mini me? maybe not...
This weekend I ventured over to Microcenter and gave the Mini Mac a spin. I dunno... I sat there for about 30mins doodling around with various iLife apps and decided that basically it was too much extra for the current place and time for me. Extra in the sense that I don't need it right now. Sure I like to spend spend like any one these days but I have to resist. I have expenses to tend to a real mini that needs love first.
It looked nice mind you. I really did but then in my minds eye i saw myself sitting at the mac for many hours to learn it, to understand it, to play with it... more hours at a pc that i didnt want to spend in general just yet.
So at the moment lets say "curious but not serious". However I am seriously curious about wikiness or something to allow me to:
- 1. export my firefox bookmarks to delicious
- 2. a nice firefox delicious connector (i've tried 2 so far, they both seem to have failed)
- 3. get onfolio beta to work in firefox
- 4. figure out wikipad
- 5. pay bills make more green
I also was tempted to get a shuffle which will probably before I get a mini. I dunno. The mini really needs to show me it can do Apple Motion on it before I throw it the cash.
In other news I just got out of a meeting with childhood friend, mentor, technical god and electrical gizmo guru Cedric Zi, and I'm sure i've spelled his name wrong. Anyways he's a great great man and he's helping us out a few new gizmos we need for research gigs.
Growing up Cedric was my fathers go to man when it comes to custom and complicated rigs. Cedric built railroad remote controls, eye tracking headsets, submergible cameras and more. I always love his creations cause they usually had this crude unfinished unbranded look to them. A blinking lcd with six switches, or a helmet with 38 spikes that screw into yer skull and infrared eye beam to measure flickering eye movement. Hilarious props I thought to myself. The 38 spiked helmet was used on many occasions as a cool rock video video toaster prop. I loved that stuff.
After our conversation on the current work project I showed him our retail rig that we've used in the field to track consumers thru a retail enviroment. He liked it, brought back some memories. And then we started talking fuel cells, I'm always looking for ways to minimize loads, and the retail rig cameras are good but i lighter load would be nice in some instances. Cedric gave me the run down on the Buckeye Bullet, a few students he knows are currently working on that project and working with all kinds of battery types.