New Decade, Part 2
29/January/10 07:22 PM
So, to be exact, 29 days into 2010...and still:
Sundance is about swag.
I’ve never made it to Sundance, even though I produced a short in Slamdance in 2009.
The ability to smell a book beats an E-Reader by a furlong.
iPad. 4:3 screen! Do we live in 1986?
LOST last season starts Tuesday. Repeat. Hope for resolutions.
Sundance is about swag.
I’ve never made it to Sundance, even though I produced a short in Slamdance in 2009.
The ability to smell a book beats an E-Reader by a furlong.
iPad. 4:3 screen! Do we live in 1986?
LOST last season starts Tuesday. Repeat. Hope for resolutions.
Comments
A Month Into 2010
28/January/10 02:07 PM
A month into 2010 and...
It’s still not easier to find good food near post facilities.
Conan is enjoying a long vacation...relax, man.
Congress is, if possible, more broken.
Creating something from nothing is still very cool. CGI animation, a tasty meal indeed!
Not enough rain in LA. Dry skin. Nothing new...it IS a desert after all.
iPad?! No camera, front or back?! I told you so...
Four thru zero, tomorrow. Promise.
Another Thriller
26/January/10 08:40 PM
Well, it’s that time again. Tomorrow is a day that I
eagerly wait for and get very excited about several
times a year. An Apple event.
EVENT.
In the past, I sat at work or home awaiting the magic hour when Steve (or his weak substitute) would stride forth and dazzle us all with the latest and greatest from Apple, formerly Apple Computer, now just Apple, Inc. I’d drink huge mugs of Green Mountain or SLO Roast Coffee and have 4 or 5 liveblogs open all at once and keep hitting refresh on each, in rotation or order of preference. Pics would appear of all the fellow geeks waiting in line at Moscone. I’d be jealous and yet warm at the same time from the shared passion.
Then everyone would file in and listen to music while wondering what invention or software or Mac reboot would appear today. (Now realize that I have been using Macs since OS 6 or 7 and loving the simple elegance of them and geeking out on magazine or newspaper articles announcing the newest and greatest and rushing down to whoever was carrying Apple products locally....remember this was before Apple stores! Shock, horror, digression.) So to know what my favorite mega-company was up to, live, in the moment, real-time...well, that is enormous. Sometimes I’d be disappointed. I hate the demos of what the new apps can do in detail....I’d rather just play with one. I don’t really care that much about iLife. And sometimes upgrades to the Macs just wouldn’t make sense or the upgrade to a product would completely miss the predictions and we’d have to wait yet another whole six months for the eagerly anticipated new feature. Jeez.
But now tomorrow. Hmmm. The Tablet, Slate, Pad, cereal box, whatever. Almost more eagerly anticipated than the iPhone, as less is known about it. I am psyched, no doubt. However...I’m just not sure it’s possible that the product can possibly live up to the buzz leading to its debut. Maybe there are a whole unknown genus/class of people who the Tablet will be perfectly suited to. I just have my doubts. I mean, I get that it will do multimedia and news(papers) and magazines and the like. I get that it will duplicate and expand many iPhone functions. Maybe it will have some rudimentary laptop abilities. iChat too. I get it.
But. If I want iPhone functionality, I want it in as small and cool a tool as I can get it into. I don’t want it bigger. No. And I adore my iPhone; it was a life changer.
If I want multimedia or computer like functions, I’m just fine with a laptop. The Tablet isn’t going to be that much smaller or thinner. And it won’t do everything a laptop can, so why? I get the papers and magazines thing. And if I had boxes of cash stacked to the ceiling, would I spend some to use the Tablet to read my morning news intake? Sure. But until then...why?
I guess what I’m secretly hoping for is a true game changer. Something for which I can chuck my UVerse box out the door (but wait, I’d still need internet accessibility) or apps that ran only on the Tablet and had very good reasons to do so. Or some function that would save me time and/or money that I can’t even imagine right now. But I just don’t, deep down, think that it’s likely. Or maybe even possible.
Instead, maybe iPhone OS 4.0 will blow my socks off. FCP 8?
Well, I’ll still be queued up at 945AM. Hitting refresh. Steve, miracle?
In the past, I sat at work or home awaiting the magic hour when Steve (or his weak substitute) would stride forth and dazzle us all with the latest and greatest from Apple, formerly Apple Computer, now just Apple, Inc. I’d drink huge mugs of Green Mountain or SLO Roast Coffee and have 4 or 5 liveblogs open all at once and keep hitting refresh on each, in rotation or order of preference. Pics would appear of all the fellow geeks waiting in line at Moscone. I’d be jealous and yet warm at the same time from the shared passion.
Then everyone would file in and listen to music while wondering what invention or software or Mac reboot would appear today. (Now realize that I have been using Macs since OS 6 or 7 and loving the simple elegance of them and geeking out on magazine or newspaper articles announcing the newest and greatest and rushing down to whoever was carrying Apple products locally....remember this was before Apple stores! Shock, horror, digression.) So to know what my favorite mega-company was up to, live, in the moment, real-time...well, that is enormous. Sometimes I’d be disappointed. I hate the demos of what the new apps can do in detail....I’d rather just play with one. I don’t really care that much about iLife. And sometimes upgrades to the Macs just wouldn’t make sense or the upgrade to a product would completely miss the predictions and we’d have to wait yet another whole six months for the eagerly anticipated new feature. Jeez.
But now tomorrow. Hmmm. The Tablet, Slate, Pad, cereal box, whatever. Almost more eagerly anticipated than the iPhone, as less is known about it. I am psyched, no doubt. However...I’m just not sure it’s possible that the product can possibly live up to the buzz leading to its debut. Maybe there are a whole unknown genus/class of people who the Tablet will be perfectly suited to. I just have my doubts. I mean, I get that it will do multimedia and news(papers) and magazines and the like. I get that it will duplicate and expand many iPhone functions. Maybe it will have some rudimentary laptop abilities. iChat too. I get it.
But. If I want iPhone functionality, I want it in as small and cool a tool as I can get it into. I don’t want it bigger. No. And I adore my iPhone; it was a life changer.
If I want multimedia or computer like functions, I’m just fine with a laptop. The Tablet isn’t going to be that much smaller or thinner. And it won’t do everything a laptop can, so why? I get the papers and magazines thing. And if I had boxes of cash stacked to the ceiling, would I spend some to use the Tablet to read my morning news intake? Sure. But until then...why?
I guess what I’m secretly hoping for is a true game changer. Something for which I can chuck my UVerse box out the door (but wait, I’d still need internet accessibility) or apps that ran only on the Tablet and had very good reasons to do so. Or some function that would save me time and/or money that I can’t even imagine right now. But I just don’t, deep down, think that it’s likely. Or maybe even possible.
Instead, maybe iPhone OS 4.0 will blow my socks off. FCP 8?
Well, I’ll still be queued up at 945AM. Hitting refresh. Steve, miracle?