poms and macs
so today i decided that i’d be content eating pomegranates for the rest of my life, and nothing but. i hadn’t had a pomegranate in a while, and i came home and had one today. its just such a vibrant thing: i love it (don’t worry i’ll eat other stuff, i just need to start eating pomegranates more often).
i’ve found two fantastic blogs today that i just feel compelled to share. both different, yet both very appealing reads. one thing that i see similar between them is that both authors just have this indescribable feel to their writing. it just feels so human, i wish i could write at the level they do.
one thing that i’ve always looked for is a really interesting blog written by guy my age, unfortunately i haven’t found one. i feel like there are a lot of girls in high school writing blogs, but not many boys. it’s probably something with the whole macho complex stage i seemed to skip. it’s also pretty frustrating that whenever i search for gay on the wordpress blog search i end up with cheep amateur porn :-\.
so one thing i realized today is that i’ve been in the same school district for ten. TEN years! my class actually isn’t that big, roughly about 240 students. there are still people that i’m fascinated by, that i’ve never met, but really want to. plus other people in other grades. i think i need to stop limiting myself by the rules others have set out (the invisible web of lies and rumors that separates us all from one another). there are a bunch of people i would really love to get to know.
there’s this one girl i was friendly with as a tot in elementary school, but lost touch with. now some people don’t like her, but i find her fascinating. she’s so nice, i’m so glad i’ve started to get to know her a bit more this year. she’s not at all who i thought she was, or expected her to be. i love when that happens, when you realize that you’ve assigned certain things to someone, and they prove you wrong. i think we all do it sometimes, where we dismiss a person. i’m really trying to change how i approach meeting people, i think it makes all the difference going into something with an open mind.
anyways lets talk about what’s in my dock!
the software that lives in my dock (i’ll post later a list of other installed programs)
- finder - the finder in leopard is amazing, fast, cute effective ’nuff said.
- dashboard - it launches me into widget world!
- safari - the savanna navigator that seems to never keep me on track, that i love anyways
- firefox 3 beta 5 - my standards complient browser friend, i can’t wait until firefox 3 is released!
- mail - i always said that i would never use a desktop mail client: i evidently lied. i use the to-do a lot too.
- adium - with my custom yoda icon and design (i made part of the theme) adium keeps me connected in my style
- joost - alas an old friend. i watched many a episodes of jericho on joost.
- handbrake - sans ugly pineapple icon handbrake helps me copy dvd’s into movie files for iPod or MacBook
- songbird - an interesting concept: itunes like music management built on firefox code, works like a browser, intergrates well with everything, and pretty. i’ll switch when itunes annoys me too much…
- itunes - a bloated, un-featured whore.
- veoh player - plays/downloads videos from veoh for me. also pretty.
- vlc - god of media players, plays anything. i mean anything.
- pixelmator - a fantastic image editor
- photobooth - good times with my mac
- burn - a free cd burning program, data and music (for when i’m not on speaking terms with itunes).
- audacity - a free cross-platform audio editor that i adore.
- imovie oh eight - love/hate relationship
- pages - best full featured word processor ever. kicks word butt!
- textedit - my text scratch pad for everything, notes copy paste etc
- bean - a text editor that goes full screen. i write my blog here now, and copy into the box in wp
it’s only wednesday and i must make it to friday. i hope to be back soon! a special shout out to cindy, who is a wonderful friend flying 1,845 miles this summer to visit old friends. cindy, i love you, and you can’t get here fast enough!
peace ~ dave
dave
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