Quasi @ Touch & Go Block Party

One of my very favorite bands, Quasi, profiled at last year's Touch & Go Block Party in Chicago. The video features one of my favorite songs "All The Same".

GhostCaps

GhostCaps is an interesting and original image-based concept blog authored by Jon Wilcox, illustrator of the Wiiminder logo and countless past and future Warp Pipe illustration-based contributions.

The premise of the blog is particularly appealing to me, as you can imagine. Every day Jon illustrates a caption in ghost-form. Some of the entries are sketched, some are inked, and some even have some color. One of the best things about the blog is the fact that it is faithfully updated daily.

If you want to add some interesting content to your RSS reader, or wish to expand your web comic horizons, give GhostCaps a read, it will haunt you daily (sorry, I couldn't help myself).

I Finally Purchased A Mac Pro

After waiting months for any kind of upgrade, I finally pulled the trigger on a Mac Pro. Apple finally gave the Mac Pro a refresh (adding an eight core option). Although I weighed the option of getting the eight core model, I decided to get the four core (3GHZ) model with added airport and bluetooth functionality instead.

I'm pretty excited, but also a bit bummed that I waited this long without a price drop, etc. I promised myself I would pull the trigger as soon as Apple refreshed the product line in any way, so this is what I get.

This machine will replace my Mac Mini, which is currently my primary desktop computer (pretty sad). I waited a very long time to upgrade and this is good timing as I need an Intel machine that will run Windows (for XNA game development) and I am really looking forward for dual 20'' widescreen monitor support (just purchased another display today as well).

I will likely be selling my Mac Mini (for any of you interested, drop me a line). This will leave me with my trusty 12'' Powerbook (last G4 revision, love it to death), my new Mac Pro, my Linux cluster / RAID (3 generic white boxes), and my first-generation aqua clamshell iBook (keeping it around for sentimental reasons, it served as our trusty Mac test machine for Warp Pipe).

I should receive the machine later this week, so I will have it all setup sometime this weekend. I will post an update in due time.