Accountability, empathy, and liability (2010/10/27)
Something has sort of clicked recently, between a couple of different things I’ve read.
[read more...]Wow, lawnmowers got better. (2010/10/21)
For a variety of reasons (mostly having to do with gullible roommates), I haven’t actually mowed a lawn with a lawnmower in probably twenty years or thereabouts. But we got a lawnmower when we moved here; we had the clever idea of going to Sears in September to buy one, when they’d be on clearance. So we got one of the “nice” ones. Not a riding mower or anything, but it has features.
[read more...]World of Warcraft and City of Heroes: Some comparisons (2010/10/09)
One of the frustrating things for me about looking for a new MMO when Blizzard turned evil was trying to find information about them which actually communicated anything to me. For lack of a better resolution, I’m writing up a brief comparison of City of Heroes and World of Warcraft, in the hopes that it might be useful to people who are trying to pick one.
[read more...]T-mobile's G2: Android done precisely, totally, wrong. (2010/10/08)
Okay, don’t get me wrong. The fundamental hardware feature set of the phone? Great.
[read more...]Mmm shiny (2010/10/08)
It’s finally happened.
[read more...]We are living in the future. (2010/10/06)
A lot of the things people said we “would” be able to do are now pretty commonplace. One of my phones (the G2) has an app called “tricorder” that can measure gravity (well, acceleration – good luck telling those apart), magnetism, some kinds of EM spectrum, and can do real-time spectrum analysis of audio. It could probably do real-time spectrum analysis of the camera input, too, but they happen not to have written that yet. You can take a picture of an object and have a decent chance of the software figuring out what it is and telling you where you can buy one. If you can get a barcode, you’re set – it can get exactly that item for you.
[read more...]A human body? We shall do SCIENCE to it! (2010/10/04)
So, Jesse had an appointment with a rehab therapist today.
[read more...]Initial impressions of the Android G2, plus comparison with iPhone (2010/10/03)
Well, it’d been a while since I last got a phone, and I was due for an upgrade. And Microsoft seems pretty firmly committed to destroying the old Sidekick line. Worse, my Sidekick has a habit of stuttering when trying to send touch tone signals during a call, making online systems a nightmare to navigate. So I popped over to Radio Shack and got a G2.
[read more...]Watching old movies is weird. (2010/10/02)
So, a while back, we saw a handful of old James Bond movies on sale for $5 each, and picked them up. They’re from the Roger Moore era. In the process of watching these, I’ve learned many things. For instance, I learned that in canon, James Bond was married. I didn’t realize this. I have to say, it’s not one of the things that would most come to mind if you were to think about his most noticeable character traits.
[read more...]... WTF? "Diet" food is actually tasty? (2010/09/27)
So, one of my friends has been eating a bunch of food from the “diet” section of the grocery store, not out of a desire to lose weight, but just because it’s apparently tasty.
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