Well, I found a place. Wee. I’m going to be living in Columbia. As Maura put it, its the shopping Mecca of the area. Although don’t let the idea fool you, we are in Maryland here. It isn’t crowded at all. Nothing like Exton back home. You go a few minutes away from the center and you’ve got trees everwhere.
I’m going to be living in Columbia Landing. Its this nice little apartment complex thats close to the highways I’ll be taking to work, but it feels like its out in the boonies. Nice woods around it with walking paths, almost no noise. Plenty of room for a one bedroom too. And wallspace, it had the most out of all the ones I looked at. Very nice. $930 a month, but thats including gas. Pretty good find for the area since the average was about 1k.
I have to much crap I need to take care of over the next week. Two presentations, one group paper (due 6pm today), study for finals. Need to pack up things down here next week, move everything down on the 8th. I have the week after finals off so I have time to go and get settled in - need to get food, new desk, lots of stuff. I’ll probably just live down there from the 8th - 13th.
On side notes: Tiger should be on my doorstep Friday. The trailer for Serenity comes out later today on Apple’s Trailer site. And I need sleep. The last item is of course only a note, not something that will actually happen like the other two.
The day has come. Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger, is now available for pre-ordering, and will be delivered on April 29th. Needless to say I already ordered my copy with that nice little educational discount I get. Why did I pee my pants when I saw that it was finally able to be ordered? Lets review.
Spotlight: Imagine google for all the files on your computer. But not just files - emails, contacts, everything. And also imagine that every search happened in about a second. This is the beauty that is spotlight.
Dashboard: Widgets. Its all about the widgets (mini programs). Press F13 and you see a calculator, check the weather, translate something, even see the status of a flight. Press F13 again and it all disappears and you’re back to what you were working on.
Automator: This is going to make my life at the NSSF a lot easier. A nice program to automate tasks - like resizing 100 images and adding a watermark. Also going to speed up Isaac’s porn-gathering.
Safari RSS: If you aren’t using RSS feeds like mine then you don’t know what you’re missing. Its a great way to keep up with content on a bunch of sites all at once. The new Safari integrates a RSS reader into the browser, making my life of keeping up to date with many sites a lot eaiser.
So if you haven’t already go order your copy or go buy a Mac with it already loaded.
Simply put, Sin City was brilliant. Great plot, wonderful acting, intense action, and perfectly placed one-liners. Best bigscreen adaptation of a comic ever. Its in your best interest to go see it, soon.
