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Friday is one of my favorite days and coincidently, one of my favorite American Anime series is on sale for $29.99!!! My daughter loves Korra and I can't wait to show her more episodes! And hey, while your'e at it, check out the original series, Avatar: The Last Airbender Complete series on DVD for $26.37. Great for the car rides!
Check it out now while they're hot!
During the last decade, Apple has led the way in optimizing the personal computer being the first to delete legacy equipment and replace them with new technologies or simply minimalize. On some occasions, their choice to adopt was either strategically delayed waiting for broad acceptance or in some cases never implemented e.g. Blu-ray. On the opposite extreme, they have also led the way in the proliferation of FireWire; Apple's own design and technology implemented in 1999 and found in Apple Computers since.
With the inclusion of the latest USB 3.0 ports, we can finally celebrate the new dawn of faster data transfers. Rumored to also be is a new Dock Connector that I'm guessing will take full advantage of these blazing new bus speeds. Introduced back in 2008 and the first consumer products released in 2009, it's been a long time coming with Intel releasing their first integrated chipsets earlier this year. I truly believe that we will look back and thank Apple for this as the adoption rate and proliferation of USB 3.0 peripherals will most likely sky rocket. This in part being that it costs less than the Thunderbolt equivalent and is backward compatible with USB 2.0. Consumers love the term "backwards" compatibility. Where the PC world has failed in the introduction of USB 3.0, Apple will be heralded as the usurpuer. From those million iOS users stuck syncing for hours, thank you and finally! Yes, we can say that wireless syncing is where it's at, but only because we don't have access to quick syncs and backups. The cloud is great nonetheless, but USB 3.0 will be where it's at.
The success of WWDC '12 and not to mention the intro of the MacBook Pro with Retina display, the yet-to-be-announced Fall '12 iPod / iPhone / iPad maybe iMac event couldn't come fast enough. I love Thunderbolt technology but how many hard drives and peripherals do you see out there support it compared to USB 3.0?
Like I posted previously, I'm flying 10 out of 11 days. Today is day 5 and I've been bogged down without having the pleasure of being connected to the outside world. It's definitely boring with the Internet these days, but I guess that I should be reading and studying for my recurrent training scheduled in the next few weeks. It's definitely not by choice either believe me. The Internet at the Hilton charges $9.95 for 24 hours of connectivity pleasure and that's just not really in the budget. Not sure if you caught wind either but my loan payments are in full swing at $1100.00 a month for the next 20 years. Really...it's that much. It's more than my 2nd paycheck here at ASA's 2nd year rate too. I'll try not to let it depress me, but hey, like I've always flown by, I've got the best office view there is. Maybe not the FL410, but it doesn't matter because I'm not comparing myself to the other pilots out there. It's isn't the largest cabin either, but that doesn't matter, because like I've said, it's all about fun and doing what you love.
Am I going to work out today? I just might, but I'm forced to run indoors again because of the forecasted 6-9 inches of snow falling in Peoria, Illinois. We have a 6:15AM duty in too but I'm a little weary on the fact that we might not be leaving that early. Who will be cleaning the runways?
I've upgraded to my sister's hand me down Palm Treo 755p. Do I like it? It's definitely got more pep to it and the Internet is quicker using EVDO rev. 0, but it's still not the BlackBerry 8830. It does have a camera, but I'm not too sure if that's a concern anymore. Maybe I'll just bring my camera with me everywhere instead. What do you think?
I'm going to post all my DVDs online on Amazon so that I could begin converting them to Blu-ray editions. Of course, I'll be a little smarter in my purchases limiting them to not every new Tuesday release, but to the ones that I think I'm going to watch more than just once. Shoot, maybe I just won't buy any more movies. I'm talking like I could afford them! :-)
Here's a picture to enjoy of Adelle and I touring the USS Midway Museum in San Diego. We went spur of the moment right after she picked me up so I was pretty beat but it's always fun hanging out with buddy! You have to check it out but be sure to have 3-5 hours for the entire trip. We had but 1 hour to roam around and we only got through 20% of it and we rushed too. When we going again babe?
