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A Lego Christmas

GeekTieGuy — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:35:15 +0000

The Christmas spirit struck today at the GeekTieGuy household. Here are a few pictures of the Lego Christmas trees I built.

Merry Christmas!

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Apple’s new campus in Cupertino is taking shape

GeekTieGuy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:37:40 +0000

Here are some pictures of the activities around Apple’s new campus in Cupertino. It doesn’t seem like they’ve started on the “main campus” yet.

Repainting an old HP/Compaq/Tandem building. From white to gunmetal gray.

More of the old building. Very brown.

Signs are up already.

Big dump trucks on the street.

An old Tandem building.

Another old Tandem/Compaq/HP building.

And another.

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Windows Vista Ultimate Signature Edition unboxed

GeekTieGuy — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:46:14 +0000

Update 2008-02-18: It seems like this post is getting a lot of hits, which is kind of odd to me. I suspect it might be because there’s a mention of the phrase “key sticker” in here, so that makes people think I’m publishing my activation key. I’m not. The key is digitally erased with a bunch of black pixels. There’s no key here.

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Call me a fanboy all you want. I went out to a local Best Buy this morning and got myself a copy of the Vista Ultimate Signature Edition. I figure Vista put bread on my table, so I need to give back a little. And no way am I going to do that without getting something a little out of the ordinary.

I got to Best Buy a little after ten and checked the shelves. No Signature Editions to be found. Luckily I went to the service desk to ask, and just as I was doing so, they brought out the four boxes they had at that store. Two got put aside by (for?) the employees, and I grabbed one of the remaining two. Talk about good timing. I think I also picked a good store to go to. It’s fairly new and people don’t seem to know it’s there, so there was very little “competition”.

Here are some unboxing pictures for your viewing pleasure:

Box front

Open back

System requirements on the side

Feature comparison list on the back

Other side

Outside cardboard box and inside plastic box

Inside plastic box front

Inside plastic box back with Bill Gates comments

Plastic box side

Opened plastic box with DVD / media holder

Leaflets inside media holder

CD order information

Back of media holder with key sticker

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Trying out Zooomr for blog photo hosting

GeekTieGuy — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:10:39 +0000

Zooomr has an offer to upgrade bloggers to free pro accounts. I’m wondering how practical that is. So here’s my test post for a photo I took recently while making a visit to Microsoft (and doing some Seattle sightseeing). It’s a reflection of the Space Needle in the Experience Music Project building.

IMG_7470 Hosted on Zooomr

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