Life
Double Rainbow
With the recent morning showers, seeing a rainbow is commonplace, but seeing a double rainbow is something to admire.
Popular on Hipster!
Have you tried out Hipster.com and its accompanying iPhone app? If so, you might have seen today’s popular list that looked like this.
Hold up! What’s that chicken there? Why, it’s none other than a gravy boat I found at the neighborhood Price Busters!
Not only did this novelty make it to the popular page, but it’s been viewed over 1000 times by fellow Hipsters.
My Starbucks Inky Red Cup
Have you tried assembling your own Starbucks Inky Red Cup using the printed template? Here’s mine.
For perfect results, be sure to follow the directions and use A4 size paper. Letter size paper works, but the cutout won’t fit perfectly.
Pulpconnection on Google+ Pages (with Freebies)
Google+ opened up its social service to include businesses, organizations, and brands earlier this week. And what better way to learn about Google+ Pages other than having your own Page? With that simple logic, let me introduce Pulpconnection on Google+ Pages.
Here’s the direct (and ugly looking) link:
https://plus.google.com/108377264798538201770
What can you expect here? My initial thoughts are to use this channel as a behind-the-scenes stream of consciousness for content and posts. Yes, it’s not a new concept but hey, at least I have an idea, right?
So anyways, stop by and visit and even circle Pulpconnection. As a thank you for adding Pulpconnection to your G+ circles, I have a gift (and I’m breaking the piggy bank on this one). For the first 10 Pulp-sters (individuals, not brands) who add Pulpconnection to their Google+ circles, I’ll gift to you either:
- Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back mobile app. Just released this week and includes the infamous (and classic) video.
- One song from the Twilight Breaking Dawn (Part 1) Soundtrack. Yes, there are only 3 songs available for individual purchase, but they are good ones.
The Rules
- This offer could end at any time due to the Google+ Pages policy on promotions.
- Winners need an account on iTunes to redeem the gifts.
- No substitutions of the gifts (you gotta love Sir Mix-a-Lot and Twilight!)
- You need to adhere to the age restrictions of the mobile app or songs.
- I’ll need a valid email account to gift your winnings.
- Gift goes to the first 10 real people who circle the Pulpconnection Google+ Page.
- Only one gift per person.
- All of this may change on my discretion. 😉
Thanks, enjoy, and +1!
Still Migrating to Aperture
My migration to Aperture 3 from iPhoto 11 is still underway. I decided to make the move to take advantage of Aperture’s advanced organization and photo library management.
Some background. I’ve been an iPhoto fan since its introduction. It served me well more or less over the years. I did encounter a corrupt library or two but managed to recover using its own utilities or the great iPhoto Library Manager (IPLM). Over the years, I had created several libraries to manage each library size. The biggest problem with this is having to switch libraries to find old pictures. Wanting to have access to all my pictures, I used IPLM to consolidate all my libraries into one. This consolidation along with high resolution images from my DSLR was too much for iPhoto 11. It would take minutes to launch and several seconds to do basic tasks like viewing pictures. Yes, I could delete pictures but with the hard drive capacities getting bigger and bigger, why should I?
So I decided to switch to Aperture 3 (which was on sale during the launch of the Mac App Store). Following the instructional video, I did the iPhoto Library import using the “in their current location” option. That import process on a 316 GB iPhoto library took nearly a day.
After the import, Aperture begins working on behind-the-scenes tasks like identifying faces and processing each image. This process takes a long time.
As of yet, I can’t comment about Aperture’s performance since it’s still chugging away. So far, it’s created a 8+ GB library file based on my 316-GB iPhoto library.
More to come later…
Pulp Is Popular in Poland?
Or so says traffic analytics from Lijit. Though the visits may be legit, my site got slammed earlier today, taking if offline. Polish coincidence or is some bogus site crawling around for no good?
Useful Links
Just listing some useful links that I’ve referenced.
- iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder. When you want to move your iTunes files to another hard drive.
- Time Machine backup error: Too big for backup volume. When Time Machine acts up and refuses to backup your files.
- Drobo and Lion Mac OS X 10.7 compatibility.
- How to safely shutdown your Drobo.
- Configure Drobo to work with Lion’s Time Machine.
How Lijit Are My Readers?
While I’ve had an account with Lijit for some time, I never really maximized the service. I started playing with it a bit more, and their reported demographics for Pulpconnection readers goes like this.
- Female 55%
- Age 18-34 48%
- Caucasian 99%
- Have no kids 82%
- $60K-100K income 43%
- College graduate education 55%
Is that you, my pulpy reader? Are you a youngish, college educated, single caucasian female with no children? It doesn’t really matter to me. I love all my visitors! 🙂
Finding a Clover in a Haystack
Prologue: I knew this would happen if I waited too long (which I did), but I forgot the details of finding my first Starbucks Clover location in California. You heard that phrase about finding a needle in a haystack, right? Well, I essentially found a Clover in a haystack! Read on…
It was during a summer trip to Central Valley, California, and we were driving for awhile. Were we driving to San Francisco? Monterey? Santa Rosa? Sadly my memory fails me. But all I remember was I was tired after driving for hours. I needed a caffeinated pick-me-up before continuing to drive for a few more hours. So I asked my wife to use the Starbucks mobile app to locate a nearby store. The app showed a few locations, and I headed to the closest one which so happened to be located in an outdoor shopping outlet area. Seeing the familiar Starbucks sign was truly an oasis.
I got out of the car, walked to the door, and noticed this unfamiliar logo in the window.
Holy Starbucks! We randomly stumbled upon a rare Starbucks Clover location!! I couldn’t believe it. Off all the stores displayed on the Starbucks app, we happened to pick one with a Clover brewing system.
Like I said, I was fatigued from driving and my memory is fading, but I couldn’t quite figure out the Clover menu. A barrista cheerfully guided me through the various options, and I got an iced Kenya. Because it’s freshly brewed, the wait time was a bit longer, but it was fascinating to watch the individual brewing process. I do remember the coffee tasting fresher and not as bitter. The flavor was deeper, but since my drink was iced, the fresh brew quickly became watered down as the ice melted.
Still though, having a Starbucks for the rest of the drive was great and just thinking about the kismet of this happenstance is still incomprehensible.
While there is no official map of all the Starbucks Clover locations, check out Starbucks Melody’s blog as she documents her visits to as many Clover locations as she can.
Update: this location is store number 69034 located in Town Center Corte Madera.
Lion on a Hackintosh?
Now this is intriguing… Install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion on a hackintosh. Will have to check this out to breathe new life into my Dell 10v.
Update: So I actually read the manual (aka the FAQ) only to see that Lion removed support for the Atom processor (which is in the 10v). So no go on Lion-izing my Hackintosh.