Yvette's Inner Geek Blog

My late birthday present and early Christmas present arrived a day early today! It was supposed to arrive tomorrow, and I almost didn’t get it today because I wasn’t home when UPS attempted delivery. Shortly after I returned home, though, I received a personal phone call from my UPS driver. (We’re on a first name basis because, well, I generally hate shopping in-person. It was a little weird to get a personal phone call, but whatever.) He suggested that I go to the local UPS store at 5:30, his scheduled stop, and sign for it there–which is exactly what happened.

Ben and I got home about the same time and celebrated together. I affixed a permasmile on my face and he celebrated by taking photos, laughing at my excitement, and making tacos while I oooohed and aaaaaahed and started to set things up. I somehow managed to tear myself away long enough to eat dinner. 

And now, after all the updates have been installed and the battery is fully charged, I’m still setting things up and getting used to the new OS. Some things are beautiful and wonderful, but some things are still very awkward. (I already miss the Delete button that erases letters in front of the cursor–didn’t realize how much I toggle between the PC’s Backspace and Delete.)

I’m connected to our home server, so I have delightfully convenient access to all of our MP3s and photos and other shared files on our database. I’m going to take my time transferring files from my PC so that they’re in a more streamlined organization here on my MacBook.

My MacBook. Hee hee!

Of course I still had to do the crude partial desaturation of that photo with Photoshop on my PC… the teensy bit I’ve played with iPhoto made it crystal clear that I need/want Photoshop or at least GIMP. 

If you like good rock music and have 5 minutes and 27 seconds to spare… I present to you Red Fang’s “Prehistoric Dog.” (It loaded slowly for me, but was worth the wait.)

My friend Bryan blogged about this being his new favorite music video. It is now also mine. Ben about flipped his lid because it was so awesome… seriously, I thought his eyes were going to pop out of his skull as he emphatically told me how much Awesome there was in this video.

And to add to the awesome, Red Fang’s website features ASCII art in their header.

They have their EP available on vinyl and MP3s, but it doesn’t look like they have a CD out yet. I would want a CD with this video included in high quality for sure. I know my SCA friends would love it!

But I doubt I could get my fellow medieval band members to recreate it. We mostly play recorders, bells, and acoustic guitars that have the medieval persona of a lute.