Apple & Chip Fab
Over at Roughly Drafted, Daniel Dillinger muses on why Apple would buy out PA Semi. It's an interesting line of thinking and it raises some awesome questions. Foremost among them is, why is Apple buying out a chip design group that specialized in varieties of the PowerPC architecture? This is an important point to ruminate on, as Apple just invested heavily in making the switch to Intel's x86-based Core chips for their hardware.
Mr. Dillinger goes on to speculate on Apple's reasoning behind this -- and eliminates the concept of a PWRficient chip in desktop macs, as well as in mobile applications (notebooks, iPhones, etc.). He then moves on to speculate that Apple will put chipsets in its boxes for the purposes of hardware acceleration, which seems the most likely line of reasoning.
But the question becomes: why?
Merry Christmas
It's the "most wonderful time of the year" again, and wow. I'm just not there. I did hear Run-D.M.C.'s "Christmas in Hollis" on the radio the other day, and that put a smile on my face. And Eric Cartman singing "Swiss Colony Beef Log" still cracks me up to no end.
Writing, Bike, Etc.
On the writing front, I seem to have lost momentum via the day lost to the dead logic board in my Mac Mini. That's kinda sucky, but I'm going to force myself to sit in front of the 'ol text editing program for an hour tomorrow -- either I'll write, or I'll waste an hour. One or the other.
On the bike side of things, Zipp finally got my wheels back to me. Only one minor issue -- a dust seal on the cassette hub body was folded over onto itself, exposing the internals -- and I was able to correct that in less than five minutes with a pair of 5mm allen wrenches and a dental pick. Tonight, I'm going to scrub the cassette clean before I re-install it, and get everything back on the Salsa. It looks awfully sad, hanging in the living room with no wheels.
Minor Items
So minor items of import:
1. Yesterday, the logic board in my G4 Mac Mini decided it was time to shit the bed, and die. So today, my unemployed ass went out and bought a new Core 2 Duo Mac Mini, with an assist from mom, who called it my Xmas present. Thanks, mom! (And fortunately, I was able to recover the start of the novel I began earlier in the week!)
2. We're in the clean-up phase of remodeling the shop I work at, and my lungs are full of dust. It's pretty awesome when it hurts to breathe.
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Trio of girls covering "ABC" by the Jackson Five. They are fucking NAILING it. Michael Jackson lives! [fontosaurus]
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