Knuckledragger

I have two different sized monitors, and they're vertically stacked: (Old pic is old. I really need to take a new one.) That said, they're much smaller than what Dusty is using. Sometime Real Soon Now I'm buying a Mac desktop, and will then be tasked with buying a new monitor. I do like the two-smaller-monitors paradigm vs. one big one. I find the Apple 30" difficult to use. It's so damn big I have to sit farther away than normal, which means jacking up the font sizes. I also lose track of the pointer sometimes.

^^ Congratulations. If you don't, I suggest you avail yourself of a battery pack for your camera*, the 85L's AF (and in fact, MF) motor sucks juice like there's no tomorrow as it moves around 2 1/2 lbs of glass. *That is, unless you have a 1 series body, which I suspect is not the case.

What is going on with Apple's line of displays? Currently the entire selection is the lone 27" LED-lit panel. That's a very nice monitor (technically superior to the now-discontinued 30" in many ways) but it's $1000 and bigger than many people want. I can't imagine they sell too many 27"s with Minis. Apple often has a late-January launch for new products (or at least they did when Macworld was still around.) I hope they have some new monitors pretty damn soon. Says the guy who's in the market for a new %$ display.)

The App Store App is very nice, but the one-click purchasing is a bit disconcerting. I'd hate to accidentally click on purchase button (which is right next to the "share link" button) while and look at Aperture and be out $80 just like that. I spent most of the holidays binging on the Steam sale, so the pay-for-download model is now well familiar to me. I do wish Apple used a cart/final purchase paradigm. Not everything needs to be a one click operation. It's a bloody good thing AAPL isn't a military contractor. Click here to launch warheads!

H/B/D, L/F/F!

Angry Birds on the Mac App Store Supposedly this game is nearly as addictive as Plants vs. Zombies.

JMJ's Very Bad Day.

I ran Software Update, got the App Store ...app working, and now I'm giving it a go. I had to add a bunch of Little Snitch rules, set up payment info and []Agreed to the mile-long EULA, but now I'm in business. So far I've only tried free apps (SoundCloud, Telephone) but I might spring for Angry Birds if things work well.

That's how I parsed it too.

Sounds like a good night to me.

(of muscle, yeah.) It's also apparently Elvis's birthday. They go well with Truck Nuts, I hear.