I'm Mitchell, and I like to write and design and cook and I spend way too much time on the computer and I have a thing for run-on sentences.
I'm fluent in sarcasm. I'm strong-willed and have lots of self-control, except when it comes to cute little puppies. I like staying up late and sleeping in. I'm easy-going, but that just means I'm good at hiding how stressed out I am.
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“Telephone” - Lady Gaga & Beyoncé
Summed up:
- Gaga is in jail for lighting her boyfriend on fire with her boob-fireworks in Bad Romance.
- Nice uniform.
- Oh look, Gaga is on the radio.
- Are her sunglasses made of cigarettes?
- Gaga is a lesbian!
- Product Placement Alert! Virgin Mobile!
- Now her hair is made of XXL beer cans?
- Catfight!
- That jacket is the least form-fitting thing Gaga has ever worn.
- Nice bedazzled bra.
- Obligatory group dancing/seizure having.
- Crime scene tape instead of clothes! Genius!
- Product Placement Alert! Virgin Mobile!
- Beysus feeds Gaga.
- Some talk about a cow. And a burger. And a broken mirror.
- Beysus drives like a maniac, Gaga takes polaroids.
- Beysus poisons her man-hubby.
- Gaga is in the kitchen (she IS a woman!)
- Beysus borrowed Britney’s outfit from the Circus video.
- Let’s make a sandwich!
- Kitchen dance party!
- Gaga shows us how to make a poison in 30 minutes or less.
- Man-hubby steals all Beysus’ honey. Dies.
- Most of the people in the diner die.
- Gaga and Beysus dress up like Miss America and do some thriller-esque dancing.
- Beysus has a seizure in her Circus outfit.
- Thriller dancing continues.
- Gaga is a leopard.
- PUSSY WAGON.
- Gaga and Beysus are wearing bathrobes made of see-through fabric.
- They drive away together in the Pussy Wagon.
- They’re both lesbians!
- To be continued.
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To jailbreak or not to jailbreak
That is the question. I got an iPhone 3GS a couple of months ago and I absolutely love it. Before that I had an iPod Touch which I had jailbroken, and I fell in love with the themes, and SBSettings turned out to be a huge part of my everyday usage. When I went to my iPhone, while everything was shiny and new and amazing, I missed SBSettings.
There are lots of reasons to jailbreak the iPhone, and lots of reasons not to:
Slow downs.
For a first gen iPhone, having these unofficial apps kind of bog down the system. It’s not immediately noticeable, but contacts take a second longer to load (with Cyntact installed), and the home screen has a little delay (CyDialer Cydget). It’s all bearable, but fact of the matter is your phone gets slower.Vulnerabilities.
If you install OpenSSH and don’t immediately change your root password, you’re in for some worms that have recently started floating around. This is as of right now; who knows what holes are found as the platform becomes more popular. Some argue that the iPhone by itself might sport vulnerabilities, but having the phone jailbroken only adds to those issues.Hassles while upgrading, possible bricking.
Jailbreaking is risky business. You always have to watch out for updates from Apple, and keep a ear out for notices from the dev team. There’s also a considerable wait involved after Apple releases an OS update to the time the hacker tools are ready. You might even brick your iPhone.Jailbreak, yes or no?
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First Impressions
Today I bought a Canon Rebel XSi DSLR. Not exactly on a whim, since I’ve wanted this camera since Bakerella said it was almost the same kind she uses.
The camera came as part of the “Ultimate Starter Kit,” valued at $200. It included the camera itself, an 18-55mm EF-S lens, an air blower, a card reader, screen protectors, a 4GB SDHC memory card, a cleaning cloth, a “LCD Cleaning Kit,” and a few DVDs and even some photo editing software. As if I would ditch Photoshop.
I also got a Joby Gorillapod SLR, with a neat $40 taken off by the guy who helped me out. All of this came in at less than $1,000, which was nice. I was expecting the camera, lens, and gorillapod to add up somewhere in the $1,300 range.
I’ve only snapped a few pictures (okay, 45), but so far I’m very impressed. Such a huge step up from my mom’s old point-and-shoot. The camera is light enough to carry around, but not light enough that I feel like it’s breakable or liable to blow away. I’ve barely touched the different settings, and I have a feeling that I’ll be sticking with Full Auto mode most of the time, at least until I learn much more about ISO and Aperture and all that stuff.
I can’t wait to take it out and get some really fantastic pictures. Maybe I’ll take it for a walk tomorrow and snap some.
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Right now I use Time Machine to manage my backups. I only backup my computer about once a week, but Time Machine is getting bloated. It’s saving copies of things it doesn’t need to save, including multiple copies of the same file. It’s just taking up too much room on my HDD.
Any alternatives?
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Ups & Downs
Early warning: This is going to be a long one. I won’t take it personally if you skip right past it.
“Dear roommates: The dish fairy does not exist! Please put your dishes in the dishwasher!”
My roommate wrote that on the pantry door mirror (it’s where we write everything, in dry-erase markers). It’s pretty obviously directed at me—our other roommate is obsessive about keeping a clean house, and has never once failed to put her dish in the dishwasher.
©2010. Postage by Greg Cooper. Icons by P.J. Onori. Thanks to Jamie Cassidy & Panic.
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