Category Archives: mac

Mac Logo Madness

I’m actually surprised I didn’t put a photo of this up before, since I’ve had the Macbook Pro for almost a year, but I looked around and can’t find it. Anyway.  So, I bought a Macbook Pro about a year … Continue reading →

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Getting my “cred” back.

I didn’t like Braid. This worried me a bit.  I mean, it was probably the most lauded independently-developed game of the last couple years, and I could not make myself interested in it. Was I, I wondered, hopelessly lost to … Continue reading →

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This Game Hates You

So I’ve disappeared off the face of the earth for a while, and stopped updating my backlog.  This usually means that I’ve gone back to mainlining heroin. Well, I’d say “back to playing Everquest”, but the heroin thing is more … Continue reading →

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Extremely small victories

So, we have a Mac Mini here that gets used largely as a media server for our AppleTV.  It doesn’t use much power, it doesn’t take up a lot of room, it’s absolutely silent most of the time, these are … Continue reading →

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It’s a Unix System. I know this.

So, where to begin? We’re in the process of moving and going from a dual income family to a single income family.  Of course, this meant that we needed a new TV. Even I will admit that the logic there … Continue reading →

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Movie Night

OK, so there are three different boxes – an Xbox 360, a PS3, and a Mac mini – hooked up to our TV that all want to rent us movies, and I keep trying to take advantage of them to … Continue reading →

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More Kool-aid

I have used, for the last couple of years, a Logitech G15 keyboard.  It’s an awesome keyboard, really, with a built-in-LCD panel and 18 programmable function keys, etc.  It was most useful when I was playing Everquest because I had … Continue reading →

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Mac Media Madness

Some updates on this weekend’s insanity. The Mac seems to be buzzing along with its new memory and HD.  Leopard is up and running.  The new Front Row is really bleh compared to the version from Tiger, and it had … Continue reading →

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Mac Mangling Madness

My wife says to me, after reading that last post, “Why is it, every time you want to work on a Mac, it involves a trip to the hardware store?” She’s referring, of course, to the fun and games I … Continue reading →

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Evil Plans Continue

My UPS package came, which, along with a trip to the campus bookstore and to True Value, gave me all the ammunition I need to, well, make a tonne of work for myself this weekend. PS: I might actually dust, … Continue reading →

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