saw this on gizmodo and had to comment on it. 

I mean really, why would you want to miss out on your favorite past time just to swim with your kids? Now you don't have to, now you can enjoy your beer pong, while your children swim blissfully around you, careful don't spill the beer in the pool!

This picture actually makes me remember my honeymoon. Nicole and I were in Jamaica at one of the many Sandal's on the island.

We were lucky enough to be honeymooning at the same time a trio of newly-wed rednecks were (Who honeymoons as a group? I mean jesus, get an individual live for pitey's sake).

Well while the sorority sisters were sunning their hubbies decided that the pool was the perfect place to 1. throw the football around, 2. to bring out their beer funnel. Yeah they brought a beer funnel from the states.... every day we new where to find them... at the pool, beer funnel in hand... better still they took to rinsing it in the pool after each turn.... Ah rednecks... can't escape 'em, even in paradise.

I was listenning to Gillmor Gang today, and Steve posited something that reinforced my views of him. For as intelligent as he is, he's a putz out of touch with what goes on outside the Valley. If you want to know which show. it was Black Friday Gang part 19 of 32.

wtf, Steve. San Jose doesn't even have city wide wifi yet. In the last year of flying no more than half the airports had free wifi. Some had none at all.

Have you flown much? Airplane wifi? I've heard of one airline offering it. I also seem to recall hearing of one that dropped it. Either that means there's none or there were at least two.

Maybe he means EVDO? I thought Steve had a Mac Book Pro, if that's the case offline is dead, IF you use Verizon Wireless. They're currently the only carrier offering an ExpressCard format wireless broadband. I'm guessing Steve means offline is dead for the technorati, cuz for the rest of us, it's alive an kicking.
 
I love listenning to Gillmor Gang, I've said that before. I listen despite Steve's completely transparent attempts to get ad revenue by splitting one show into 5 so he can have 5 4 minute long godaddy and earthlink ad spaces... Which by the way Steve, that's whack. It's insulting to your listenners and wastes our time. If you're not careful I see a recurring gesture in the future from all your listeners... You like gestures, I'll let you guess which one.

I won't cover my opinions Jason Calcanis being in the gang...

Well we're home.

Maui was great! We're not really sure if we'll go back any time soon. It was fun, but not something we'd make a yearly habit out of.

We ended our stay, doing quite a bit. We hit up Haleakala crater. The intention was to do a little hiking but we got a litle nervous about the time. We didn't want to take any chances with bein late to the airport. We did hike a little ways in just to take some pictures. After that we headed over to the Tedeschi winery. The winery itself, not that impressive. They only offered four tastings, and were a popular top of the cruise ship crowd. HOWEVER, they make a totally kick ass Rasberry wine. We ordered two bottles, they'll be here next week. Last up on our whirlwind tour of the island, we hit up the Iao needle. It didn't look much like a needle and the park it was in was rather small and over run with feral kitties. Most of which actually had scowls on their cute little kitty faces, weird!

Now on to the new machine.... Before we left I ordered a new Mac Book Pro. Sweet! I know! I actually ordered it before leaving thinking it would take Apple a while to ship it. Heck, my refurbed (ie, already sitting in Cupertino) took two weeks to get to my house. Well the MBP made it in 3 days. I ordered it Friday night before we hit the sack, it was signed for by the maids on Wednesday morning. It came from Shanghai!!!! Wat to go Apple!!

As soon as we got home Saturday I set about getting it set up. At this point almost all of my Mac apps and settings are transfered. I went the old school way, fresh installs of all apps, vs the Migration tool path. Mostly because I didn't have a firewire cable.

I'm getting ready to get get started on setting p the PC, in the mac. Ordering a key for Parallels now, then off I go.

My impromptu review is as follows.
Hardware.

I went with a slightly modded configuration. I upped the Ram to 1gb, single stick. I'll get the second from NewEgg. I upped the HDD to the 100gb drive. i went 5400 RPM vs 7200 RPM since I don't do much high end stuff. I don't need a fast HDD to write code, write words, or download podcasts.

The heat issue... wel it's there for sure. This bad boy gets hot. Not unbearably so, but not comfy either.

The layout is ok. I know Apple doesn't put ports on the back, but two USB, one on each side, kinda weak. Not only because two is not enough with today's USB powered sushi, personal fans, and coffee warmers, but because one on each side makes you ahve to pick and choose what to plug in, and where. Ah well.

Software..
Well it's Apple OS X. Nothing new to me.

well we're here. HI. Maui to be specific. We're staying at the Hyatt Regency outside Lahaina.

Not a bad thing yet. We've enjoyed the pool, which while not too warm, is warm enough to be nice. The work out facility is incredible. By far the best I've seen in a hotel. Granted this is a "resort" but still, it's a damn nice, well appointed workout facility.

We haven't partaken of the "activities" yet, mostly cuz the price to enjoyment ratio doesn't jive with us. We are going to do the "road to Hana" tomorrow, that should be fun.

Last night was our one year wedding anniversary, we went up to Whalers Village for dinner. Had a great meal (I ate steak!!) and watched the sun set. The waitress knew (we didn't tell her) it was our anniversary so we enjoyed a comped dessert.. as if we needed it, but damn it was good.

Nicole is (as I type) getting pampered at the health spa, fingers and toes and all that good girly stuff. After that we're heading for Lahaina Town, see the huge Banyan tree, walk around town, probably have dinner at Bubba Gumps, how can we not?

That's about it for the trip so far, More to come for sure. Already finished one of the books I brought.