Veronica Belmont
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Happy New Year!
4Pics are up on the Flickr from some of the New Year festivities, so go check those out. If you can stomach that much obnoxiousness!
Getting everything ready to leave for the big show tomorrow. My stomach has been in knots for days. But I’ll be posting and updating as much as I can!
Not so much NEED as WANT
3I’m not usually one to be sucked in by a television stations “online content,” but I must say that I was a little disapointed by the lack of Mac-compatibility for Comedy Central’s Motherload and MTV’s Overdrive. I mean, it’s not like I really NEEDED to see what happened to the dorky girl that took up wakeboarding on Made, but I was a little curious to see if she stuck with it… anyhow. This is what I get:
In order to offer a broad selection of full-length music videos on-demand and free of charge, MTV Overdrive uses Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect videos from unauthorized re-distribution.Unfortunately, Microsoft’s Windows Media Player Plug-in for Macintosh does not support Windows DRM. If DRM support becomes available for Macintosh, MTV will develop a version of MTV Overdrive that works on a Mac.
Wow. Is it just me, or does anyone else think it’s time that the major cable networks get their shit together and offer some Mac compatibility?? I’m not just being biased here, am I? It won’t even work if you have the Mac version of Windows Media Player. Gosh, a girl tries to play it legit, and this is the thanks she gets.
Anywho. New episode of Tired Thumbs tomorrow. Check it out.
Too much traveling.
2Just got back from NYC a little bit ago. In the past, I’ve always considered New York a little too big for me. I tend to be a nervous person, and so smaller cities like San Francisco and Boston are just about perfect. But I had my two favorite NYC boys to show me around, so I had nothing to worry about this time (I won’t bore you with the details of my panic attack of coming into Grand Central Station at rush hour by myself from the last time went there). Nick and I did a walking tour of the Lower East Side, and did a fine sampling of the local bars.
The next day we met up with Ryan and did some more shopping and eating, and I finally found the perfect pair of black flat boots in a vintage shop. Naturally, I bought an $80 pair a few weeks ago that are far inferior. Obviously this is why NYC is a much better place to shop.
Tomorrow, back to SF for New Years, and then off to CES. Hooray! I’m more excited for it that I thought I’d be. Oh, and thanks to everyone who has written in concern over my wrists. They’ve had a much needed break this past week, but I’m still going to get them checked out when I get home.
I’M EXHAUSTED! Hope everyone had a safe and happy holidays so far. Nap time for V.
Updates!
9Ok, so let me start this post by saying I’m heartbroken. Johnny Damon is a traitor. I heard about the trade on Wednesday on the plane, and I almost screamed. Forgot to mention it though, with all the coming home excitement. TRAITOR!!
Next, I found out I might have early-onset arthritis in my wrists. Yes, both. A combination of damage from years of tennis and computers. Yes, I played tennis all through high school. Didn’t expect me to be a jock, didja? So I need to go see a doctor when I get back to SF and make sure I take better care of my joints, or bye bye career. This will probably take some of the steam out of my WoWing (and the audience cheers…).
There might be some very big news for me in the podcasting realm. I’m not going to tell you what yet, but SOOOOON! All I can say is that I’m very excited.
I got a Nintendo DS finally! I’ve started playing Nintendogs, and I’ve so far taught Daisy to “sit down.” But then my family got annoyed as I tried to teach her more in the car. That whole voice command thing can be a little annoying to other people, I imagine. Oh well!
Eventually I’ll get away from all this personal crap again and get back to tech stuff, but I’ve been too busy to even look at Digg and Bloglines lately. I’m going to have a lot to catch up on when I get back!