Some CDs

Kevin Drew - Spirit If...

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Doomjazz Future Corpses!

Boris - Absolutego (original non Southern Lord special low frequency edition, super rare!)

shoes

oh, and dinner. Was going to buy Leopard, but the local Apple store was overflowing with people, so I didn't bother.

Stupid f'ing UPS, they've had my package of parts less than 50 miles away for the past three days. No mini3-2 this weekend.

Stupid f'ing UPS, they've had my package of parts less than 50 miles away for the past three days. No mini3-2 this weekend.

I had a similar thing happen to me where an item I bought was shipped via their "3 Day Select" service. The package sat at a local sorting facility for two days so it can be delivered on the 3rd day from shipping. Stupid.

The pisser is that it's been 5 days in transit for a trip that usually takes 3.

Man, that's annoying, Nate.

I'm hoping that FedEx tracking is actually accurate and deliver the Gilmore Lite tomorrow as the tracking page states. Maybe I'll actually get to use the new source.

Yep. I ended up taking that Audiogon deal I posted after the person in line before me didn't end up buying it.

The registration renewal for my car. Just remembered that I hadn't sent in the payment so I paid it online.

color-depositing shampoo and conditioner

OS X Leopard

CDs

Feist - The Reminder

Feist - Let It Die

An iron

other than the iron, that sounds like a fun filled purchase combo! Feist is so fucking good. have you installed Leopard yet?

I've listened to some of her songs (aside from the one on the nano ad) and been meaning to get her albums - haven't gotten around to listening to them yet, though.

And nope, I haven't installed Leopard yet, but will in couple of hours.

Well after a little scare with my iBook, which where I'm typing this from, I just started the Leopard install process on my iMac as I watch the World Series. I'll play with it once I'm done working on a group project for a continuing ed class (stupid furthering my education, LOL).

Okay, so the Leopard installation went smoothly, and I've checked most of the applications I use and they work fine.

Few things -

• Safari is running better than the beta (duh). No random crashes in middle of surfing and I think it's marginally faster than beta, but I could be imagining that.
  
• Stacks are stupid. It may be useful if you only have handful of document/downloads, but that's not the case here. I like the Tiger's folder on Dock better.
  
• I love Quick Look - I make multiple revisions of same documents and it makes finding the right one easier.
  
• On the similar note, I really love Cover Flow for my picture folder.
  
• Jury's still out on Spaces. I'm still playing around with it and I like it so far.
  
• Time Machine....I've no idea. My backup drive had died last week so I need to get one before I use this feature.
  
• Transparent menu bar could be annoying with some background.
  

Oh, and I just ordered extra memory for my iMac.

Oh, and one more thing. The little "light" that lights up on the dock to indicate the running app is bit hard to see. It looks neat, but that's about it.

Well, I got myself a big external drive and have just started the Time Machine. We'll see how well it works, well, hopefully, I won't have to see how well it works. In any case, the initial backup is going to take a while, it looks like, even with the Firewire drive.

Leopard, for the most part, is pretty snappy. My machine's iMac 2GHz Core 2 Duo with 1GB of memory. Non-Intel-native programs, like MS Office programs, affects it noticeably, especially while using the Spaces. Of course, this is with the Time Machine performing the initial backup in the background, too.

Oh, while I'm liking the Spaces, there are some odd quirks that I haven't really looked into yet.

I'm liking the improvements on the Mail. To Do and Notes are nice additions since now I can add notes/to do list within Mail. I know it's not a big deal for most people, but it's useful for me.

god damn i need to get leopard

god damn i need to get leopard

Dew eet.

Besides, I need someone on HC to talk about Leopard.

going to see Queens of the Stone Age with special guest Mastodon tomorrow night

Also, let us know how it sounds.

Ok, so the HCT/Dared arrived this afternoon. Initial thoughts have me laughing Dr. Evil style that I paid as little as I did for it. For one thing it's in pretty good shape, just a minor mark here and there and it sounds pretty decent. There's something a bit artificial about it but I don't really care about its performance as a headphone amp, I'll be much more interested to get it home and see how it does driving a small pair of bookshelf speakers. I've got a little pair of Boston Acoustics HD-5s that are itching for something to shake the dust off them.

Luminous Audio Axiom

Luminous Audio Axiom

Hehe, I would love to see what is inside those.

Hehe, I would love to see what is inside those.

If I can take it apart without breaking it or damaging it, I'll see what I can do.

I should have it by end of the week.