07.19.07
Posted in music, personal at 10:15 pm by danvk
Either through misplacement or theft, I lost the dano, my iPod nano, sometime last week. It’s OK. It was only a 1 GB nano, and I won it in a drawing. I paid nothing.
In fact, I last bought an iPod in April, 2004. Here’s what it looked like:
That red glow was totally trendy. It’s pretty wild to compare the technical specs on each. The prices were identical – $300 each. What’s 3+ years done to the iPod?
| |
2004 |
2007 |
| Price |
$294.24 |
$302.02 |
| Capacity |
15 GB |
80 GB |
| Battery Life |
~5 hours |
“20 hours” (we’ll see) |
| Size |
4.1″ x 2.4″ |
4.1″ x 2.4″ |
| Thickness |
0.62″ |
0.55″ |
| Weight |
5.6 oz |
5.5 oz |
| Display |
2″, 160×128 |
2.5″, 320×240 |
So all the specs have improved, and the thing’s gotten smaller. Who ever said the march of technology was a bad thing? I’m mostly excited about the video capabilities. If I throw some TV episodes on there, I can jog with my iPod, commercial-free!
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07.08.07
Posted in personal at 1:01 pm by danvk
From left to right that’s my nephews James and Michael, my niece Katie, and me. Good to see that Michael’s copying my look.
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06.18.07
Posted in personal at 10:48 pm by danvk
… that when I see this Van Gogh piece on my calendar:
the first thing I notice is that the sun and moon are in an absurd configuration. What the hell, Vince?
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06.17.07
Posted in personal, travel at 12:09 am by danvk
I’ve been enjoying the Hellyer disc golf course down in San Jose of late, so I was excited to discover that it had a sister course just across the creek. When I found out there were geocaches and a bike trail in the area, it was Saturday road trip time!
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06.13.07
Posted in personal, travel at 9:54 pm by danvk
Sorry Craig, not those vouchers.
United offered me a pretty sweet deal last winter: in exchange for taking a flight six hours later, they’d give me a hotel room (it was midnight), a bump to first class, and a voucher for a free round trip anywhere in the continental US.
I finally got around to claiming that voucher today. I figured I could just use it online, but that would have been far too easy. I searched around a bit and found this page, which told me to call a 1-800 number. So I went through the automated phone system until I got a human, who immediately told me that I needed to go to the airport! And so I jumped in the car for a surprise visit to the San Jose airport this morning.
The whole voucher business strikes me as the pinnacle of mindless bureaucracy. My voucher said that it was applicable to tickets of classes W, V, and Q. Huh? There’s no way to tell which is which from United’s web site. I wanted to go from San Jose to Newark, but the lady at the desk quickly ruled that out (there was only “Class H”). Then there was San Francisco to Newark, but nope, that was class H, too. Eventually she found some class Q tickets from San Francisco to New York JFK. After another fifteen minutes of fighting with the system, the tickets were mine. Ugh.
The real lesson learned here is that I should book tickets with these vouchers more than 18 days in advance of a holiday weekend. But I still came out well ahead. I got direct, non-stop flights each way and a $608.80 ticket for free.
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