The Geek and I

Oh it is kind of cool.

But a complete and utter waste of programming.

Could be handy for showing someone what’s up with hardware by flipping to the back camera.

Could be fun for phone #%* in a desperate moment…maybe.

But it just isn’t natural to use.

Positives? Video is amazing! Pause and resume when you do something else is very seamless.

Negatives? Everything else.

But I am a fanboi so I’ll probably use it all the time with my few friends who are willing to put up with me and dumped monies on an iPhone 4 as well.

Note: iPad would have been MUCH better for this technology deployment release followed by the iPhone release.

This thing is a blast!

Cannot wait to try out OmniGraffle for this bad boy.

Performance is fantastic and the screen is a beauty. Keyboard will take some getting used to though.

1Password needs to update, and a few things are funky, like Mint – took me a few tries for it to let me enter the passcode lock.

On the other hand Netflix is awesome, ABC app is kick ass, Pages and Numbers are going to rule while in meetings. TweetDeck is usable and clean for this platform, I did not like the basic version for iPhone.

More later as this blog posting is interfering with my playing!

I love MacHeist!

I find software that I have never thought to try before, like journaling software, items to take my mind off of the stress of life, or even software to help me look at what is going on with my disk storage.

The current MacHeist has software for getting cover art for iTunes, DVD ripping software, clipboard management (including multiple clippings), and a FTP/SFTP/WebDav client.

If you are a Mac user (and who doesn’t want to be?), check out MacHeist.

pics of my new shiny Mac Pro!

Decided it was time for an upgrade as running 3-4 VMs at once was getting to be a little … slow at times.

And having VMs eating processor and RAM while playing World of Warcraft?  For shame!  Work and play at the same time causes sumthin’ sumthin’…

New system has 12GB RAM and 2 4core 2.26Ghz Xeon processors (which have hyper-threading as well).

Here’s to another 3 years!

pr0n viewer fasties!

Cause with 8 processing cores for a workstation it is the same as a mainframe for home.

View from above seeing both cooling towers and 6 memory sticks

The motherboard with interconnection of fragile.

What is 6 x 2 totaling 2 banks of 3? Compensation!

*sniffle* - the innards were so pretty...

Watching the number of people pugging and the overall decline on the average raider capability proves this out.

This afternoon, I did a pug VoA25 on my alt. And was #3 on damage and DPS, wearing T7 pieces. I missed #2 by about 20k damage and 15 DPS. That’s just one rotation difference. #2 was a main in T8+ gear all around. Tank was #7 overall and from my guild…and on an alt as well.

WTF?

Sunday did another pug VoA25 but this time on my paladin. I normally MT, but they needed a healer. My heal set is dandy but still sporting 2 pieces of T7. I was #2 on healing and #1 was resto Druid. Again I must say WTF?!? This is an alt spec! 5 healers below me and from what I could tell… All main spec and tons of nicer gear.

Listen, I am all for the casual player.

But don’t brag about your leetness or numbers when an under geared alt or under geared alt-spec punk you down. Epeen is a virtual hard-on. I do not need to see it whe mine is bigger anyway.

I do not know how much longer I can play this game with any seriousness. Most players are just bad. Really bad. Ouch.