MacBook Air: Not For Me

I've got the wants on for a new laptop, mine being 5+ years old. Apple products have been on my mind, so naturally I'm interested in the new MacBook Air.


After reading the Engadget review, my trusty HP Pavilion 5200 series will remain in action until further notice. My next laptop will need to be able to perform as my primary machine. I am a road warrior.

The Air is a tough call. On the one hand it proposes to be a no-compromises ultraportable, but on the other hand it compromises many (but not all) the things road warriors want. [read review]

The only Mac in the family (and we still have it) is a Performa 550. I'm saving it for a Super Munchers tourney down the road. Want in?

Y'all do remember the Muncher games I hope...

CherryPharm is Delicious

The father-in-law caught wind of CherryPharm early and has been drinking it since. The original CherryPharm drink is an 8 oz. bottled serving consisting of fifty whole tart cherries and natural antioxidants. It is simply delicious.

Not only is CherryPharm Whole Tart Cherry Juice tasty, but its health benefits are so intriguing that even the NHL's New York Rangers are drinking it.

CherryPharm is a Geneva, New York based company and utilizes a juice extraction technique developed at Cornell University.

Kurrgan Scars Leonidas

A Canadian professional wrestler, Robert Maillet, plays the role of the "Uber Immortal" giant warrior in the movie 300.


It is this weapon of the Persian God-King Xerxes that gives Sparta's King Leonidas the scar on his left eye during the battle at Thermopylae, Greece.


Robert Maillet was known as "Kurrgan" during his time in the early 1990s in the WWF. He's 7 ft. tall and weighs in at 350 lbs.

College Drop-out

I am a college drop-out as far as the 2007-08 school year is concerned. Since February 2007 I have been sitting at 32/72 completed credits in my graduate program at RIT.

April to mid-May was spent in Georgia. Mid-May to September was spent in Arizona. I registered for two courses for Fall Quarter only to drop them just before the first week started. I knew I would be gone to Fort Drum for 3 straight weeks in October so it wouldn't work.

I registered again for two courses for Winter Quarter and this time made it through nearly three weeks of coursework. I was gone for the first week to Fort Drum and second week to Albany, however studied from those remote locations and made arrangements with my instructors to jump back into things upon my return.

In between those weeks away, I learned that I was to spend a month in North Carolina from mid-January to mid-February. Farther into the quarter than before, I had to withdraw from my courses--this time 'W's appearing on my permanent student record. Having taken out an educational loan for the first time in my life for these classes also posed an unwanted inconvenience.

Now, the time has come and gone for me to go to North Carolina. I did not go. The truth hath changed.

I will try again for RIT's Spring Quarter this upcoming March, a full year since I last completed a single graduate credit.

Wood Splitting Maul

I purchased a maul in December at the Lowe's in Henrietta, New York, after having borrowed the neighbor's to split our first batch of firewood for the 2007-08 winter season. It is an Ames True Temper, item #6662000 on page 49 of the 2007 Full Line Catalog. The tool features an 8 lb. head, 36" FiberPro wave handle, and lifetime warrantee--making it the "Total Control wood splitting maul."


The maul has a slightly longer handle than that of the borrowed neighbor's--providing a little more leverage--although does have 4 lbs. less in the the head weight. The borrowed splitting maul was another Ames True Temper, item #1131500 on the same page of the same catalog as previously mentioned.


The 12 lb. "Lickety Splitter" next door has a 34" steel handle and performs excellently on seasoned wood using a dead-drop swing.

The wood splitting maul was my first Lowe's purchase, ever.