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If there was ever a double-booth day for me on Dailybooth, today would be it. I posted a boring pic of me taking a nap, just so I could show Thommen watching over me.

Now, we go grocery shopping, and we get candy that was on sale! Now that’s something to scream about!! Sorry, but I have a huge sweettooth that is tempered by reactive hypoglycemia. These bite-sized morsels are the perfect size for me to munch and control sugar intake. Yum!

My favorite piece is the Milky Way Dark. Absolutely sinful!

Sweet cheers!

I’m taking some time out before my dinner ritual to update the blog on my going-on’s. This is written on my now-trusty iPhone.

First, the power supply is being shipped and should be here by Monday. This is according to the guy who runs Mac-n-PC-Specialist.com when I spoke to him over the phone today. As you may imagine, I’m itching to install it and (hopefully) have my iMac running again. Yes, this iPhone may have been a lifesaver, but it has its limits without the computer and the library metadata it’s attached to. It’s in sore need of an OS update, the phone’s data needs to be backed up in case something else catastrophic happens, and I’d like to switch out some music, all of which I can’t do on Christine’s computer without wiping the phone’s files completely. I’m glad my external drive has backups of my files (thanks Time Machine!), but that will be a last ditch effort, since those backups don’t include the iPhone metadata.

Work is still going well, so no big problems there… although, I was sad to see one manager leave for another location in another state. This guy will be missed; he was well-loved by the majority, an enviable position for any leader. If he’s reading this, I bid him godspeed.

Let it be known that my new phone hasn’t detracted from my puzzle hobby. I’m having a lot of fun with the V-7 Cube and the Pyraminx Crystal. Getting my solve times down has certainly been a challenge, and I hope to make some solve videos soon. Of course, that’s if the computer comes back from the dead, in which case I have two vids that I was working on to complete and post.

I’m finally breaking down and getting a cholesterol test tomorrow. Yay. Christine really wants to find out how I’m doing in this area. She’s had to lay off the juicy burgers since her test. Hopefully, mine will turn out ok, but I’m also hoping that her next test will fare better so that we’ll be able to enjoy the occasional greaseball.

Everything else is good here. The house is fine, just need to get on the ball with small upgrades. The birds are doing good, with Thommen having some attitude problems. All in all, I can’t complain a bit.

Cheers!

Most of my family and friends are on some kind of social networking site. Of course, the two big ones are facebook (yes, with a lower-case ‘f’) and MySpace. Of these two, I greatly favor facebook over MySpace for many reasons. In fact, the only reason why I haven’t dropped my MySpace account altogether is because my cousins use it and I use it as a form of communication with them. I’d much rather see them on facebook. (BTW, I didn’t bother posting any hyperlinks; you can see all the links to my social-net pages in the blog sidebar.)

Anyways, let’s get down to the reasons for this post’s inflammatory title…

1 ) facebook = social engineering (practically) down to a science. MySpace = social disease that has a rather painful cure.

2 ) facebook seems more maturely oriented with less chances of running across questionable people/groups. With MySpace, you can be sure that every bit of sleaze is going to be promoting itself to you in the form of friend requests.

3 ) facebook user pages are much less customizable. This may be seen as a bad thing, but consider this; you may have (as have I) run across some MySpace user pages that had embeds that did really funky things to your browser, thus making your processor temporarily go into a fit. Tie that in with the fact that MySpace pages are more easily configurable to enable phishing attacks.

4 ) Going along with point 3, the main way of customizing your facebook page is through the use of facebook apps. MySpace, in an effort to compete, enabled the use of these kind of apps on their pages. However, these apps can interfere with some of the customization that the user has already implemented on their page. As if the typical MySpace page doesn’t look jam-packed enough!

5 ) facebook gives you the option of letting people find you based on your educational and work history, and it makes an effort to show you people that you may know. This is what it’s there for! I’ve had my facebook account open in much less time than the MySpace account, and I got reconnected with a dear high school friend through facebook. MySpace is mainly geared towards making new friends and self-promoting, and it definitely shows.

6 ) With all this in mind, facebook is geared more toward an adult, or mature teen, crowd. I’ve joined groups in both sites, and I’ve had more stimulating conversations in facebook. MySpace, on the other hand, is more for the immature, party-hardy mentality. (Disclaimer: I’ve nothing wrong with partying and you can be mature and let loose, but I guess I’ve met more immature people with that kind of mentality.) IDK… Maybe I’m just a boring clod!

7 ) How about privacy? I’m an open book to even my casual acquaintances, but I like the fact that users have a greater range of privacy settings on facebook. MySpace is more limited on privacy but, to its credit, has gotten much better on privacy issues.

8 ) Last point, and this is about look and feel. facebook just seems much less bloated and jury-rigged together, unlike MySpace. Maybe facebook simply has the benefit of being a newer site; MySpace is one of the first, and still the biggest, social networking fish in the cybersea. facebook just feels much cleaner and faster than MySpace.

Maybe I was nitpicking through those points, maybe not. However, anything that I can say good about MySpace, I can also say about facebook. In fact, anything that I love to do in MySpace, I can also do on facebook! If any of you run across this article, and want to share your thoughts on these two social-net giants, please do so in the comments. I’d love to hear everyone’s take on the issue!

Cheers… and have fun connecting, or reconnecting, with friends!

First, I’d like to thank all my readers out there, no matter how frequent their visitations. This blog, as of the last post, passed the 400 post mark! I couldn’t have achieved that without the support of all of you. Thank you! So I guess you all will stick around for the 500th post, eh?

Second, I need to vent my frustration with one aspect of cubing. Ready? Here goes…

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Things like this are really aggravating. This is the third time that my 5×5x5 Rubik’s Professor cube went completely discombobulated on me. None of the pieces themselves are broken, like with what happened to my first 4×4x4 Rubik’s Revenge, but it’s extremely time-consuming to put it back together. In the picture you can see everything grouped: outer edge, outer center, inner center, corner and inner edge pieces and the core in the middle. After the picture was taken for this entry, I boxed up the pieces and put it underneath the bed. Before I did that, though, I placed an order on this eBay page for a 4×4x4 and 5×5x5 Eastsheen cube set. Eastsheen is a “chinese knock-off” variant of the Rubik’s brand that is purported to be much more stable and durable than the Rubik’s brand. I wonder why the company that makes Rubik’s brand simply didn’t adopt the manufacturing specs for these; they seem better constructed, from what I’ve seen.

I only ordered the 4×4x4 cube because I know that what happened to my last Rubik’s 4×4 will certainly happen to my current one in due time.

Well, wish me luck with these when they come in. I’ll post pics and reviews when I get the chance!

One more thing: Christine and I are shopping around for a new cellular contract, because our Sprint contracts are up in May. In light of a recent windfall, and Apple’s SDK announcement, you might see an awesome cellphone review in a couple of months! Stay tuned, and cheers!!