Ahh. Finally someone made a girls guide to geek guys that’s actually written by women. Now you girls will know what do to with us and really understand “why geek dudes rule”. Sorry about the 9th grade dialog.

I posted a question up on the Radio discussion group about a week ago and haven’t gotten a single response from it yet. It deals with making and using web polls within the journal system. I was thinking maybe someone out there would be able to give me some feedback on it so I can have some place to start.

I just woke up from a quick hour nap. Before that, Amanda just went home since coming over yesterday and spending the night. She’s my cool redhead chick. I also took a trip over to Fry’s today to pick up an extra monitor. I’ve been in hell using a single display setup on my Mac ever since my Sony monitor took a major dump 5 months ago. Just brought home my new ViewSonic and it’s beautiful. Also purchased my copy of QuickTime 6 Pro. If you haven’t downloaded the new version for free yet, you better get your a** over there and do it. Mmm, more Mac goodness. Now I think I’m going to play Wipeout Fusion for an hour or so before I start to get ready to go out tonight. Oh man, I just read over what I wrote and there’s no way i’m going to be able to make this post anymore interesting. Maybe next time will be different. Oh well.

Man you have to love Fark. I have no idea where they find stuff like this:

http://store.yahoo.com/speedandstyle/faintinggoat.html

It’s most definitely the strangest thing I’ve seen in a while. Make sure to go to the bottom and click on the movie.

So another MacWorld keynote comes and goes, but with it’s passing it leaves behind a very bright future. Most people will probably view this show as a let down because of the minor hardware announcements. A lot of this “let down” is fueled by so-called rumors sites (such as MacOSRumors) thinking they can predict certain things from their “inside info” and then readers get upset when it doesn’t happen. What a surprise. Most of these rumor sites are already reporting on the expo saying it was boring and underwhelming (even with it not even close to being over yet). A lot of this seems to stem from the fact that they weren’t even allowed into the show and, in turn, decided to verbally bash Apple’s tactics and say things like “We’ll never go to another expo again!” Well, that’s a pretty interesting stance since you aren’t invited anymore. Childish if you ask me, but that’s what’s great about the internet I guess. Any ignorant a**hole like myself can get on and talk about anything they want. Here’s a fact for ya rumor site whores out there (you remember facts, don’t ya?): It doesn’t take a genius to predict what may happen at an expo like this if you keep up with industry news.

I, on the other hand, think this was an extremely good expo because of the large amount of very useful and innovative software announcements which showed a clear direction for Apple as a company. Yes, most of it was already known to the public, but the overall showcase was still very impressive. The new version of OS X looks amazing and is jam packed with new features. The .MAC strategy (although somewhat pricey in its current form) is proof positive that Apple sees a much bigger picture and is taking the necessary steps towards a much broader product and service offering in the future. Also, unlike Microsoft’s .NET strategy, .MAC works. I already laid down my $49.95 for the .MAC service and am looking forward to every bit of it. What can I say? I’m such an Apple whore!

As a long-standing and dedicated Mac user, you can understand how this article from CNet caught my attention right away. It reports on a study done by Nielsen/NetRatings which basically says Mac users are smarter than PC users. Here’s a couple of main point from that report:

• 70.2 percent of Mac users online have a college degree, compared to 54.2 percent of all Web surfers.
• Mac users are 58 percent more likely than the general online population to build their own website.
• 8.2 percent of Americans who surf the Web at home use a Mac, even though Apple’s total computer sales amount to less than 5 percent of the overall US PC market.

I’m sure the study is (to put it bluntly) complete bullsh*t. In any case, it’s still very amusing and something kind of neat to show off to all of you PC users out there. Now don’t get me wrong. PC’s have their place. I own a PC, I love my PC, and for me, I simply need both my Mac and my PC to live in perfect harmony.

To conclude, I’d like to apologize to all of the PC users out there who couldn’t comprehend what I just talked about because I used words that were longer than 4 characters. I’m truly sorry.

I changed the site template for the-journals.com to a different default template supplied by UserLand. I don’t have my own original theme completed yet, but I’m just damn tired of the old one. This will just have to do until I can finish. It’s actually pretty nice and simple. That’ll do pig. That’ll do.

My friend, Amanda, just put up her new blog, Amandica, powered by LiveJournal. I kept telling her about Radio, but I think that she still made a pretty good choice considering what she’s planning to do with it. Asked her to give me a shameless plug since I’m doing the same for her, but instead she just keeps mentioning my name. She says it’s funny. I think she’s obsessive. (jk) I can understand though. How can you not be obsessed about me? Yeah right.

I don’t know how I did it. I really don’t. Sometimes (in a great while) I’ll forget my phone and leave it at home. Very rarely do I forget my wallet. Somehow, I forgot both my wallet and phone today. What the hell? I feel so damn naked. Looks like I’m not eating today and it’s a damn good thing I have a full tank of gas.

I know it’s been about a week since I last posted, but I haven’t been around too much. So what has happened in that time? Not too much, but the little that has happened was quite interesting (to me at least).

Was in Arizona all last weekend to visit a friend. Pretty fun. Too bad it didn’t ever get below 100 degrees at ANY part of the day or night. Let me tell you, anything that I thought was cool about Arizona before went straight out the window on this trip. I don’t care if they do have gorgeous girls all over there. The heat just makes the place not worth going outside EVER. On one of the few trips we did decided to leave, I got a piercing. That’s right! Got the labret done. I’ll try and get some pics of it up soon. I like it a lot, but it’s damn hard to chew solid foods because I keep catching the back of it with my teeth. It’s going to be like this for the next couple of weeks before I can switch out what I have now for something a little more comfortable. Works been a b*tch these last couple of days for some strange reason. I need to find new ways to give the illusion of working without actually doing any labor. I also went out with this girl last night for the first time. Cute red head and (unlike other girls I’ve dated) actually interesting and fun to be around. I’ll probably be spending more time with her in the future.

Anything else happen? Well, it’s my birthday today and boy, let me tell you how much I love my birthday. ::sigh:: I’ve been getting calls all day from people wishing me the best and yada yada yada. It’s cool the first couple of times, but after a while, it just starts to wear on ya. I appriciate people actually remember and the last thing I was to be is rude (hehe), but enough already. Yeah, and I’m sure writing about it here is going to make people stop too. Good thinking Richie.

Anyway, I’m sure I’ll have more to talk about very soon. Gonna post my Arizona and labret pics tonight sometime so check the photo album later.