Spore!

I didn't even realize Spore was out yet, but I just got an e-mail from EA games to remind me. How nice of them!
I think I might go pick it up today. I decided to look around on youtube at what some people have done with the creature creator, and sifting through all the penis and vagina creatures, I did find a few gems, like this creature, 'Rectal Exam'



Okay, this one owes is existence to the penis creatures who came before it, but I love the idea, and the title, 'Albino 2 legged elephant'

Time keeps on slipping/again

I know I've written about the phenomenon before, but I'm still always amazed at the apparent ability of time to speed up and slip by at an ever increasing pace. Things I 'need to do' or 'need to start doing' zip far beyond their deadline undone.
I think when you combine this with a lack of effort, it can create an evil concoction.
Take getting in shape for instance. This singular objective is a top-of-mind awareness for me. I literally am thinking about it constantly. I always make the best of plans to start exercising, start walking, start eating healthy, start a low carb diet again, and on and on.
The problem is implementing these actions. I set a time line and an objective, but the ideas never leave the start line and by the time I remember I haven't started, the goal is so far behind I set out to begin creating a new one, only to leave that one stranded in time as well. It's truly frustrating and I wish I knew how to change my paradigm to that of someone capable of achieving personal goals.
I was at a photoshoot today at JCMG and I was paying more attention to the camera screen than where I was walking. I ended up hitting my head on a nice jagged extension arm of a piece of equipment mounted from the ceiling. I'm not sure if it was a camera or a light, but either way it hurt. I fully expected blood to come running down my face, but luckily that didn't happen. What better place to have some kind of laceration than a medical facility though, right? Thankfully, I just have a knot and a headache.


Ryan was talking about the possibly impending Debbie Downer known as Gustav headed toward New Orleans and all its dumb people who don't know any better than to stay in parts of a city below sea level citizens, when he mentioned Tropical Storm Fay. When he said something about "Remnants of Fay", I had one of those moments when you just know you've stumbled upon a fantastic band name. If I could sing and/or play an insturment and knew some other people who could sing/play instruments, I'd totally call us "Remnants of Fay".

This

Is pretty much the funniest thing ever.
Infomercial queen Cathy Mitchell and Oscar nominated John C. Reilly together at last.

Update

Smack my bitch up, I was able to perform an update to iPhone firmware 2.0.2 without a complete brickification unlike the last 2 times I did this! Yay!

Thanks Tony n' Mike for your feedback. I guess I'll try reinstalling iTunes since the new firmware didn't fix any of the shit that I wrote about yesterday. I guess my question there is, if I uninstall iTunes, then re-download and install it, will I still have my backups and purchases and all that junk? Will that be tied into my iTunes account?

I would love to have a mac, but unfortunately I'm still paying off my Alienware, so that prospect is a ways off.
I have tried syncing to iTunes on my mac at work, but it seems that even using my iTunes account, it says I can't be syncing it to 2 computers or something. Like I said, iTunes is a piece of shit IMO, and I may have just gotten confused doing that.

P.S. Wanna hear something funny? The 2.0.2 update, which is thought to be one made to improve reception problems it seems many are having actually made my service indicator drop by 2 bars at home and work. Go figure.

Another iRant

I hate to write another iRant, but this time I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing these errors, and/or what I should do about them.

I want to start off by saying that words cannot express how horrible of a program I think iTunes is. I have used a lot of different programs across a whole gamut of categories in my time, and I dub iTunes the iCrappiest.

My latest woes involve Apps. It seems if I purchase an App from the App Store on my iPhone, theres a 50/50 chance it will never show up on iTunes once I sync, not even when I go to "Check For Purchases". So, I have some Apps that only exist on my iPhone, and some that are on both my iPhone and my iTunes. So much for backing everything up.

Another annoying App problem is when I get the notice on my iPhone that an update is available to an app I have purchased and/or downloaded, this is often what happens when I open up App Store and tell it to download the update:
Strange, but okay, whatever. The only problem is, when I try to find the update once my iPhone is connected to my computer, iTunes shows there is no update for that program which my iPhone is telling me needs an update. This problem is only compounded when it is a program that will not show up in iTunes from the error I described before this one.

The last annoyance is this one:
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This is an error I get SOME of the time when I attempt to sync the contents of my iPhone with iTunes. It says a whole plethora of programs could not 'install on the iPhone' because of an error.

All this shit I seem to be having to deal with involving iTunes/iPhone is really taking the fun out of owning an iPhone. So far, the simplicity factor of it all has been absolutely lost on me.

I have made up my mind that if this continues, or if I'm faced with another iNoyance to deal with, the precious iPhone is going to ebay-land. That really really sucks, but I cannot stand having to deal with constant problem after problem.

Does anyone know what may be causing all this AppCrapp? What should I do?