It was unveiled yesterday, the rumored and much talked about Apple tablet. This device had the potential to be amazing. The thought of just a screen to have, making it useful for reading documents, watching movies, and using the many incredible apps in the app store… and then Apple had to go and make it their own. This will be a money maker for sure. There has been a lot of praise for it, but at the same time there’s a lot of backlash and rightfully so.

The iPad sits on a strange place in the market. It’s not meant to replace an iPhone, yet it’s not powerful enough to replace their MacBook lineup. It’s just another device to own so Apple can continue taking money from suckers. I wouldn’t be so bitter, but really, there are big things that this device can’t do that it should be able to: lack of flash, USB, camera and multitasking for starters. Once again you’ll need to buy special adapters for this one product, and I would venture to guess that the next iteration would make those obsolete. There’s also a lack of widescreen which even the iPhone has it beat, but that seems to be common with most netbooks in general. Still, imagine this device doing 720p videos. I’m hearing the screen is beautiful, so it’d be nice to run HD video.

As it stands now, why own one other than to have the next shiny Apple gadget?

I will say though, as an e-book reader, this thing could be a great device. But why not get a Kindle for half the cost and a greater battery life?

The latest trailer for my most anticipated game so far, Mass Effect 2 just keeps blowing me away. A part of me wishes that this wasn’t a game and instead would just be the next big sci-fi blockbuster hit, but hell, I wouldn’t be as interested if it weren’t for the game play as well.

However, I’m still torn as to what I should get it for, the PC or 360. As it stands now in regards to the first ME, the PC version was a lot more optimized. Highly reduced load times, sharper graphics, a keyboard and the lack of screen tearing has me grabbing towards the PC, yet my beaten save file and the Commander Shepard I know rests on my 360… Plus, there are those damn achievement points. I want to pre-order, but until I know that the 360 version isn’t plagued with graphical issues, I’m just left to wait. Reviews should be trickling in soon online, so hopefully I’ll get to read it before it’s released.

I’m with the rest of the internet. I’m on Team Conan. This whole NBC fiasco is shameful. I get it, ratings are down, NBC is still in fourth place as far as networks go. But could they really handle this situation any worse than they are now? First off, Leno should’ve retired when his time came up. Personally, I never really found him all that entertaining and it boggled my mind how he maintained his strong ratings when you have Letterman, Ferguson, Kimmel and Conan all out there actually giving us entertainment. But the numbers can’t lie and somehow Leno managed to keep up his ratings. I’ll give him credit for that.

Does that give NBC the right to kick Conan to the curb after promising him the Tonight Show so many years ago? Hell no. I mean, not on a justified viewpoint. This gig was promised to Conan five years ago. I remember when I read the news way back when and thought it’s great that Conan will be taking control of the Tonight Show. Who knew it’d end like this. I grew up on Conan, and while I don’t get a chance to watch him nearly as much (procrastination and homework are often my late night plans), I still hoped that when I finally do get the time, I could turn on the TV for some laughs.

But I shouldn’t get so worked up about it. Conan does bring up the point that this is just entertainment drama. At the end of the day, they’ll all be fine, and Conan will be better off wherever he ends up. If NBC wants to continue to fail as a network, then by all means. I’ll stick around for the Office and 30 Rock. I won’t deny my love for those shows. I won’t stick around for Leno.

Though honestly, this shake up has been pretty entertaining. Every late night host is ripping on Leno and NBC, which is reason enough for me to keep checking out this late night drama.

UPDATE 1/15: Seems to be final. Conan’s leaving NBC, even after being threatened by Zucker that he wouldn’t be allowed on air for 3.5 years until his contract expires. Good news is that this now lets Conan take any offers on other networks. I still can’t believe NBC let it get this far though.

After a lot of playing around with a new web design (and ignoring the unfinished previous one from lack of motivation), I finally got a new design up. The old one started to feel claustrophobic and it didn’t quite turn out like I wanted. I like this one more because it feels more busy I suppose, making it seem like I have more content than I really do. Plus, there’s a lot less unnecessary space. I still think it’s a little empty without a background, but I didn’t want to spend even more time than I did trying to figure out what to put there. I also have to figure out why Firefox isn’t showing my icon. Hopefully that’s the only two things I need to get back to, haven’t found any other problems. Removed the tag cloud and archives since I don’t think that’s all too important, though it’s an easy add if I change my mind. Overall, I’m happy with it, mostly since I can get on with my life now and do some other constructive thing, like… finish my short film or get started on another. I’ll get to them eventually damn it!

The short film is having some issues since the microphone was horrible at picking up sound. It’s usually not this bad so I’m not entirely sure what happened, but I’m going back and editing each track to get the best audio possible, which is painstakingly frustrating. Not only do I have to listen to the same track over and over, but if I listen long enough, I can’t tell if there’s a problem with it or not until I see it with the video. So it’s a little note to self, get a better mic. I’m thinking it might also just be a camera issue. Volume of some sort. I heard it just fine through the headphones, so camera’s volume might have been high while the mic volume might’ve been set to low, if I can even change the mic volume.

Less than a week until school. Last thing I need is more things to procrastinate with.

After seeing this awesome video:

I decided to go ahead and take a stab at my own face as a Navi. Mine’s not as crisps as his since he had a better photo to start with and better textures (and he’s better at Photoshop all around), but I’m satisfied with the results!