Boring Towns

Well here in Artesia simple things become the talk of the town and today there was a sonic boom. Around 13:00 there was i guess a fighter jet that was flying then broke the sound barrier and scared every one. i know i jump up a couple of inches. Anyway my question is, Is Artesia this boring that a sonic boom becomes the highlight of our day? well it must a boring town becuse i just blogged about it...


(a jet, an a airplane flaying high)

The Non-Evolution of the Playstation Controller

Well as you can see from the photo, sony needs some new designs. the Dual Shock Boomerang was interesting but was never released. It would be weird to use though. but i guess we will never find out. There has been some interesting controllers from the past like the famous M shape n64 controller. the only real difference to the newer dual shock 3 is the ps button much like the guide button on the xbox 360. and of course the analog joysticks

Culture Month

So its another February, and it is of course black history month. I recently read in the local news paper about a man who wanted a white history month and that got me thinking that Febuary should be changed to celebrate all races and how far in society we have come. Sure there is still racism, but society is much better than what it was when our country was founded. Why should there be only a black history month?   I find it Ironic.

The price of technology

So you don't want to pay that $150 for a new ipod? Well if you think about it now its worth every penny. just take a look at this. Its a $130 64Mb mp3 player from compaq circa 2001. I decided to make a smart playlist in itunes to see how much of my collection this could actually hold and i selected the options of  the songs must be 128kbs, and in the range of 4-5 minutes.  and the result. 15 songs, at 62 Mb. Of course you can more than likely double the songs to 30 in kbs was 64.  Anyway  the wonderful thing about technology is that now a 8GB 5th gen ipod nano  is about the same price of this and holds about 1000 songs more.  So next time your hesitent about buy the new laptop or mp3 player just remember "if  patient in about 6 months to a year there will be something better"

Apple & i

What? Apples been using the i suffix in almost every single name of there products. If i recall back in 1997 Steve Jobs was brought back to Apple to help turn around the once dominent force in the computing industry. Apple started off there vision of the future of computers back in 1983 with the first commercially available GUI. (*and no apple did not invent the GUI, it was PARC) the Apple Lisa at a 2nd morgage $10,000. The world of computers changed forever. Fast forward 10 years and a it was a totally different story. There was the Quadras, Performas, each with about 8 different configurations. and also the now famous powerbook line multiple configurations. Back to the suffix i. Since the first imac g3 realeased in 1998 Apple started there way back up to the super stars that they used to be in 1984 and actually began to turn a profit. Why? was it the name imac? or the uber awesome clear case? Well what ever it was apple started to name there products with i. The next was the imac to go or the ibook. then the ipod, and iphone and now the ipad (which is a stupid excuse for a tablet and also a horrible name for a product). Of course now there portables do not have i or power but mac as in macbook and macbook pro.  but what ever the case may be maybe its time to drop the whole ever product needs a i at the begining, and start off the next 10 years with some more creative names