I had the opportunity to travel with the Saint Mary’s Basketball team as part of the pep band last week. We went to Houston Texas for the third round of March Madness. On the flight down there, they had inflight internet. The only downer was that it was 8 bucks or I should say $7.95. A small price to pay to keep up on my facebook status stalking and my “texts from last night” browsing. I also probed the network to see how many of my fellow passengers (it was a chartered flight) were partaking in the mile high internet club. I also wanted to see the little network that Delta airline had constructed. All the photo’s are from my iPod Touch and from 35,000+ feet.

The photo below is from the web browser after you enter the code. “You’re on the inter-webs”. It was definitely a good sight. A few minutes later they rolled out the ice cream snack and I knew this flight was probably the best flight I have ever taken.

As I was playing in the Saint Mary’s jazz band last week, one of the members asked for brass to accompany the pep band to March madness. I, of course, wanted to do it and am going to Providence, Rhode Island tomorrow for the basketball game. They are playing Richmond and our game is on Thursday at noon or sometime around there. So today I prepped my desk for the inevitable onslaught of paper that will pile up over the next 4 days. I have posted a picture of my desk below, it rarely looks this clean because I hoard work for times when I have little work. I really shouldn’t do that because work seems to find me and I am always doing something while at the dealership.

This is my desk in all its glory. I can only imagine the amount of paper in store for it (and me when I return). I am predicting that everything will be covered in at least 6 inches of paper. I’ll post a photo when I get back this weekend, assuming they win. If you look to the left, you’ll see a pile already forming. I was handed it as I was leaving and to the desk it went.

The age old debate of using a desktop or a laptop is in my psyche once again. I’ve been biased towards desktops for a long while. I remember going to Macworld when I was like 8 (although it was just for a brief instance-run in a grab a forgotten brick cell phone), and gawking at all the computers, most of which happened to be a desktop. They didn’t have laptops back then and the Apple computer we had, was a desktop. That is when my bias for desktops began.

I have been looking at macbook’s recently because I am constantly on the mac and haven’t turned my desktop rig on in several months. As I was talking to my alter ego last night/this morning, he said he was on his couch and typing; I said I was at my desk (wanting to be reading/working in the bed). I wouldn’t say it was envy, but more of a simplicity. I want to use my desktop, but I just don’t have any need to use it. I have all the programs I need on the mac. I guess the only thing I anticipate is when starcraft 2 comes out, probably the only reason I would/will keep the desktop.

I guess this will probably be the farewell post to my desktop. It was fun while it lasted and boy was it fun putting all the pieces together. May your quad core compute for many years to come.