OK, so this isn’t quite a formal review, but I just really needed to rave about a few things.
First off, just bough the H-K Soundsticks II. At present, I am listening to “Mindwalking” by Astral Matrix, with the bass all the way up and the Bass Booster EQ setting. It is phenomenal. My walls are shaking just a little bit.
Secondly, I took a little trip today. Went over to South Beach and just kind of rode around on my board (in flip flops, which is an error I don’t plan to make again). My camera is my favorite thing on this earth. Canon Digital Rebel XTi, with an EF 28-135mm lens. Fantastic, and it’s becoming a new favorite pastime to shoot in monochrome, because switching takes like 1.3 seconds.
Thirdly, and this is just my being weird…I have this thing where I need to have something in my hands to get me focused. It used to be a balled-up wad of paper, but I went to Sports Authority a few months ago and got a pack of three Penn Ultra-Blue raquet-balls. I throw them against the wall when I’m stuck on an idea.
Fourthly, I am kind of a bag person. And a shoe/trainer person, but for the sake of this post’s longevity, I’ll just be a bag person. Latest additions include a Triple Five Soul carry-all bag, the sort with a drawstring at the top and a single strap, and a Spy Sentry Bag. The carry-all is a rough black canvas, but the amount of pockets (12 in all, inside AND out) are obscene. I predict that this will be absolutely vital when I go to Europe next year. I have this ridiculous vision of myself walking around with this glazed-yet-cultured look on my face. The Sentry is really a more day-to-day backpack. With a 17-inch MacBook Pro, it’s a bit tricky trying to find a way to carry it around. Classes are starting up again (my senior year) and trekking back and forth to campus with the one-hour commute is already no picnic. I tried this sucker out today, and I was oddly enough rather satisfied. This is another bag with a lot of pockets, including a rather large compartment on the top that is supposed to be for cold beverages (it works perfectly as a camera compartment for the aforementioned monstrosity), and four side pockets, one of which hold an Ethos water bottle PERFECTLY. The inner laptop sleeve is not nearly long enough for my computer, but my Incase Canvas sleeve fits rather well, with no complications. And there is still room for a variety of other items, which today included my notepad, LSAT prep book and sunglass case. It also has really cool military-style patches on it. And the logo is primo.
Fifthly, I just wanted to take a moment to wax about how awesome the Bose TriPort headphones are. I bought these something like a year ago, as a birthday present to myself last year. They are still going strong, and the bass in them is still top-notch. In the course of writing this post, I had to shift from Soundsticks to TriPorts for the benefit of the others in my house, but let me just say, this is NOT a downgrade.
Sixthly (and lastly), I just finished reading Ayn Rand’s Anthem. I have avoided Ayn Rand for most of my life. I have had Atlas Shrugged on my bookshelf forever (an old college book of my mom’s) and I can remember when I first noticed it. I wanted to read it, but my mom told me not to, because the woman who wrote it “was an atheist.” At age 7, already a rather prodigious reader, this was really disconcerting, and so I avoided it. A few years later, I picked up and began to plow through. But I don’t think I recognized how good Rand was until a couple of days ago, when I picked up Anthem.
My favorite line is the first: “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we are speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker that to do or think alone. We have broken the laws.”
Until next time, when I have less energy…
