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Boy, there's just a whole lot of nothin' going on right now. Well, to me at least.
I'm fascinated that Letter from Gotham has been saying March 18th would be the day for war -- two weeks before the latest announcement that March 17th would be the final deadline for Saddam. I don't know how she knew it, but she knew it. Which makes me wonder if all these shenanigans at the UN -- France and Germany, Russia, all doing their thing -- were anticipated and built into the plan. Who knows. Letter from Gotham chick makes some sort of allusion to George W. Bush hunting like a cat or scorpion -- waiting silently and then STRIKESTRIKESTRIKE! But I don't get the connection.
Heard from friend Steve today. He's in a new production of Midsummer Night's Dream in Stratford, Connecticut coming up next month. I immediately checked the Austin theater audition listings to see if anything was going on... but as Kirsten said: This is Austin. Not New York. Sigh.
Found out that Ross's friend Libby found out this weekend that she got into UT Law . She won't be sure if she's going until all the letters roll in, but if I do end up at law school, I'll at least have one friend in the class. For some odd reason, I've always liked her.
More programming to do today. It's the final lap, so to speak, on this project that I've been working on. Shouldn't be a big deal. It'll be good to be able to focus my attention completely on the other projects I've been working on soon.
Cleaned up the apartment some yesterday. Still have a lot to do on it. It's a wonder how different it looks clean.
Fun fact: Did you know that I can still get about $300 for my 10G iPod on eBay? I'm going to use the money to get a new 20G Zen MP3/WMA player -- and I might have a little left over. Say what you want about Microsoft; WMA is twice as good as MP3 (top link, click "Start Demo"). For the same audio quality, WMA files are about 60% the size of MP3 files -- which means 20G is the top end of what anyone like me will EVER need. 5000 songs is about 500 CD's -- and I don't even own half that many.
More to the point: What the hell is Apple thinking, selling its iPods for so much? I bought one, sure. But I felt instantly ripped off, when, in hindsight, I did my homework and realized what the competition was offering. They hooked me because it looked cool and I had just bought my iMac. Which also looked cool, but the inability to upgrade the hardware was frustrating to the point that I had to sell it. Just say this: lesson learned. I have a Dell now, and I'm VERY happy with it.
Posted by Matt at March 9, 2003 1:57 PM
