No Wonder I’m Tired
That’s why I’m tired! I’ve run 200 miles and burned 17,700 calories in 2008 according to Nike+.
Pretty cool use of the stat tracking of Nike+. And here’s my sickly looking Nike+ Mini. I got to fix him up a bit.
Hella Tired
Don’t know exactly why but I’ve been hella tired this past week. Maybe it’s the festivities of the Holidays catching up with me. Going to work is a physical struggle, being sleepy behind the wheel even while drinking my morning coffee. Driving home is the same as I make the trek in a zombie like state.
Daily activities suffer as well, especially blogging. It’s been awhile since I’ve felt the excitement of one butt cheek blogging. I still get ideas to blog about but instead of percolating in my mind, they coagulate instead.
Enough whining… for now.
My Top Music for 2008
Looking through my iTunes library, here’s my list of most played songs that I added to my collection in 2008:
- Discipline CD – Janet Jackson
- Satellite – Dave Matthews Band
- Clocks (live version) – Coldplay
- Decode – Paramore
- Clocks – Coldplay
- Damaged – Danity Kane
- The Scientist (live version) – Coldplay
- Devil Wouldn’t Recognize – Madonna
- 4 Minutes – Madonna (feat. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland)
- Giggling Again for No Reason – Alanis Morissette
- Viva la Vida – Coldplay
- Violet Hill – Coldplay
- Love Lockdown – Kanye West
- Don’t Stop the Music – Rihanna
- Viva la Vida (New edit single) – Coldplay
- I Kissed a Girl (Nevins Rock Funkrokr Extended Mix) – Katy Perry
I wouldn’t have guessed at some of these selections, but iTunes is telling me otherwise. For some reason, Janet Jackson’s Discipline CD outplays the other songs by far, but I think I left it on repeat one day. Hmm, I listen to lots of Coldplay.
Crisis in Bromance Averted
Wow, that was a close one, a real close one. As 2008 came to a close so could have many of Hawaii’s television channels. You see Viacom was in a tiff with Time Warner (Oceanic here in Hawaii) and was threatening to pull its television programming at the start of 2009.
That would have mean no Bromance! MTV would have been one of the affected stations, and all the Hawaii Bromantics would have been at a loss. Just think of all the Bromantic interludes we would have missed, all the Bromantic novels that could have been penned. Makes me shudder and thankful that the situation was mended and a Bromansis (Bromantic + crisis = Bromansis) was averted.
Relax, Team Jacob Is Alright
Team Jacob fans of Twilight, breathe a sigh of relief. Did you get the email saying that Taylor Lautner will reprise his role as Jacob Black in New Moon? Wow, that weight’s now lifted, and I feel so much better!
Taylor and I could be bros!
Starbucks No Ka Oi!
Is it me or has Starbucks adopted the No Ka Oi color scheme with its recent cards? Starbucks Red, black (and gold), and white.
No Ka Oi!
192-kbps MP3 vs 128-kbps AAC
The MP3 versus AAC digital music format reminds me the days of Intel x86 processors versus IBM’s PowerPC chips. Each camp would argue the benefits of CISC and RISC architecture and throw in rates like processors speeds to confuse things (aka the Megahertz wars).
Same now with music files. Does an MP3 sound better than an AAC music file? Now throw in encoding rates. 128kbps, 192kpbs, 256 kbps? What’s the best bang for the buck? Does it really matter any more?
Lots of Retread in iTunes Store?
Tuesdays mark the new releases for music and movies, but this week, the iTunes Store doesn’t seem to have anything new. The New and Noteworthy section has a lot of retreaded material (Britney Spears’ Circus is not new).
But today is also the first day of Macworld Expo with its “Phil-harmonic” where Apple Senior VP, Phil Schiller, is doing the honors instead of Steve Jobs. Is this musical retread a sign of changes coming to the iTunes Store to be announced at the Expo? Pricing change? No more DRM? In a few short hours, we will see…
Your Twitter Ranking?
Where do you stand with the Twitter elite? Check out Twitterholic and find out! Go here for the top 100 in Honolulu, HI.
Not surprisingly, I don’t rank since I only tweet here and there, but you do see quite a few familiar faces.
Steve Jobs Has the Next Miracle Diet
So it turns out Apple mastermind, Steve Jobs, isn’t gravely ill after all. Instead, he’s disclosed that he has a hormone imbalance that’s caused his weight loss throughout 2008.
I’m thinking he’s just discovered the latest dietary fad and is proof positive that it works. Okay, okay, you won’t get immediate results, but losing weight overtime ain’t bad either. So now that the docs have figured out what’s wrong with Steve, Steve’s going to patent the diagnosis for a career after Apple. Can’t wait to see Steve Jobs on late night infomercials pushing his hormone imbalance diet.
Roxio Toast 10 is Available
On the eve of Macworld Expo, Roxio released a new major upgrade to its Toast disc burning software. Toast 10 comes in a regular and pro version with a bunch of new features.
On the TIvo front, Toast 10 lets you play content stored on your Mac to your Tivo and lets you stream Tivo recordings to your iPhone over the Internet.
Interesting features but the cost of upgrading is expensive at $80 for the regular version and $130 for the pro version.
Air Jordans Are Eternal
After the 23rd edition of the Air Jordans, I thought Nike would stop the AJ legacy after reaching his Airness’ jersey number. Nope. The Jordan Brand rolls on with the upcoming release of the Air Jordan 2009.
What better way to show love for the eternal Air Jordans than releasing them on Valentine’s Day 2009?