the big innovation!!

So the iPad was announced today and I think it's ugly beyond belief. The specs are also rather lacking considering the prices available. Apple continues to use this tired business model of charging consumers tons of money for a relatively small increase in storage space on the unit they're selling. They also like to remove the ability for you to ever replace the battery if need be. For some reason I thought this was going to be a rather huge announcement, although I'm sure this will still sell well I don't think it's what everyone was expecting. The processor is an A4 (arm) at 1GHZ, it runs at a resolution of 1024x768 (non widescreen) and it's just a newer version of iphoneos. With a new iphone coming out in just a few months how will this even compare to that device? I don't understand how with a processor only at 1ghz, and we have phones right now with those speed processors (nexus one, hd2), is the trade-off going to be to have a large device that's also fast (in a low resolution), and then you just have your portable to do everything else? no flash support, no multi tasking, there are tons of things lacking here. I can only hope to get my nexus one asap because I am DYING to tinker with a new toy! Android hopefully will make huge strives forward this year, as they did a very good job in 2009. I've heard that they will be giving away a choice of either the Motorola Droid or a Nexus One at the Game Developers Conference which can only be a positive thing in the ever continuing force that is Android. This will definitely be another exciting year I think anyway.

glasses and contacts

i finally got my contacts and new glasses. i can honestly say it's kind of difficult adapting to wearing glasses since i haven't ever worn them in 13 years of wearing contacts. at first it felt like i had tunnel vision and i was trying to look around the lenses themselves, but i am getting used to them and i do seem to like them. unfortunately the people who adjusted the nose clip things scratched the lenses while i was there today and i had to go back. they are going to order more but i will continue to wear these around the house for the time being. i'm still planning on wearing my contacts when i work on the job, i just don't feel comfortable working the way i do in environments that i'm in with glasses yet at least. we'll see how that plays out.

yay

when i needed you most when i needed a friend, you let me down now just like i let you down then, so sorry.

dreams

constantly have been having these same themed reoccuring dreams and waking up abruptly. its like im down in westport with apparently a large group of friends just like nye this year, but things are different. a couple people are in the dream that shouldnt be, and i always end up not finding my car when the dream is about to end, everyone leaving without me, my supposed gf in the dream getting a ride in another car and never seeing her again, and also feeling randomly like there is something i must say to her but i never get the chance. i wake up wanting to go back to the dream and that fake fantasy world because it feels like a life that i would have lived at least during some parts of the dream had things gone different in my life over the years. abandonment, close connections, love, good friends, reocurring, people out of place, her, risk, confusion, pain.

no more slow

hopefully moving the hosting off of my home connection will make this at least quicker for me, and the 2 others that might possibly read this page. i had to buy glasses today and upgrade my stupid contacts prescription. i wish they would get here sooner because apparently i have blood vessels built up on my cornea from my eyes not getting enough oxygen so i'm now going to make it a point to take my contacts out when i'm home for the night and start wearing my glasses whenever they arrive. the lady at the sears optical place was a complete airhead, the optometrist was fine but the retail sales lady was a basket case. telling stories and crap about how bad her eyes were, how she can't read anything etc and all i wanted to do the whole time was get my trash and get out of there. hate to be like that because i was interested in first at what she had to but the stories just became worse and worse. also ever known anyone who got the bottom line type of glasses that are available in their little special gimmicky sales deals? me neither. i had to get some expensive pair (well i've never bought glasses so i don't really know) but i think with a year's supply of contacts, and my glasses it came out about $325, that's with 2 year protection plan as well. i do hope i made the right choice, i need to remedy this issue with my eyes because it's not like it's going to go away unless i do.

hrmf

didn't pass go

new years here

what a long weekend, i'm definitely ready to get back into the groove of normalcy after a rollercoaster of a break or so it feels. i have some things i want to work on this year in hopes of making things better for me and my friends around me.

have some pics that mostly friends took (since my cam has no flash :D) at Harpo's in Westport before the night turned to a chaotic end.

New Years 2009 Westport @ Harpo's