Yesterday I made a small
foray and started listening to Inside Mac Radio which is a 40 minute to
2 hour Internet radio show. Compared to Mac Radio, it is much more
professional. They have commercials every 5 to 10 minutes. Their host
talks a mile a minute and talks well but he's a bit annoying.
I listened to five episodes in total, mostly as I was driving to
Berkeley for the ebMUG meeting. It's not surprising because the
Macintosh platform is still very strong in graphics, but 90% of the
guests and the show focuses on graphics stuff -- graphic programs,
publishing programs, graphics tradeshows, graphics magazines. I think
they had a guy from Micromat on. And lots of iPod stuff too.
In the end it just wasn't that interesting. A lot of the guests were
just there to promote stuff for the 20 minutes they're on. I realize
that the Gamesome Mac is rather amateurish but the people there love
games and love to talk about games or anything gaming related and at
least that's interesting to me. Inside Mac Radio has people who I'm
sure love what they do and love to talk about it but I don't find it
that interesting.
I drove up to North Berkeley to visit the Half Price Books on Solano.
Two stories and bigger than the old place, though the amount of books
is about the same -- there's just more aisle space. Alas, a very small
selection of Star Trek books. They did have some interesting Star Trek
hardcover and large format books but they were kind of pricey.
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I parked at Andronicos
because parking is tight. So when I came back I bought a sandwich at
the deli. $6 for a not huge sandwich. But it had lots of meat. To me
it's a bit strange to put like four different kinds of meat in a
sandwich because the flavors all blend together. I suppose that's the
point but it seems like a waste to me.
Today we took the CDC guys out to lunch (actually they ended up paying
the sneaky bastards). We went to Little Schezuan and ate in the private
room so it was quiet. Ordered the family meal for 6 people, plus three
vegeterian dishes. We had 11 people and it was way too much food.
Overall though I found it not too remarkable because the dishes weren't
my favorites.
So Keven Scott and I have been sitting in our 4-cube section with the
two cubes behind us empty because Stanley and Girish left our group.
Finally a bunch of people moved into our floor and took all the empty
spaces so now we have a couple of strangers behind us. One guy has a
poster of the Macintosh hammer-throwing blond runner wearing an iPod.
Behind me sits a woman who I didn't get a good look at, though she
sounds cute. Not even too sure what her nationality is. All I know is
she has dark hair, is slim and a bit short.
Stephanie has a coupon from Amazon, 25% off on orders of $600+. I went
through my list of books and I'm going to buy any books that would be
cheaper from Amazon than from one of the used books sellers, also on
Amazon. It wasn't a huge amount of books but still like $125 or so.
Meanwhile the other books that I could get cheaply I bought. $20 worth
of books with $43 in shipping. Amazon just charges a whole lot for book
shipping.
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