Beware of ballet teacher through Parks and Rec

Just a heads up post for all the parents in my area ... the ballet instructor is frightening. I pulled S from the class after she was treated like a criminal for tossing a plastic shaker into the center of the circle. Uhh, lady these are two year olds and I, the mom, was on top of correcting the potentially wild behavior. Didn't need you chiming in and sharing that lovely ice queen glare at my two year old (you have that down, by the way. I'd call some casting directors and get back in the biz).

Barack Obama is invited to meet with the Pope while he is vacationing in Venice.

The conservative press reluctantly watches the semi-private audience, hoping
they will be able to allot minimal coverage, if any.

The Pope asks Senator Obama to join him on a gondola ride through the canals of
Venice.

They're admiring the sights and agreeing on moral issues when, all of a sudden,
the Pope's hat (zucchetto) blows off his head and out into the water.

The gondolier starts to reach for the Pontiff's cap with his pole, but this move
threatens to overturn the floating craft.

Barack waves the tour guide off, saying, "Wait, wait. I'll take care of this.
Don't worry."

He steps off the gondola onto the surface of the water and walks out to the
Pope's hat, bends over and picks it up. He walks back across the water to the
gondola and steps aboard.

He hands the hat to the Pope amid stunned silence.

The next morning the buzz among Republicans in Congress & on Fox News was like,

"Guess what? Have you heard, Obama can't swim!"

Robert J. Elisberg: Sarah Palin's Speech: The Good, the Bad

Actual serious analysis of the speech...worth reading.

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More free MobileMe!

Thanks, Apple!

We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users' patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber as of today a free 60 day extension. This is in addition to the one month extension most subscribers have already received. We are working very hard to make MobileMe a great service we can all be proud of. We know that MobileMe's launch has not been our finest hour, and we truly appreciate your patience as we turn this around. Read this article for more details.

The MobileMe Team

Fixed my 10.4.11 sync problem

Kudos to the folks on Macrumors.com. I found the fix there for the sync issue with MobileMe. Hmmm - seems odd that I couldn't get this fixed after spending four hours (two separate calls) on the phone with Apple chat support and an hour in the store at the Genius bar. Oh well - I'll give the benefit of the doubt - all of Apple is tired since the launch went so well. heehee.

Here's the fix if anyone else is having the issue:

1. go to the Finder and do a search for "dotmac"
2. delete any resulting files that end with "plist"
3. restart

You can then go to the System Preferences panel and sync.

A is for Apple

Ok - had a decent experience at the Mac Genius bar at Arden Fair Mall. Genius Joe checked out the phone, reset the network and email started populating rapid fire. He also paired my Bluetooth with the iPhone - but he did exactly what I was doing from home yesterday (magic Apple store fairy dust -- they need more of it by the buckets full). So two of my three issues seem to be fixed for the time being. However, MobileMe is still not working with OS X Tiger. Joe said, "Yeah. The engineers are working on it." I asked if adding Leopard would fix it and he wasn't sure it would. He said I could get on iChat and ask if it's been fixed (Uh, Joe, I've been on iChat for a total of 5 hours and they haven't been too helpful). So, I've decided to suck it up and WAIT. I'll wait for the engineers to fix the glitch and try and sync with the MobileMe Cloud. "Hey glitch get off of my cloud!" We'll see how this cloud crap ends up working. More later!

iPain

Okay - so standing in line was the least of my worries. This is now comical. Since some genius at Apple decided to launch the iPhone 3G, flip the switch on MobileMe and try and get all the 1.0 iPhone owners upgraded at once, NOTHING IS WORKING. YOU’RE FIRED! What in the heck? My phone hardly works, my computer hardly works (OS X Tiger 10.4.11) and I’m becoming a hater! I’ve loved Apple since high school and have argued points with PC worshipping, myopic slobs for years. Now, I hide my head in shame. I have an appointment with a Mac Genius (heehee - we’ll see) tomorrow morning. Wish I could video me hurling my MacBook Pro, iPhone and Bluetooth onto the counter and telling them to “Fix it or give me my money back.” Dreadful. I’m going to demand they fess up - if I need Leopard - okay, give me the damn box FOR FREE! I’ll slap that baby on my computer faster than you can say Steve Job’s is an ass clown. More on this fiasco later.

A pox on you, Apple Marketing!

Uh, Steve & Co, you have other customers in addition to the no job having or independently wealthy mobs who have nothing better to do than stand in line for 24+ hours to get their hands on the iPhone 3G. How about helping out the other fans-of-the-iPhone, those of us work-at-home or stay-at-home moms who can’t possibly stand in line with the other schmucks since we’re mothering and working and reading about all the cool features of the new iPhone! I’ve been waiting to get one since I heard the first buzz about the dropped price and the 3G features (not to mention the Apps!). I understand you want to cut out the hacking and keep the contracts streamlined, but why not let me buy the phone online, sign the freakin’ two year contract (heck, I’ll sign a 10 year contract!) and set up my phone from the comfort of my home-office chair? From what I’ve heard, many people had to go home yesterday anyway and finish the phone setup from home. Umm - I could already be a proud iPhone 3G owner/user, Steve, but NO, now, I’m going to have figure out how to get back in a stinky line three days after the launch date. Great. If I don’t get a phone, man. My patience is wearing thin! Help out us tech geek mothers who aren’t able or willing to torture our children by camping out in front of a store. There’s got to be a better way! :)

Still a fan,
iMother