Championable | Love, parenting, politics.

Is Flock as cool as it seems?  The social integration is just unreal, feature-set-wise.

Just asking.

Love to all.  Even you, the Dad who should pay attention to his daughter.

In case any of you people, you know, want to snap it up or anything.

Love to all. Even you, the guy who claimed to be on the subway for 80 minutes.

Love to all. Even you, the always late.

Maggie was looking at the MacBook Air I had just purchased for my recruiter. She had mentioned to me earlier that she wanted to see the laptop in person, to determine whether or not it really was the first computer after which she ever truly lusted. She held it, turned it over and over in her hands, shifted it back and forth, and finally said: “Oh, I really like this a lot.”

“Good,” I said, “Because it’s yours. The other one is in the car.”

Now that I finished transferring all of her data, I felt that I should pair it briefly with the 8-core monster. They make a lovely couple, I think.

Love to all. Even you, stoner cashier lady.

I love you, blogworld. I really do. But this crosses the line.

“Crosses.” Right. This more than crosses the line. This SPRINTS across the line, runs another 100 or 200 yards, and then says, “Hey, LINE! Go fuck yourself!”

Then, this moons the line.

Windows laptop, indeed.

Weren’t you with me for the great Dell Fiasco of 2004? Didn’t you suffer through the HP Depression of 2005?

Yes, I’m selling a lot of Mac equipment. It’s true. But ‘m only doing it to get MORE, BETTER, Mac equipment.

Here’s the math:

• I bought the 17-inch laptop with my Developer Discount. I get one a year. I love the machine, but it’s really heavy (when you commute 2 hours a day, not including about 1 hour of walking), and the High Density monitor is actually hard on my eyes. Read: I’m getting fucking OLD. I should be able to sell it for around $2400, with is pretty much a breakeven, and $1300 less than what it would cost new (what a deal!) without the developer discount.
• The 12-inch laptop hasn’t been in service for about 8-months. I just haven’t got around to selling it. According to eBay prices, I should get around $400.00.
• The G5 - well, that’s a mystery. The thing is flawless, operationally, but the handles/case are dented. I’m putting a spread of between $600 and $1099 on that one.

Likely, then, selling this equipment will leave me with about $3400. With this, I need to get a replacement laptop and desktop. I should be able to trade the above equipment for:

• A refurbished Quad-Xeon 2.Ghz Mac Pro and
• A refurbished 15.2-inch Core 2.2 Ghz MacBook Pro

And still have a few dollars left over for extra RAM. Or a cheap Dell for Accounting.

Okay. I feel much better that we’ve cleared the air on these things. I hope you do, too.

Love to all. Even you, ITS.

My 11-year-old is home from four weeks at camp. Thank God. This house just wasn’t right without him. And althought the Fighting-to-Peace ration among the children is surely going to skyrocket, that’s the proper state of things for Clan Championable.

And now, a question. I’ve been using HostGator for about a year. I switched to HostGator from DreamHost after experiencing mega-problems with DreamHost Email.

Three or four times now, my HostGator email has been blacklisted, because someone on the server (it’s a shared hosting account) was using the server for SPAM… so all 5000 domains on the server were put on the SpamCop RBL, since they all used the same IP.

Recently, there’s been some email downtime because of failed upgrades which the HostGator techteam apparently decided to do during the business week. THAT was a huge drag. If anyone tried to comment on this blog the last couple of days… you might have experienced a strange failure error: another example of recent problems.

So, I’m host shopping again. I need to host about 7 different domains. Four of which are updated a lot. After much research, I kept coming back to CartikaHosting.com.

Anybody know anything about ‘em? Anybody have a super-favorite small business website hosting firm they like more than HostGator, LunarPages, or Dreamhost? Should I just stay with Dreamhost? Hmmm.

Talk to me people. Collective knowledge, etc.

Love to all. Even you, the girl who shrieked in a chord.

That’s Windows XP (bye-bye, Vista) and Debian 4.0 running in concert with X.4.10. ROCK IT.

Love to all. Even you, the blogger who understandably quit blogging.

It just occured to me that I have a badass 2.4 GHz dual-core MacBook Pro, and I use Parallels to run Windows, that I should really set up a Linux distribution on my machine, too. So, right now, Debian 4 is installing. Man, computers have changed since I was a kid.

Later today: Introduction to the kittens, a response to the reponses to my little video, and video experiment #2.

Love to all. Even you, the delightful Irish lass rushing me to get out the door.

If anyone can invite rich at championable dot com to Grand Central, I’ll be eternally in your debt. I’ll also thank you publicly.

Love to all. Even you, the Massachusetts that couldn’t quite get over 40 on the FDR.

I’ve always named my computers after a Soviet surveillance aircraft called the MainStay. About two years ago, I stopped doing that, and started name my computers stupid shit like “Acceptance.”

Well, fuck that. I just got myself a brand new, 17-inch, 2.4Ghz dual-core MacBook Pro with 3GB of RAM, a 7200prm drive, a bad-ass graphics card and a hi-resolution, 1900×1200 screen. This fucker’s name is MainStay.

Love to all. Even you, the inexperienced lass who looked for a job for a week.