Farsong Blog-o-Matic - March 3rd, 2008

To get for desktop in the next 6 months:

1) External FireWire (IEEE 1394) storage, 1⁄2 Tb or greater.
2) 4 Gb RAM (4x1Gb DIMM); maxing out system
3) 10.5 Leopard (Family volume license)
4) 6x11" Wacom Intuos tablet

5) Second laptop, which doesn't sound like a jet engine, for Linux and computer science


In the next 2-4 Years:

1) 64-128 Gb SSD for Laptop
2) Multi-core, multi-processor Xenon PowerMac MacPro (A simple drop-in where the G5 is now)
3) More SATA HDDs to setup G5 as highly-capable, quiet server
4) iPhone with 128 Gb Flashmemory*
5) AirPort Hub, with Gigabit Ethernet
6) Smaller, lighter laptop with SSD (eeePC? 12" MacBook Air? — laptops are and always will be secondary computers in most cases)

Naturally, this new hardware also requires that I have a job to pay for it, too. I'm working on that.


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*Five years ago, in 2003, the 30 Gb iPod cost the same as the 32Gb iPod Touch does to-day. It's speculation, but with the increasing capacities and the decreasing prices for SSDs and Flash memory, I'm expecting the capacities to rival the size of to-day's HDDs in a couple years, by the time I'm in the market for a new phone to replace my BlackBerry. Hopefully, by that time, the iPhone will no longer be locked to a cingular network. Yes, that was also a terrible pun.

A cool monologue about the new year and its coming dreams from the creator of Lilo and Stitch, among other things:

(click the thumbnail to embiggen)

Beautiful lines. I'd also say that it's a beautifully-lettered comic, too; a good example of hand-lettering. Seriously, I reduced it to a 250px thumbnail, and the letters are still somewhat readable!

Missing punctuation
Originally uploaded by rogue cnidarian

Can you spot the missing mark?

Part in a continuing series on signage and typography.</div>