Sap Adventures at the Apple Store

Sap Adventures at the Apple Store

If AppleCare would cover anything, it would not be the things that frequently happen to laptops. The extra 200 dollars spent to insure one of their devices seems almost pointless.

Sat. Oct, 10th:

Since the incident happened on a Wednesday, my crazy schedule would only permit me to do it on the weekend; great without a laptop. I had a nicely timed appointment on Saturday at 3:45pm. The A and C trains weren’t running and I didn’t know, so I was 30 minutes late and there was a 60 person wait ahead of me and the store was closing in a few hours. 

I went to one of the biggest Apple Store’s in Manhattan, Grand Central, and at 6 they didn’t take any walk in appointments because they were closing at 7. And any chance I had to make an another appointment, no device would work; even at the Apple store. 

Tues. Oct, 13th: 

I ventured to Grand Central’s Apple Store with time to spare. I get the genius bar and begin the whole process of trying to find out if I’m going to be charged an outrageous price for something that really should be covered through the handy dandy AppleCare. Because of how the screen broke, it wasn’t insured. If it had a smaller crack, then I would have been fine, but since it was cracked in more than ONE way, I had to pay up. 

And like any Apple device owner, you have to comply or you won’t have the company of such sleek technology.  

My Lovely Podcasts!

Hip Hop Bubble Popped

When I learned of my new found love for Hip Hop last semester, I decided to take POL 246 to satisfy my Poli Sci minor and my hunger to learn more. 

We’ve been going through the beginnings of Hip Hop so far and I’m learning so much I did not anticipate. We’ve been reading a book focusing on the Latino contributions to Hip Hop and it’s quite fascinating because in the mainstream they’re never really considered and their history never really touched upon. Which, according to history, is due to their color of skin and not being easily identifiable with the blacks in the game. That was a shocker to me because I assumed minorities in general could come and go as they please because Hip Hop as a social movement inspired to be one’s self. 

There was a KRS-One lecture on the first 40 years of Hip Hop that was included in a week’s module and it was so inspiring because he grew up in, repped, and immersed himself in it. He talked about the rhythm that went through the Bronx and how it went through him and initiated change. The earliest individuals who started the movement spoke about change and wanted to spread, in KRS-One’s words, “peace, love, unity and having fun.” 

In a discussion board we had to talk about the current state of Hip Hop juxtaposed to what it meant when it started. I had a tough time answering it because I have so much to say, but how do I condense that into a discussion post which is not going to give me extra points for well thought out lengths. One of my fallbacks is not wanting to write too much, and not writing what I want to truly write or rather have a full blown conversation about. I didn’t put my best foot forward and I wish I did because I could’ve added some real insight to the growing conversation, but something had to be submitted before midnight; true, it’s my fault I should’ve been more proactive.

Late to the Serial Party

This is an amazing show!

I went back to my highschool days when I used to listen to NPR like it was music in the background and if I have internet connection, Serial will be my new version of Spotify – for the 7 episodes I have left.

I guess in college I've regressed from pouring new information into my brain recreationally, which is something I've been trying to rectify this semester. I noticed that I spend a ton of idle time being on the subway and waiting for the subway and I don't like having my phone out so I wanted an alternative.

My father gave me a finance book 3 years ago that I had never gotten to and I decided to take up the challenge by reading it in idle time on the subway. I felt it was the perfect opportunity to because... why not? Plus, I get to learn a fantastic new skill in my free time.

I've got some interesting looks by my choice of book; some people probably would expect a finance-looking-Wall-Street guy to be reading the book I casually peruse.

Back to Serial, it's such an intense show I would not like to listen to it while I'm out and about walking some where. Being in NYC I'd probably look at everyone I pass with a lingering suspicion they could be the true suspect of the story. I "binged-listened" to 5 episodes straight and had to watch Netflix before I went to bed to make sure I would have some sort of a nightmare.

Blogs, blogs, blogs

In my Professional Practices class, my professor wanted us to write in any medium that we chose. She wanted it primarily to be in a journal, but I want to see if I could take that task up here as well.

She stressed in class that writing can be two lines, that takes 5 minutes out of my day. As long as I’m exercising it, it will get easier with time. I’m going to see what I could contribute to this blog in the same way. I may even use the Hip Hop blogs I curated for the assignment and post them to here just to have an archive.

I’m excited to see what’s going to come about, stay tuned!

Comments on Starting this Incredulous Thoughts Blog

I am quite interested in seeing what I will learn doing the blog exercises. I may not be able to resurrect Random Discovery, but I can learn how to do better for next time. Adding content through a variety of different ways will help me be less lazy in inputting material to my blog. 

I did not realize the convenience Blogger has set up to create a serious, cohesive blog. It’s honestly pretty easy to create something there without having to go through hoops of how to add multimedia, add gadgets, or cool additions. 

I like this as a great platform to practice for a potential blog in the future since I realized how much fun I had writing it. I appreciate I can have whatever type of formality I want. For here, the more relaxed I am about the process, the easier it is to for me to get my thoughts down. 

I’m excited to see what brain farts make it here!

Do You Speak English? Video (Not from Pulp Fiction, unfortunately)

Harlem Night

"Harlem Night" by Denn Ice via Flickr

Random Discovery RIP

My first experience with Blogger was in 2011 when I was ambitious enough to start my own blog. I don’t know what I thought as a sophomore in high school what I was going to accomplish with a blog, but I started it out anyway. 

It was called Random Discovery. I wanted to facilitate a space for the ultimate weirdness. Anything could be talked about and under the umbrella of ‘random’, short, long, or anything in-between of those lengths were acceptable. Thoughts about cows or serious topics could be brought up. The format of the posts would vary. 

Reading through the blog now, I thought I would be embarrassed. I’ve gotten to a point where I’m not embarrassed to read it, but for others, I probably would be. But, I read a quote from my first post on the site and it was, “A big thing we all do is worry ourselves and something we all need to ‘chill.” So, let paper take all your secrets. And write.” Such a profound thing for me to write as a 15 year old. 

I had others posts, ‘A Place For Your Tush’, ‘Not Just A Cow Goes Moo’, ’14 Great Things To Do With Tress’, and ’Let It Not Snow, Santa.’ Considering I’m horrible at creating titles, I’m quite intrigued now to see what I even wrote on the matter. 

Maybe doing a blog for this class might spur some more writing in such a medium.