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VMWare Fusion Tip
11.19.08So if you read my last post about my new-found love for VMWare Fusion, you probably want to download the free trial. I’m that good. VMWare better have my check in the mail. But you’re probably thinking ‘I’ve got all of these paralells virtual machines. It sounds like a pain in the butt to install them all again’.
Simmer down. It WOULD be, had the geniuses over at VMWare not thought ahead. With a couple of clicks you can import and convert those Parallels VMs right in. Yeah. It’s that easy.
VMWare - please make checks payable to Jarrett Green.
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Archived: Week Six
11.14.08(01) David Mascha
(02) The Miller Group
(03) PetitJeReve
(04) Dekor
(05) FFFFOUND! (Artist Unknown)
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YAPvVMFP (Yet Another Parallels vs. VMWare Fusion Post)
11.11.08
If you’re like us, and you should be, you find yourself needing to run some God-Awful version of Windows on your Mac. Our reasons range from figuring out why IE 6 is destroying a website we’re working on, to figuring out why IE 7 is destroying a website we’re working on.
You also probably know of a few options: Bootcamp, Parallels, VMWare, and probably something else. Bootcamp is a no-go. So you’re left with a choise Parallels or VMWare. Let me help make that choice for you. I bought parallels when it was still in beta, and I thought it was greatest thing in the world. And it is… If it’s a parallel world were VMWare fusion doesn’t exist. In an “Oh, What the hell…” moment I installed a free trial of Fusion. It’s fantastic. No, like really. It’s so incredibly fast when compared to Parallels. The file sharing bit seems to be more fine tuned as well. The “Unity” view, (like “Coherence” in parallels) where it integrates the Windows uhhhh windows onto your desktop seamlessly seems to redraw itself a little slower than Parallels, but I’m usually only working in one IE window anyway, so no worries.
Do yourself a favor and buy it. Seriously. You’ll be able to run Vista, XP, 95, 3.1, whatever, just like you’re on a PC…… Yay?
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Doing good is good for business…… obviously.
11.11.08We are NPR nuts around here (save 2 hours each night when it’s turned over to ‘jazz’). If you’re a listener, you know it’s time for another pledge drive. This time around one of our neighbors ,Hatman Jack (AKA Jack Kellog), called NPR and offered to donate a pair of mittens and a wool cap to USD 259 students who need them, for every donation to KMUW.
KMUW was all over it. On one day, when this program was first introduced, I must have heard Hatman Jack’s name 100 times during my morning and afternoon commute. No Joke. Every time they mentioned the drive - which is, well…. a lot…. they mentioned Jack a few times. If you know Jack (and you should, because he has the uncanny ability to make you feel good about life - he’s the most gracious man I’ve ever met), You’ll know he did this only to help NPR and Kids. Jack doesn’t advertise much. His customers love him and tell their friends, which in marketing is paradoxically priceless and free. But I’m sure there are a few more people who will pop in to Hatman’s because A. He did good., and B. They’ve were inundated with his name for the last week.
I know he doesn’t keep stuff like this, but I’d love to see the numbers for that week.
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Western Spaghetti
11.10.08I was pretty blown away by the creativity behind this. There are some more great stop-motion pieces at the PES site. I recommend taking 20 minutes or so and checking out everything they have. It’s well worth it.
Archived: Week 05
11.7.08The images I post here are taken from what I accumulate throughout the week. Since I collect them for my own personal reference, I often don’t do a good job of documenting where they come from or crediting the artist/designer. From now on I’ll be doing a better job of that for everyone’s sake. So, next week expect better organization. I would rather these posts to be a point of departure rather than a dead end.
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Etymology of the whenever-the-hell-I-feel-like-it.
11.7.08I think a weekly etymology post might just not be a reasonable expectation, so I have changed plans a bit.
Because I saw a dead one on the way to work today, and was reminded…
Squirrel
from Gk.skiouros ”a squirrel,” lit. “shadow-tailed,” from skia ”shadow” + oura“tail.” Perhaps the original notion is “that which makes a shade with its tail.” The verb meaning “to hoard up, store away” (as a aquirrel does nuts) is first recorded 1939; squirrely is from 1925. The O.E. word was acweorna, which survived into M.E. as aquerne.
< taken from http://www.etymonline.com >
Customer Service: Unexpected vs. Really?
11.3.08I’ve had two interesting and very different experiences as a customer in the last week.
First was at Starbucks. I placed my order, but when I went to dig my debit card out of my wallet, realized it was at the office. After embarrassingly explaining what happened and telling them ‘nevermind’, they made it anyway and gave it to me for free.
Second was at McDonald’s. Placed my order, waited in the long line to get to the window, where they handed me a drink, tried my debit card, and then realized their machine was having problems. I saw my order being bagged.
“Do you have any cash?”
“No.” (it’s 2008)
“Can you go get some? Our machine is down.”
“Uhhhhhhhhh. It’s a long line, just forget it, no worries.” (knowing even if I did go get some cash, they probably wouldn’t be worried about remaking the order, and I’d probably get super cold fries.)
“Ok, sorry. Here’s your card”
“Thanks.”
“OH SIR……… I’m going to need that drink back.”
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Archived: Week 04
10.31.08Happy Halloween. Enjoy.
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Etymology of the week?
10.28.08This might be a recurring thing. Depending on how well i remember…
This week’s word: “Bad.” (dubious etymology, but I just found this out and wanted to share)
ORIGIN Middle English : perhaps representing Old English bǣddel [hermaphrodite, womanish man.]
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