Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

Damon Lindelof on why he writes. Via.

This has got to be the rudest commercial I’ve ever seen. I love it.

Blendie is an interactive, sensitive, intelligent, voice controlled blender with a mind of its own.

Don’t forget to watch the video.

At about 42 seconds in, I swear that Ackbar says, “Oh, crap!.”

One of my communication professors has recently published a book on the subject of Powerpoint presentations. Having had him for two classes, I can testify to the awesome-tude of his Powerpoints. Check him out if you get a chance. I’m not making a dime off this; just passing on something helpful:

Save Our Slides by Dr. Billy Earnest

I finished my presentation for school yesterday, which I had been waiting on before upgrading to Leopard. Got out the disk earlier today, popped it in the ol’ Macbook Pro, and… *whir* *whir* *whir?* *whir.*

Damn thing won’t spin up.

Tried it in the 17″ Powerbook. Worked fine.

I was having problems with this drive the other day on a home-burned disk but thought it was because it was a home-burned disk. Apparently not. Now I gotta go to the maul and deal with the Genius Bar tomorrow. So much for my 4 days of nothing to do. Feh. At least I’ve got Applecare.

Go check out today’s Xkcd. Yeah, I do that too.

Hubby is not impressed. He claims he doesn’t need his hands to do this.