Nik Ambrosch

macbook pro en route.

2006-10-26T04:28:06Z

i skipped the first generation of macbook pros for a number of reasons, but the second generation looks promising. i ordered mine just now. i always need an extra power adapter kicking around.. so i have to buy one of the new ones, hence the extra 71 bucks.

Apple 85W MagSafe Power Adapter (for MacBook Pro)
* Part Number: MA357LL/A
* Estimated ship: Within 24 hours
* Delivered within 2-3 business days after shipping
* 1 $71.00

MacBook Pro, 15-inch, 2.33GHz
* Part Number: MA610LL/A
* Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
* Accessory Kit
* 2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
* MacBook Pro 15-inch Widescreen Display
* 120GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
* 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* SuperDrive 6x (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* Estimated ship: 1-3 business days
* Delivered within 2-3 business days after shipping
* 1 $2,299.00

AppleCare Protection Plan for MacBook Pro/PowerBook (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll
* Part Number: S2514Z/A
* Estimated ship: Within 24 hours
* Delivered within 2-3 business days after shipping
* 1 $239.00

Order Subtotal: $2,609.00
Shipping Charge: $18.00
Estimated Tax*: $220.02
Estimated Total: $2,847.02

GWAR

2006-10-21T16:12:08Z

BEYOND HELL
GWAR
16+/NO RESALE OF TICKETS
IRVING PLAZA
17 IRVING PLACE/NYC
THU DEC 14,'06 7:30PM DRS

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00003D52B3679E33

WHO'S WITH ME?!

dragonforce tickets

2006-09-28T21:16:34Z

kevin bailed and i have two extra tickets to dragonforce in nyc for friday. any takers?

rochester

2006-09-01T17:52:26Z

i'm in rochester this weekend - if you don't know how to get ahold of me, leave me a comment. most of sunday is free but friday night and saturday might be doable depending on how things shape up.

my wow profile

2006-08-29T04:32:18Z

http://wow.allakhazam.com/profile.html?1744450

this is what i've done with the last few months of my life.

snakes

2006-08-08T17:07:44Z

http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/

aahahahah

dragonforce in nyc

2006-08-04T16:19:26Z

dragonforce in nyc 09/29 - who's going with me.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00003D0192F77B57
http://dragonforce.com/main.html

that's right, you are.

immortal - call of the wintermoon

2006-07-08T16:54:50Z

black metal videos are great. what's even greater is black metal fan videos. be sure to watch both videos all the way through.

first watch this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2297086629158835239

then watch this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4638347788749102407

virtuedesktops & osx

2006-06-29T05:17:24Z

this is mostly for osx users.

i'm a big virtual desktop user. i know a lot of people who do a ton of things at once have gone from using virtual desktops to using apple's exposé function.. but i'm just not a huge fan. it's nice and all, but for the same reason that i don't like to have windows overlapping eachother, i don't like to have windows cluttered enough where exposé would be handy for me. virtual desktops save the day for me.

up until now i've used desktop manager (http://desktopmanager.berlios.de) which is no longer developed, but apparently there's a new project based on desktop manager called virtuedesktops (http://virtuedesktops.info) and it's GREAT. one of the biggest things that annoyed me about desktop manager is when you switch the focus with apple+tab to another application, and that application was on another desktop.. your desktop would not be automatically switched. that's been fixed. there's also a neat pager that cam be brought up with a hotkey. virtuedesktops works with parallels (x86 macs only, obviously) so you can make one desktop a full-screen windows machine and another desktop a full-screen linux machine.. you get the idea. they have a little video of it in action on their site.

anyway, long story short, download virtuedesktops, tweak it to your liking (it took about 20 minutes of hotkey and preference tweaking plus one restart of the application to get everything working properly) and do a little dance - it really made my day by patching all the little annoyances with desktop manager. i'll probably donate 50 bucks to the project after i've used the software for a few months.

in other news, i have an intel mac mini being shipped to work to replace my desktop. at first glance it would seem underpowered for someone like me, but all my heavy computing is done on remote machines. right now i have 2 20" monitors, but i'm trading them in for 1 24" widescreen monitor which will run at 1920x1200 - osx plus virtuedesktops would provide spectacular window management on a monitor of half that size, so i think i'm pretty well off. i'm really happy that my boss is opening up and allowing the unix admins to purchase apple hardware to replace the dells so i can run the operating system that i'm most comfortable with.

friday night agenda

2006-06-28T13:03:25Z

here's the events for friday night. michelle and company seem to have bailed on me for TOTH since she has to pick up people from the airport, however anyone's welcome to join us (that includes you, kevin, mauvis, mark, and all other nyc dwellers on my friends list). both of these are birthday celebrations, however everyone is invited.

6pm - brooklyn brewery - me, michelle, kristen, etc.

http://www.brooklynbrewery.com

11pm - TOTH (turntables on the hudson) @ the frying pan - me, mike, kyle, erin, etc.

http://www.turntablesonthehudson.com/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=59979893

world of warcraft invites

2006-06-15T13:30:01Z

so i have 5 10-day free passes, if anyone wants to try out world of warcraft. here's how it works.

* you get a copy of the game from someone you know, bittorrent, me.. doesn't matter
* you give me your email address
* i invite you
* you get 10 days for free to try it out

if you choose to continue and sign up for a full subscription, i get 30 days for free, and i'll probably paypal you 5 bucks or something since it saves me money. when signing up you should choose the realm that i play on (frostmourne).

the new expansion will be coming out this fall with tons of new content, so now's a great time to start a character, get some gold, become familiar with the world, etc.

you know you want to.

ozzfest

2006-05-19T16:49:59Z

http://www.ozzfest.com/bands.html

anyone else want to go? a friend of mine and his girlfriend are going but i only like a few bands that are playing. i'll go if there's other people who want to go. july 29th, nyc.

amen

2006-05-11T02:40:00Z

watch this movie.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0280653/

radiohead

2006-05-02T15:13:55Z

radiohead is playing in nyc june 13th & 14th, and thanks to michelle stalking the ticket sales, i have tickets to see them both nights.

tool

2006-04-29T00:05:59Z

well this is a nice surprise.

i just got two tickets to see tool on saturday, may 20th at city center in the mail.

i spent all morning last saturday calling and trying to use their non-working website to get these tickets but i never received a confirmation and never checked to see if my credit card was charged.

wow, that's awesome.

wacken open air

2006-04-23T19:18:05Z

who's going with me?

http://www.wacken.com/en/woa2006/main-bands/billing-2006/

i need more metal friends. especially in nyc. nobody ever wants to go to shows with me.

the it crowd

2006-03-06T00:20:51Z

i know there's no such thing as a "good british sitcom" but i found one.. "the it crowd." i strongly reccomend you go take a look. as of the writing of this there are 6 episodes.

http://ts.searching.com/search.asp?query=the+it+crowd
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/I/itcrowd/

horse!

2006-03-05T18:25:17Z

it took me a real long time, but i finally got a horse in world of warcraft. i bought mine too.. none of that pansy free warlock crap!

les savy fav

2006-02-22T05:05:00Z

les savy fav is playing at warsaw on 03/10 - who's going with me?

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00003C46E099EFBB?artistid=837441&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60

if you've never heard of them, GO GET THEIR ALBUM NOW.

snoooooooooow

2006-02-13T01:20:03Z

here's some pictures of the snow we just got in nyc:

http://gallery.habitforming.net/album190

burning crusade video

2006-02-08T05:09:13Z

click it. you know you want to. this is going to be incredibly exciting for those of you who play world of warcraft and happen to remember plots for warcraft 2 and 3. i know i do.

http://www.apple.com/games/trailers/worldofwarcraft/burningcrusade/

slvr l7

2006-01-31T15:04:15Z

i bought a slvr l7 this morning! an american one! it's literally half the thickness of my erricsson t637 and very sexy. it comes with itunes and a 512mb transflash card.. it's teeny tiny.

more on this when i get home tonight.

gillette fusion power

2006-01-30T13:20:59Z

i don't consider myself a sucker, however i was suckered into buying a gillette fusion power razor because of the 5 blades and vibrating handle. i read good things about it so when i was walking around with michelle after shopping on saturday (waiting for the matador to start) we stopped at a bunch of drug stores.. nobody had it except for this mega 2-story duane reade. here's some pros and cons of previous razors i've used as well as the fusion power:

gillette mach 3
* pro: easy on the skin.. not much razor burn
* con: horrible shave.. takes forever to clean my face up
* con: blades are expensive as hell

shick quatro
* pro: awesome shave
* con: way too much razor burn.. ouchy

gillette fusion power
* pro: best shave i've ever had
* pro: no razor burn.. my face feels great
* pro: very easy to shave with; the vibrating blades do the work for you
* con: blades aren't cheap.. slightly more than mach 3

so basically what i'm saying is anyone who has ever gotten razor burn with their current razor, has a hard time shaving, or wants a better shave.. get the gillette fusion power. if you don't like the idea of a vibrating razor, they have a regular model too, but i can't vouch for that as i haven't tried it out. i was so excited about this thing that i had to write an lj entry on it.. so go buy one. here's some links:

http://www.shavingstuff.com/archives/004558.php
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BUW8WM/103-2023075-5085432

the matador

2006-01-29T04:46:28Z

go watch the matador.

now.

it's awesome.

wmv on osx

2006-01-22T19:25:36Z

dear osx users.. do you hate windows media player for osx? good. drag it into the trash and install this:

http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm

it's a windows media plugin for quicktime.. thus all wmv/wma files will play in quicktime/safari/itunes. it works wonderful.