Last year I acquired an old G4 from a client of mine and had a friend donate some old aftermarket parts so I could get my feet wet with OSX. I’m enjoying it, but not ready to take that kind of financial hit for a computer. Last Fall I purchased a pink iPod Nano for Lauren to replace her aging Sansa. Shortly after that, we received an iPod Shuffle as a gift. It too was pink.
Today, I am going to pick up and iPhone for my wonderful wife. This is going to bring the total count of Apple products in my home to an astounding 4. This is madness. I’ve not gone out of my way to hate on Apple, but I’ve never bought into the idea of paying a premium for a trendy brand name. As the products have become more affordable I’ve slowly started to acquire them. I’m kind of enjoying their ease of use, but I’m not quite ready to jump on the Apple bandwagon and pretend they are the end all, be all of electronics.
Life in General, Technobabble
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I’ve been a developer for nearly a decade now. The last 6+ have been spent coding for the web, primarily in PHP. You could say that I am fairly confident in my abilities. I’ve started to prepare to take the Zend Certified Engineer exam, which just gives me a way to prove my knowledge of the PHP language.
As a first step, I took a sample test today and while I passed without any problems, there were far too many concepts that I was either unfamiliar with or had zero knowledge of. Granted, most PHP developers will never venture into these areas, it was a very humbling experience. I’m going to be devoting the next few weeks to the preparation of taking the exam so things over here will probably be light, but no worse than they’ve been over the last few weeks.
I do have a handful of funny quotes from Ethan that I am trying to compile in my mind and prep for posting. That kid is a riot.
Life in General, Technobabble
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It seems like it’s been an eternity since I made a post. It’s funny how you can get busy and completely forget to post all the things that would be perfect for a blog.
Last weekend the family and I headed west to El Paso for my grandfathers 80th birthday party. My aunts and grandmother live there so it was a nice central place for all of us to meet. In all, about 34 people made the trip and it really was an awesome party. We followed that up with a Super Bowl party on Sunday before heading back to San Antonio.
On Saturday night wihle the party was in mid swing I was keeping an eye on the endering progress of a special slideshow/video we whipped up courtesy of Animoto (my new favorite website). The router at my aunt’s house is located in my cousin Louie’s room so I was in there checking my email with my mom, who was getting a little nervous that it wouldn’t be ready. As we were headed back to the party my son and his new friend, an 8 yr old boy named Liam, waltzed into Louie’s room.
Louie is 20 and let’s just say that he has lots of eye candy littering his walls including the newest Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendar. When Liam noticed the calendar he pointed and turned Ethan’s attention to a picture of Brooklyn Decker, someone whose name I’d heard on the Dan Patrick show but never seen. Ethan’s reaction was priceless as he blurted out:
Whoa. I’m gonna marry that girl! And that one, and that one, and that one! (Spinning around Louie’s room)
We turned out the light and quickly ushered the boys out and back into the living room. Not to be detered Ethan made at least 2 more trips back in there to admire that calendar. My cousin Louie fueled his curiosity and apparently Ethan settled on his favorite, “the chinese one.”
Kids say the darndest things.
Life in General
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