I remembered how to restore purchases on hipstamatic, so I have all my stuff back.

And they have a multiple exposure function now. Watch out!

…Rush brings the Clockwork Angels Tour to the TD Garden in Boston.

Siri is so much cooler now.

There were good things that happened in pro sports yesterday, and there were bad things.

First, the bad things.  The NHL, of course.  As I expected, the players rejected the leagues new 50/50 offer.  As I hoped, the players made not one but three counter offers.  As I feared, they stupidly kept their steps down to 50/50, instead of compromising and going right there.  The league rejected all three offers after less than an hour of discussion and termed the day a step backward.

So my hope and my fear both happened, and now the players are the bad guys.  I’m not the least bit surprised.  It’s a negotiation between Gary lock-em-out Bettman and Donald strike-forever Fehr.  We are never going to see hockey again.

Fortunately there was good news on the baseball front.  The Yankees Lose!  Theeeeeeee Yankees Lose!

They got swept by the Tigers and looked like they never even came close to having a prayer of even making things interesting.  It was wonderful.  Thank you to all of Detroit.  Boston owes you one.

The first moon pic on the new phone.

From what I hear we are about 15 minutes away from getting the NHL Players Union’s response to the league’s most recent (50/50 split) CBA proposal.

Here’s what I expect will happen.

Nothing.

The players will reject the offer and we’ll go back into a retarded stalemate and watch the potential season go down the shitter.

Here’s what I hope will happen.

The players will reject the offer, but make a counter proposal that will end up being one step closer to the final deal that will be signed in a week or two.

Six days until Rush at the TD Garden in Boston.  Getting excited, again.

Have you ever had one of those strong, yet completely irrational feelings that today is going to be long and painful and just plain strewn with potholes?

‘Cause I’m having that feeling right now, and I just want to make sure I’m not the only one who gets like this.

I probably should not have picked a bootleg as my first ear pod (Apple’s new ear buds) test, but I did.

They sound excellent. Much warmer than the old ear pods. I’m very pleased.

Oh and the bootleg is Rush playing in Philly on 10/12/12 and it is pretty good too. (It’s the second source to be circulated) its the best boot of the tour so far.

Weird.

I think there might have been a side effect to the New England earthquake yesterday after all.

This morning I was in the cellar picking up some work clothes for the day.  You see, I wash ’em, I dry ’em, I sort ’em, I fold ’em, but I usually fail to put ’em away.  So most of my clothes are sitting on a table in the cellar next to the washer/dryer.

As I am digging through the pile, trying to find a shirt, I hear a voice from the sky.  “Your signal is weak.  Try boosting your gain.”  It was a voice I recognized immediately.

Mr Spock.  First officer/science officer aboard the Starship Enterprise, NCC 1701.

Yeah… that Mr Spock.

A few seconds went by and suddenly I heard Lieutenant Uhura.  I then heard Chief Engineer, Commander Scott.  A few more seconds went by and I heard Captain James T. Kirk himself!

A couple of years ago we bought a christmas ornament that was a Star Trek communicator.  When you open it up and push buttons you hear voice samples from the TV show.  That’s what I was hearing.  I guess the mild shake we got last night must have jolted the communicator inside the box of ornaments inside the closet in the cellar, and either the battery is dying and it’s firing off randomly, or something is leaning against a button.

For a second there I felt like the fanboy in the movie Galaxy Quest when Tim Allen tells him that it’s all real.  Only for a second.