Author: midder

Apple has some cool new products

I know, I’m a geek. So just ignore this post if you’re looking for the fun, family stuff. I’ve been listening to the Keynote speech at MacWorld. That’s usually where they announce all of their new products. Last year was the Intel chip, so you could run Windows on your Mac. This year, it’s the Apple TV, the iPhone, and everything related. I think Apple has relegated Microsoft’s Vista launch to a complete afterthought. Even though I work with Microsoft products everyday, I’m 10x more excited about what Apple is doing.

The Apple TV lets you stream your videos that you put on iTunes to your TV. That includes movies that you would get off of iTunes, fancy DVD movies Julie creates, etc. It also includes any sort of slideshow or whatever you create in iPhoto. Really cool stuff. The first compelling reason for me to get an HDTV. Well, that and the analogs will be obsolete soon.

The even cooler product is the iPhone that’s been anticipated for a while. Truly a cool thing. I’ve never been much of a phone fan. You won’t find me typing into a Blackberry or whatever. But this one is different. They partnered with Cingular. Some think that’s a bad thing, but I don’t know enough about phones and service providers to comment. All I know is that it looks cool. Someday . . .

You can get all the nerdy details here and here.

Gwenyth is Little

Julie took Gwen in this morning for a well check-up. She was very impressed with the office and with all of the people there. I can’t remember the doctor’s name, but he came highly recommended by a few folks, and he didn’t disappoint.

While all of that was fine and dandy, the doctor basically told Julie that Gwenyth is less than one percent on the charts, and unless she starts drinking whole milk all day long, she’s going to be small her whole life. We’ve always kind of blown things off in the past, because she eats like a tank. And she eats pretty much anything and everything. But now we really need to focus on getting her lots of whole milk and other dairy products. The doctor suggested cheese. I think I might suggest ice cream, so I can have an ice cream partner at night.

The whole thing kind of alarmed Julie, I think, and we’re probably going to be making some changes to the little one’s diet. Less crackers, rice, and noodles, more milk, cheese, and lard. She’d better enjoy it — it’s probably the only time in her life that a doctor will recommend that for her diet. Maybe I’ll gain some of the 15 pounds I lost in the last month stressing about this move. Hopefully not.

Videos work now

Apparently the videos I have posted have not been working for those of you with Internet Explorer. And, since that’s probably most of you, I apologize. Only the truly informed work with either a Mac or Firefox. For you Windows users, I recommend downloading Firefox to use as your browser. It’s much better than Internet Explorer. I’m a geek, so I notice a difference; most of you likely will not. But, please, download it anyway. It will make me happy and you a geek. A “win-win” as it were.

For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, I apologize. Enjoy Julie’s DVD and the one and only B-Money.

Gwenyth and Pad Thai

Tonight we decided to go out for some Thai food. There’s a great place up the road in American Fork called Thai Village. We got there at about 6:45 to find we weren’t the only ones with this idea.

We ordered Pad Thai, Thom Kha Kai, and Mussaman curry. All were fabulous. You can tell from the new pictures that Gwenyth was particularly fond of the noodles. I think that girl has gained 5 pounds in the last week. She eats anything and everything in sight, the little porker. The girls all enjoyed the food. It was great.