May
19
When my brother-in-law Nathan and I watch the Cubbies
play, we like to come up with nicknames for all the players.
Here's what we have so far:
- Kerry "Knock-on" Wood
- Alfonso "Canker" Soriano
- Mark "Pon" DeRosa
- Geovany "Han" Soto / "Cream" Soto / "Quasi"soto
- Ryan Theriot "Theriots of fire"
- Derrek Lee: "D-Lee-cious"
- Felix "Meat" Pie / "Pittsburgh" Pie
- Aramis Rameriz: "Ram Job"
- Kosuke Fukudome "Super-dome" (prounounced: "Super Dough
May")
- Jason "Grand" Marquis
- Carlos Marmol "ade"
- Bob Howry"doin'?"
- Michael "Brat" Wuertz
- Ted Lilly "pad"
- Kevin Hart "baseball"
- Rich "on the" Hill / Rich "One Tree" Hill
- Ronny Cedeno "to drugs"
- Mike Fontenot "Mike Fonte-yes"
- Daryle "Psyche" Ward
- "I can't" Reed Johnson
- Ryan "Garbage" Dempster
- Sean "air" Marshall
- Matt Murton "chops"
Feel free to add your nicknames in the comments
below.
May
14
I really like Macs. I've only recently become an owner of my very first Mac, and
with this experience, have grown to love Mac over PC any day
of the week. However, that is not to say that Macs are
without their problems. In fact, my MacBook has given me
nothing but troubles. I haven't had it for a full year, and
I've already visited the Apple store 3 times.
- Reason for first visit: The hard drive
couldn't be found.
- Solution: Entirely new MacBook
- Reason for second visit: OS wouldn't
boot
- Solution: Archive and install
- Reason for third and most recent visit:
Initially lost my iPhoto Library, and after some
self-tinkering, OS wouldn't boot. Please know that the
tinkering I had done in no way possible should have resulted
in this sort of problem.
- Solution: Back-up user files, archive
and install, create new user & copy old files to new user
directories.
I purchased this computer in August of 2008. That's 3
visits to the Apple store in 9 months. Not good. After my
most recent visit, my wife said something with which I
couldn't disagree. She said "Apple is so arrogant." She's
right. They have been touting their superiority over PC for
quite a while now, however, I've had 3 too many problems
with my very first Mac. So, to all the fanboys out there,
let me let you in on a little secret. Apple is not
perfect.
UPDATE (8/26/2008) 4 Times!!! This
time I got an entirely new hard drive.
