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I received my notice from Pilot Air Freight that my plasma will be delivered tomorrow. Thankfully, I cleaned up almost all of the living room last night so that there is now space to set up the plasma tv. Now, I just need a sound system so that I don’t need to just read the subtitles.

At the post move lunch, I was talking to Rus and Jake about Apple’s new Mighty Mouse. If you haven’t seen it yet, the selling point is that Apple is finally producing a 2 button mouse where the top third of the mouse is a touch sensitive surface. Along with this, the scroll button is a scroll ball (kind of reminds me of arcade golf games) and there is a force sensitive button on each side. Their opinion after trying one is that it wasn’t the most intuitive mouse to use if all you really want is a 2 button mouse, and I should definitely try one before buying.

It happened that I was wandering around Valley Fair later that afternoon and decided to stop at the apple store to try one myself. For anyone that hasn’t tried one, apple mice work by pushing down on the entire mouse. To use the two button capability, you put a finger on the right side of top of the mouse (without touching the left side of top) and press down. It was one of those things that you could probably get used to after a while, but I find myself wondering why I should need to get used to some sort of new mouse paradigm when I’m fine with current 2 button mice. In the end, I’m going to wait and see if they improve the interaction model, and I probably won’t buy one until/unless they make a bluetooth version.

I later found a pretty good review of the mouse on Macworld. It was perhaps a little nicer than I would have been but it wasn’t too Apple biased.

Well, I realized tonight that it has been a week since the last post, so despite the fact that I should be packing, I decided to throw up a blog entry with some odds and ends. After the weekend and the move, I’ll be back to the prolific zibblog entries you all know and love, so hopefully, this will tide you over.

Awhile back, Chris posted a shout out to the zibblog giving me mad props. Stuff like that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. The burning question is still “where does Chris keep his blog with more controversial content?” Not that we don’t all love the “texty”, thought provoking familyandfriends blog but where is the http://awaken.typepad.com/keepthewomenandchildrenaway blog?

The other day, I got a FedEx tracking number from plasma.com that I thought was my tv but which turned out to just be some connectors. I now go back to eagerly anticipating the arrival of the plasma.

Awhile back, I read about Scott putting his bluetooth headset through the washing machine. This gave me a chuckle, thinking “silly, silly Scott”. Later, I read about Nate doing the same thing. Given that I own the same model as both of them, you might have thought this would make me paranoid. Nope. This last weekend, I did the same thing to my own headset. I let it dry out, charged it, and it did start working again. However, I’ve been told that it’s now a lot harder to hear me. I may see about getting a screwdriver that will allow me to open it up and see if there’s anything I can do. However, I was also looking on amazon and noticed that you can get the next rev of the same headset (with a AAA battery slot instead of a built in rechargable) for $34.

I’ve got a few random blog topics running around in my head that I’ll hopefully post during the weekend. I was thinking lately about something I read on someone’s blog (can’t remember what blog at the moment) about not letting the blog just be a collection of links. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. However, if I’m going to do that, I want to throw in the occasional link that makes JB go “huh?” (JB tends to be my measure of just how random a blog post is). In that spirit comes a song and music video dedicated to MILF by Kennedy. Link comes by way of Yirmumah.

on the new plasma tv. 42 inches of HD goodness wrapped up in a nice little Panasonic bow. Based on the experiences of JB and Josh (thanks for the info), I decided to get the Panasonic TH-42PHD7UY. It has a built in “Video Wall Processor” so that you can hook them up in a 2×2, 3×3, or even 4×4 configuration. I was tempted, but I just bought one. Hopefully, it will be here in time for the move to reward those people kind enough to help out with some Halo 2.