Today my new Macbook Air arrived. This is lightweight, perfect for my camera bag when on location for proofs and also for writing my books.

Geekbench wise – it scored a 6268

I bought it from the refurbished area inside Apple.com. For those of you that are new to the world of Apple, this is the sales area. In short, you get the exact same computer, but cheaper. Full warranty etc, the only difference, it doesn’t come in the glossy box. Seriously, if you’re buying anything Apple, this should *always* be the first place you look. Go to Apple.com or Apple.ca > Click store in the menu across the top > left side 3/4 of the way down look for “Special Deals” now click whatever you’re looking for. Example.. Refurbished Mac

The box above is how it was shipped to me. Simple, no glossy, saved 15-20% on the cost. These aren’t used machines, these are usually machines that someone bought and then cancelled the order before shipping. For whatever reason Apple puts it in the ‘used’ area after this. We have bought a lot from refurbished… and it’s always amazing, never breaks, and let’s face it, saving money is smart.

So there you have it. Light, fast, perfect for me.

Wives are tricky creatures I have been told. If you have an iPhone you can create short cuts so when the person types in certain words, the phone replaces those words with phrases, words, sayings etc

Example, you typing FML might have the phone replace that text with Fuck My Life.

Make sense?

So, this blog comes from a “wife” that took her “husband’s” phone and decided to have some fun with him.

First, she creates shortcuts with words…

Once the shortcuts were in place, she starts to screw with Joey, her “husband”

(air quotes used because this is most likely fake, but meh, whatever)

a little while later…

My old laptop skin was getting kind of old and tired. It was a carbon fiber skin and well, I am neither fast, nor furious.

Fuck that shit all day long. Time for some geek.

I picked up this skin from Etsy for the big price of ten dollah. TEN WHOLE DOLLAH.

Fuck yeah it’s bad ass.

Bryci put it on my laptop today while I was doing some videos, her way of showing she loves me. (yes, I know I’m lucky, thanks)

In 2013/2014 when the Justice League movie comes out, it had better be fucking good. If I was Warner Brothers, I’d wave a big ass check in front of Nolan to do it.

Nolan or GTFO.

Also, I got new shades today. They seem to make me appear a little more tanned.

I can see the future though, so that’s cool.

I upgraded the ram on my MacBook Pro today. I needed the extra speed for various applications, but mostly to be able to run the network without issue when away on trips etc.

I’m amazed at how fast laptops have become. To put things in perspective, in 2009 I bought a Mac Pro, loaded it with ram and it became my every day system for video editing, photoshopping, what have you. Geekbench wise, it registered a 11178 for the score. That’s pretty quick, for 2009.

Fast forward to right now.. I just changed out the ram on my laptop as I said. It’s the current MacBook Pro, 15”, 2.0 GHz. yes there are faster models but I don’t need the faster to be honest, this has a quad processor i7 which is more then quick enough for me. The speed between this and a 2.6 for example, barely noticeable and you pay a ton more. If you’re going to upgrade, upgrade your hard drive to SSD (check) and then your ram (check).

I ran Geekbench to see where it’s at.. 9749! Holy shit. This is a LAPTOP and it’s almost as fast as a dual xeon processor, 8 core Mac Pro (from 2008 mind you, but still).

Shit is getting fast! This will make it so much easier to be on the road and still be able to move Bella to the next level.

Yes, this blog was somewhat pointless.. but I was surprised how quick the score was. Thus, I blogged it. Hey, fuck you. it’s my blog. :p

So Saturday, @Bryci and I hung the #JUUL painting we picked up online with help of @Taliashepard when it came to shipping out of the US.

It’s on the wall behind my desk, which is just cool as hell for me. I love this painting, it’s so peaceful. Hopefully it teaches me some basic things, like how to be nice. Some will see me having a huge picture of Buddha on my wall as me being a hypocrite. I am not a man of the cloth in that I don’t follow your god, his god, her god. Yet, I have a religious symbol on my wall, no different then a cross.

Well, I disagree in that I don’t slant this way or that way. I find myself liking the simple way of life that Buddhism seems to envelope though. Be kind to others, have respect for the earth, don’t be an asshole.. you know, the basics. Alright, the asshole thing was paraphrasing. Point being, you won’t find me going door to door trying to convert anyone. You won’t find me getting up early on Sunday so I can look down my nose on those not in my belief system. You also won’t seem me telling anyone they’re going to hell. Who am I to say these things?

So you do what’s right for you, I’ll do what’s right for me. Deal?

I saw a poster with things said by Dalai Lama that I thought was pretty cool, but I’m wagering some will think it’s hippy shit. I don’t know, it’s weird when you see so many people in such a rat race with others around them. Who drives the nicer car, who has the bigger house, who has the best this or that. Why bother? Why does any of it matter? I need a beautiful new Mercedes so others will see my huge shiny cock? Really?

pass.

When you’re laying on your death bed, will you look back on your successes or your failures? Myself, I’ll look back on my regrets, things I didn’t get quite right. I won’t care if I owned this or drove that.. but that’s me. How about you?

Be the change or I’ll send this cat to kick your ass.

ps.

also, don’t go upstairs, pretty much ever again. They’re waiiiiting…..