I’m reluctant to use the word “fail” as a noun, just like I don’t like using “ramp” as a verb, or “Democrat” as an adjective. But I do appreciate the sensibilities of the likes of FAIL Blog (even though I’m not generally a fan of the ad-overloaded family of the “lol” sites it belongs to), and I’ve just come upon a great “fail” of my own, in the iTunes Store (or, as Apple would have it, “on” the iTunes Store):
Even though I’m only a part-time resident of Colbert Nation, I am a huge fan of Stephen Colbert’s mock right-wing blowhard persona, and I love it when he fires up his “Nation” to engage in such acts of defiance as stuffing the ballot box in NASA’s space station node naming contest.
Colbert won the contest, but NASA demurred, instead choosing the more typical and spineless “Tranquility” as the node’s name. They did extend an olive branch to Colbert though, in naming the node’s treadmill after him.
Which would be lame, if they hadn’t made it an acronym. Sweet.
Today, with some help from SLP, I hatched a new scheme (can schemes be hatched?). OK, not really a scheme. A new blog. 52 Coffees.
We were sitting at Caribou in Highland Park, discussing the merits of working from a coffee house (at least, one with free WiFi). I idly suggested I should do it once a week, visiting every Caribou in the metro area. She upped the ante and lowered the lameness quotient by suggesting that I only visit independent coffee houses (at least, ones with free WiFi). And blog about it.
So that’s what I’m going to do. Starting next week. I may seek some assistance from Google Maps to locate all of the coffee houses in Minneapolis and St. Paul and visit them sequentially in an radiating pattern from our home. Or I might just randomly visit them. Or a mix of both. I’m not sure, and I’m even less sure you care. But the point is, I’m starting next week, with Minnehaha Coffee. Be sure to follow the blog. And I’ll try to get rid of the default WordPress theme soon, I promise.
Today, walking through the skyway by Target Center, I got a good view of Target Field, under construction.
I’m very much looking forward to attending Twins games outdoors at the new stadium in 2010!
P.S. Yes, Target owns this town. At least it’s not Wal-Mart.
The other day I ordered a RAM upgrade for my new MacBook. I had contemplated buying it at Best Buy, but I balked at their price of $199. I went down to the Apple Store (no Internet on the Macs on display at Best Buy, and apparently they have the store wrapped in RF shielding, as I wasn’t even able to get a signal on my iPhone there, either), not expecting them to sell RAM upgrades, but at least knowing I could spend a few seconds on a display MacBook checking RAM prices at Ramjet. $69. So I ordered it as soon as I got home.
The package arrived today. Or at least what was left of it. Fortunately the RAM appears to be intact, no thanks to the best efforts of UPS to destroy it. The question of whether such a tiny product really needed to be shipped in such a huge box is another matter, but at least the RAM was shrouded in bubble wrap.
Here’s what I found at the front door:
And here’s the prize inside:
More photos after the jump…
And now I’m going to shut down my computer and install this RAM!