Seriously considering getting it. “Parallels” is the software that allows the Mac to run Windows, so I could get a copy of Windows 7, and have a dual-OS laptop along with MacOS.<\/p>\n
It’s on sale until March 2, so I have a little while to weigh the pros and cons… the major “con” is, it costs twice what a comparable PC-based laptop would cost.\u00a0 The main pro is, of course, it’s a Mac.\u00a0 I really, really want it.<\/p>\n
Here’s an article about Salad Expressions<\/a>, the salad shop at 120 A. W. Willis (formerly Auction Avenue) across from the MATA bus terminal.\u00a0 I need to give them a try… it wouldn’t kill me to eat a green vegetable every once in a while.<\/p>\n A couple of weeks ago I tweeted about trying Domino’s “new, improved” pizza to see how it measured up against the other chains.\u00a0 Well, today I read that the folks at Brainwoo<\/a> decided to do a taste test of their own, comparing Domino’s to Pizza Hut and Papa John’s.\u00a0 Click here to see who won.<\/a><\/p>\n The monthly South Main Trolley Tour is Friday night.\u00a0 Galleries and shops will be open from 6 to 9 PM and the public is invited to stop by.\u00a0 Many of the businesses serve complimentary wine, beer, and\/or appetizers.\u00a0 Free food?\u00a0 Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up.\u00a0 It doesn’t seem possible that the last Friday of the month is right around the corner, but that’s February for you.<\/p>\n That’ll do it for now.\u00a0 I didn’t go out tonight.\u00a0 I got in a $5.50 hold’em tournament on PokerStars after work with 6-max tables.\u00a0 Normally I keep a notebook handy to journal what I did wrong during tournaments, but for this one I might as well have just written “everything” in the notebook.\u00a0 After that I got busy setting up a new blog, and spent hours playing around with the settings for the Atahualpa theme for WordPress.\u00a0 It’s so configurable!\u00a0 More on the new blog in a few days.\u00a0 So far it’s got everything but content, which is kind of the key ingredient.\u00a0 I would have gone out about 9, but I was having fun with WordPress, and besides, it’s just too cold to walk to the bar tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I get a weekly e-mail listing specials from MacMall. Today I found this: FREE SHIPPING on MacBook Pro 15″ 2.53GHz 4GB\/250 only $1599.99 (was $1699)+Free Parallels & Printer after rebate(s). From 02\/24 to 03\/02 Seriously considering getting it. “Parallels” is the software that allows the Mac to run Windows, so I could get a copy … Continue reading “Wed update: I want a MacBook, Salad Expressions, pizza taste test, trolley tour, and more”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5987,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions\/5987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}