Wasted Continuum

Gibson just came up with a guitar that can tune itself with a twist of a knob. It touts that it is true tuning not virtual or relative tuning like on the Fender VG Stratocaster. This is kind of exciting for me, but not really. It’s a cool feature, but are they going to charge you an arm and a leg for it. I can play without a leg, but not my arm. Good for Gibson though. I’m happy for them. Their digital guitar didn’t really take off. At least not yet.

This is my first 5K run since the 4th of this month. I didn’t know if I was up to it. Actually, I didn’t know if my hamstring was up to it. It was a little rough at first. After about 2 kilometers, my hamstring was tightening up already. I kept thinking I should stop, but it got better after I picked up my pace. By 4 kilometers, my lungs were stressing out. I pushed on and finished with my a new 5K time of 28′45″.

Moo Envelope by tropicalpenquin

Originally uploaded by JavaJunky

I got a lot of Moos in the mail last week. Thanks to everyone who swapped with me. I posted some photos of them on my Flickr.

Didn’t even know that Nike+ had an embed feature until today. Now I can be even lazier and not have to input my time when I post. I actually ran for two miles, took a five minute break and ran a slow mile to cool down. I’m not going to bother posting my second run. I did it in 8′32″.

I think I may have found a use for my old Xbox. Lifehacker just posted a nice tutorial on converting an old Xbox to a media center unit. Looks like fun.

Today, after work, I went to the local Apple store to see if they had the iPod Touch there. To my surprise, they actually had a few to demo. I think the supply that they had were sold out for the day. I decided to spend some time playing with it. I came to a few conclusions. The biggest surprise is how thin it is. It’s super thin and smaller than I thought. The music and movie functionality of it is amazing and fast. Flipping through your library has never been easier. The more I used it the crappier the click wheel feels. Safari was kind of slow though. It works really well, better than any other smart phone. I checked out my Flickr page on it and it looked great. I easily zoomed in on my pictures and they were still crisp and clear. The Flickr slideshow function didn’t work, but I really didn’t expect it to. It’s would be awesome to be able to get online on an iPod at hotspots. After I played with the Touch, I checked out the new nano and classic. I have to say that CoverFlow sucks butt on them. It’s slow and stuttery. The classic is also a lot thicker than the Touch. It’s still thinner than my iRiver though. I can see why Apple decided to go with flash memory on the Touch. It’s runs faster than the classic and the nano. Still, 16GB is so restrictive.