They're fixing that restaurant in LAX because pieces were falling off. I think they should keep it this way.

All right, I have been thinking about writing this for a bit so I am going to officially rant a bit about what bothers me about my Mac, Mac OS X and other technical stuff that many of us have to deal with every day to see if someday these issues will be fixed up or not.

1 - The "reboot" experience in Mac OS X is abysmal. Yes, I know that stuff has to get cached, but, I mean, why is it that, for the first 3-5 minutes after you reboot, you get the spinning beach ball of insane rainbow frustration with almost every mouse click? Usually you have to reboot because something crashed or hung and you are just trying to get back to what you were doing, so this extra lag time just adds insult to injury. I hate it. I also hate how dashboard doesn't preload, so if you have a few widgets, you have to wait for them to ping out to the Internet, get their data, and then redraw. Yes, it sounds minor when you read it on some dork's blog (that's me), but when you have to actually deal with it often and it's pretty easy to address, it's infuriating. And yes, I know there's some shareware thing out there that will preload the dashboard for you automatically, but the OS should do it on its own.

2 - I hate how hot my Macbook gets. It gets so damn hot it's dangerous. The only way I can use the thing for any length of time (like work), I have to use an external keyboard. I mean, this is what's up with my machine right now, and all I am doing is typing while listening to music via iTunes (Marcus Intalex). Why is it over 100° on the bottom of the case? And why are my fans up so high? What the hell is going on? And it's not even funny when you are burning a DVD. I have to stack the machine on top of books to get proper airflow underneath. If you use a Macbook on a wooden desk, forget about it. So, yeah--and I also hate when it doesn't really go to sleep and I end up taking it out of my backpack and both fans are on and it's white hot and you feel like all the keys are just going to melt off when you open the case. That's happened to me quite a few times.

3 - I don't need to go into this too much because so many others are already ragging on Apple about it, but the new iMovie is a big piece of junk. And iPhoto's not all that hot, either. And guess what? I've been using 10.5 and I don't like that much, either (transparent menu bar? Coverflow? reflective dock? Can you say waste of CPU power which makes for an even hotter machine?). So, yeah, I am turning into a grumpy old man, I guess.

4 - The iPhone is great, but the EDGE network is, in my opinion, its Achille's heel. It's really tough for me to imagine getting that phone until that situation changes. Yes, I know, there's more to life than surfing the Internet and going on google maps and checking your email, but...wait--is there, really?

5 - All these billboards you see about cell phone networks having the least amount of dropped calls really crack me up. There should be NO dropped calls in the first place. "Hey, check us out! We suck just a bit less!" Ridiculous.

okay, I can't maintain the rant for that long, but still, I needed to at least get the first two off my chest. I've been rebooting a lot lately because my machine has been crashing, I think because I have had network volumes mounted and then did not unmount them before going home for the day, which should just result in a time out, but lately have been causing my entire system to hang. So frustrating.

I have an audition for one of the new network shows that I am pretty excited about. I am trying to be cool about it, but I am failing. I really, really want this gig.

hope you are well!

Here's a picture of the bridge that went down in Minneapolis. So crazy.

Tags: apple, macos, imovie, tech