because I’m not special
Hope you both have good trips to New Zealand, Chrissy and Elisa! It was so great to see you guys tonight - wish you guys safe and fun-filled journeys. Here’s some pictures from tonight’s party. Thanks Emma for organizing the party and for the delicious chicken burgers!
Maurice is lucky to have an older brother like me. Because my geekiness prompts me to make really stupid purchases.
My pick for this year’s Canadian Idol winner is Daryl Brunt. He’s blond, sixteen and even more inoffensive than Kalan Porter. At first, his voice sounds weird because of his, um, womanly tone. But he’s got surprisingly great control of his melisma, especially for such a young person. He’s perfect for the title too, since he adores pop music - he even thinks that Open Arms is by Mariah Carey. I loved his introduction video, where he grins, “I love Lion King. Always. Lion King rocks.” And then he does the rock sign, which is totally hilarious coming from such a squeaky clean guy.
He did a very saccharine performance of When You Believe (MP3 and video), which propelled him into the top ten. All in all, his vocal was spot on - I think there was only one run where he was a little shaky. It wasn’t as captivating as Kalan’s Lady last year, but he’s pretty and he ended the song with a glory note, so he’s going to do well in this competition. The only problem with him is that he doesn’t really seem to have any artistic instinct whatsoever, whereas Kalan’s creative element definitely sets him apart.
But then again, you don’t really need to be artistic to win this thing. It’s all about who is a crowd pleaser and Daryl definitely appeals to the Idol audience.
In an unusual series of events, I had a lot of sweets today. I ate cheesecake, ten Timbits and a cinnamon bun.
But then I felt guilty, so I did 100 situps, 50 squats and 50 outer thigh leg lifts. I haven’t done this much exercise since P.E. class in high school.
Now, I feel full, satisfied and tired. Mmm.
So, it’s official. Apple’s switching to Intel. Everybody’s been making a big fuss about it all, but I really don’t see how it’s going to affect the end user all that much. After all, I’m sure that they’re going to only allow Mac OS X to be run on special Apple hardware, as usual. I doubt you’ll be allowed to just run it on any old PC. You won’t get the easy upgradeability that the PC world has to offer. So to the average user, it really won’t make much of a difference. The only thing that might be affected is price - it’s possible that the prices will lower, as a result of using more common hardware. Who knows?
Some have asked me if I’m angry that I bought my Mac just months before this switch. Honestly, I really don’t see how this really affects me. It’s going to be at least two years until Apple fully moves all their products to Intel processors. And after that, I can’t see them supporting the legacy PPC computers for any less than three years, as there are millions of people who have supported Apple’s PPC computers for years. It would be suicide to shaft their dedicated install base like that. And five years from now, my PowerBook will be obsolete and it will be time to get a new computer anyways, at which point I can purchase an Intel Mac.
So in short - whatever. I really wanted to hear about some more interesting things at the WWDC, like some new products or software. For whatever reason, this announcement doesn’t excite me very much.
In other Apple-related news, my boss gave me his old Bluetooth mouse. It works perfectly fine for me and I haven’t had any problems with it at all. It still had the original batteries in them, so I’m guessing that he didn’t try it out for too long before he gave up on it. The scrolling is incredibly smooth. I could just scroll all day and be happy.
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