Andy Laub

Andy Laub is a designer & developer in the Twin Cities.

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So I was able to see the majority of the Apple Keynote from MacWorld via webcast. I was really excited about this initially for all the effort it took me to make it work it really wasn’t worth it in the end. Many on SpyMac agreed that it was one of the worst keynotes ever. There just wasn’t anything good. Sure, GarageBand is cool and something I may potentially use, and the iPod mini (not worth linking to) is OK, but it is cheap air max trainers really expensive. The real disappointment was the complete lack of “wow”. There were no updates to any of the PC’s, laptop or desktop, and the much-anticipated monitor updates were also nowhere to be found. That said, I went ahead and ordered my Powerbook! The only add-ons I got were the Airport Extreme card and the 80 Gb hard disk in lieu of the standard 40. Naturally, I am pretty excited and counting down the days until it gets here. I sprung for the 2-day air because, when you’re paying $100 for sales tax, $15 just isn’t that much more. I am only a little miffed that I won’t be getting iLife ’04 with it, but I can get it later for $20 so that’s not bad. I am this close to being an Apple owner and that’s awesome. I also bought some RAM so she’ll run nice and smooth. If all goes as it should I will be typing this on an Apple by next Friday. More excitement: I figured it couldn’t hurt to pick up an N64 so we can play Mario Kart. I also managed to qualify myself (by spending more money) for the Zelda Bonus Disc that’s currently shipping with the GameCubes, so that will be fun too. I now officially have enough video games for the rest of my life, or at least until Gran Turismo 4 comes out.

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I am the biggest slacker ever, perhaps. Not really though. I have a real job and that counts for something. I’m sure there have been a lot of things that have gone on recently. I picked up a coupla GC games (Legend of Zelda, Wario World, Star Fox Adventures) for fairly reasonable prices. I like the first two; I have yet to play the third one. It also occurs to me that Abe hasn’t written anything for like, a year so maybe I can convince him to do so. Right now he’s working on more edumacations from Phoenix online. I think it’s effective albeit boring. Hey, we saw Urinetown this past weekend and I think it would have to be the best musical I’ve ever seen, ever. It was great. I would definitely see it again. Also, I found this Danger Mouse guy in a Spin magazine, and was rather enthused. Although I have yet to listen to his music, I really like his costume.