Sometimes I'm Busy

posted by pope on August 1, 2008 at 3:44 pm

I'll admit it. I forgot all about this and my new commitment to regular updates. But there has been a lot of news. So I'll take this opportunity to catch everyone up, and my Dark Knight "review" will be a different new post.

Let's start at the beginning. My job, still great as ever, pays me excessively well, and as such, I have realized one of my goals of the past two years. I am the proud owner of a new, black MacBook. Apparently these will be the final generation of the MacBook that we all know and love now, to be replaced by a new iteration of Apple's standard notebook. I've seen the rumors and supposedly "leaked" photos of what's coming up for the MacBook, and apparently Steve is bringing the styles of his laptop lines together more closely. From what I've heard, the new MacBook will be much more similar in design to its pro and air siblings, with a titanium case and AIR-style keyboard. To be honest, I don't like the sound of that one bit. I love the current black MacBook design. I think it's absurdly stylish and sexy, for a computer. Although I don't suppose they would be Apple anymore if they didn't radically change the design to set up the new generation of copycats.

I love my MacBook. Using OS X 10.5.4 to get anything done, whether I'm working on a site, moving huge quantities of files around on my network, or just browsing the web, is so much easier than using a Windows PC that I can't even remember how I used to get anything done. Everything is as intuitive as if I were just asking myself to do things for me. It knows what I want to do and how to get it done. And let's not forget the fact that everything looks better on a Mac, whether it's actually enhanced by the high-resolution screen or not. Things I design on here look infinitely better than anything I ever designed on my PC, even using the same software and other tools. I don't even know how that's possible.

In other news, the Three Pound Universe is going places. There is a lot of work going into the site getting the basic features ready and running for a somewhat closed alpha test. Initially it will be a small group of people invited solely to find every bug, exploit, and annoying little feature of the site, so that when we open it up for public beta tests, our work might be done already. Keep an eye on the 3lbu Blog for updates and more details about where things are going.

There is another site coming up very soon, with a very simple but powerful idea behind it, thanks again to my brother, Chris. This one already has some major competition, but we're looking to tap into the same obsessive fan base that sites like GroupHug.us develop purely out of their addictive powers to get us a boost over sites with similar ideas to our own. More info on this as it develops, which should be pretty quickly, since I already have most of the code assets together on other sites and it's a matter of putting them together on a server and giving it a pretty shell to live in.

As you can see, life is busy. But I'll be sure to explain just why it is on here more often.

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