OK so I use both. I have PC for my servers, Mac for the laptop I am typing this on. At work It is all PC. Either way I like both for different reasons. Anyway I find most of the mac and pc/windows commercials amusing, but what I enjoy the most is watching Microsoft try to point out faults in Mac laptops while touting their own. So here I am watching The Simpsons when this commercial comes on.

So this lady is trying to find a laptop for $2k that can “cut video”. Fair enough. So around 21 seconds she gets to the Macbook…something I use to edit video daily. She looks right at this sweet new unibody Macbook then at the camera and she says “For under two grand this is the best apple and it only has 2 gigs of RAM.” Then she shrugs.

The shrug indicates that she has no idea that in this day and age RAM is typically one of the least expensive and easiest to upgrade laptop components. In this case you can purchase 4GB of RAM for a Macbook for between $50 and $75. From the looks of it this lady is at Fry’s. I love that place, however if you want to ask a sales rep a question…like how much a RAM upgrade for a Macbook is, well get in line. But wait there was a rep with her…I wonder, why didn’t he speak up about the low price of RAM and the convenience of editing video on a Mac?

So yeah the best Microsoft can do to dissuade people from buying macs is to prey on the people who are too naive to know any better.

And you know at the end when they smile and say “I’m a PC”…They are not excited smiling fools over their new PC laptop, they are ecstatic because they just got a free laptop from Microsoft.

Oh The Simpsons episode that happens to be on tonight is the Mapple episode. haha.

My name is Joseph Reilly. I am a 24-year-old white male from an upper-class family. I have attended the finest schools and graduated from a prestigious university. I have also just been sentenced to 6-23 months for DUI Aggravated Assault. Now, I am property of the Philadelphia Prison System.

What follows is complete truth, as it happens, transcribed at the time of occurrence…..

I have been reading this blog for the last two weeks. It is a raw look at the inside of the philadelphia prison system from the perspective of young privileged white man with a bit of a drinking problem. Joseph tells his story by writing letters from prison which are transcribed in one entry per day. In the first few days alone Joseph sees a mans skull crushed in a holding cell, a man stabbed repeatedly in the face and a number of other disturbing occurrences.

He is only on day 13 of what may be a 600+ day sentence, here is hoping Joseph gets out unscathed, in great shape, cleaner and healthier.

Check it out: http://prisonkite.blogspot.com/

I found this a bit earlier and thought it was pretty cool. It can read your SD on one side and microSD on the other. So if you use both, you are getting two readers you can use at the same time for the price of one.

A nice compact package, and it is cheap too at $12.99.

I told her all I need is about $40K and the rest is hers to keep. I am not sure how much you would actually get for a kidney on the black market, my search of the internets didn’t really provide me with a sold answer. What for? Well you see the pictures, so yeah.  The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS.

Sure I know this is not a new story or anything, but I finally got a second to check some videos out online. …and now I really want one. Well take a look.

Be sure to check out the skidpad test towards the end. That looks like fun.

Here is hoping GM stays around long enough for me to get my hands on one.

So I was just reading this article about a girl who ran into traffic to grab her dropped iPod.

Tampa police said the 16-year-old was crossing the street Tuesday morning when she dropped the electronic device. She went back to grab it off the roadway, and that’s when she was hit by the truck. (WESH Orlando)

I gotta hand it to this girl for retrieving her iPod and not getting dead. Sure a broken leg sucks, but so does going back to using CD’s. She obviously remembered how much she hated the sound of a CD skipping and went for broke! I would call her stupid, but I have done worse myself.

A few years ago I had a car burst into flames while I was driving it in San Diego. Pesky gasoline leak. I got out safely as the car started to melt around me only to realize my favorite shirt and my iPod were still in the car. So I shoved the cop doing crowd control to the side and made a run for the vehicle with the 10 foot flames coming out from under the hood. Not my brightest moment, but living without my 1st gen iPod would have been the real tragedy that day.

Just thinking of the old days…

I guess once a derelict, always a derelict.

Enjoy this pic of my old front yard…

I used to not like it so much, but this was a pretty great weekend. Great food, great weather, an original speakeasy complete with secret door, even the people were nice.

I think I am still drunk.

That may have something to do with the 5 hour marathon all you can drink brunch I attended…

On a final note, I woke up this morning a little hungover but with some time on my hands so I fixed that issue with the comments not working…for like 6 months.

Thanks to Kyle for pointing that out. dik.

I’m going to bed. I leave you with one of the many puzzling sights of NYC.

This week I am in a class for advanced interviewing and interrogation. Quite interesting. We are seeing many video examples of real interrogations. The reaction these people have to being told they are quite obviously guilty is priceless!

Guilty of things like grand theft, murder, rape, child abuse…

What is their reactions when being told point blank “our inestigation shows clearly that you did this”?

“It does?!” “I did?!”

The phony-ness of the surprise demonstrated by nearly most guilty people is staggering! As well as that as a rule they also shift their weight, look away, smirk, and try to cover that smirk.

It just can’t be controlled, if you are lying or omitting facts it will show!

This is by far one of the most interesting classes I have ever taken. Not only is this helpful for my work, but in the real world too! Just observing people this week I have seen them demonstrating many of the same ‘tells’ in everyday conversation. Things like breaking gaze to the right indicating editing or fabrication of what they are saying.

When that guy told me that was the lowest he could go on that car, was it?

Next time you ask someone a serious question see if they look you in the eye, or break right.

Searching “Reid” on amazon will show you some books on this topic. Here is one we are using.

I never thought I would make it to 30, but it looks inevitable being that my birthday is next month. So anyway, what do you do at big milestones in your life? Re-assess everything, take stock and see what you have yet to accomplish I suppose.

I have lived all over the place, had all sorts of jobs, I have been to lots of cool countries. You know what I never did? I never beat Super Mario Brothers 3. It might not seem like a big deal, but it has bothered me for years. Decades actually.

So a few weeks ago I bought me a Super Nintendo on Craigslist, and I started my quest. It quickly became obvious that the years had not been good to my hand-eye coordination. I was certainly not the same Mario player I was back in 1990…when I was 11.

After a few weeks of intense practice I am back in action and kicking some koopa ass. I have made it all the way to world 7, and even to the second Fortress after 7-9.

Anyway wish me luck…I only need to beat world 8 and I will have accomplished my goal! Sure many people might think this is not a worthy goal for a 30 year old. But you guys can go to hell, let’s see you try and beat this shit. It’s hard!

While I was searching for some SMB3 graphics for this I came across this fun fact!

When you see a birds-eye view of all of the mazes from Zelda put together, they actually spell Zelda!

Freakin’ Cool.

These days that is pretty much true. Anyway, I think she was asking for it. Check it out @ FOXNews below.

Man Kills Wife for Changing Facebook Status to ‘Single’

Oh good, FoxNews pointed out another similar case.

She was asking for it too, I don’t think the cocaine and booze had anything to do with it.