State of the Ward

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:10:00 +0000

18:08 Although I have no doubt that Apple could disable iPhone apps... I don't think this "unauthorizedApps" URL has anything to do with it. #
18:08 Considering it's in Core Location, probably has to do with the authorization prompt to allow apps to access your location data. #
21:58 Glad to be of assistance. #
22:26 Had dinner @ King Biscuit w/ Jim, Tisen, Valeria, C. Next: Pineapple Express. This may prove to be a mistake. #
01:27 Pineapple Express: enjoyable in parts, but needed less stoner comedy and more Guy Richie crime movie. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:07:00 +0000

16:40 BCM closed up shop yesterday for the tropical storm. Grabbed my backup hard drive, just in case, and called it a day. #
16:40 Hit the grocery store last night. Crowded but not crazy. Strangely, they were out of Roma tomatoes. #
16:41 Then Little Woodrow's after Cindy's softball game. Had Lost Goal IPA, Real Ale Rye, and their Brown. Then tried Ruchi's. #
16:42 Slept in today. No flooding or damage. Nice relaxing day off :-) #
16:42 Just made meatballs with Cindy. Yum. #
21:34 Watched some TV, had some coffee, took a walk (!). This is what happens when I have time on my hands. #
01:12 Post-walk, watched some 30 Rock and Six Feet Under. Now catching up on the last day or two of reading. #
03:54 Birthday party follow-up invitation is sent. Hope I didn't forget anybody. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:13:00 +0000

12:45 Ben Folds coming to Houston in October. Also, Girl Talk and Cat Power. Finally, some relief from this musical drought. #
13:08 Ah, good. Bottom hasn't fallen out of the used iPhone market. Need to sell soon! #
14:14 Listening to Harry Nilsson/John Lennon's Pussy Cats, comparing to the practically not-for-note remake by the Walkmen. High verisimilitude. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:04:00 +0000

13:55 Friday: Had Jimmy (that's a "y", not an "ie") John's for dinner; transcendent. #
13:55 Tried Berry Pop with Cindy for yogurt. It was cheaper than and, I think, superior to, Swirll in the village. #
13:56 Drinks at Davenport (perfect manhattan, Colorado bulldog, sidecar); harassed by local magician. #
13:57 Saturday: Post Office has misplaced a package containing Cindy's birthday present. SERIOUS FAIL. #
13:58 Then Mai's for dinner, then back to mi casa, where Win gave me a very nice birthday present of Tom Waits CDs and a probe thermometer. #
13:58 Which brings us to today. Win is sleeping; I am internetting. Lunch eventually. #
20:42 Win & I hit up Bubba's Texas Burger Shack, which, if I had any doubts before, is officially awesome. #

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Rental car; Harry Potter; Parent meeting; Trip preparations

noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:37:00 +0000

So much for not hitting the "year behind" mark. Well, shit. Maybe I can knock out a couple posts tonight. I've done a good job of keeping staying on top of my daily reading, so that's one less thing vying for my time, so I'm going to shoot for picking up the pace.

7/23/07

Thanks to out fortune getting the California excursion paid for and getting airline vouchers to take care of our flights to New York, not only could I afford the new iPhone, but also to have some scratchy nastiness on my car fixed.

So, took the car to the good ol' body shop, where they now know and take care of me (this was round 3), and then got a ride to Enterprise to pick up my rental car as paid for by insurance. There was a brief time when I was worried I'd have to drive a PT Cruiser around, but thankfully got a pretty nice little red Nissan Sentra.

The Sentra was my first chance to drive a car with Continuously Variable Transmission. It's a pretty nice system, actually, probably great for most of the driving public. No jerky shifts, etc. It was creepy getting used to it, just because the car kept not shifting (or, rather, kept shipping imperceptibly) when you expected to. The "gearing", such as it was, was not as agressive as I might like, but hell, it's all software, it could easily be tweaked.

Now I just need to try out a dual-clutch system and my tour of new transmission technologies will be complete.

It was a decent little car, I suppose, probably a nice alternative to a Corolla. Didn't drive as well as the Mazda or, say, a Civic, but it was pleasant enough.

I'd passed up being home to receive my copy of the final Harry Potter book to attend the wedding the previous weekend, so Monday evening was my first chance to really dig into the book, so dig I did...

7/24/07

Band practice, then more Harry Potter reading.

7/25/07

During the days of this week, I snuck off several times for "lunch", found a quiet, comfortable spot, and got some Harry Potter reading done.

Picked up an iPhone case to protect my new baby during the new york trip. Dinner and Sopranos after that.

7/26/07

Got at haircut for the wedding. Paul, my stylist, referred to it as "tuxedo hair". It looked good, I have to say.

7/27/07

So, Cindy and I had been dating almost 2 years, and I still hadn't met her parents, who live in town. Of course, that's in keeping with the rest of our relationship. We weren't officially "together" until we'd been dating about 9 months; it was around the 1 year mark that my parents found out she existed, and around the 1.5 mark that they actually met her. We move at a leisurely pace, I suppose, so it wasn't too sad that I was just then meeting them.

We met them for dinner in honor of Cindy's birthday at a Chinese place out west on Bellaire. Food was good; must have been pretty authentic. Thankfully Linn, Cindy's brother who I'd spent some time with, was there. Cindy's parents were very nice to me, but I was surprised by now much of a language barrier there was. I definitely had trouble (and still do) understanding them (and more or less vice versa). But all in all, it was a pretty successful meeting.

7/28/07

Various errands, laundry, and so forth, preparing for our New York trip. I had planned to take Cindy out for a nice dinner for her birthday but she had work to finish up before the trip, so that didn't happen. We did make it to a party at the MFAH and then got some drinks at Rudz afterwards.

7/29/07

Somehow I'd gotten the crazy notion in my head that if I worked hard, my paper could be submitted while I was in New York. Idiocy, in retrospect. But anyway, did that, got packed.

Tweets for Today

noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:06:00 +0000

11:40 That sounds dirty. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:09:00 +0000

14:13 I will never understand why Word insists on turning everything into a hyperlink. #
14:31 Still trying to recover my backup drive. Carbon Copy Cloner working much better than SuperDuper was. #
16:52 I'll be interested to see how this whole iPhone/NetShare tethering thing shakes out with AT&T. #
17:46 Finished off the new Walkmen album today. Less boring than the last one, but not super exciting. #
19:35 Thinking Jimmie John's for dinner. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:12:00 +0000

11:13 Was told to eliminate some data from a pie chart. Result will be one 100% slice. Why not just have the figure be a giant #1? #
11:14 Science: shamelessly putting personal gain ahead of the advancement of knowledge. #
11:16 I'm not actually doing anything unethical here, but this insistence on putting your best foot forward merely obfuscates what's really there. #
14:38 Excel's charting "functionality" is conspiring to drive me to violence. #
18:18 Like Jurassic Park, if Dinosaurs were used in the production of beer: twurl.nl/4z0xms #
18:23 My work backup drive's file system seems to be corrupted, so I had to hunt down a USB drive to back up the backup before reinitializing it. #
18:23 Beer tasting tonight! It's like Christmas! #
19:25 Livetweeting the beer tasting, if I can tear myself away long enough to follow through. #
19:28 St. Arnold's tonight. Lawnmower is first. Weird crowd tonight, not the regulars. Probably because of the brewery being local. #
19:40 Lawnmower pretzel with *fucking hot* homemade Lawnmower mustard. Almost knocked me on my ass. Literally. No kidding. #
19:44 Lawnmower is straight off the bottling line v #
19:47 Round 2 Texas wheat. #
19:51 I should specify that was a *soft* pretzel. #
20:02 Texas wheat with fried oyster mushroom and salad with pecorino Romano dressing. #
20:10 Round 3 is amber. #
20:22 Shell peas with smoked pork jowels and cornbread. Yum. #
20:42 4. Elissa. #
21:05 beer battered tilapia, curry, and homemade red olive chili and habanero hot sauce. #
21:08 5: special score: the long-gone limited edition St. Arnold's Divine #6. #
21:19 Final course... Are you ready? Sure? #
21:20 Sure? Ok. Pecan brittle plus a chocalate chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich, with... #
21:21 Bleu cheese ice cream. What kind of "life" was I living before this moment? Wow. Sweet jebus wow. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:07:00 +0000

12:53 Took car in for check engine light this morning. Had to order part but got some trim fixed that was coming off. #
12:55 Bad news: time for new brake pads and tires. It's been nice only paying for oil changes... #
15:35 Bought replacement batteries from Radio Shack for my digital tire gauge. Freakin' $10! I only paid $16 for the thing, including batteries! #
15:36 I know it's not original to complain about the cost of batteries, but sometimes it catches you off guard. #
17:15 Completed listen 5 to the new Conor Oberst. Nice enough, but not at all distinct from his Bright Eyes stuff, as best I can tell. #
00:43 Need to pick up some vermouth and make Manhattans soon: twurl.nl/ftj1pz #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:30:00 +0000

02:10 Birthday dinner for Cindy tonight: red wine soaked goat cheese and baguette for an appetizer. #
02:11 Roasted rosemary potatoes; lemon garlic asparagus; mushrooms in bourbon sauce; bacon-wrapped scallops... #
02:11 Big ass ribeye from whole foods. #
02:13 Sam Smith's Imperial Stout as an after dinner drink. #
12:53 Took car in for check engine light this morning. Had to order part but got some trim fixed that was coming off. #
12:55 Bad news: time for new brake pads and tires. It's been nice only paying for oil changes... #
15:35 Bought replacement batteries from Radio Shack for my digital tire gauge. Freakin' $10! I only paid $16 for the thing, including batteries! #
15:36 I know it's not original to complain about the cost of batteries, but sometimes it catches you off guard. #
17:15 Completed listen 5 to the new Conor Oberst. Nice enough, but not at all distinct from his Bright Eyes stuff, as best I can tell. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0000

17:55 Why should I write text for a grant when I know it won't make it into the final version anyway? #
02:10 Birthday dinner for Cindy tonight: red wine soaked goat cheese and baguette for an appetizer. #
02:11 Roasted rosemary potatoes; lemon garlic asparagus; mushrooms in bourbon sauce; bacon-wrapped scallops... #
02:11 Big ass ribeye from whole foods. #
02:13 Sam Smith's Imperial Stout as an after dinner drink. #
12:53 Took car in for check engine light this morning. Had to order part but got some trim fixed that was coming off. #
12:55 Bad news: time for new brake pads and tires. It's been nice only paying for oil changes... #
15:35 Bought replacement batteries from Radio Shack for my digital tire gauge. Freakin' $10! I only paid $16 for the thing, including batteries! #
15:36 I know it's not original to complain about the cost of batteries, but sometimes it catches you off guard. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:24:00 +0000

16:21 Clever use of iPhone accelerometer: twurl.nl/w3mkv6 #
17:55 Why should I write text for a grant when I know it won't make it into the final version anyway? #
02:10 Birthday dinner for Cindy tonight: red wine soaked goat cheese and baguette for an appetizer. #
02:11 Roasted rosemary potatoes; lemon garlic asparagus; mushrooms in bourbon sauce; bacon-wrapped scallops... #
02:11 Big ass ribeye from whole foods. #
02:13 Sam Smith's Imperial Stout as an after dinner drink. #
12:53 Took car in for check engine light this morning. Had to order part but got some trim fixed that was coming off. #
12:55 Bad news: time for new brake pads and tires. It's been nice only paying for oil changes... #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:21:00 +0000

15:00 Bah. Have to write some crap for a grant that probably won't even get used... #
16:21 Clever use of iPhone accelerometer: twurl.nl/w3mkv6 #
17:55 Why should I write text for a grant when I know it won't make it into the final version anyway? #
02:10 Birthday dinner for Cindy tonight: red wine soaked goat cheese and baguette for an appetizer. #
02:11 Roasted rosemary potatoes; lemon garlic asparagus; mushrooms in bourbon sauce; bacon-wrapped scallops... #
02:11 Big ass ribeye from whole foods. #
02:13 Sam Smith's Imperial Stout as an after dinner drink. #
12:53 Took car in for check engine light this morning. Had to order part but got some trim fixed that was coming off. #
12:55 Bad news: time for new brake pads and tires. It's been nice only paying for oil changes... #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:26:00 +0000

15:00 Bah. Have to write some crap for a grant that probably won't even get used... #
16:21 Clever use of iPhone accelerometer: twurl.nl/w3mkv6 #
17:55 Why should I write text for a grant when I know it won't make it into the final version anyway? #
02:10 Birthday dinner for Cindy tonight: red wine soaked goat cheese and baguette for an appetizer. #
02:11 Roasted rosemary potatoes; lemon garlic asparagus; mushrooms in bourbon sauce; bacon-wrapped scallops... #
02:11 Big ass ribeye from whole foods. #
02:13 Sam Smith's Imperial Stout as an after dinner drink. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:08:00 +0000

18:42 Plan for tonight: grill something, then see Neil and Katy's band at Rudz. #
22:37 @ rudz for the lazy horse show. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:07:00 +0000

14:18 Went to bed early last night, but still so tired... #
14:20 Watching presentations from our college students. #
01:51 Had dinner with C's family: Chinese takeout. Got to play some Portal on her brother's 360; holy shit what a game. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:07:00 +0000

13:26 Damn, Woot had my DVD player today for $99. I totally could have saved $70... #
16:28 "We'd like to get Rock Band 2 on all relevant platforms by the end of the year." No promises about downloadable content, though. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:05:00 +0000

17:07 Official "Summer Albums" for '08: Thao, The Hold Steady, Girl Talk, and Vampire Weekend. #
17:12 Add Fleet Foxes to the summer albums list. Thanks to Win for pointing out the oversight. #
17:50 Nintendo's E3 announcements: boring. #

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Super Happy Fun Land; iPhone; Wedding in Austin

noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:37:00 +0000

I'm just barely squeaking this one in under the 1-year mark. Going to have to work on that...

7/16/07

Our then-recently-acquired new friends Katie (from genetics) and boyfriend Neil had their first gig as Lazy Horse at Super Happy Fun Land (which I believe sold their location and moved). So, notably, I guess the last time I was there.

Anyway, SHFL is awesomely BYOB, so we loaded up a cooler and enjoyed its contents while we sat through the first few bands. Lazy Horse had a good first show, we thought; they play rock but I can't quite figure out how to describe them.

We hadn't had dinner yet, so Cindy and I went to check out Heights establishment Spanish Flower, which Cindy had some sort of history with. I wasn't overly impressed with the food, but any late-night Mexican establishment is a good time.

7/18

I finally got up the nerve to spend 600 freakin' dollars on an iPhone. After picking it up from the galleria, I couldn't get the automated setup process to transfer my T-mobile number, so I then spent a couple hours fighting with AT&T to get them to do it for me after hours. And with that, I had my iPhone.

7/19

Cindy's friend Matt (well, one of them, anyway), was getting married in Austin, and the ceremony was to involve grilling, picknicking, and swimming, so I picked up a swimsuit and Cindy and I hit the grocery store to pick up some items to grill and/or picnic. Ended up with the makings of a salad and a nicely marinated pork tenderloin. Then watched some TV.

7/20

Eventually, we grabbed some Jimmy John's and made our way out of town, getting in late to Cindy's friend Sarah's place in South Austin. We hung out for a while, had a few beers before calling it a night. Tried to catch up with Becca but Austin people have weird conceptions of distance...

7/21

The wedding was outside at Krause Springs (couldn't find a web site) in Spicewood, TX, about half an hour west of Austin. After taking the Mazda over a low water crossing, We showed up, nattily attired in our swimsuits. The ceremony was short, sweet, and a bit hippy-ish/new-agey, which was apparently appropriate to the couple. Also ran in to a professor I knew from school, whose fiancé was apparently a college friend of the bride.

Afterwards, it was lunch time. Cindy and I had smartly grabbed some cans of Shiner Bock (no glass in the park, of course). I ended up helping out with the grilling, and Cindy and I enjoyed our pork and salad.

We went for a swim after lunch, violating my rule about swimming in non-chlorinated bodies of water. The water was nice and cool and the scenery was beautiful, however. And as hippy-ish as the wedding came off, I have to admit I admired the couple's commitment to a small, informal, and relatively inexpensive event.

I finally got to catch up with Becca for dinner. We went to a sort of Italian-ish fusiony-gourmet place on Congress that turned out to be quite good and reasonably priced for the quality. Sat on their nice back yard-ish patio. Can't remember what I had for the life of me.

Cindy & co. were across the street at Guero's, so I rejoined them and bid Becca adieu.

Cindy, Tisen, Sara F., and I had gotten tickets for the conveniently-scheduled Wrens show at Emo's. It happened to be the last show of their tour for The Meadowlands, which was released all the way back in '03. They seemed thrilled to be playing Austin and Emo's for the occasion and

7/22

We drove up from Sarah's place the next day to catch lunch with Rebecca and my parents at the new Ward favorite, South Congress Café. Finally sampled their carrot cake french toast and... wow.

Tweets for Today

noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:07:00 +0000

16:37 After an unnecessarily long wait, got my new white 16 GB iPhone 3G from the galleria. Sweet, sweet 14.64 GB formatted capacity. #
19:48 Answers to burning questions: twurl.nl/jwd4s1 #
19:51 John Lennon on the famous "more popular than Jesus" comment: twurl.nl/uwid4n #
21:26 iPhone didn't restore from backup properly the firs time, then ran out of battery on the PowerBook. #
21:27 Since then, leisurely evening getting up and running. #
21:28 First impressions: like the feel of the plastic, except with sweaty hands. #
21:28 According to my very accurate and scientific methods, old iPhone got 0-3 bars in apartment (1 avg); so does new phone. #
21:29 3G sounds a lot better at 1 bar than GSM, but seems harder to make/not drop calls. #
21:29 GPS is sometimes very fast and impressive; sometimes slow; doesn't like buildings. #
21:30 Having 16 GB of storage will be awesome, as I mentioned earlier. #
21:30 3G web serving is impressively fast. #
21:31 I miss the dock, but not sure I want to buy the new one for $30. #
21:31 Bought MobileMe since I was going to spend $30 on Spanning Sync anyway, and there was a 30% discount with iPhone purchase. #
21:32 Getting the software update for that to show up was tricky; required mucking about in the .Mac prefs. #
21:32 We'll see if I find it worthwhile enough to pay $99/year after this year. All I really want is OTA syncing between my Macs & iPhone. #
21:42 Oh, difference in screen temperature is easy to notice, particularly if you're looking for it. Not sure if it's a + or -. #
21:52 This really necessary? I always figured better Wii motion tracking would be software, not hardware fix: twurl.nl/d8x7wn #
22:02 Oh, guy in front of me today had a Kindle. Wanted to check it out but the battery was dead. Have to say, hardware looked nicer in person. #
02:01 iPhone games: Dizzy Bee would be a must-buy anyway, but at $2.99 it's stupid cheap. Great, fun, clever, polished casual game. #
02:02 We'll see about replay value, but for the price, doesn't have to be that high. #
02:02 Monkey Ball is an impressive tech demo but needs serious fine tuning of the controls and camera. #
02:03 With games as polished as Dizzy Bee, though, Apple can really eat into Nintendo's casual portable gaming market. #
02:04 Twitter spam is bringing up bad memories of MySpace spam... #
04:10 Just realized: MobileMe web app only does MM mail. I thought perhaps it was more of a web-based version of OS X mail. Shame... #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:04:00 +0000

01:09 Saturday night: grill-based gathering at Cindy's friends' place. #
01:09 Lunch this afternoon at Hoover's with the parents and sister. Had a good chicken fried steak. #
01:09 Parents needed to hit Barton Creek Mall, so I checked out the iPhone scene again. Sold out, so no line, so got to actually go in the store. #
01:10 3G network seemed overwhelmed by the high iPhone concentration, so couldn't do speed test. #
01:10 Liked the feel of the new phone in the hand due to shape. Materials seemed ok but maybe I was just responding to shape. #
01:11 Security device interfered with that a bit too. #
01:11 Couldn't get a GPS lock either. #
01:12 Checked out the black v white question. White looked nice, didn't show smudges like the black. Leaning towards white... #
01:12 Also, sadly, found out too late that Becca's friend was working the store Saturday and would have gotten me a phone had we called him. #
01:12 No sense crying over spilt milk, etc. though. #
01:24 8 GB iPhones, especially unlocked, seem to be frequently going for >$300... #
01:58 Funny, in my 5 years having my own apartment, have never really sat in my recliner. Trying it now; it's pretty awesome. #
02:00 The real reason? The recliner is outside of the stereo's sweet spot. Sad but true. #
02:56 Might one describe the white iPhone as "business in the front, party in the back"? Or vice-versa? #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:04:00 +0000

11:07 Dropped Cindy off for her tubing adventure. Chilling @ Becca's house waiting for her to wake up. #
12:00 Tried Becca's Wacom tablet. Takes some getting used to. Handwriting recognition either doesn't work well or is difficult to use. #
12:01 Makes me thankful that Apple went with virtual keyboard over handwriting recognition. #
14:59 Barton Creek mall in Austin has 4-5 hour line. Think I'll wait and buy next week. #
15:01 BTW, loving the Apple store nightclub style asshole bouncer w/ clipboard. #
15:38 Orange shirt guy was my reference for the line. Moved 20 ft since last tweet. AT&T get an EPIC FAIL for wasting 6 hours x 100ks people. #
19:43 Hit Bills for beer then took a nap. Much better than line waiting. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:07:00 +0000

16:09 Hit Chocolate Bar last night for Stephanie's birthday. Had good ice cream. Then mediocre tamales and margs at Berryhill with Sarah & Brian. #
16:10 Skipped the iPhone circus this morning. Will pick one up this weekend or next week. #
16:10 Headed to Austin soon... #
00:01 Just saw Spoon's Britt Daniel @ Lovejoy's in Austin. sis tried to buy him a beer. FAIL. #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:08:00 +0000

09:32 Sweet. iPhone 2.0! #
10:10 Proposed App store category: "Things that should have been web pages" #
11:25 One small step for man... First post from Twitterific Mobile! #
11:36 PhoneSaber: more fun than it should be. #
13:50 iPhone App first impressions: #
13:50 Twitterific is great. A few features I would like to see. And not sure why the light color scheme is a paid feature. Otherwise, awesome. #
13:51 AIM gets a FAIL. No addressbook integration, crappy interface. Praying for Adium mobile. #
14:40 Epocrates obviously didn't try to sign up for their app via iPhone. #
14:44 I'm going to kill my iPhone battery today. #
14:47 App store reminds me of the good ol' days of going through a shovelware CD-ROM on my 2x speed drive :-) #
15:06 Google app is handy enough but would have been nice to see other stuff: docs, talk, reader, etc. #
15:07 NewNewsWire is a bit simplistic. Like a faster version of the Newsgator web app. #
15:08 eBay. Meh. I would have been satisfied with a web app. #
15:08 Can't figure out how to access walls on Facebook app. MySpace app is significantly less annoying than the real site, though slow. #
15:08 Pandora is pretty impressive. #
15:09 Looking forward to trying Truphone, though I wish it were a Skype client so I could acess my $3/month SkypeOut service. #
15:19 Molecules: cool having a molecular viewer on my iPhone, but like most open source scientific software, the UI is crap. #
03:50 Thinking I'll skip the circus tomorrow morning and get an iPhone 3G later. Or maybe not. Awfully early... #

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noreply@blogger.com (L. Maxwell Ward) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:09:00 +0000

15:18 So, received/fired up the Oppo last night. Looks nice but I don't think the improvement was dramatic. #
15:18 Then again, I watch TV without my glasses so I may not be qualified. #
15:19 Also tried out DVD-Audio with the Soft Bullettin DVD. Thought it sounded more detailed, but maybe I'm unfamiliar with that mix. #
15:20 But, I needed a new DVD player anyway. Maybe I'll pick up on the differences as I use it more... #
15:20 Today's a quiet day; just optimizing some code to eliminate unnecessary file i/o. #
15:22 Feeling blah about buying new iPhone, but with my store credit it will be cheap. Will enjoy extra storage and 3G. #
15:22 So seems like I might as well upgrade. #
17:04 AV Club on Rock Band 2: "Rock Band 2 takes this a step further with the addition of an actual drum training program." #
17:05 "it resembles the game's practice mode, but with a large library of basic beats and fills... all playable on three kits..." #
17:10 And the kicker: "There's also a freeplay mode, where you can play drums over mp3's that you've ripped to your console." #
17:12 Quotes on Rock Band 2 from this AV Club article: twurl.nl/xnj0hm #
17:41 Now please, for the love of God, don't neuter the Wii version. #
18:16 Old code: 2:36. New code: 0:02. #
18:31 New Beck sounds good through the AKGs. Also spun Vampire Weekend and Bottomless Pit today. #
03:13 Hit Mission Burrito (yes, again—coupon for a free, non-BCM-related burrito was about to expire). #
03:14 Then Gingerman to try the Real Ale Lost Gold IPA. A lot like their Rio Blanco or Full Moon, but IPA-ified. #
03:16 I got the CD shelf mounted tonight and unpacked all CDs. I counted approximately 450 of them. Getting this done was a major victory. #
03:16 iTunes 7.7 now out. The iPhone 3G/2.0/app store/Mobile Me blitz begins. #
03:19 Twitterverse, if iPhone OS is out tomorrow morning and I haven't twittered anything yet, send me a direct message to wake me up... #

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