Mostly Lisa, Age 7.

Ahh, I remember it fondly… the year I got orange and black Halloween gum stuck in my long long hair at school. I was sent to the school nurse who tried everything but paint thinner to remove it, but could not. And though I was young, I was smart enough to know that the school nurse was not a hair stylist, and that letting her near my lovely long hair with a pair of rusty old scissors would not end well.

And so, the sticky, orange-flavoured gum remained in my hair, all day, getting more matted and tangled by the second. By the time I returned home from school, there was absolutely nothing that could be done and so my mum chopped a whopping good 6 inches off.

I think it was this traumatic experience that made me decide, quite stubbornly I might add, that I was going to my own clown face painting. You can see from the results that perhaps this was not my wisest decision.

Does it? And be honest, well actually just tell me what I wanna hear cuz I’m feeling so insecure today cuz I gained like 9GB. I know. Horrific.

Translation of my expression “Omg.lol.php.xml.OSX!”

After NOT *sob* receiving my copy of Leopard on Friday and having NO Apple store to buy a copy hot off it’s “World Premier”, I spend the enter weekend absolutely gutted. I tried to find pleasure in other things, the new Transformers DVD… Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups… the momentary sunlight on Saturday… and discovering a new Bjork song that is simply delicious (”Unison” from the album Vespertine)… but nothing could fill the gaping whole in my heart. So you can imagine my giddy delight when a special delivery arrived this afternoon.

The install was painless, though took it’s sweet time. Bittersweet time, as I sat and reflected on all the good times I shared with Tiger. After all this is good bye. *tear* You were a friend to me through the good and the bad. I won’t forget you Tiger.

And then shazzam shazzing the intro launched as I squealed with giddy delight. First thing I did was experiment with the new iChat uber features. Screen Sharing made me the most giddy, until the coding monkey I was screen sharing with thought it was funny to mention that he could destroy my HD in 15 seconds. haha wtf? Get outta my pooter!

FYI. When Screen Sharing the mic is live, as in the other person can hear you. Even creepier. Complete control of your computer and they can hear you giggling on the other end. Oooooooooooo spooky stuff.

Lastly, doesn’t Leopard make me look smarter? Maybe even smarter than the Specs? What do you think?

Photos from Redpilot’s first wedding shoot
Cameras used: Canon Xti & 4D
Lenses: 50mm f1.4, 16-35mm f2.8, 70-200mm f2.8

17 hours. weeeeeeee. giddy excitement. hizzah. hizzah. tears of joy!

Features I am most amped about:

Desktop: Spacey new screen. Stacked icons. A whole new way of thinking about and organizing the many many things that appear to clutter my screen. I am really praying for a miracle here.

Spaces: Looks rad. The ability to organize my desktop into different “spaces” is perfect. Because I deal with Photo editing stuff, video stuff, blog stuff, and now web design stuff (finally cracking down on the Redpilot site this weekend. Any assistance from any super booyah designers/coders will be greatly appreciated.)

Time Machine: It’s obvious what’s uber about time machine.

Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine out of a [Mac?]
Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a [computer], why not do it with some style?

But is any one else a leedle sketched by the possible consequences of messing with the time continuum on their Mac? Goodness knows what past horrific memories (like that one bad picture of you from like 2005) will return to haunt you in the future, present… uh i’m confused.

iChat: i love iChat. It’s ace. iChat allows me to see and talk and communicate to mostly mac people all over the world. Truly awesome. And it just gets better with Leopard and iChat Theatre.

Screen Sharing: The best feature ever! The ability to collaborate on media projects through iChat will be priceless.

Multiple logins: finally AIM, dot mac, Google talk and Jabber can live together. Good bye Adium. You and your stinkin’ msn crew can either upgrade or talk amongst yourselves.

Tabbed Chat: One window > Ten separate window. Simplicity is a beautiful thing.

Finder: Cover Flow & Quick Look look lovely. Viewing images, PDFs, keynotes, and movies from the finder. Me likey.

And for those of us with more than one Mac in their household, or like four, but who’s counting though, the new Sidebar finder features allow Instant connection to your other Macs through the finder. Spotlight and cover flow also work with all shared Macs.

Preview: I use preview a lot. More than i’d like to admit. I deal with loads of pictures and files and I sometimes just can’t wait the extra 3 seconds to fire up Photoshop or Acrobat. especially when dealing with PDFs. Now you can manipulate PDFs in Preview. hizzah.

But the thing I am most amped about is the “one click” Send Images to iPhoto and Batch Image Operations features.

I take a lot of screenshots. Mostly for my blog or to share on iChat. Of what, I’m not exactly sure, but I seem to really like doing the apple+shift+4 thang loads. And according to my messy desktop, I’ve racked up 43 Picture.pngs in the last week. Yikes.

After I screenshot or download picts onto my desktop, I usually want to resize the images to quickly so i can upload them onto my blog or flickr. And before i had to drag the images into Photoshop or iPhoto to do that, but with the new Batch Image Operation feature I can resize a group of photos in preview. Thank you. Thank you. Finally

Read more about all 300+ Features.

Or go drool over the guided tour.

What new Leopard features are you totally jazzed aboot? Let’s totally nerd out and talk about Leopard allll day long!

Apparently, wordpress.com loves me sooo much they have given me free advertising for my new domain on their homepage:

I love how launching MostlyLisa.com falls under the technology label. This Week in Technology, bikini tech sexpot, Mostly Lisa, launched her new blog… with a bikini video… it was so high tech. I’m really touched that the wp random algorithm cares about me so much.

In other tech relatedness:*Remember to add my new blog to your technorati favs*

and make sure you remind me to grab yours if i haven’t. i’m all about the link loving.

XOX
Mostly Lisa

I hope you enjoy my new site. Plenty of new videos, photo posts, and general sass coming your way, as well as a few surprises… Mostly Lisa will remain as mysterious as ever… you never know what crazy idea I find lurking in my mind at 3am… oh, now it’s 5am, bummer.

I’d like to thank Keiran of CodingMonkeys.co.uk for designing and redesigning and redesigning this site because I have “control issues” and my bff, Tom for coding through the rubbishness that is wordpress and overwriting plugin madness. I know it hurt your pride a little to have to work on such a buggy platform, but you know I love you for it and will perhaps stop affectionately insulting you so much. That was a lie. I won’t. Forgive me?

Just as I am writing this post, The Coding Monkeys launch their new l33t site. So so so cool. I see an FWA in their future…

Anyway, back to me.

To start of MostlyLisa.com with a bang, tomorrow afternoon, I will post another sweet video of my adventures riding the most deadly and dangerous rollercoaster at Alton Towers and in the entire UK, maybe even the world.

Hope you enjoy ma new blaaaaaag!
PS. if you find any bugs crawlin’ around, please lemme know.