Bowlcut’s little piece of the world

Im debating should I drop the nickname “Bowlcut”?  I’ve had it since around late 1994.  It came from a guy on my freshman football team.  I kept the top of my head about 1-2 inches long, so pretty short, then shaved the sides really close.  It wasnt like a typical bowlcut where its long, think Yahoo Serious in Young Frankenstein where he was getting a true ‘bowl cut’.  It was more like a ‘high and tight’ where the top is longer than the sides, but my top was a touch longer so it was a bit floppy.  Think more like a ‘plate cut’.

But anyway the name has stuck since then, even my dad calls me Bowlcut from time to time.  It has been shortened to all sorts, bowl, cut, bc, bowlhead, bowly, you name it.  Im just starting to think maybe its time to just forgo the nickname and go back to something simple like KevinH or something.  I hate that there is a famous actor by the name Kevin Hart, so I cant get that url.  Oh well.  So i dont know…debating.  now off for dinner then a night of CoD4 I think.

Well figured why not try plugging in the iPod today….  She powered up and is working.  LCD looks like there is water behind it or something.  As most people who have washed their Nano’s have reported.  It functions just fine, but the screen is a bit wavy on the right side.  Not a huge deal as I dont look at the screen all that often.  So yay, dont HAVE to go buy a new one today.  So thank goodness for Apple’s industrial design, it can take a wash and keep on working.  Now off to the Red Cross for First Aid and CPR training.  Figured time to get re certified

Just on Thursday I came upon a deal I couldn’t pass up no matter what.  A guy on our local forum had a new 3rd gen iPod Nano 8gb for sale for his final asking price of 100 dollars.  My poor iRiver is now like 5 years old and definatly showing its age.  Not that it looks bad but its functionality is not there.  It was designed in a time when all you did was listen to music.  I don’t listen to music all that often anymore, its mostly podcasts now.  But the iRiver has served me well and I still love it.  This was just too good of a deal.  Ive told myself I wouldn’t buy an iPod till I got my own Mac.  Windows and iTunes sucks.  But again…half price for barely 3 month old iPod.

I fell in love quick with the hardware.  Its awesome and the functionality is top notch.  But iTunes sucks still yet, 140m of memory usage just sitting there is not acceptable, but it is what you have to use.  So I delve in and use it.  Man its nice listening to a podcast, pause it come inside, sync up and listen right where you left off.  Or even changing podcasts on it then when you come back it remembers where you were on that particular podcast.  I just don’t know how Ive done it.  I know I can use non iPods for podcasts, but iPods really do make them work well.

So get home, and start my laundry, can you see where this is going.  At least I caught it on the filling of the load.  I got it out of my back pocket just a slight dunking of water, I’ve seen worse.  I’ve shaken all I can, left right up down banged on it.  No visible water in it at all.  We will see if it comes to life.  4 days I’ve seen the light.  I honestly couldn’t wait till I got in the car to get to play with it a bit.  Now all that is gone.  Because it was so small and light I didn’t notice it still in my pocket.

Now do I get another one?  Pay the stupid tax and go on?  Maybe upgrade to the iPod touch for wide screen and wifi?  Still hold off till I buy myself a Mac?  This pc here is trash.  Even the smallest of video podcasts would bog it down to its knees in iTunes.  Meh…I dont know if i want to not have an iPod now…

At what point do I pull the trigger on a new computer? Cause this poor old computer is just driving me nuts. I dont use it very much anymore, but when I do its nasty slow and memory deficient. The little things that always piss me off. Pulling the trigger on a 24″ Imac or even a MacBook Pro just seems crazy for that amount of money. But I know Ill use it all the time and it will be worth it. Im just a cheapskate. Anyone want to buy it for me Ill love you forever…or till it breaks the first time