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January 22, 2005
The missing iPod Shuffle
Today Apple made available in all US Apple stores the products announced at last week's Macworld. I was in line at my local Apple store bright and early to finally get myself iWork and iLife 05 and two iPod shuffle. Sad to say, I wasn't early enough for the shuffle. The store opened at 9am and by 9:20 which was the time I was standing in fron of the register - they had ran out.
Our area so far has gotten 12-18 inches of snow and it's still coming down while I write this. But the day was not at all a disappointment, I spent the whole day playing with iLife and iWork. The new app Pages look promising while the rest of the updated apps could use a little speed improvement - correction, they could actually be a lot faster.
Posted by ernie at 09:20 PM | Comments (0)
January 18, 2005
Another way that you love your enemy is this:
When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy,
that is the time which you must not do it.
There will come a time, in many instances,
when the person who hates you most,
the person who has misused you most,
the person who has gossiped about you most,
the person who has spread false rumors about you most,
there will come a time when
you will have an opportunity to defeat that person.
It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job;
it might be in terms of helping that person
to make some move in life.
That's the time you must do it.
That is the meaning of love.
In the final analysis,
love is not this sentimental something that we talk about.
It's not merely an emotional something.
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men.
It is the refusal to defeat any individual.
When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power,
you seek only to defeat evil systems.
Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love,
but you seek to defeat the system.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted by ernie at 12:05 PM | Comments (4292)
January 04, 2005
Back in the groove
The problem with a blog entry from people like me who are such blog slackers is where to begin. So many events have transpired since my last post that it's hard to remember. So okay, here I'll try. The holidays for me began December 23 when we flew to Chicago to spend the holidays with family.
The flight was uneventful until about 20 minutes before landing at around 11,000 feet. Our plane LOST CABIN PRESSURE. Lost. 100%. Gone. I didn't think much of it except for the pain in my ear and Sam and Patty crying. I said to my wife, ok we lost cabin pressure, no big deal. We're almost there anyway. I think the incident was building up because minutes before, a number of people in the plane especially the children were already complaining about their ears. Suddenly we heard a lound noise not unlike a window closing hard then opening then a loud swooosh of air being sucked out of the plane.
People were in semi panicked mode when a flight attendant got on the intercom to tell that there was some mechanical failure and that we had lost cabin pressure. She went on to say that since we were below 14,000 feet, there was no need for oxygen masks and that everything was under control. Pkay, I thought, she said that words I wanted to hear - under control. Needless to say the minutes of the landing approach seemed like forever. A burst of applause capped what was until then an 'uneventful flight'.
more later...
Posted by ernie at 04:19 PM | Comments (4225)