monster.

Using the built-in iSight camera on my new Mac, I’ve started cataloging all of the books I own - and boy, do I own a lot.

I’m about half done, and here’s the library so far.

This is what happens when FedEx runs over the box containing your $500 video card with a forklift.

and it makes noises too!

My new phone arrived this morning.

Google Video has put all the 2006 Super Bowl ™ commercials online.

Is it just me, or are none of them particularly funny or innovative this year? GoDaddy makes a big deal about how they made 14 commercials before one was accepted for the Super Bowl ™, but did anyone ever think that maybe their ads just *sucked*?

Myself, I napped through the Big Game, and then did some house cleaning.

When I was in the Boy Scouts, we sold popcorn to raise money. Apparently now some troops are down to the point of selling fertilizer instead. That’s gotta be a shitty fundraiser.

The iMac G5 (17″, 1.8Ghz, SuperDrive/wireless/etc) that I bought in October of 2004 is being wiped and reinstalled tonight, in preparation for its travels to its new home with a friend of mine.

This machine served me well, running 24/7/365 (except for January 2005, when I was living in a hotel and using the iBook G4 as my primary machine) for a year and a half. I consider it a rock-solid machine, save for the midplane replacement in March 2005 (caused by bad capacitors) and a power supply replacement in November.

I’m pretty happy with my 20″ iMac Core Duo so far. Apple has done a great job with the PPC emulation (”Rosetta”) in the new machines, and I can only hear the fans on the new system when everything else in the room is turned off. My Pentium M-based work laptop is louder than the iMac, even.

I have no interest in professional sports whatsoever. I’m going to take a nap instead of watching overpaid athletes chase a ball around a field while overpaid ex-atheletes comment on what just happened.

I bought Battlefield 2 a week ago, and finally got around to installing it tonight.

I thought “I’ll start out with ‘easy’ single-player mode..”

I consider myself pretty good at FPS games. FEAR, Doom, Quake, HL/HL2, etc.

I just thoroughly got my ass kicked. Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow.

I’m picky about my keyboards, so I was happy to find a brand new, still-shrinkwrapped Dell AT101W keyboard in a batch of equipment that came from our closed Austin office.

I’ve now got keyboards that use Alps keyswitches on all of my systems at work and home - Apple Extended IIs on the Mac systems, and Dell or SGI-logoed units on the PCs.