Happy New Year!
Posted by marshall Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:16:00 GMT
If I were the type to make New Year's Resolutions, I might make one to update this blog more frequently over the course of the next year. But despite my best attempts to revive this thing every now and then, it seems to languish for months at a time with no posts. Ah well. I recommend an RSS news reader (Firefox, Safari, SharpReader, NetNewsWire) if you'd like your computer to do the work of checking this blog for you.
Lara and I spent Thanksgiving in San Francisco with my brother Adam and his wife Britany. Good times. We ate at a restaurant on the pier called Butterfly, which served us a quite nice Thanksgiving dinner. The Sony Metreon was playing Chicken Little in Digital 3D, so we went to go see that. Nice, but not the completely stunning experience I was expecting given the technology. Adam & Britany headed out of the city before Lara and I did; we spent a couple more days walking around and seeing the sights. San Francisco's such a great city: the international flair, the bush man, the ability to get just about anywhere by walking, the ocean, the bay, the nearby forests and mountains...it's a neat place to be.
Adam and Britany got an iSight as an early Christmas present from other family members, so now 5 out of the 7 households in our combined family (Lara's parents/siblings and mine) can do video chats. Multi-way video chats in iChat are very cool:
Lara's mom and my sister Ingrid are the only hold-outs now...both under the heavy influence of friends/family who only know Windows and still cling to antiquated notions of the superiority of Windows over the horrible, unstable, limited old Mac OS. Understandable if one's never spent any significant time with OS X, but sad nonetheless. Ingrid just had to get her system reformatted because of some malware that couldn't be removed by Spybot or Ad-Aware or other scanners; I don't think she realizes that these problems are not universal to all computers.
It was a fairly quiet Christmas this year; we didn't do any traveling, so we were pretty much by ourselves. We opened presents in the morning, and spent a fairly lazy day at home before going over to my friend Jon's apartment to play Compatibility with him and his fiancée. Fun times.
For New Year's Eve we invited some friends over to play games, eat snacks, and watch the ball drop on the big screen. We don't have cable, so we were using the EyeTV with an antenna. Unfortunately, we're pretty far from the TV transmitters near L.A., so the picture was kind of going in and out. At least we saw the Big Moment clearly.
That's about it for the major events. 2006 should be an interesting year, what with MAF's move to Boise, Apple's move to Intel, and our move to a vegan lifestyle. Just kidding about that last one. With Carl's Jr. now serving hand-dipped chocolate malts, there's no escape for me now.
