Author Archives: Nik Bronder

Get Motivated?

What the hell is the Get Motivated Seminar?

I guess it’s one of those things that all god fearing American’s should attend. Here’s the description (seems like a cross between a Cult & Amway):

GET MOTIVATED SEMINAR

June 21 at 8 a.m.- Doors open at 7 a.m.

Join speakers Zig Ziglar,Paul Orfalea, Jessica Lynch, Tom Hopkins, Jim Tressel and Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. All speakers live and in person- All in one day!

Tickets: TICKETS CAN NOT BE PURCHASED THROUGH NATIONWIDE ARENA. FOR TICKET INFOMRATION CALL 1-800-451-5676.

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I probably shouldn’t make fun but really, do I need all of these people to ‘motivate’ me? And what are they ‘motivating’ me to do? Make money? I guess it’s blasphemy for me to say this but didn’t Jessica Lynch get captured while her fellow solider’s fought off an attack. This is a blue-blooded American dream: National Icon (Rudi Giuliani), War Hero (Lynch) and Local Football God (Jim Tressel).

What happened to the days when War Hero’s had names like Patton and McArthur.

Installed a Retail Superdrive.

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Today I upgraded my Power Mac G4 by adding a Superdrive (DVD Burner). I purchased the Pioneer DVR-A07XLA DVD Writer which is a new version of the drives Apple calls the Superdrive for $150. I installed the drive in the lower drive bay of my Power Mac (mirror door), I made sure the drive was set to ‘Cable Select’. The only thing I forgot to do was remove the face of the the drive, which slides right off. Once the face was off I was able to get the drive to eject by using the ‘option + eject’ command on the keyboard (that’s how you open the second drive bay). My Mac recognized the drive automatically and successfully burned a movie via iDVD 4 right off the bat.