Random pictures of Ada and Anais from Saturday and Sunday.
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Word Virus
The word is now a virus. – William S. Burroughs
Every night, I put the girls to bed at 8. I usually lay there with them for a while, some times as long as an hour. During the World Series and MLB playoffs, I was able to listen to every game while doing this, on my iPhone. The MLB app gave me full coverage of every game. Sure, it cost me $10, but I got every single game for the entire season, for every team. I even got video coverage for one game each day.
I spent much of the last hour trying to find a way to listen to the Super Bowl. The NFL Super Bowl app can’t do it. The CBS Sports Mobile app can’t do it. Hell, even the CBS Radio app doesn’t have coverage of the Super Bowl. I ended up following the game cast on the ESPN Sports Center app. What is wrong with the NFL! The NBA has coverage of every game on an app. Hell, even the NHL has NHL.tv, no iPhone app as of yet, where I can watch every NHL game for a reasonable charge. MLB.tv takes it even further. If you buy an MLB.tv subscription, you can watch every game on your iPhone this season.
Most weeks, I’m stuck watching some crappy game I don’t want to watch, because the team I like is in a different market. When is the NFL going to move into the 21st century, and give fans the ability to watch/listen to games how and when they want. Instead of simply bowing to the television networks and DirectTV, maybe the NFL will some day care about their fans.
A recent poll of 2,000 self proclaimed GOP voters, came back with some horrifying numbers, that show just how bad the GOP party base has become. I will be the first to admit, I’m not a big fan of polls, but the fact that someone would buy into this trash being pushed by Beck, Rush, Fox News, just goes to show how easily people are manipulated.
- 39 percent of Republicans believe Obama should be impeached, 29 percent are not sure, 32 percent said he should not be voted out of office.
- 36 percent of Republicans believe Obama was not born in the United States, 22 percent are not sure, 42 percent think he is a natural citizen.
- 31 percent of Republicans believe Obama is a “Racist who hates White people” — the description once adopted by Fox News’s Glenn Beck. 33 percent were not sure, and 36 percent said he was not a racist.
- 63 percent of Republicans think Obama is a socialist, 16 percent are not sure, 21 percent say he is not
- 24 percent of Republicans believe Obama wants “the terrorists to win,” 33 percent aren’t sure, 43 percent said he did not want the terrorist to win.
- 21 percent of Republicans believe ACORN stole the 2008 election, 55 percent are not sure, 24 percent said the community organizing group did not steal the election.
- 23 percent of Republicans believe that their state should secede from the United States, 19 percent aren’t sure, 58 percent said no.
- 53 percent of Republicans said they believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama.
A president that “want’s terrorist to win”. That one really is shocking. I don’t care about the birth thing, it’s just plan stupid. I don’t care about the Sarah Palin thing, everyone is entitled to their opinion. However, the socialist, racist and impeachment questions show just how ignorant these people really are. Do they even know what a socialist is? Someone please show me this racist intent. And you have to commit a crime to impeach someone, and even if you do, that does not remove the person from office. Remember the $18 million or so dollars the Republican party wasted proving that Clinton got a blowjob. They even impeached him. Take a basic fucking Civics class people.
After having a full day to soak up all the iPad news, here are my thoughts and reactions to Apple’s latest device. It’s an iPod Touch on steroids. Steve called the device magical yesterday, and I have yet to see anything magical about it, other than the price and the fact that AT&T is the 3G provider.
The good stuff:
The iPad has a nice large screen that will make certain applications a lot easier to use and navigate. It also incorporates some new user interfaces not available in the limited real estate of the iPhone and iPod Touch.
There appears to be some sort of local storage, the ability to work on and create iWorks documents, leads me to believe that somehow we can store files on this device outside of the regular sync process, even for Apple products.
All iPhone apps will work on the device. This is the biggest plus Apple has going for them.
The iBook reader, hate they used this name again, leaves all other book reading devices in the dust.
The 10 hour battery life sounds amazing, but real world tests may determine that this means the screen is so dim that this means nothing to achieve such battery life.
The ability to connect a Bluetooth keyboard is a mistake Apple has finally corrected, at least for this device.
The bad stuff:
It’s just a big iPod. Really, I’m going to say it again. It’s just a big iPod.
The 3G version costs a lot more than the non-3G, for no real reason.
It runs iPhone apps. I know that was under the good stuff too, but this is also a negative. I can never use this device instead of a laptop, it’s always another device I would carry with me.
The lack of Flash! I hate Flash, I really do, but it’s time Apple gives up this war with Adobe. Flash sucks, Adobe can’t get the damn thing to work well with Safari. Just get over it. There are too many things being missed on the web by a mobile version of Safari that lacks Flash.
It comes in 16, 32, 64 GB sizes. It should start at 32 and go up to 96 GBs.
The shit that doesn’t matter:
Please stop talking about multi-tasking. This is the same sort of silly argument people use when comparing the price of a PC and a Mac. The iPhone does multi-task. It does it all the time. If it couldn’t multi-task, you couldn’t listen to music while doing anything else. You couldn’t close Safari, re-open it, and it still be on the same page. If you are a Jailbreak user, you realize that the reason Apple apps are so much faster than all other apps on the iPhone is because once you open them, they stay open. The iPhone is multi-tasking all the time. Also, how would you multi-task on a device like the iPhone, or the iPad. There is no “shrink” window. You can only do one thing at a time. I will admit that some of the Jailbreak apps that take advantage of true multi-tasking, like qTweeter, are the path Apple should be taking. However, there are very few apps that could really take advantage of this feature the way most users are thinking.
So, am I going to rush out and buy one? No. This simple answer is why I think there are serious problems with this device. I am an Apple fanatic. I have 3 macs, 3 shuffles, an iPod, 2 iPhones and an AppleTV. If Apple makes it, I usually go buy it. There is no “wow” factor here. I can think of some cool things I could do with this device, but none of them outweigh the price and small drive size. It’s too big to replace an iPod and too limited to be a laptop. I would have a hard time using this as a music player, and I’m not sure how often I’d really watch movies on it. I can’t carry it around and take pictures with it, and I still have to sync up with iTunes to get things on and off of it. I agree that netbooks are pretty worthless, and I’m kind of glad Apple has decided not to dilute their product line by racing to the bottom. However, this device just doesn’t seem to have a place in my day to day life. I’ve never been able to say that about an Apple product before.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24):
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The girls being goofy as usual over the weekend.
I picked up G.G. Allin’s, Carnival of Excess, last week, and it just goes to show how easy it would have been for him to achieve commercial success. It’s a country album, one of his last recordings before he died, and it’s surprisingly good. My thoughts on GG will always be related to a rather unhappy and dark time in my life, which may have been why I related to him so well. And his death will always be one of those great moments I will never forget.
I found out about GG’s death through the most unlikely of sources, Bobby Steele. It’s hard to imagine now, but, in 1993, before the internet, news took a lot longer to trickle down to the masses. GG had died on June 28th, 1993, but no one in my circle of friends knew it yet. GG was reportedly going to kill himself on stage that Halloween, and had sunk into a state of despair beyond even his normal levels.
On July 1st, I’d shown up early at Cogan’s, the old punk club in Norfolk, not the new pizza place, hoping to talk to Bobby again. Having been one of the original Misfits, and a bit of a underground punk legend, he was more down to Earth than any of the other Misfits I’d met at that point. The show at Cogan’s was the Undead’s first show back in the states, and things were a bit hectic. The show had no promotion, Cogan would go out of business, again, not shortly after, and they had no one there to even help set up the stage or sound equipment. Bobby’s health at this point was really bad. He was even frailer than the previous time I’d met and seen him play. The rest of the band showed up late, there was no one even there to see the show. So a few friends and I, said we’d do whatever we could to help. I helped get the stage ready, carried in stuff, and made a general ass of myself towards the guy running the place, telling him to get his act together. In the meantime, we started calling everyone we could think of to come to the show. It was the summer, and lots of the Norfolk punks I knew, or friends I had, left for the summer when classes were out of session.
We got a pretty good turn out for such short notice, and Bobby was really appreciative. He let me come up on stage, and sing Bullet with him. It was a great show all things considered.
Later that night, we helped tear everything down for him, and hung out till the wee hours of the morning. It was at this point, that he told us that GG had died just a few nights before. And that’s my favorite memory of GG. It’s not the man, his music, or his antics. It’s me, sitting around drinking with Bobby Steele, talking about the NY punk scene, music, life and sharing a moment and a memory for GG.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I so need these cupcakes!!!!
Some random iPhone pics of the girls from over the weekend.
