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Afternoon Awwwww… Lion HuggingYesterday

Basketball sent this one in and it’s almost like a new extreme sport. Y’hear? I mean, it’s just one of those things where the first couple times that happened maybe a little pee must have come out, no? Just a drop. Because those paws are big and I scream like a baby when my 5 pound cat accidently digs into my leg with her claws…

Syncing everything on my MacsYesterday

So recently I was looking for a replacement for my aging (yet still awesome) Fujitsu P1120 laptop I use for traveling. Lo and behold, MacMall began offering the MacBook air for $1149, after a couple days of hemming and then another day of hawing, I called up my boy at MacMall and he hooked me up with a sweet deal and the very next day I had it in my clutches.

It turns out, sort of like when I switched to the iPhone from my Treo, switching to the Airbook from my Fujitsu has made me use the laptop a lot more than I used to (and I never, ever used the plain old PowerBook it is also replacing). It’s so light, but with a full 13″ screen and a full sized keyboard, it’s simply much more pleasant to use for regular tasks - so it sees a lot more on time in the living room which will be its general resting place. As a device that would see some actual use in life I decided I wanted to make this thing right with my desktop iMac, I didn’t want to have all sorts of different stuff on both, so I set out on a journey to synchronize as much as possible.

So the first thing I did was installed DropBox. While I had this on my iMac for awhile, I’ve never actually used it save once early on. But now I wanted to set up an area where it

My thoughts on Nokia’s N97 superphoneDecember 2

Ok, so just like most mortals I haven’t seen this phone, but I’ve looked at the torrent of reviews and other people’s thoughts and had some of my own. So here they are. First up, Scoble loves the hell out of this phone, says that it is hands down better than the iPhone. WSJ, at least in the free bits, is more clinical in its evaluation. Gizmodo was ok with it, too.

Now it’s true it’s got video which the iPhone doesn’t have and a 5 megapixel camera which doesn’t suck (unlike the iPhone’s 2mp, which kinda does, although in more reasonable conditions it pulls out an ok shot). If that’s your priority, well then, the N97’s your phone. But moving on.

First up, it’s 30% thicker than the iPhone. This thing looks chunky, see for yourself. To become a mainstream device - and make no mistake, smartphones need to be mainstream now to compete - getting the developers to build the apps to create lockin and mindshare around your phone means market and mindshare is a must. I don’t think most of the mainstream world wants chunky phones - this includes you G1. Early sales are good, but long term? I have strong doubts.

Breakfast Links: Military Design Rights, Honeycrisp & CapricaDecember 2

This one is wierd, I think you will admit. It seems that Finland has copyrighted their M/05 camouflage pattern (based on digital photos of Finnish forests, dontchaknow). (via) This is a wierd enough idea, but oh, it gets more interesting. In the aftermath of the invasion of Georgia by Russia, the Finns are hard at work investigating… whether or not the Russians were sporting M/05 uniforms. What? Yup. The Russians, of course, are all, “What the hell are you talking about? Go away.” and the Finns are all like, “Yeah, we were just kidding. Sort of. But really, is that M/05? Hahha, kidding. Sort of….”

This is pretty wierd too, in a you never really think about this sort of way. So, Honeycrisp apples seem to be the new red delicious in the apple world. (via) But it was a long time coming and who knew there was a whole apple breeding program and branding and what not? It’s like a whole apple sub-culture out there. I just found out about them when I went apple picking this season, some lady in line ahead of me was all a little

Afternoon Awwwww… Kitty and a FaucetDecember 1

Ok, this is the third time back to the well, but this cat is some kinda kitty movie prodigy. Man, I mean… why does he keep sticking his head in there? Cats hate water! Is he looking at the water when it hits the bowl? Or does he just like getting wet? I love around :45 in when you see him resisting…. resisiting… can’t take it anymore!