Patience...or lack thereof

So I ordered my MacBook Pro the day after they were annonced by Apple, which was the 10th of January. They said they wouldn't be shipped until February. Upon ordering mine (the top of the line one for $2500 with student discounts), I find out that it wouldn't be shipping until the 15th of february. So yesterday I log onto apple's website to see what they have to say about my order only to find out that they upgraded my laptop from a 1.83 Ghz Core-Duo Intel processor to a 2.0 Ghz one. It was awesome to hear that...better processor for the same price...no problems there. The crappy thing is that my ship date also got pushed back almost 2 weeks. It doesn't even ship until the 28th now. I'll probably see it the beginning of march. I hate having to wait, but the huge upgrade to the processor makes it seem a little better. I'm sure it'll be awesome....just really really sucks having to wait so long for something you paid that much for. oh well...that's my rant for the day.

For your amusement from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:

Jon Stewart: "I'm joined now by our own vice-presidential firearms mishap analyst, Rob Corddry. Rob, obviously a very unfortunate situation. How is the vice president handling it?

Rob Corddry: "Jon, tonight the vice president is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Wittington. According to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time there were quail in the brush.

"And while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face. He believes the world is a better place for his spreading buckshot throughout the entire region of Mr. Whittington's face."

Jon Stewart: "But why, Rob? If he had known Mr. Whittington was not a bird, why would he still have shot him?"

Rob Corddry: "Jon, in a post-9-11 world, the American people expect their leaders to be decisive. To not have shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak."

Jon Stewart: "That's horrible."

Rob Corddry: "Look, the mere fact that we're even talking about how the vice president drives up with his rich friends in cars to shoot farm-raised wingless quail-tards is letting the quail know 'how' we're hunting them. I'm sure right now those birds are laughing at us in that little 'covey' of theirs.

Jon Stewart: "I'm not sure birds can laugh, Rob."

Rob Corddry: "Well, whatever it is they do … coo .. they're cooing at us right now, Jon, because here we are talking openly about our plans to hunt them. Jig is up. Quails one, America zero.

Jon Stewart: "Okay, well, on a purely human level, is the vice president at least sorry?"

Rob Corddry: "Jon, what difference does it make? The bullets are already in this man's face. Let's move forward across party lines as a people … to get him some sort of mask."