Aimee Mann part deux

Since Aimee Mann disappointed me the other week by canceling her concert. I thought I better speak up since things are now way better at my end. She's rescheduled for tomorrow in Ann Arbor and I managed to get a seat in the front row!!! I'll post a review later (hopefully with photos).

So if any one reading this is going, drop me a note and maybe we can say “hi” before or during or after or something...

I found it almost as soon as I knew I lost it...

So I'm at the Burger King that has free wired internet but no wireless. So I go to pull out my trusty Apple Airport Express out of my backpack. Or at least I try to. It's gone!!! I dig and dig, I've got everything in this thing. If McGuyver carried a Powerbook, this is all the stuff he'd have “digital duct tape” and all that.

It's not here. But then I notice neither is my mini retractable ethernet cable, the last time I used both was (you got it) at this Burger King. I ask if they have a lost and found and they don't (how weird is that?). But I describe it to them, they go to the office and sure enough they've got it!!!

FYI, if you don't know what an Apple Airport Express is, you're missing out (even if you're a windows user). Read my earlier review about this wireless router / repeater / music streamer and printer adaptor (it's really small only 3.7 x 2.95 x 1.12 inches).

$365 million dollars...

I can't even imagine winning this much money. It's the biggest pay-out ever, $363 million was the highest before but that was two winning tickets. According to CNN.com 'the cash option is $177.8 million, or $124.46 million after taxes. On the installment plan, over 30 years, the first payment would be $6,507,986 after taxes.'

As long as you you don't blow it, it seems like you'd be better off taking the $124 million and earn the interest over the 30 years. Not even factoring in the compounding if you could get 5% a year return on $100 million you'd get $6 million a year, that's pretty much the payment you'd be waiting for (if you did a little better on the interest it'd be a lot more). Over 30 years that's $150 million more. Even if you didn't get that interest rate you'd still get significantly more even at 3%.

What to buy for family and friends:

Las Vegas Theme Song

So I'm watching a rerun of Las Vegas on TNT and when they started the intro I was ready for the Elvis song they play (“a little less conversation...”) and I got something totally different. I wonder if they didn't want to pay the rights for the syndication or what...?