I really hate clothes shopping. Well, I actually like the shopping part, but I rarely find something that I actually want, and when I do, I usually get two or three of the same thing to save me from doing more shopping. Today, I picked up a couple of shirts at Old Navy. One of them, I had been eyeballing the last few times I went in there, and it was on sale. I liked it so much, I got the same shirt in a different color. Now, originally, I went in there to look at shorts, but I didn't like the pocket openings on their shorts. I don't think I have particularly big hands, but I hate it when the openings are too small. I like to lug around my keys, a wallet, a cell phone, and sometimes a pen in my pockets so things can get crowded fast. That's why I like big pockets.
Before stopping in Old Navy, I wandered around Tower and managed to make it to the book section. I noticed a new issue of Travel+Leisure and it made me yearn for my subscription to show up. Hopefully, next month it will be here. I did see the new Star Trek Voyager Companion, which in just a quick skim, seemed completely useless. The DS9 Companion is chock full of behind the scenes information as well as the usual summary and production notes. The Voyager one just has plot summaries and a breakdown of different info related to the Trek universe that is created in each episode. The information is cool, but without the behind the scenes on each episode it left me feeling a little flat.
Next stop, Fry's. Just a quick wanderlust around before I headed home. I really, really want a DVD burner and a way to convert all my home movies. Badly.
I am not sure what I am going to do tomorrow for the 4th. I work in the morning, but it's the first time in a long time that I have nothing to do. I'm usually at Disneyland at night for the fireworks, but I'm not going to stick around an extra four hours just to see them. Maybe I'll pick up some OT.
Daniel wanted me to mention that he was along for the ride as well, and that it was originally his idea to go to look for shorts. The editor apologizes for any confusion :)
OMG I want a DVD burner too. The disks have gotten cheap, about $1.50 each. The last time I looked at them (about 4 months ago) the Sony 500 was supposed to be the best, but now it looks like Sony has a new model DRU-510A ($300 at buy.com), so I have to do the research all over again. http://reviews.cnet.com/Sony_DRU_510A_DVD_RW_Drive/4505-3212_7-21226932.html?tag=upidmlp for the review.
It seems to me that DVD burners are today where CD burners were about 2 or 3 years ago. People out there are still making DVD coasters. The buffers are big, but there's no buffer underrun protection like they have in the nice CD burners now. They're also significantly slower than the most recent CD burners.
At any rate, the prices are really coming down. Some DVD+RW drives can be found at like $175.
This is definately near the top of my Chanukkah / Birthday list (right behind the Canon 10D Digital SLR camera).
Joe
You may have seen the announcement that Iomega (?!) is going to design a drive that truly supports all formats (+R/+RW, -R/-RW, -RAM). Sure, you're going to pay for it. And there's no guarantee that the drive is going to work with all media, and that THOSE media are going to work with all drives.
But still...
(http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1130062,00.asp)