RandomFailure

First off, thanks to MacRumors.com for providing an excellent live feed of Steve Jobs’ keynote address, which I had running while at work. (Read their feed notes here).

The good news: there are now Macs with Intel processors. (See them here.) I was a bit surprised that there was both notebooks and iMacs included in this annoucement. I had figured Apple would start off small (literally small, with a new Mac Mini).

I am a bit perplexed at the pre-keynote consternation from the various Mac rumor site that stated that Intel-based Macs would not be coming out now, since it was mentioned back in June 2005 that the machines would be shipping “by mid-2006″. Apparently people were focused on the “mid” portion of that statement from Steve Jobs and not the “by” portion. Maybe they forgot about the promises of the 3GHz PowerMacs which never materialized. This is just another excellent example of Apple managing people’s expectations.

Will I buy one? Not yet; I don’t need a new computer right now since mine is only about 16 months old. I know Karen is looking for a new computer, but I don’t know if she’d use a Mac since she calls it a “fake computer”. Eh, what does she know? She’s crazy enough to be marrying me…

Marcus,

You are an extremely talented football player. But lately you are behaving like a complete a-hole. Intentionally stomping on another player during a game? (See story.) What were you thinking? Oh wait. You probably weren’t thinking.

And the off-field antics? (See this story, which includes a nice sidebar of the run-ins with the law.) Marcus, you are not yet famous enough to be able to get away with this crap. Do you really think this behavior will help your draft position? Teams are (hopefully) wising up to these destructive behaviors and avoiding these types of players altogether.

Good luck in the draft,

Steve

These pictures have been lingering on my cell phone for some time, so I decided that it was time to share them.

First up is a picture of the moon taken one evening from my office, looking towards some of the other tall buildings (Liberty Place and the PNC Bank Building) in Center City Philadelphia.

The second is a picture of the sunset taken while driving across the Betsy Ross Bridge, heading from New Jersey into Philadelphia. I am surprised that I managed to snap this without dropping the camera or swerving too badly.