I love my new Palm Pre, and I absolutely love the fact that it's fighting Apple with iTunes syncing. To recap, Palm shipped it saying "it syncs with iTunes" and Apple updated iTunes and basically said "Now it doesn't!" and Palm changed some things to fix it and is now saying "Now we can again!" It's a great cat and mouse game, and I hope Palm doesn't give it up.

This whole game is very similar to what we see with other devices being jailbroken or hacked, which is an important note. Palm, so far as a platform, has a very limited and closed app store, but it's a linux platform under GPL and should be the easiest to hack (it has been, you can get it into dev mode and use linux to root into the file system, I've seen an NES emulator already ported). The point I want to bring up is this: my love for the device will be GREATLY damaged if Palm takes steps to stop the hackers/jailbreakers on the Pre, which includes homebrew apps and tethering, especially given the way they're trying to circumvent Apple with the iTunes syncing. It would be pure hypocrisy to say to apple "we're circumventing your closed system to improve the user experience" and then turn around and say "hackers, we don't care if it improves things, circumventing blocks is bad."

Nowhere on the internet have I been able to find instructions for how to sync a palm pre in ubuntu. Since in media sync mode the pre pretends it's an ipod, you can use gtkpod quite easily, but as always in gtkpod you must select the type of device it is. I can't find it listed anywhere on the internet, but for all future users to note, the palm pre acts as an 8GB iPod Touch. That's model xA623. You're all freaking welcome.

• Pizza? Rained in? Playing with dog while rocking out to Tenacious D? Best freaking night ever. #
• Frustrated my google apps suite doesn't jive with my google account better. My contacts live in apps, how will it sync with google voice??? #
• Mostly, this link is a bookmark for me for later:
  Repairing Tilda in Ubuntu 9.04. #
• Anyone else disappointed in Ubuntu 9.04? Intel drivers, screenlets completely unusable, tilda breaks, compiz errors, pulse audio fails? sigh #
• OH MY GOD WOOT OFF HOLY POO! http://www.woot.com #
• Barnett has now lost me as a fan. Way to blow your career. Even if you'd have won, you're a loser. #
• I was sent home from work sick today. With a really bad sore throat, I considered a slurpee a necessity. #
• Please put Monson up against Fedor, please! #
• iGoogle (on gmail, not my hosted domain) now has apps gadgets, VERY useful. Apps(mail,cal,talk,docs), finance, analytics, twitter, & reader #
• WE JUST GOT OUT OF R VERIZON CONTRACT! I have been waiting for this 4 so long, I'm so relieved! Finally, a cool phone Jenn & I are both on! #
• Affliction Trilogy is canceled. Josh Barnett better be watching his back because millions of fans want to kill his steroid-taking ass. #
• Freaking A, what a big day for MMA. Affliction folding, Tito resigned to UFC, Affliction a UFC sponsor? Wow. #
• http://twitpic.com/bj01d - Oh my goodness, this is my first tweet on the new palm pre, so much fun! #
• http://twitpic.com/bj0u1 - The dog is unamused by phone tweeting. #
• RT @MMA4Real: Dana White Surveys The Ruins of His Former Competitors(Pic) http://sbnation.com/e/726331 Hilarious! #
• http://twitpic.com/bksfq - Just finished an early trip to the dog park...someone's a mess. #

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me: do we have documentation of that?
    we have $**** in checking right now

Jenn: its been documented in the record
    eek, not much
    i expected more....

me: ?
    savings is $**,***
    I moved 4 grand over a while ago
    $**,*** total
    :)

Jenn: oh

me: and we get paid next weekend

Jenn: i didn't realize you moved money around
    from checking to savings?

me: yup, earning that interest
    This is me
    This is  it
    you see there?
    I'm on top of it.

Jenn: haha
    i get it :-D

Ok, so anyone that knows me knows I have a TERRIBLE fear of spiders. Like, deathly shaking and screaming and running away. So, anyway, I get home from work today and go in the kitchen and in the middle of the floor is a huge, monster, big enough to eat Rygel spider. In real terms, his whole legspan was about a half-dollar coin. Jenn wasn't home yet to take care of it for me. (She gets the spiders, I get the snakes, it's an arrangement that works well.)

Rather than run screaming into the wilderness, I man up to handle the situation. Mostly this decision was motivated by the fact that Rygel and I are still in a little bit of a dominance struggle in the new house, and I have to show who takes care of business, long story. I sternly command Rygel to sit (yea, I'm freaking out at this point) and jump across the room to grab a wad of paper towels, and hover down and position myself to kill it with one huge smash. I lean in about 6 inches away, take a deep breath, and...

SMASH!

I hit the ground with such great force the neighbors probably thought I was bowling. BUT??? Suddenly the beast crawls out from under my paper towel wad! I'm absolutely freaking out now, and just start smashing it with the towel, and it doesn't die, even after like 3 direct hits! Rygel finally forgets the command and sees the moving thing, which is interesting, so he comes over, and fearing for his life from this poisonous monster I am screaming at him to go away. At one point the spider ran through his legs, and I just shoved him across the room. I once again commenced smashing, at this point screaming "DIE! DIE! DIE" literally at the top of my lungs. I know I'm one to tell stories, but that part is absolutely true, I was screaming the word "DIE!" over and over. Finally, I came down on him in some tile grout and dragged a bit, finally slaying the beast. The whole ordeal probably lasted 45 seconds.

He was flushed down the toilet, and I have been sitting here shaking ever since. My thumb is now swollen and sore because I hit the ground so hard so many times. I DO NOT FUCKING LIKE SPIDERS.