I’m going to buy Isaac’s Apple iBook G4 1.4ghz 14″ laptop w/ 512MB RAM, 80GB hard-drive, and Superdrive (CD/DVD burner). Not the freshest machine on the face of the planet, but it’s the cheapest way to get into an Apple laptop without spending $1000+. Plus, I’m planning to upgrade the RAM to 1.5ghz and upgrade it to Leopard to give it a bit of a life-expectancy boost.

This isn’t the first time I’ve bought used Apple products from Isaac. Previously, I bought his iPod Mini 4GB when he got an iPod Color 20GB, and then later bought his iPod Color 20GB when he got tired of iPods. I’ve saved quite a bit by chewing on used Apples.

I’m excited about getting a laptop because it will enable me to take documents portable and work on them wherever I happen to be. Recently, I started hanging out with a technology community on Saturdays. People sit around coding on their laptops, tossing out ideas for things, asking questions, working on projects, eating food, playing games, and doing just about anything.

Yesterday, for example, some of the guys there started talking about an idea for a new website to post random thoughts, secrets, and ideas anonymously. It’s going to run on this complicated backend of dozens of variables to help decide what content to show, narrow down the sort of content you’re interested in seeing (or not), and attempt to build a sense of community. We came up with a name for the site right there, one of the guys registered it, and then the coding began. Not sure how much long-term involvement I’ll have in the project, but I’m hoping to help with testing and maybe some coding.

But yeah. Can’t wait to get it.

Tags: Apple, Isaac, laptop

I wake up earlier on days I don’t work. Today I woke up early. I showered early and left the house early.

Value stores are awesome. They nicely fill the gap between Wal-Mart/Target and Adverse Poverty. Being in a poor state of mind, I decided to browse around the local value store for furniture and clothing today. I found a bookshelf w/ no shelf-holders, a small TV-stand, and several awesome flannel shirts. However, I bought none of these.

Yay, thou I shop at the value shoppe, I shall buy no things.

I made one exception to the rule today. I bought two country albums from the mid ’90s. I don’t know the names of the albums, but they’re from Tim McGraw and Brooks & Dunn. After road tripping w/ Isaac recently and reading Lefsetz, I felt an urge to sample the music of the country. I figured what better way to do it than with two old albums for $6.50.

After detouring to the lake for a while, I came home and have been listening to punk music all afternoon.

By the way, did I mention my date last Sunday? *peers at the previous posts* Ah, I did! Well, never mind, let’s just say I’m happy about how things are going so far. I called her last night and managed to talk for almost 45 minutes.

Things Thea and I have in common: Lord of the Rings, anime (Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, etc.), Garden State, the Garden State soundtrack, Japanese food, Vanilla Coke.

In any case, that’s one date down and hopefully many more to come. Out of the four dates I’ve been on this year, this relationship is the only one I saw hope for when the date happened. I’ll keep you posted.

Tags: dating, Isaac, used