Here’s a nice summary from CNET.
Mac Air Book Teardown
Here are some pictures from a teardown of an Apple AirBook. It looks amazingly simple once deconstructed. Leave it to Apple to do make something that seems revolutionary out of nothing much ;p. We really should learn from them.
Less than 4-hours Left of the Bar Bet
In less than 4 hours my husband will be victorious. I though he couldn’t do it, but I’m happy to be proven wrong. My husband did not eat meat or sugar for the month of January. He also managed to get through it without compromising his health. On top of that, he shed 6-lbs, which he is very proud of. I was so happy watching my husband eat veggies and trying menu items he would have never considered before.
In celebration I have saved two bed chocolates (from turn-down) for him to eat at 12:01 and tomorrow we will be going to a fabulous steak house here in Vegas.
A Dream of Chocolate Cake
I had a dream of chocolate cake last weekend. It was nothing fancy, just a chocolate cake still in the pan with a thin layer of firm chocolate frosting on it. The tasted was like one of those Hostess chocolate cupcakes without all the additives and if you’ve ever had one of these cakes, then you know that chocolate cake is to do die for. Anyhow, two of my aunts, who live in Georgia, were eating this cake with me. One of them is named Marilyn. She is a rotund women with a big personality and a skunk patch in her hair. She always speaks the blunt truth through a slightly tired but always positive southern accent. She has the gift of being straight forward without being mean. The other is my aunt Mable. She is all of 4ft-10in, but she has the energy of a giant and very strong opinions about politics, religion, and whether the hat Ms. Tinsley wore to church was too audacious. My aunt Marilyn asked, “Did you bake this cake, Jen?” I replied that yes I did. And then Marilyn said, “It’s very good cake,” and my aunt Mable chimed in with, “yes, quite good.” And then I woke up.
Recipe: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/517/Hostess_Cupcakes35049.shtml
I don’t make the cream filling since I don’t like it.
Bioshock: More Game than I can Handle
Last weekend I got in some solid hours of gaming on my Blackbird PC. I nearly finished up Titan Quest and ending up giving up after 3-hours of frustrating battle with the final boss. I made a melee fighter and I couldn’t even hit the boss without getting hit first. One hit from the boss resulted in death. Since the game wasn’t that good in the first place, I decided that I had invested enough time it so I moved on.
I moved on to BioShock. A game my husband played a few months ago on the 3-year old computer I built for him. He had to turn the graphics settings on the game down very low to play, so he didn’t get to enjoy the game as it was envisioned. The case wasn’t true on Blackbird. I was impressed. The first scene when entering the game involves the direct aftermath of a plane crash. The main character is in the water surrounded by plane debris and flames and you must make him swim to safety. It’s amazing because the cut scene goes smoothly from pre-rendered material to gameplay. It really looks like a movie. The game itself is beyond creepy, both visually and sound-wise. I was playing with headphones on and the noise from various crazies swarming around my head over a background of very CREEPY 50’s-like songs and radio commercials really got me rattled (the sound in this game is phenomenal and could be considered a character in itself). Basically, this game is like playing a horror movie. I’m pretty timid, so I could only take small doses of this game at a time because I would jump out of my chair or scream whenever some baddy came jumping out of a corner and running toward me. What I ended up doing was playing while doing laundry. 40-mins of game play while the washer and dryer are going and then a 30-min break to start a new laundry load and fold and iron. My husband was in tears laughing watching me play this game. I had nightmares last night — video cameras and TV static (combined with lingering damage from “Poltergeist”). I don’t know if I can get through this game with my sanity intact.
More Rambling 