No Candy

The other day, at farmer jack's, James and I saw this sign...
You know how on all the checkout lanes, they have candy and stuff, well apparently a couple lanes didn't, so they had signs that said "NO CANDY" like hidden under the lane number, so mothers can take their kids down there without them seeing the candy.
I'm just overwhelmed by that, and kinda appalled just that a human could be so cruel.

Customer Care

Well recently, james broke my ipod nano's screen. A few friends had told me that apple is horrible about replacement stuff, and that if you break it, you get it repaired third party, or you buy a new one..
I knew that wasn't the case.. I knew it couldn't be, so i decided to look into it. I called apple, and after talking to a machine for like 30 seconds(which was kinda annoying, ill admit) i talked to a real person. She was very helpful, and she gave me a website http://depot.info.apple.com

You go to the website and log in(or make an account) it's like a 2 minute process, and then you apply for repair. I did that at around six pm Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, at like eleven, a self addressed, prepaid package was at the house to send it back. James put it in the box, and about the same time the next day, the emailed me to tell me that they got it, and would begin repair. I just got an email tonight(friday night) that they were done, and they shipped the replacement, 1-2 business days and i'll have it.

Overall i was very impressed with the customer care, and i think everything went about as fast as it possible could have.

Sprint, on the other hand, is another story. i won't get into that just now though. we'll wait and see if they screw it up more first.

hax?

Well i always thought i was pretty hax. Today i woke up, and james was like modding out my keyboard. Anyhow, i have some pixx of the final result... At least no one can use my computer anymore :-D

Note to Gmail team:

google, buy pando.
For those of you who havent seen it yet, cheggit out. www.pando.com it's invite only right now, because of high demand, but if you're interested, let me know and i'll email you and you can get right in on it. pando is a little program that allows you to send any file (or files) of any size (although the beta supports only up to 1 gb per package) to anyone (they dont need to have a big enough inbox either, because pando hosts the files). It's under 3 mb. it works for Mac os and windows, and the linux release is coming soon. i'm mostly joking about gmail buying pando, although it would be nice... or at least some sort of agreement. i say that only because i'm afraid yahoo or someone else buying it. it's a very good service though, and i think gmail should take a couple of notes. as far as i'm concerned, gmail is the best email solution widely available right now, and i love most things about it. I think they do need to get with the times though. (not that they're behind anyone else. they're still above..) but i think anyone should realize that with over 2.5 gigs of storage, people are sending more than just plain text.
In fact, i've prolly shared over 50 songs with gmail friends, and i love my ability to do so. the problem is i feel like gmail doesn't cater to me as much as it should("me" meaning the group of people who use gmail for sharing files)
First of all, gmail needs a progress bar for uploading files. needs. When i send a file to someone, i have no idea that the page is even working until five minutes later, when it finishes uploading. that's a problem. gmail needs to fix that, but afaiac, pando does a great job of fixing that, so i'll use that.
The other thing gmail needs is a way to browse all attachments. I know you could make a filter or a search to just show emails with attachments, but that's not what i mean. I mean log in and view all the attachments i've sent/recieved as if on a local file system... only remote. Someone will do it! Be it gmail/yahoo/msn. Someone will, and once one does, they all will. Why not be the first? I would love the ability to look through all mp3 attachments that i've sent or recieved and have the ability to download any of them as easily as i should be able to. Maybe i'll log into ftp://gmail.com with my email name and password, and have all attachments (prolly not, but it would be nice)
I guess gmail doesnt have to do it. pando already did, and i like it a lot. It seems like it would be nice to have that integrated more nicely into my gmail though, and at the least gmail needs to let me browse my attachments. it's only a matter of time though.

p.s.i know i said "note to gmail team" don't think i'm under the impression that i'm writing this to them, or that they're reading it. :-p

UF

So i'm over thomas's, right. We were eating bagels or something. Nancy tells Frank something about an email... i dont remember exactly how i went, But it was someone with the last name lennon. Someone make a lame joke about john lennon, and UF says "Man, what if it was john lennon. Imagine that." apparently no one else thought it was funny, but i found it totally blogworthy.

note: that happened like fifteen minutes ago, and i'm writing this on his personal computer.

Accoustic covers of rap songs

I think accoustic covers of rap songs are pretty fun. Keep in mind most of these are still should have a little parental advisory sticker and are prolly not safe forwork. At any rate though, i'll post a few of the best i've found. For those available online, i'll link to the homepage, not the mp3. Sorry, it's polite.

http://homepage.mac.com/malloyk/FileSharing2.html
Kellen Malloy has done a few interesting covers:
What's Your Fantasy
Big Pimpin and
Ride Wit Me

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs/
This guy, jonathan coulton's got some real good songs. A few rap covers, and a bunch of originals.
He's sorta popular for his cover of:
Baby's Got Back

These is a cover of Gin and Juice all over the internets. Many of you may have heard it. It claims to be by Phish, but it is actually by a band called the Gordes. I dont know that it's anywhere on the internet for free or whatever, but it's here on some dude's website, so you can check it that way.

One of the oldest one's i know is "Boys in the Hood" by dynamite hack.(cover of NWA, naturally.) I dont know if it's available online, and my server that i'd normally use is havent issues. I'll check the internet real quick. I found a dozen or so places that had it, but the RIAA has been shutting down more of those types of sites. Anyhow, it's a classic. I have it, so if you really want it, ask me.

I think the only other one i know is Ben Fold's cover of "B**ches ain't S**t" by dr dre. This is prolly one of my favorites, if you like Folds or dre, buy the song on itunes, it's worth it.

That's all i got. If you know anymore that i didnt say, let me know.

The year in review

Yesterday, james andrew and i went snowboarding. It was a lot of fun. I had planned on going more this year... I haven't been in a minute. Yesterday was my first time out this winter, but it's still early in the winter. Nothing too eventful happened. We're all still alive.

That's pretty much all i can think of that happened in the double oh five.

A good year then, i suppose. for more on the year, see cousin andrew's blog. he's better at sumarizing years.