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Watched some YouTube clips at Brian’s place today after dinner. Out of all the videos we saw, I liked these two the best. I cracked up for a while from the first one.

God bless the Swedes and especially Swedish Fish.

I am Not a Subgroup from Danny Kim on Vimeo.

Had Little Bean with the fellas. On a hot day, shaved ice always hits the spot.

Mom trying to fix an old flashlight. I told her a week ago that we needed to buy new flashlights but she didn’t listen. She never listens. Luckily I had my propane lamp handy. Prepared my first Bible study lesson by lamp light. Just like the old days.

Now it’s time for sleep. I hate you Snow Leopard.

Ok, the last post was a bit of a joke. I’m going to share a few initial thoughts about Snow Leopard now that I finally have it installed.

“If you build it, they will come.”
Apple made a Microsoft like move and basically released a service pack for Leopard. Snow Leopard isn’t super crazy. Actually, it’s been more of a headache than enjoyment these past few hours. Honestly, you don’t need to jump the gun with this OS update. It’s not revolutionary to common folk like you and me. But like all other Apple products, the moment something is released, it becomes the new hot thing. Don’t get your hopes up.

Incompatibility but mostly compatible
Because Snow Leopard was newly coded, some of your old apps might not be compatible. I’ve already run into issues with my mouse (Logitech MX Revolution) and an FTP app that I use (Cyberduck). Luckily, Cyberduck issued an update today that is compatible with Snow Leopard. Logitech on the other hand hasn’t, which is surprising, seeing as Cyberduck is a one man show and Logitech is a huge corporation. However, I was able to find a quick “cheat” online that allowed me to reprogram my mouse so I could use most of the buttons. Definitely a backwards step.

On the bright side, the rest of the apps I use work. No issues with Photoshop or Bridge yet.

Bad things happen to good people, but Apple has your back
Apple promised more reliable installation with Snow Leopard. They didn’t lie. The power went out in our neighborhood TWICE while I was installing Snow Leopard. My iMac decided to shutdown TWICE while installing Snow Leopard. That’s FOUR times the installation was unexpectedly interrupted. Well, after a few more tries, Snow Leopard was able to install completely through. I didn’t lose anything important on my computer (remember to BACK UP!), so kudos to Apple.

Less is more
I should take a cue from my own title (this post is getting long), but Apple also promised that Snow Leopard would take up to 7GB of less space as an OS. Installing Snow Leopard freed up around 5-6GB for me. Not bad.

Leopards run faster in the Snow
It’s amazing how simply recoding an operating system can bring about hardware performance gains. Finder and Preview are definitely faster and noticeably so. Other apps however seem to run at the same speed. Apple also promised quicker shutdown and reboot times. It’s noticeable, but the difference isn’t night and day. Waking up from sleep seems to be about the same, if not a tiny bit slower.

Premature conclusion
Overall, I think my lack of enthusiasm for Snow Leopard stems from the nightmare installation process. Twice it wasn’t Apple’s fault. They can’t control power outages. But the other two times, they refused to fix my iMac, and for that, I hate them.

The bottom line is this: Snow Leopard is big. It’s a big update. But will people like you and me who browse the internet and edit a few pictures here and there benefit tremendously from it?

Not yet.

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Was looking through some old pictures and stumbled upon this one. I’m not sure why, but I really like this one. It’s actually inverted horizontally, but it only works this way.

I miss my large format camera. Oh, I miss the people in the pictures too. Not so much Josh. He owes me money. Hahahaha!