Jon Kingston – Seeing Eye Geek

Yuk.  Body does not feel good.  It’s amazing how good I feel when I don’t drink soda, and how lousy I feel when I do. 

What do they put in that stuff? 

So good to see Scott Adams paying to attention to technology. Today’s Dilbert describes a phone that’s larger than a phone, but smaller than a tablet. Hmmm…Samsung Note?

Woot! Dilbert cartoon goes geek, drops Higgs Boson reference!

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1991-04-01/

Wow! Scott Adams using the word Android in 1991! He’s a visionary!

Apple is giving away a $10,000 gift card to some lucky winner.  Only problem is, it’s to the App Store.  What?  No, not the Apple Store, the App store.  Can’t buy a Mac or iPad, just music, movies, and apps.  How stupid.

Why is the media celebrating the life of Whitney Houston? She was an alcoholic and a drug addict, which negates anything positive she may have done with her life.

So she could sing. If it were an average joe, no one would care. She died a celebrity alcoholic and a drug addict.

I see that my last post was in November of 2010.  Wow.  Where was I in 2011?  Facebook.  No more.  I don’t care how small the audience, I’m tired of feeding them signals.  From now on my posts will be here, where I can control them.  This is my front yard.  (old guy voice, shaking fist) you kids keep off my lawn!

1. Minor annoyance: When Finale 2010 (Mac) is launched, a dialogue box pops up, prompting me to download the latest ‘upgrade’. Click on the upgrade button, and the browser opens a page with an update to Finale 2011. Not Finale 2010. Wasting my time.

2.  Pet Peeve: creating new measure number regions seems like an easy task, but it’s not.  What’s not in the manual is, Region 2 won’t start with measure number 1 until you first delete Region 1, then re-create Region 1, then create Region 2.  Thanks, Finale 2010.

3.  Major Psychotic F****** Hatred: Finale makes a new version each year, which is NOT backwards compatible.  I have Finale 2009 at work, and 2010 at home.  Finale 2009 cannot read 2010 files.  I refuse to believe that the file formats are THAT much different.  If Microsoft Office 2003 can read MS Office 2007 files with a simple plug-in, or in 2007 use “Save As (insert older format here)”, why can’t the idiots who create Finale do that?  The only workaround that I know of, and please correct me if I’m wrong, is to save as a MIDI file.  Any version of Finale can open MIDI files.  However, all formatting is lost (ties, expressions, etc) in a MIDI file.  Thanks for the forced upgrade path!  Way to keep the customer in mind!

4.  Help Feature, FTW: Click on the Help menu item, and a box appears, apparently for you to type a search query into.  One would think anything could be typed in there and searched for, such as “note”.  Nope.  Only items in the programs menus can be searched for.  Try typing an ‘n’, as in note head.  The search box won’t accept an ‘n’ as input, because there is no menu item in the program starting with the letter ‘n’.

I’m at HEB Plus (2409 E Expy 83, Mission). http://4sq.com/5ddIGs

I’m at Cathey Middle School (1800 N. Cynthia, at Pecan, McAllen). http://4sq.com/bSoBAQ

I’m at Best Buy 1784 (3400 w expressway 83, Mcallen) w/ 2 others. http://4sq.com/cBv4ug

I’m at Academy (3901 E Expy 83, McAllen). http://4sq.com/de9dIT

I’m at Mission Recycling Center (500-516 Jupiter St, Mission). http://4sq.com/a37bOJ

I’m at Banworth Park (1780 Shary Road, Mission). http://4sq.com/9qf3jq

Enjoying a nice evening @ the park with my boys! http://twitpic.com/34ko9i

I’m at Best Buy. http://4sq.com/adWN25

I’m at La Joya Senior High School. http://4sq.com/bvEeGf

Good luck at the fishing contest today, Andrew & David!

I’m at Best Buy. http://4sq.com/adWN25

I just unlocked the “Crunked” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/bmOcED