Just for future reference…
BLACK #212121
WHITE #E8E3D9
RED #BD3826
YELLOW #F7D11C
GREEN #00824A
BLUE #0057A6
I’m currently in the design stage for a new LEGO piece and figured it might help to color it correctly in Fireworks this time.
I must print and then post this somewhere near the front door tonight.
Too late for today. ::YAWN:: ::GROWL::
I always despised cutting grass when I lived with my parents because I would rather stay indoors, but I guess it did help get that vitamin D moving. But having my own house, with my own yard has strangely changed that. I still don’t care for the outdoors, but I want my yard to look nice. Weird. So anyway, like I said a couple of months ago, I got a cordless electric mower (which is working out great) and have been cutting and edging my tiny lawn without any whining.
So… In an effort to make my house the best looking on the street, I’ve contracted a landscaper to fix my drab front “landscape” and completely barren backyard. Luckily, I just happen to know someone in the business. They just sent a draft of the design to me a couple of days ago. I can hardly wait. Pictures will hopefully follow in a couple of months. w00t!!!1 Outdoors! Not computer related! No LEGO references! No robots! No math rock elitism! What’s going on? I must not be getting enough sleep or something.
Amanda wanted a new computer. But not just any computer. She wanted something different™. I’ve tossed around the idea of getting a Mac for the past few years, just to get familiar with them, in case they end up taking over some day. It’s the same thing I do with Linux from time to time, except that those experiments are free. Macs are FAR from free, but I figured now was a good time since at least Amanda will put it to good, full-time use, whereas I would only be able to “play” with a Mac.
I must say… Macs are very nice. I guess I should really say, OSX is nice. The first thing that impressed me when the computer started up for the first time was that when it came time to connect to the internet, it saw my wireless router. That’s not surprising, but when it couldn’t connect to the internet through it, a message popped down telling me what the problem was. I needed to add the MAC of the Mac’s (that’s annoying) wireless card to my allowed address list on the router. Now, I knew this was going to happen, but Windows doesn’t tell you anything that specific which might lead some people to needless frustration.
The second thing was printing. I have a Dell network printer that I have to run an install CD on my Windows machines to use, but the Mac just found it and after a few mouse clicks, was able to print to it. Geez. That’s nice.
Lastly, was connecting to a Windows shared drive where we keep all of our photos and music. After entering the username and password, the Mac had no trouble browsing the network and connecting to it. Sweet.
So, first impressions? Nice and shiny. Oh, and quite impressive.
