Yesterday I gained a new member of the family. Yes, a dear member of the family will be passing on, and I now have his shiny new replacement. In non-geek speak… I got a new computer.
In all fairness, the old laptop is now going to Tegan (my younger sister). and it was a loyal help for the past… oh at least five years. But the hard drive was small by modern standards, the display was painfully cramped when trying to do anything useful (Photoshop, anyone?), the CD drive was about shot… and the dumb thing would overheat unless I had it on a desk, propped up, with a fan blowing directly underneath. No wireless, nothing.
So now I have this shiny new laptop. Three times as much memory, twice as much screenular real estate, huge hard drive, and I’m over the moon. There’s only one setback… Windows Vista.
I’m a complete Mac fangirl and an XP loyalist, so I was expecting to loathe Vista right from the get-go. But you know what? It’s not so bad.
I mean, the “are you SURE you want to run this program??” gets kinda old fast. The sidebar is annoying and the folder structure takes some getting used to. I only opened IE7 long enough to get Firefox fast, but the five minutes I spent in there weren’t as bad as I thought it should have been. Things install quickly. Drivers are found automatically. You can change the background color in Solitaire. Everything is bright, friendly, and looks very polished and well-designed.
So yes, you heard it here, from a girl who swore she’d never switch from XP unless it was straight to OSX… Vista is not as bad as they say.
I really think it’s amazing how much you can tell about a person just by looking at the kind of music they listen to. You can peek into someone’s CD case or start flipping through their iPod and almost get a picture of the person, without ever meeting them. I mean, for the most part. When you find someone who’s listening to the latest hip-hop and rock, you probably won’t picture them as a sweet and innocent young girl, right? No, you’d expect to find Hannah Montana in her iPod.
I also think it’s weird how you can look at your own music and thing “hmm… that’s eclectic. What kind of person am I, anyway?”
Anyhow, all this to say, here’s the top ten most frequently played songs on my iPod. Think whatever you’d like.
- Blind - Lifehouse
- Breath - Breaking Benjamin
- Whispers in the Dark - Skillet
- Your Guardian Angel - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Viva la Vida - Coldplay
- 9 Crimes - Damien Rice
- Black Balloon - The Goo Goo Dolls
- Broken - Lifehouse
- Congratulations - Blue October ft. Imogen Heap
- Things I’ll Never Say - Avril Lavigne
What this says about me? No clue. It says I’ve got a short attention span when it comes to music. Anyhow, you should listen to each and every one of these songs, because they’re amazing in their own right. Go. Now.
Edit: I just realized there’s not an ounce of Relient K in that list. Tastes change, I guess?
… but Retrophobic.net is up and running again! Sparkly new theme (yeah, this one is one of my own designs), and kind of a different format. You’ll see what I mean if you stick around, right?
How like me, I know, to start something new and then abandon it. Nope, wasn’t abandoning this!
Some of you may know that I’ve been the administrator of the semi-official Camp Yeshua Forums for the past… oh, just under three years. As of late, I’ve been sharing it equally with my good friend James. A month or two ago, he called me up to tell me that CYF was starting to look kind of abandoned… buildings were falling down, trees were growing up, and the natives were running amok.
This somehow turned into not only a project to get CYF cleaned up, but to give it a clean slate and turn it into something bigger and better. Which we did, by birthing a new forum in its place. If any of you have been around long enough to remember Transitionalstate… it’s like that. We have such awesome plans for it, though, as this incredible community of Messianic believers from all over the world. In less than 48 hours of it being open, we gained 25 members and over 600 posts. It’s going to be very exciting!
But all that to say… now that it’s up and running smoothly, I may have a couple of minutes to work on this and my portfolio as well. I’m back into this Internet thing running!
And so without further ado, I can present Rejuvenated Generation, or ReGen for short.