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"Star Wars Sandpeople spotted at Catholic Seminary!"
"For those stains that are really hard to remove..."

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Recently I recieved an email saying "It seems to me that Mac's are going through a process of self-discovery, something along the lines of, 'Gee... we want a larger market share, so let's go ahead and just do what Microsoft is doing, since we can't keep up...' " The person who emailed me also asked, "Jeff, if you're a Mac person, why don't you see this as selling out to 'The Man'?" To his email, I responded:

Because that's not Apple's strategy. Notice how Apple allows people to install Windows on their Macs, but they do not provide it... and there are a few disabled features if you run Windows (like the video camera and the cool media software.

Today Apple released a public beta of 'Boot Camp,' a simple software solution allowing users of the new Apple 'Intel' Macs to run Windows XP on their Macs, without having to go through too much trouble. There is also a dual-booting solution from onmac.net; however, their solution takes a lot of work and still has some holes in it that relegate it to more 'geek' types.

In my opinion, this is great news for Mac users, and for Windows users looking for a way to get out of the prison of only using Windows. There is now an easy solution for using a beautiful, great-looking Mac while also allowing people to run some games and software that aren't made for the Mac.

I was emailed these interesting facts about special date/time combinations coming up soon:

Did you know that:

On Wednesday morning of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03, 04/05/06.

That won't ever happen again in our lifetimes.

Also, on Tuesday, June 6, 2006, at 6:06:06 AM & PM, the time and date will read 6:06:06 AM/PM, 06/06/06!

...we have some masked men blasting away the paint on our pool... it almost looks like they are some kind of aliens, with their large astronaut-like suits and masks.

Also, the power is back on (and, therefore, we have phones, lights, etc. again—basically, modern civilization has returned ;-).

Today a very strong line of thunderstormes barrelled its way through St. Louis, causing a lot of damage and spawning at least three tornadoes. I was driving into St. Peters (at Highways 370 and 70), an area where one of the recorded tornadoes was sighted, and was barraged by very strong winds. As I was driving, a flock of birds was flying in one direction, but actually moving in the other direction. I think I might've hit one of the birds while my car was being rocking side to side because of the wind while I was driving. There were many signs and small objects knocked over by the wind, and I noticed a few trees that were down.