Aug
20
2008
It’s officially awesome.
I can’t imagine going back to a PC. Everything is cleaner, smoother, and, ultimately, cooler on an iMac.The wireless mouse is a little heavy (because of the two aa batteries) but it’s not much different than a logi-tech (you’ll notice the difference if you go from a wired Apple mouse to the Wireless Apple).The thin, aluminum keyboard is wonderful. To preserve it’s glory, Edmund (my boyfriend) left it’s plastic wrapper on it for the first couple months of usage. You have to really pound on those keys, but it’s possible.Without the wrapper, though, it’s marvelous. Much better than my Dell Inspiron’s keyboard and definitely nicer than the standard PC keyboard. There’s still some resistance with the keys, but the action is really lowered-by more than half, I’d say.It feels like your fingers are dancing over the keys instead of trudging of the PC’s keyboard.The screen is glorious. The built in camera’s fun too. 
Aug
18
2008
iPod Touch
Bad News: I dropped my Dell laptop
Good News: Decided to purchase an iMAC to replace
Best News: Apple sent me a free 8 gig iPod Touch and a $100 rebate on a printer w/my Educational discount
Okay, the hype…
It’s all true. This thing is marvelous! It found my wireless connection immediately and started to sync with my iTunes. Don’t panic when “Preparing iPod Software for Restore Stage” seems like it’s stuck. It’s not. It just takes approx. 7-8 minutes to sync.
You’ll then have to re-sync your music, photos, and videos.
Is it worth the $9.95 to purchase the additional iPhone software so that you can buy Monkey Ball? I’m not sure yet, but Edmund seems to think so, so we’ll be downloading it shortly and I’ll post an update as soon as I know.
Aug
15
2008
Pineapple Express
My expectations were too high and I was disappointed.
But, for what it was–a stoner action movie–it was fun.
The action sequences were filmed very well–in fact, almost as well as Hot Fuzz. But where James Franco is nearly as fun and bumbling as Nick Frost, Seth Rogen’s lacks Simon Pegg’s charm. And part of the reason is because writers Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, and Director David Green, haven’t written a character the audience and sympathize with.
Sure, we can laugh at him and pot smokers will giggle at familiar scenarios, but ultimately the character is so generic, it’s hard to care what happens to him.
The same goes for Rosie Perez. A generic villain is a villain not worth worrying about. I’d understand if the character was used as a device for comedic set-up, but the scenes shown weren’t worth the one-dimensional character and the character seems more likely to have been written in to validate Rogen and Franco’s decision not to go to the police. Lame.
Fun…but definitely not worth paying to see at the IMAX or even full-price.
Danny McBride, of Foot Fist Way fame, was hilarious.
