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MacBook Pro

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Laurence Anderson
on September 19, 2007
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First off as most bloggers do when it’s been a while since they’ve written an entry, let me apologize for just that, not writing an entry.

Now that that’s outta the way, you may have seen (or maybe are even subscribed to) my flickr photostream recently, and if so you’ll have seen the image at the beginning of this post before. Yes, that’s right, that’s a macro shot of the words “MacBook Pro“. Now you may be thinking “Larry has a Black MacBook, why would he take a picture of this?” well also if you’ve been looking at my photostream you’ll notice I put exactly why I had those pictures.

Basically all you need to know is milk got spilt into my BlackBook and fried it, so I got this as a replacement/upgrade, which is nice because it’ll handle Leopard a lot better.

Let me sum up the story, I was eating breakfast before school on Monday, like I do every day I have school, which was a bowl of cereal, and at the same time I happened to be working in CS3. Well I went to go reach for my keyboard to go type something, and my bowl of cereal was in between my arms, and I bumped it and some milk splashed out and hit my MacBook’s keyboard, immediately shutting the machine off. So I did what I heard you’re supposed to, take out all cords, battery, and flip the machine upside down and let it dry, which in the long run (2 days) worked fine.

The MacBook turns on and runs, but a majority of the left side of the keyboard is stuck down once you press a key, and the power adapter is being wonky when it’s plugged into the laptop, and obviously I can’t run off battery forever. So, with Leopard coming in November, my MacBook being almost paid off, I figured I should just upgrade and salvage what I could off the old laptop. While I was at work my mom ran out for me and got me the stock 15″ 2.2GHz MacBook Pro.

I came home, set it up, transferred all the data I could, now I’m up and running (minus installing my printer). So expect a review maybe this weekend or in the near future.

Initial iPhone Impressions

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Laurence Anderson
on July 1, 2007
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Apple’s new iPhone

Well, if you didn’t know Doug (Co-Host of PreviewCast) went to his Apple Store for the iPhone launch and recorded two episodes, but sadly he didn’t get to use an iPhone as of this writing.

I on the other hand, didn’t attend the launch but I did get to use the device yesterday after dropping my girlfriend off at her house, and well all I can say is that I’m in love. I sat in the store for damn near a half hour playing with all the features of the iPhone, taking my time with each one, and I even made a call with it (at least in our store, all the phones are active), so I’ve pretty much given the phone a top to bottom inspection (or side to side if you’re holding it landscape haha).

I’m not gonna go over every feature, I’m just going to talk about my favorite feature, which may surprise most of you - SMS Messaging.

I love the SMS on the iPhone, I text every single day wether it’s my girlfriend, to make plans with friends or to (once and a while) track a flight for somebody that I’m waiting to leave or come in. I love how the iPhone turns it into an iChat conversation, it’s so much easier for me to follow what I’ve said and who I’m texting. The keyboard has been covered on a number of other tech sites and blogs, but I think it’s the best thing in a while, that’s not to say that I haven’t made errors (curse you fat fingers), but otherwise it’s quite easy to type on.

Something that really impressed me and surprised me at the same time, is while I was searching through the settings on the iPhone I sent it a text from my phone, thinking it would take me out of the settings application and back to my conversation, which I wouldn’t like, but instead it dims the screen and prompts you if you want to go straight to SMS or if you want to ignore it for now and continue what you’re doing.

Am I Gonna Get It?

Well, will I get one? The answer isn’t confirmed yet, I WANT one, but it’s gonna be hard for me to drop my Verizon contract which I’ve been with for at least 4 years now, for a network with worse coverage in my area, and for me to drop that amount of money on a phone and contract.

The Price is Right - Bob’s End

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Laurence Anderson
on June 15, 2007
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The Price is Right

I don’t know about you, but The Price is Right played a HUGE role in my childhood, everyday I would be dropped off at my Grandmother and Aunt’s house when my mom would leave for work and be left there for the day, to watch TV and sit in the living room, I always started my day with some random talk show at 9AM, move on to nothing at 10AM, and when 11AM rolled around we all agreed that it was time for The Price is Right!

Every single day I’d always watch The Price is Right, I’d get so into the games, I’d be yelling at contestants when I thought they made a wrong move in a pricing game, it was just insane I loved it.

Today was the air date of Bob Barker’s last filmed episode of Price, which aired at it’s usual 11AM timeslot and again at 8PM tonight, I missed the second half today due to a final exam I had at 11:45 so I watched the whole episode again when it aired at 8PM and I must say, as weird as this sounds I felt like Bob symbolized my childhood and now that he’s retiring it will never be the same. Most children/teenagers know it’s like an unwritten rule if you’re “sick” or you skipped school that you have to watch The Price is Right, which I always did whenever I was home from school.

Granted nobody can replace a man like Bob who was on the show for all 35 years, and a total of 50 years in television on various shows, Price will never be the same once they find his replacement at the end of the summer for the season premiere.

From the bottom of my heart Bob you will be truly missed, you were and always will be the face/voice/personality of The Price is Right, and nobody can fill those shoes!

Prom 2007

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Laurence Anderson
on May 12, 2007
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See all the photos on flickr.

On May 11th, 2007 (aka last night), Stephanie and I attended my schools prom, at Brierwood Country Club in Hamburg, NY from 6:30PM - 11:30PM. The night started out by everybody meeting at a couple places, the group of us was Derek, Me, Stephanie, Cartman, Flora, Lucca we all pretty much just stuck together the whole night. When we got there, we entered, had the option of taking pictures, we passed, picked out a table, we chose the table in the far corner with different colored (red) chairs (versus the normal green), to you know be different. Then soon after that they started to serve dinner, I wasn’t too interested so I didn’t eat anything except maybe a dinner roll so dinner was kinda null, just joking and talking to each other for a couple hours, in fact we made friends with one of the staff members there, his name was Dave, nice guy.

Next came just time to socialize and relax before the “dancing” started, that mostly involved talking, making fun of one another, walking around, mingling with other friends. We ended up going outside for a while and just sitting absorbing the air, talking to a few teachers just social time. Then time came where the DJ started to play music, they had packed over 400 kids into I swear to God a “dance floor” that’s a little bigger than my room, so it was quite small, everybody was complaining, but the banquet hall and “dance floor” were connected so Stephanie and I stayed towards the outskirts of the floor but closer to the banquet room in case we wanted to sit down. Eventually, after a few songs and a slow dance, we spent the remainder of the time outside sitting on the balcony just relaxing with each other and some friends would come and go.

Overall, it was a good time, and next week I’m attending her prom at Creekside.

Destination: Florida

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Laurence Anderson
on March 29, 2007
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Florida!

Well expect the blog to run dry again over this coming week and the week after that, we have our 2nd week long break coming up April 6th - April 15 so my parents, a good friend of mine and I are driving down to Deltona, Florida (NOT Daytona) to stay for a week with my Dad while my parents go to my mom’s husband’s parents house for the week.

They have internet there, but I’m not that much of a geek, I’ll be out in the sun, etc catching some rays and just relaxing, so I’ll be outta here for a while.

See you guys around! Don’t miss me too much.