Terminal Eight

It’s on the way!

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-Mark Twain

…what’s that, you say?
There’s a place in this world where you can find things like these, rust-free?
And it’s called the West Coast?

Funny you mention that…

Like, yeah, well, that’s just your opinion man…

…when it spends about 30 minutes on the Gardiner Expressway during the evening rush hour.

My poor keys.

I’m more heart-broken by the loss of my Canadian Tire JumpStart lanyard, my expired NY Public Library card and my Carrot-on-a-Stick keychain!

…my man Sean Connery can.

I’ve been combing the thrift stores for at least a year now trying to find a Glen plaid suit… no such luck.

I suppose one day when finances dictate, I shall have to have one made.

“You have made my heart a garden, where against love’s arches shine
Hopes immortal, burst in blossom, fanned by atmospheres divine!”

From Manomin; A Rhythmical Romance of Minnesota, the Great Rebellion, and the Minnesota Massacres by Myron Coloney, 1923.

Yes, it’s been a long time since I updated T8, but I promise I’ll do a better job at it from now on, ok?

So! Spurred on by posts on Engadget and a Lifehacker post I came across yesterday, I thought I’d share with everyone what I carry around on a daily basis in my trusty backpack.

Enjoy! (Click on the image for a larger view.)

(If you want a super high-res image, click here.)

Contents:
1. Mountain Equipment Co-op laptop bookbag. (No longer made, at least I couldn’t find it on their website.)

2. This week’s Economist.

3,4. A couple of books I’m slowly getting through: The Elements of Typographic Style, and Teach Yourself Philosophy of Religion.

5. My trusty 3M Scotch™ brand lint roller.

6. Belkin 3 outlet (plus 2 USB charging ports) mini surge protector.

7. Griffin PowerJolt USB car charger.

8. Kingston MobileLite G2 card reader (SD/MicroSD, MS/MSPD).

9. Jack Spade Monza Passport Wallet (seems to be discontinued) and my Canadian passport.

10. My Macbook. 2006 model, still going strong – maxxed out the RAM, 320 GB HD… and a custom vinyl decal courtesy of Etsy.

11. Picquic “Teeny Turner” mini-screwdriver.

12. Royal Canadian Mint 1 oz. Silver Maple Leaf coin – for luck.

13, 14. Lip balm, tweezers.

15. Logitech V270 Cordless Optical Bluetooth mouse

16. Motorola MTS2000 UHF handheld radio – programmed with local ham repeaters, some scanning frequencies, stuff like that.

17. Apple iPhone 3GS – okay, this is usually in my pocket, but it’s always with me.

18. Typotheque 2010 Pocket Calendar/Sketchbook. I love this thing, even if I barely use it.

19. Razer Moray+ headset – PAX 09 Special Edition – I use this in place of my stock iPhone headset – I wish it had volume control. But the carrying case is nice, the PSP, DS and PC adapters are nice, and they sound great. The case also holds a small selection of other memory cards (8 gig SanDisk MicroSD + SD adapter, 8 gig Kingston CF, 1 gig Memory Stick Pro Duo – you never know when you’ll need one).

20, 21. 2 8 gig USB thumbdrives (1 OCZ Rally2, 1 SanDisk Cruzer).

22. Spare stock iPhone 3GS headset + foam pads from a 2G iPod headset (hooray FocalPrice and their dirt cheap iPod OEM replacement headphones!)

23. Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB mobile HDD. A gift from my good friend, Jeff.

24. An assortment of fine handmade Japanese writing paper, envelopes (both from The Paper Place) and a ruled notebook from Muji

So there you go. I’m tired. I’m going to bed.

I’ll update again soon.

So by now, I’m sure everyone’s seen or heard of the Gizmodo scoop… thoughts?

Mine:
I’m not sure what to make of this.
The internals don’t match a 2G, 3G or 3GS, and it’s too well-done to
be a fake. There’s obviously something to it.
The mocked up 3GS “shell” further lends credence to the field-testing idea.

But if what Gruber is saying is true – that Gizmodo paid the guy that
found it to obtain it, Giz could be in a heap of legal trouble. Lost
or not, common sense prevails when interpreting the law: the phone is
obviously something that doesn’t belong to the guy that found it, and
if Giz did pay for it, they’ve pretty much bought (and continue to
maintain possession of) stolen property.

Now, what if it is real? Okay, that leads to the question of Apple and
how they handle testing of prototypes – I can’t believe Apple would
let sensitive corporate secrets like new products out in the open so
easily… from everything I’ve read about how Apple keeps such a tight
lockdown on their engineering labs, it makes no sense that even a VP
(if that’s who lost it) would be able to keep such a device out in the
open like that (let alone in a bar where the act of drinking makes one
more likely to forget something).

Is it an elaborate scam? The possibility is there, I guess.
I don’t know what to think – Gizmodo could easily find themselves
permanently blacklisted from any and all Apple events going forward
for this.
As for the phone itself, well, it’s nice – but not really what I
expected to see… the buttons on the side seem a little “unpolished”
for Ive’s design, in my opinion.
Now what about the idea that this is a well-played plant by Apple as a
smoke screen for whatever’s really coming? Unlikely, it’s just not
Apple’s style.

I guess we’ll see in a month or two what the deal is… if it’s the
real deal, it’s certainly far too late in the engineering process to
make something else.

So I came across this article in the New York Times a couple months ago and saved it in my bookmarks.

This guy is a writer for the National Post (yeecch!) who’s trying out the diet portion of the “Caveman Lifestyle.”

My gut reaction tells me there’s something to this diet… we weren’t built to subside on so much processed junk… of course, the flip side of that coin is that we only lived to be about 35 back then.

I think maybe I’ll give it a try, but modify it a little: I’ll add artisan-baked whole wheat bread (or whole wheat bread I make myself), small-batch cheeses made in the Middle Ages (I’m thinking cheeses like Oka. Maybe?

Besides that, if it wasn’t poking out of the ground, or didn’t walk, swim or fly, I don’t want it.
Cutting fast food out of the diet was a good first start; but let’s take it another step.

And you know what? I like most organ meats (kidney, liver, etc.), so I can probably eat cheaply enough.