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So a few days ago, or more... I am not sure, a friend Emily had become a fan of this band on Facebook. They're a local band as I saw and because the info pic looked intriguing and they had a couple of songs to listen to for free on Facebook, I decided to give them a spin. Lo-and-behold I found what is probably the best band I have heard these past few months. Probably the best band I have heard since I came across Tally Hall. ( which is definitely saying something ) Regardless, they are very very good. I ended up wandering to their myspace page to where I found 2 tracks for free download, and about 10 for listening to over and over in the flash player. I would definitely buy their debut album available on iTunes if I had the cash to do so. And I am definitely ( boy I have used that word an awful lot in this post so far, haven't I? ) going to try to go to LocalPalooza this Saturday, so that will be good. Oh, in my rush to let everyone know ( everyone that doesn't follow my twitter that is! ) about them, I forgot links! http://www.myspace.com/twentyonepilots for the myspace page, and http://www.facebook.com/pages/twenty-one-pilots/98049191147 for the Facebook. If you are curious beforehand as to their 'sound', think about something like Modest Mouse, The Killers, and Death Cab For Cutie all mashed together, but a lot better than the sum of it's parts. 

Anyway, what else is there... oh, right. So I started to help with my mom's newspaper route. I mean, it pays the cell phone bill, which is a plus. It's exercise which is also a plus, and I basically walk around with a duffel bag full of already bagged papers with my dad and throw them at people's doorsteps. And no I do not land them on rooftops or bushes... or at least I don't AIM there. But like I said, it wasn't bad, and exercise is aaalways good.

Hmm, I hung out with Tony and Luke this week too. Separate days mind you, but still. Me and tony had hamburgers from Steak 'n Shake up by Polaris, which they painted the inside of RED! Can you believe that? I mean, it's just... weird, makes it a lot harder to see out the windows from some angles too. And that one cute blond waitress still works there, not saying anything, just that she's cute and always nice. Though she sat us, she did have to leave. Not that our waitress was bad anyway. Me and Luke swung by Chipotle on one of the coldest days we have had here, great to warm oneself up. And I always forget how much fun it is to just talk with him, he is a great guy to just sit around and talk to without purpose or reason. Ended up discussing movies to a great length, and he even lent me The Dark Knight so I could see it for the first time on a non-cam rip!

Aside from that the week has been pretty boring, not too eventful. OH! I almost forgot! Two awesome things, well, one awesome thing and one funny thing. The funny thing first, while I was texting my friend last night as I was going to bed, I failed at multitasking and ran into my door kinda before opening it. And now the loudspeaker doesn't work, which just means I can't hear phonecalls or use speakerphone. But it was funny to me, idk. 

But the awesome thing, yes, that. I got my package in from The DeLorean Motor Company this morning! I was sooo happy to see it too! I mean, I was excited I was one of the 3 winners in the contest regardless, but then I get all sorts of cool DMC Schwag! In this case I got a DMC branded MP3 Player + Wireless FM Transmitter. It's an mp3 player that plugs into the cigarette lighter of your car, takes an SD card or USB flashdrive, and plays over the FM frequency you select, did I mention it came with a remote control? I also got a nice white t-shit that says "Stainless Since 1981" on the breast with a pic of the front of a DMC-12 doors open, and the back says "Living The Dream" with a 3/4th pic of the DMC-12 with the drivers door open. Ontop of those awesome items I got the aftermarket stainless steel hood badge you can get that says "DeLorean" in stylized letters. And a 1981 DeLorean brochure, HUGE brochure should I say, with a bunch of cool pictures and specs on the car. And ONTOP OF THAT ( lol ) I got an issue of DeLoreans magazine! ( which I hope is a subscription! )

I think that pretty much covers it, hope you didn't feel like you wasted time reading this ( so I don't feel like I wasted time writing it ) 

Secondly, and this is the big news for me. BumpTop for Mac was released to beta a couple of days ago! For those of you that have been following this, it's been aaaabout a year to a year and a half waiting for this software to come out. And believe me when I say that it is worth it, especially since if you have a beta code, it's free!

Now, for those wondering "What is BumpTop for Mac anyway? What's the big deal?" BumpTop for Mac is the official port of the BumpTop desktop environment, a 3D desktop that applies a new methodology to your usual boring desktop. All the icons are governed by real physics, the larger icons obviously have more power over the smaller ones. And you can even sort and stack the icons like you would real documents. I can make a stack of pictures, and drag them to a folder, or fan through them, or pull one out and stick it somewhere else. You can pin icons to the 'walls' including a hidden one behind the normal camera. Speaking of the camera, the traditional view of the BumpTop desktop is present here, the camera is seen as if you were looking into a box from right above one of the sides. The beauty here though, is that BumpTop can act like 6 desktops in 1. If you double click on the floor, you can have the flat floor. Double click on the walls and you float down to get a flat on view of that wall, keep double clicking on other walls to pan to those. Essentially giving you massive control over where your icons are, which ones are visible, and how they are sorted. All at the click of a mouse.

Unfortunately, with every good, there is some bad. BumpTop for Mac is still beta software so it is missing a lot of the features I liked about it's Windows counterpart. These features are really just the skins it has, and the widget type things you can get for it. It also doesn't yet support multiple monitors, if it ever will actually, but that may be a limitation of OS X and not so much BumpTop. I wish I could say more bad about this, but I can't!

Oh, and a few last things for anyone considering this software, IT DOES SUPPORT PPC PROCESSORS as well as Intel. Yes, you heard right, UNIVERSAL BINARY here. I had to emphasize this because it was indeed a shock to me, and I hope they continue support of the PPC platform. Secondly, if nothing else, it lets you play god over your icons ( to be blunt anyway ) and it's just a fun piece of software that has a very minimal CPU GPU or RAM footprint. 

The Good

• 3D Desktop on your PPC/Intel Mac
• Works just like the Windows version, sans a few features.
• Light footprint overall, so it won't impede on your system.
• Free version and upgradable to a Pro version.

The Bad

• Missing a few features from the Windows version.
• Still not 100% stable, so your mileage may vary.
• Pro version is a little pricey.
• Icon physics isn't perfect, and where is my trash can?

The Ugly

• Some of my icons are not built to be scaled... buh.

To find out more, click the link! http://bumptop.com/mac/index.html

"So" you say, "what other options do you have?" To which I reply "plenty!" Most recently I have been using the oh so painfully obvious choice of Safari. But I had been noticing it has a cache the size of Guatemala, and tends to cause the beach ball of death often. Getting rightfully fed up this morning I decided that I am going to go back to continuing my search. I had hoped to re-create my browsing experiences with Chrome on XP using a browser on OS X. Well let me tell you, the two options I found are two of the best browsers I have used on OS X in a long time.

First there is Sunrise, a longtime alternative browser for me, it is on the quicker side and supports some nifty features, though some more... useless looking than others. It's still in it's infancy if you ask me, containing many bugs that don't effect browsing TOO badly, but effect it nonetheless. There isn't a whole lot to say on Sunrise to be honest, it's UI is admirable though,  if not a little odd in places. I like the downloading, bookmark, and history sidebars. But it has some issues with windows ending ABOVE the tabs bar. And a few errors with URL handling, also all tabs open in front of the current tab, which is undesirable. 

More recently I decided to then download the update to Stainless, a very Chrome-esque browser. While it's still version 0.7.5 it happens to be quite ahead in some respects. Initially upon starting up the browser, freshly updated, I poked the settings some. Gladly it still had the single process per tab, which while a good feature has as many disadvantages as it does benefits. At least, from what I can perceive. See, with each tab as a separate process, the overall processor usage is surprisingly less, but I would imagine RAM usage does go up. I did notice that tab responsiveness when loading is slow, but if the tab is already loaded switching is very fast. While on the topic of tabs I would like to be able to open as many as I want in one window. It seems after a specific amount it opens the new tab in a new window. Perhaps I should bullet-point this...

• Tabs: being able to rearrange them is a blessing, as well as the tabs ABOVE the address bar. I would like a little more rounding to the overall shape, and maybe integrate them with the main-window bar as well. Though I don't quite know how easily you would handle the X - and + buttons.
• Downloads: I would like the download box to actually open the files as opposed to opening the finder showing the file. And it'd also be nice if it could be optional to be opened as a tab instead of a window. 
• Extra features: things like Flashblock would be nice, if nothing else than because a lot of pages have those pesky flash ads now. Also a standard browsing feature is the ability to set the default browser in the preferences menu.
• Interesting quirks: Sometimes when a new tab opens from an external program, the main window disappears before the tab opens, and reappears after it opens.
• Notable other features: there are a lot of really nice GUI features, the circular loading discs, and the overall dropdown look of the address bar. 

All in all, this is definitely a browser that I am going to keep using from here on in. With the progress I have seen, I can only hope it keeps getting better. Also, so what if this little review thinger came out all awkwardly. But it is what it is :)

One of the things that has been bugging me a lot lately are these groups on Facebook that are for the general consensus of "we will not pay [x amount of dollars] for facebook after [random date here]" not only have these groups been on Facebook ever since the site introduced groups, but the date is always changing and is the dollar amount, and there is no factual information from them. And to top it off, they spread like wildfire! Not to be insulting to anyone, but come on! Has NOBODY been paying attention to the face that Facebook has been making money all on it's own just fine? That the developers KNOW that charging for use is a stupid idea. That in reality the effort it would take to implement a paid system might outweigh the system-costs itself? But I digress, there are always other things..

For instance, general ignorance as a whole, annoys the hell out of me. If you are AT A COMPUTER and ONLINE talking in a chatroom, why are you going to ask a VERY SIMPLE question, I mean I can understand if it's something you know someone in there knows, or a more of an opinionated fact or even something really specific and you looked around. But if it's something incredibly simple and you ask online... there are just no words. Hell, there's no reason you can't use the search box on most if not all modern browsers! GOOGLE and WIKIPEDIA are 2 of the greatest tools for knowledge ever devised!

Oh and then we get to the worst ones of all, and I do mean no offense to people with this, it just really bugs me. If you are on a computer or have access to a 26+key keyboard, why are you not using all of them? "you" may sound phonetically similar to "u" but it is not! Same for "through" becoming "thru" "too" and "to" becoming 2, and other ridiculous crap like that. I can understand things that are popularly using sayings like "lol" "gtg" "brb" "rofl" "idk" "iirc" "idkfa".. ok that last one was for the laughs, but still! It takes me almost twice as long to read an improperly constructed sentence with half-assed words. I will forgive the lack of capitalization and punctuation however, because for the most part people's texts aren't long enough to need them, which reminds me..

Why are you sending me texts that are only one or two letters? That's nonsense! If you have 140/160 characters to play with, get creative! Write a haiku at the end, draw some ASCII art, tell a mini story, give me a random fact, if you are gonna make the cell phone companies work, make them worth your time! It's more often annoying to get a text with 1 or 2 letters or words, than to not get a text at all, and what is with the shit of sending me one small text, then 2 or 3 other small ones before I can respond? That doesn't fly folks, not at all.

Sooner or later I can compile a list of things that strike my fancy really, I just needed to vent. In other news, I uploaded 10 pics of my 17+h project of papercraft, have a look, comment, etc. Same goes for the blog here, comment, appreciate, converse!

This isn't wordpress! What is this? Google... sites? Untitled post? Where am I? What am I doing here? Okok, calm down... let's figure this out. So, the wordpress version is gone, and now there is this... hm, a good bit more content though I see. That is good I guess. Oh, would you look at that, seems to be a "twitter" feed there, nifty that... oh, and a "facebook" badge over there! I wonder what a facebook is... maybe it's like a photo album... Right, where was I again... Oh! Right right!