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Still an iDork

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

Not only do I have my iPhone preordered (and narrowly averted a VERY LONG WAIT that my stepfather nearly caused in gobbling up my stored New Every Two credit when he was neglectful and let one of those dumb bulldogs chew up his phone), but I’m among those whose phones got shipped out early. :D Feb. 7, here I come! (LJ version: My fangirl Flonne face, let me show it to you…)

The only thing better is knowing that if Evil Stepfather’s phone gets damaged by OMG BULLDOG or what-have-you again, he’s SOL until 2012. That’s what he gets for taking my NE2 credit, that jerk. I could have made him pay for my data plan, but this is good enough. Ah, the data plan… at first I didn’t think I’d have much use for it, but if it’s as good as Verizon is claiming (they’re saying “unlimited,” I’m assuming they really mean 5GB), this could be fun and useful as I ramp up plans to reboot my license and reclaim the Yoshi Car. *insert unfocused drivel about silly “city exploration missions” and excuses to play with the iPhone GPS*

…ahem…

Super Bowl this Sunday. And by that I mean PUPPY BOWL because Super Bowl is crazy amounts of BOOOORIIING and as much as I am a cat person, I’d rather watch a bunch of puppies romp and tumble for my amusement. Well, there’s the kitty half-time, too. (btw, iPhone + Dinah = you’re going to be seeing a LOT more of Kestine, via YouTube HD and possibly even Justin.tv live-streaming)

…though…
I do actually have one reason to care about Super Bowl this time– if it goes into overtime, Papa Johns will grant everyone in their rewards program a free pizza credit. You know where this is going, right? >:D

Finally, I got new glasses last week. My script changed only BARELY enough to warrant new lenses. I’d snap pictures but it’s just the 2011 refresh of my previous frames (purple-pink Carolee). I was going to try and reuse my old frames, since I thought LensCrafters could simply tweak them and replace the lenses… but I suppose not, and the 2011 version was on sale anyway. Ah well.

Ahahaha, oh crap, there is one downside to getting my iPhone early– I need to, uh, go convert all my old ringtones on Dinah, like… now. o_o And probably edit some new ones (like the Lavos theme and TROLOLOLO). As far as I know, everyone on my phone who has a ringtone will retain their existing one unless I stumble upon something better, and I need to edit one for myself to slap on mother’s iPhone for my entry, else she’ll put something awful in there. >_>;

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February = iPwn

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

So… YAY VERIZON. At long last, they are getting the iPhone.
And I am totally getting one. Mother, too. (Evil Stepfather is a maybe… truthfully, with his crappy eyesight, an iPhone may be easier for him to handle than his tiny, clunky feature phone.)
Preordering on the 3rd, and I think mother wants to do a pickup rather than have ’em shipped like our previous phones were. (I think last time, she and Evil Stepfather had issues activating theirs.) It looks like I may qualify for a discount under New Every Two, but I’m prepared to pay for mine… and I get to pay up front for a year’s worth of data, anyway.

HARDCORE bonus points if there is a White iPhone option available. Gotta match with ninja laptop Dinah and all…

The only sucky part is that I may lose my Angry Birds save files… unless I do a transfer from my iPod and hop the transferred version over to the iPhone. HM. Guess I’ll find out when that happens. :P

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PoopStation Plausible

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

Buh, doods. I was all about to patch my clunky ol’ PSP so I could loot Phantasy Star Portable 2 and reroll Avatar Blastoise in all his CAST badassery and so I could go bother [info]seraphzero and friends. Since Best Buy didn’t have any copies in stock, I’d have to get it through the PlayStation Network.

BUT… my PSP decided it was going to keep turning itself off, even though it was at full battery charge AND plugged in. WTF. Weirder still, if I pull the cable after it crashes, the green light stays on. Google and such says that my PSP is pretty much hosed.

….BOOOOO. Yeah, there’s a second PSP downstairs that I could swap out for, but it’s just as old (they’re both 1st gen, PSP-1000 series) and probably wouldn’t last much longer. So, new PSP time for me.

Which… would not cost me much out of pocket, actually! I’ve got the $100 gift card that came with Dinah, and another $25 in Rewards Zone certs that spawned by buying Dinah (think about it… laptop purchase = crapton of Rewards Zone points!), so that instantly shaves off $125.

Just as well. 3000-series PSPs have video out and native charge-over-USB (where I had to loot a combo cable for my old PSP). I’ll put in the order after I sleep.

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In other news, extending Snowschemes window until end of January, because I got so behind on that front. Slow Yoshi is sloooooow.

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And Logitech Wins (Again)

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

I open this with a trivial yet recurring gripe about Amazon– I click “group into as few shipments as possible” and… “HELLO WE ARE GIVING YOU THIS NOW WITH THAT FOLLOWING WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE” which is Amazon-speak for “both of these items are not in stock at the same warehouse so we’re splitting your order up anyway, lol.” Argh. Why even give me that option in the first place if they never listen? Seriously, it’s only actually consolidated properly ONCE that I can recall. I shouldn’t bitch because it’s still free shipping, but… packaging waste is boo.

That said, the Logitech Speaker Lapdesk N700 arrived first, with the wireless N card (a D-Link) to follow shortly. (FYI, the lapdesk came from the Amazon Arizona warehouse… the next closest station is in Nevada?) I held off unboxing it until it was time for bed, and here we are.

It’s, uh… quite big. Definitely not something I can shove in my messenger bag or easily haul around with me. Its size, however, is inconsequential to how freaking AWESOME it is– the underside has this padded fabric that’s similar to what you’d find on nice textured furniture and does not heat up at all. You can’t really hear the fan but it IS on (mine shipped with the fan switched to on). It’ll be a few hours to see if it’s able to drop Dinah’s peak temperature, but it HAS slowed the uptake quite a bit– it previously took Dinah about 40 minutes to cap out at around 136F (based on Speedfan). About an hour in and she’s at around 120F. If it doesn’t really put a dent in her final temp, that’s fine… as far as heat control goes, as long as this enables me to put her on my bed without clogging her vents (and thus trigger an overheat), it’s a success. :P Old laptop is old after all…

The ultimate awesomesauce, for me, is the speakers. They override the existing speakers with nary a fuss– just a few minutes pulling some drivers over Windows Update or what-have-you and you’re good to go. And woooow, I never knew how crappy Dinah’s speakers were until now. OMG. This lapdesk won’t give you freaking 7 channel surround but it’s stupidly better than what passes for laptop audio (short of putting on headphones). They are also much more sensibly placed than Dinah’s onboard speakers, which are often blocked off by pillows. You can toggle the volume either through the side buttons or Windows’ volume slider; there’s no OSD if you use the buttons and you’ll have to keep tapping to get where you want.

If you have a laptop, get one of these, even if you don’t have heating issues. The underpadding is comfy and the speakers rock! Not cheap at $80 (softened by about 20 for me due to spawning Amazon eCerts through my bank’s reward program) but sooo worth it. I’ve used laptop coolers and they were flimsy and not very lap-friendly…. Logitech just hit laptop coolers out of the park with this one. :D

Only one little snag and it’s not really related to the lapdesk– I can’t use my mouse with it. No room on the card table that Dinah normally sits on, since the lapdesk is so big. I’ll need to go dig up a firm mousepad or something. I can live with Dinah’s touchpad for now, though.

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Meowch: All four cats are getting their vaccinations next week. Who gets to pay for them (but doesn’t get to go because HURR DURR EVIL STEPFATHER and his wanting to go just so he can look at the other pets even though every time I go to Dr. Berg’s office it’s usually pretty empty)? Me. :P

Poor Kestine, though… dude HATES to be in a carrier. Pile that on top of someone taking his temp by sticking a thermometer up his butt, and having to listen to Daisy hiss and swear at the newbies in Cat Demon… and probably someone wanting to give him eardrops since he always has some kind of ear wax. Not fun. :|

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Post-It Notes’ LAN version is Not Hamachi: yet mother is pushing for its usage as a Hamachi replacement as she can’t be arsed to reinstall it and log back into the house VPN. *FACEPALM* I don’t care how cute the deletion sound is, the Post-it notes app is clunky as hell and I have to go through all these menus to send a note over the LAN. If this was about not wanting to reinstall Hamachi, fine…. but we could have used GBridge instead since that runs off Google. o_O;

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One Facerub Too Many

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Awesome kitty Kestine likes to rub his face on freaking EVERYTHING. Doorways, table legs, MY legs, box corners, and ninja laptop Dinah’s wifi parts.

In the case of the wireless-N card, it was just one facerub too many, because the fat purple end of the card snapped off and the card shut down. Thankfully Dinah didn’t freak and go all Blue Screen of Death, but her wireless-N card is now officially dead.


Oops.
I don’t blame Kestine enirely, though… old card is quite old (I think I got it a few months after I originally got Dinah) and it was starting to flake out. I’ve ordered a D-Link* Wireless-N card off Amazon (yay having enough rewards points to slash off half the price!) and also a Logitech lapdesk (combo cooler fan/speakers) because ninja laptop has been running VERY hot as of late.

For now I’ve fallen back on using the original onboard wireless-G… and remembered WHY I boosted Dinah to N in the first place. Wireless-G sucks! :P Actually, wireless sucks as a whole– mind you, this is coming from someone who loots podcasts left and right and at any given time is either running YouTube, Slingbox, Netflix, South Park or the TWiT Live stream– and I moved as much as my crap as I could over to wired mode earlier this year. Wireless-N is the closest to wired mode as I can get, and is the only form of wifi I’ll stick on a machine on this network ’cause I’m spoiled on my awesome gigabit ethernet that I use to pass things around inside the house network.

As for Kestine… well, he’s a bit frustrated that he can’t rub his face on Dinah for now. XD It’s funny that he goes specifically for her wifi stuff– the card and the corners of her monitor lid, which are supposedly where the wifi receiver bits are. I wonder if they emit some low-level EM wave that cats find interesting enough to facerub?

* = old router and wireless-N card were Linksys (obtained at the same time), new router is D-Link, which has been AWESOME thus far, so may as well go D-Link for the card too.

Bigger is still better: Pizza Wednesday, doods. The weekly tossup between Pizza Hut and Papa Johns is complicated a little more this time around; the former rolled out a new event pizza type (the Big Italy, yet another attempt at an extra large… dude, why can’t they bring back the Big New Yorker? THAT was awesome!), yet with the latter I’ve piled up enough rewards points to get a free pizza. Ordinarily free pizza would trump everything (because seriously, what’s better than free?), but when it comes to new/event rollouts, I gotta try it. It doesn’t help that I’m a wing addict. >_>;;;

Live from Azeroth: Yoshi now has as much of the t10 Mage armor (“Bloodmage’s Regalia”) as she’s going to get, and there’s nothing more I can pile up Frost emblems for… so any future emblems I’ll just convert into Primordial Saronites so I don’t need to kill my gold buying ’em up to make the ICC craftables for my alts or guildies. :P Any future gear upgrades Yoshi will have to get through ICC, most likely in 25-man mode. (That said… while inferior to the Frozen Bonespike that Yoshi’s packing now, I want Halion, Staff of Forgotten Love since its essentially the WoW version of Planet’s Burden, Yoshi’s signature weapon everywhere else).

I will slug that Lich King in his noobish, ice cream-hoarding face, yes I will. >:D

While old man Phil would be next on the gear supply chain, I need to throw in Rei stat, to unlock the craftable leather/mail pants. I’ve, uh… lots of rogues/druids/hunters/shammies in the guild who could use those things and I’ve kept them waiting for quite awhile (with Robert on break, I’m the only in-house ICC crafter-dood, after all). And, of course, Rei can use ’em too.

No Kon Do: BOOOOO. :( I liked Paranoia Agent (or, “what happens when Japan turns Law and Order into headmessy anime”) and Paprika (which I definitely need to revisit for the dub, hehehe I’m terrible). If you’ve no idea as to who this awesome dood was, do yourself a favor and watch either of the above. :O

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