I normally don’t blog about Dave Winer, but I randomly watched a movie he took while driving, and off in the distance I noticed that he was driving directly to a nice shelf or roll cloud. I’d post a picture but I can’t right now.
Today I ordered a mostly-loaded 15″ Aluminum Powerbook from Apple, and a 4G iPod for my fiancee. Apple has a nice educational discount, as well as a promo for educational customers who buy an iPod and a Powerbook together will get $200 off. This brings the iPod down to $269.00 USD after all the rebates.. not too shabby.
Looks like the iPod shipped today, and hopefully my laptop will be here soon. It’s a build-to-order — I ordered it with 512MB RAM, 128MB video ram, the 5400 RPM hard drive, and had them take out the SuperDrive since I never burn DVDs anyway.
I’m upgrading from a Rev A. Clamshell iBook that I bought from a friend a few years ago for $400. The iBook runs at 300MHz and has 320MB RAM. OS X ran ok, but apps like Photoshop or Dreamweaver were pretty unbearable, especially running at a screen resolution of 800×600.
As of tonight, I never have to take another math class forever, thus ending my long battle against Calculus. I start my last full semester of school this fall — I only have to take one class in the spring, a capstone project — and I’m really excited to be finishing up with school.
Now I just need to start looking for a job :)
In case anybody is wondering (which I doubt), I am still alive. I have a big math final tonight, but I think it won’t be *that* big of a deal. This is my last night for math, ever, and I’m psyched.
My participation with Cocoon has been pretty low-key lately, but now that things are starting to wrap up, I’ll have more time to contribute stuff.
Oh yeah, and I start my last (full) semester next week. Technically next spring is my last semester, but I’ll probably be looking for a real job in January since I only need to take one final class, the capstone project, which will be much less work than Theory of Computation and Calculus 2 :)