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October 25, 2005

Nano vs. Video

Alright, so here's what happened. After several months of needing a car adapter for my ipod I finally broke down and bought one from Amazon. It worked for about a day then promptly fried my poor ipod mini. I was totally bummed and have now been ipodless for several weeks. Luckily, I'm a sucker and was convinced when I bought the ipod from Best Buy to also invest in the warranty. So this weekend I took it back to the Best Buy in tyson's corner in order to either get it fixed or exchanged. The Geek Squad guy checked it for me and verified that it was indeed dead, and informed me that since Apple no longer makes ipod mini's I'll have to exchange it for either a Nano or Video ipod. Here is my dilemma. Which one do I get? I originally bought the Mini for $250 which is currently what the 4 GB Nano is running for, while the 30GB Video is about $300.

Pro Nano:
It's tiny!
It would be great to run with.
It's 4 GB so the playlist I transfer over from my computer might be more manageable, (I find managing even a 6GB playlist a little overwhelming)
It's the same price as what I paid for the mini so it won't cost extra.
Has photo capability.

Pro Video:
The video capability (not sure how much I would use this though, but might be fun for video podcasts and tv shows)
30GB bigger space that what my mini was and I don't have to fill it with music of course so if I wanted to i could keep my playlist smaller and manageable.
I believe it has a longer lasting battery.

Unfortunately, neither has an itrip out yet but hopefully that won't take too long.

October 13, 2005

It's done

So, I finally told my boss that I'm moving to Denver. How scary is this? It's just so final now. In one month I will be without a job. My last day will be Nov. 14th.

As far as the actual quitting part goes, that was incredibly easy. Of course that doesn't mean I wasn't totally stressed out about it for the last couple days. My boss pretty much knew it was coming though, and he couldn't have been nicer. He said he was happy for me and that it was a good move, he also told me to put him down for recommendations and that I was welcome back whenever. I swear he's like the best boss ever, I doubt I'll ever have a boss as easy to work with again.

So now the word is quickly spreading around the office. It's starting to get depressing, sigh. A couple people have already wandered into my office and told me how sad it is that I'm leaving. It's scary to think that I've known some of these people since I was 19! I'm gonna miss this place a lot.

October 07, 2005

My twisted mind

yet another look into it. Here's my dream from last night.

Brian and I along with his friends Zimm, Eric and Ev (I think Mark might have been there too) as well as my friend Jessica (who lives in Hong Kong) are going to a party at some girl's house. We have to take two cars and Brian and I end up driving. The house is in this big residential community area and on the way in there are people signing everyone up for a contest. But only people with cars are allowed to sign up, so Brian and I give them our info then head to the party.

At the party Jess gets completely annoyed with Eric, which makes sense if you've ever met Eric.

Other than that I don't remember much of the party, for some reason we all decide to stay there for the night though. I wake up at about 4 am and go to check on my car. During the night it had snowed a couple inches and I'm concerned that my parking brake wasn't set right and since I parked on the very steep driveway I'm afraid that the car has slid backwards into the cul-de-sac. Sure enough when I go outside my car is not where I left it. I look around and I can't find it anywhere. There are a couple cars covered in snow in the cul-de-sac and I vividly remember brushing away the snow from the license plates to see if I can find my car but it's nowhere to be found. Soon I give up and go back inside to sleep a little longer.

A couple hours later the rest of our group is awake and I've told them about my missing car. We go outside (of course there is no longer any snow and it's a beautiful spring day) and we find out that Brian's car is missing as well. We then decide that the best course of action would be to wander around the neighborhood in search of our cars. We walk around for a couple hours getting more and more pissed off that we haven't found them. While walking we notice that several hillsides and cul-de-sacs have been made into impromptu parkinglots. I then remember the contest that we had entered the day before and pull out the flyer for it that was still in my pocket. On the flyer are written these words: "Come fly away, away ..... with us!" Creepy, no? After looking at the flyer I look into the beautiful clear blue sky and am almost hit by a hover crane. That's right, it's a giant flying crane like something out of a SciFi constuction movie. Anyway, after this it all becomes clear. This was the contest, they hide our cars, using the hover cranes to transport them, and we search for them, the first one to find their car wins. This is when I wake up.

That didn't take long

I thought you'd hold out a little longer.

October 05, 2005

451 Degrees of Waldo

Apparently, last week was Banned Books awareness week. Banning books is sad. But, even sadder still is the fact that I learned about Banned Books week after listening to a Harry Potter podcast. Yes, I'm a complete dork, but where else am I going to turn to find out all the juicy details about the new movie coming out next month? Anyway, the Potter discussion directed me to this website which lists the 100 most challenged books from 1990 to 2000, on which the Harry Potter series is number 7. To clarify, because a book is challenged doesn't mean that it's actually banned, it just means that someone has formally asked for it to be banned. The list is derived from 6,364 reported challenges over the ten-year span. While I was reading through the list most of the books weren't very surprising, eg. something called Daddy's Roomate (#2) and Sex by Madonna (#19), but others were very surprising, such as Scary Stories (#1) and The Catcher in the Rye (#13). However, the most surprising of all of them (to me at least) was Where's Waldo? (#88). It'a a picture book for goodness sake! What could possibly be the reasoning behind banning it? I'm utterly befuddled.

October 03, 2005

Cinema returns to the Mall

I went to Tyson's yesterday morning to check out the new expansion. I was totally impressed. Not only do they have a full Barnes and Noble (always a sucker for bookstores) but they also had several new trendy clothing and furniture stores. Free People is way over budget for me but the new Papaya seems to specialize in fun cheap clothing, like a specialized "going out" H&M only cheaper. Also, I'm excited about the restaurants on the first floor, Coastal Flats looks like a really fun place to get a weekend lunch or even after work happy hour, they've also put in a Gordon Biersch, so perhaps the two places can feed off each other for the happy hour crowd. Also, there is a new food court on the third floor near the movie theatre, which looks nice and clean, it reminded me very much of the food court in the Dulles town Center, lots of counters for chain fast food stores and a big center full of tables and chairs. They have Five Guys right next to Coldstone Creamery, yum.

However, by far the most startling change, is the relocated Victoria Secret. The storefront is insane! There's no way you can walk by without stopping and staring, the thing has got to be at least PG13. Most of the time Victoria Secret hides their Very Sexy line in the back of the store or off to the side in another room, but this new location seems to have said "We got it and we're gonna flaunt it!" There were at least 10 mannequins showing off the various lingerie bits and pieces along the black with neon pink lighted store front, all posed in erotic positions. Walking by you feel like you've been suddenly transported away from suburban Virginia and into one of the seedier areas of L.A. Yes, it's that shocking! Unsuspecting jaws were seriously dropping as they passed by.

I say, good for you, Victoria Secret! Tyson's needed a little kick in the butt, and you seem to have given it a cock punch as well. Unfortunately, I foresee a large backlash, I'm not sure that Tyson's Corner area is quite ready for this. The soccer moms of McLean and Vienna are going to have a conniption fit, and as we all know soccer moms rule the censoring world. So I don't give the new VS long before is cowers in fear and pushes its more sensitive merchandise back to were it came from, safely away from the front windows. In the mean time, fight on VS, I hope you give the soccer moms a run for their money!

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