First watermelon of the year
28 07 2008 Comments : No Comments »Categories : random conversation
I’m testing out the wordpress app for the iPhone. It works well. I would like to use my phone to get thoughts out there and clean up the formatting when I get to a pc…
Had a run-in with the dentist, that’s never fun…
A co-worker said that The Dark Knight was good but not great. Maybe I am just a comic book nerd…
This concludes this test of the WordPress iPhone broadcast system…
Most of my friends are tech-savvy, and glued to their email. If something happens in the world, especially in tech or sports, there will be an email thread started. This used to be a good exchange of ideas and philosophizes. Now years later, it’s all rhetoric! It’s not really their fault as much as we fully know what everyone’s stance. The fanboys will each tout their platform, but never acknowledge their deficiencies. The non-enthusiast will say they haven’t touched it since “brand x” technology. The super-enthusiast will say everything needs what they have, even though that technology may only have 2% market share!
Nothing new or fresh, just the same old party lines. Sound like anything else going on in this country? I need to write a book, “The politics of technology and pop culture”.
Quick Hits
Tech
Sports
Election 2008
Randomness
This blogging thing would be much easier if I had one of dem der laptops. I need to look into that, seriously… Thanks for coming back writers, even though we have to wait one to two months for new episodes and we’ll only get 8 of each show at the most, if that. I hope the cable shows like The Shield and Battlestar Galactica are moved up to fill the gap. Aight, gotta do the work thing… OUT…
Super Tuesday came and left! We’re still neck and neck, at least on the democratic side… I wonder when this race is going to shift one way or the other… McCain is looking like the person to beat on the elephant side if Mitt and Mike don’t figure out how to pick him off instead of picking off each other.
I’m a casual gamer and I usually dont get hooked to games, but I’m hooked on Burnout Paradise!!! I has a bunch of techie references in the game, check my twitter for example.
Speaking of microblogging, is anyone using Pownce? It looks cool, maybe I can get one or two friends to check it out with me
Crutchfield has a package deal on the head unit i want for 799, including the ipod connector and the bluetooth connector! You can’t beat that! It’s also time for me to start seriously start looking at a laptop. I used to having a work laptop, but I haven’t had one on my current job and it’s starting to get old. I’m trying to decide between a macbook pro and a thinkpad running linux. I must admit the main issue is cost. I want a macbook pro but it’s not cheap. Normally, I would say just get the macbook, but I think I want that extra screen size of the pro. I generally save and wait until I can get what I want, so don’t expect any rash decisions!
The writer’s strike is really starting to get to me. Luckily, I love college basketball and have rediscovered my xbox 360. It really hurt to hear that 24 probably wont come on until 2009 at this point! I think I’m going to get a netflix subscription soon, but only an one at a time plan, since I work crazy hours, LOL.
Ok, I’m going to focus on watching the rest of this Carolina/Duke game. Maybe, the tarheels can make a run but I don’t think it’s their night. Niners couldn’t get the road win at Dayton. Starting to look like automatic or else for Charlotte
Later…
Saturday has to be my favorite day of the week on general principal, but it feels really good today. It’s a busy time at work and I’ve barely had sometime at home. When I do get that time at home, I spend it sleeping! So after a 71 hour work week, I came home early this morning to have a great weekend. Hopefully, I’ll recharge myself. Enough about me, lets talk about what’s going on in the world…Politics…
Technology…
Time for The Wire, but I’m going to add some short posts based off of things from my shared items feed on Google Reader so keep checking out the spot…
I’ve always loved reading. I probably spent most of my childhood either inside reading or outside in someone’s back yard playing. My first job that did not involved making fries was in a library. That being said, college pulled me away from pleasure reading. The time didn’t seem to be there with the all of the required reading that was going on. If I did read anything, it was usually technical to help my career. But now, the bug is back…
I just spend 3 hours today finishing, Exit A by Anthony Swofford. This is a interesting book that I enjoyed. It wasn’t very high brow, but had much more depth than (insert your average tv show or movie here). I think that the thing that I missed about reading was also the thing that made it difficult to get back into it. Reading a novel takes patience. The first three chapters of a novel aren’t going to make you frantically flip from page to page. The scene has to be set, intricate back stories need to be fleshed out, characters need to expand past the basic identity of someone’s mom or brother. It took me awhile to develop that patience, but now I’m on a roll. Exit A was the second book that I’ve completed of late, the other being, The Emperor of Ocean Park. I’ve got another book in my position to read and I look forward to applying that literary patience in other parts of my life…
Thanks to anyone that has been reading my blog as of late! I hope it’s interesting to you and feel free to post comments! I would also recommend Google Reader for keeping up with Random Thoughts and other blogs, including my friends in the Blogroll!
I’m going to start pulling items from my Google Reader to discuss from time to time. I’m going to do some quick hits in a minute, but I wanted to discuss some of this political stuff up front…
Well, I’m no political pundit, just a guy who has always had an interest in Civics in school and refuses to be disenfranchised! Will the black vote go with the black man or with the woman that holds the name recognition along with the “honorary” black man that is Bill Clinton? I don’t know but all will become clear in a few weeks… In full disclosure, I’m a registered democrat in the State of North Carolina…
wow, it’s been a while since I’ve posted… Hmm, what all happened?
My baby came down the day after my previous post, i whisked her away to the mountains for a wonderful weekend, which lead into a great Christmas with my family and a chill new year’s eve in the house with movies!
Now she’s back home and I’m on the grind again. I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions but I do take a little time at the beginning of each year to reflect and see how I can improve. I’m going to work on improving my professional standing and using that networking to help Fillmax when at all possible. There is always my continual growth as a person emotionally that never stops no matter what year it is.
There will also be improvement to the blog, pulling in more of what is going on in the world, utilizing google reader and even more of the random thoughts!
Here’s to 2008! I hope that it becomes everything that you strive for it to be!
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