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I’m going on a little vacation for Labor Day weekend. I’m leaving tomorrow for a long weekend in Boston. Going back to visit my old friends and haunts. So another period with no posts for a bit. Keep up with me through the update mechanisms I can use from my phone:

Twitter (text updates)
BeenUp2 (photo updates)

Not sure how much I’ll be updating, but if anything interesting happens you’ll be the first to know.

I love posting random stuff about myself on the internet, as you all know. A friend of mine twittered about a new twitter-type site called BeenUp2. It’s like twitter where you send updates about what you’re doing all the time, but it uses photos.

Since I have a shiny new iPhone with a built in camera and email, I’ve been making use of it. You take a picture, then email to a personalized address and it shows up on their site pretty rapidly. Here’s a “badge” with my most recent updates:

Checkout what I’ve BeenUp2!

I hate the web-speak “wut u been up 2″? Come on folks, stop trying to be hip! But I like the concept. And you can say where you are when you send the picture and then see pics of locations, or maps of where you’ve been. It’s pretty cool. Very few people are using it right now, but it’s definitely growing. Curious to see if it goes anywhere or if twitter just eventually adds photo-tweets.

Let this be a lesson to us all! After I went on and on about how awesome my Mac was, it promptly fell ill. About a week and a half ago I was just sitting on my couch, playing a game on my computer. All was well, though the fan was whirring at hyper-speed. Then there was a horrible “grrgrrgrrcrrcrrcrr” crunchy noise.

The machine was still going, nothing seemed broken. I just sat there looking at it. I continued playing for a minute or two thinking, “Did I just imagine that horrid noise? Yes, I must have imagined it.” But then I decided it was probably real and I cautiously tipped my laptop. The noise crrrrr’d out again. I exited the game and shut the whole thing down. Once everything stopped moving I carefully rotated the laptop around. I heard a small something moving around in there.

My guess was that something had broken free and had been hitting the fan. I figured it would be best to not turn her on again. I made an appointment at the Apple Store and brought her in last week. The guy at the “Genius Bar” was actually pretty bad. He was all “For us to look at this you’d need to leave this with us.” Um, yeah, ok. “For a week even!” Yeah, um, ok. There’s something BROKEN INSIDE OF IT! Take it! Finally, they did.

I got it back today and the replaced the internal fans. Guess it was a good thing I brought her in, after all. No charge, under warranty. Everything seems to be working right now, so I’ll just maintain cautious optimism.

Learn your lesson well! Be careful in your praise! Don’t let your gadgets know how much you love them lest they decide to test your devotion!

Bionic Women tv show tie in.

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There was one section that was completely stupid and I got a 0% on it. Otherwise I did pretty well.

In more re-blogging news, Kristen Bell is joining the cast of Heroes! I’ve mentioned before how much I loved Veronica Mars, and Kristen Bell’s awesomeness was certainly a part of that. Heroes is goodness, so the combination is betterness.