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Monster Cable just bugs me because there is so much "used car salesmanship" to their stuff. Any well built audio cable will work in most installations, and for the completely out of control prices they charge you are typically just getting ripped off. It is then combined with retailers that ONLY stock the way overpriced cables to people are just getting ripped off. I don't like that.
I also have issues with most Bose products. "Better sound through marketing" should be their slogan. They do make a few great products. Good clock radios, some really nice noise cancelling headphones. But most of their gear? Just way overpriced crap that doesn't perform.
I generally agree about Monster Cable. That said, I did buy a few instrument cables from them for performance use because they look really rugged.
Whee! I just noticed Apple now has their Tiger Up To Date program in place.
I'm buying a Powerbook!
So, apparently, Tiger will come with a Dictionary widget, allowing you to look up words without going online.
The dictionary is The New Oxford American Dictionary, which means that every copy of Tiger will come bundled with erinaceous! How cool is that?
Does that mean it will hem my circle skirts for me?
I think that feature will be available in a point release.
I got a flyer for a pattern-drafting program last week. I was serionsly considering it until I realized that it would be printing out patterns on pieces of 8 1/2 x 11 paper that I would then have to tape together.
Damn, baby. I *need* to convince my office to upgrade all of our Macs to Tiger.
And I need to hop to and pre-order it for my iBook.
Betsy, you just need to convince your family that you need one of these: [link]
That money would buy a whole cronkin' lot of patterns.
