Jamie Thingelstad

• Landed in NY. Getting ready to deplane.
• Cab ride is horrible. Traffic is a mess. Getting naseous.
• Trying to avoid the pool of water on the floor of this cab.
• Finally at World Financial Center. Need to get some food to relieve nauseous feeling.
• Noting how much New Yorkers love to talk about how they got from one place to another – what trains, streets, taxis, etc.

I think I’m like most people and never really think about my printer. Last week though I thought about it a lot as I waited forever to have it print some really complicated documents. I decided to take action and ordered some more memory. I just got done slapping a 128MB DIMM in my HP LaserJet 1320. Why? Because you can and it costs so very little. And I expect I’ll have this printer for a good long while. It sure prints faster.

5 months ago I said goodbye to my iMac G5 and sent it on to live happily with my sister. After it departed the MacBook took it’s place and started being permanently anchored to the kitchen desk. I’ve been holding off on replacing the iMac until Apple released the next model of iMac, which they did today. A quick trip to the Apple Store this afternoon and I’ve got the brand new 24" iMac setup in the kitchen office.

The form factor of the new iMac is just great. The aluminum and glass are great. The new keyboard is a “double take” experience – amazingly thin. I just had enough time to set the machine up and get it powered on tonight.

I also picked up iWork ‘08 and iLife ‘08. I’m particularly excited to play with Numbers and the brand new iMovie.

iMovie ‘08 may be the answer to my video problems!

Ridgedale store was a bust. On the way to Southdale.

Apple Store Southdale is expecting a shipment in a couple hours. May have to make a stop.

Watching Little Children.

Wondering why I’m sitting here tapping on my iPhone with a MacBook Pro 12 inches away.

Tammy is getting addicted to Frenzic.

Oceanaire proved too fancy for 2 year old.

Like iTunes before it, have now succumbed to flickr.

Stunned and in awe over this WordPress Flickr Plugin.

Heading to Oceanaire for dinner.

Day 2 of Uptown Art Fair done. Success.

Upgrading firmware on all network devices and breaking things.

While much better with the 1.0.1 software, Safari still crashes way too much on the iPhone.

Wishing that del.icio.us was integrated with Safari on my iPhone.

I’m not a big gamer — and I’m really not a FPS (first person shooter) gamer. I’ll pass on Quake and all of its descendants. But, I do like puzzle games a lot. Here are two must have high-brain-function games for the Mac. Go grab these games and make sure you’ve got a bit of time to spare.

Quinn

I’ve loved Tetris® ever since I first played it in junior high! The game is simplicity at it’s finest, and presents the impossible challenge of infinitely fast tiles dropping down on you. Quinn is a stellar game that is not Tetris, but is a game where tiles drop down. It’s awesome. I find that I enter a near trance-like state while playing Quinn. Quinn is even free, and comes with a standalone server that you can start on your local network and play multi-player games with your friends and family! Or, hop onto some of the public Quinn servers and play people around the world.

Frenzic

Frenzic is a new game where you place slices of pies together and try to complete them to score points. It’s very similar in game play to Quinn. The game speeds up as you play, and placement can be very difficult. I’m new to this game but am already getting pretty addicted to it. It’s very hard, and has a bit more strategy to it then Tetris. Frenzic isn’t free, but the cost is pretty low and comes with an online ranking system.

Uptown Art Fair!

Looking at the 35W bridge during intermission. Wow.

Getting seated for Private Lives.