FoxSports: The Rev. Jesse Jackson is urging baseball’s All-Stars to speak out against the Arizona immigration law, saying they should follow the example set by Jackie Robinson when he broke the game’s color barrier more than a half-century ago.
Because… why?
For once I think this confuses me to the point of not having a point aside from this is full of Fail.
MSNBC: “Where’s justice for Caylee?” Gonzalez told the Sentinel. Gonzalez said she lives a few miles from the Anthony home in east Orange County. “Do you mean to tell me that in Florida you can kill your child, toss her on the side of the road and go free?”
I said on Facebook – once the news broke about the acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges – that I was going to take a little vacation from the intertubes because I, for one, cannot stomach misplaced public outrage anymore. Guess I broke that silence right quick. And did I say misplaced outrage? Bet your ass I did. More on that in a minute. But first a plea for help:
For the love of all that’s good and holy, can Florida secede from the Union? Get out. Leave. Go back to Spain or forge an alliance with Quebec or something. Leave Walt Disney World as a safe zone if you have to, take the rest of the peninsula, and go. You don’t even properly buffer hurricanes anymore. You have out lived your usefulness and you grab far too many headlines between botched election counting – 1, 2, 3 anyone? – and botched legal trials. I figure you’ll somehow play into the Amanda Knox trial too, given enough time…
I swear, even the Fountain of Youth wouldn’t make the state worth keeping at this point.
Continue reading Broken Silence
MSNBC: Catholic charity says ‘no’ to Hooters fundraiser – Cancels after complaints that image of scantily clad waitresses not in keeping with faith
I would say “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” but since this church is so up in arms about the donation, I’m assuming they think that people won’t look above a waitress’ chin anyway.
Personally, I hope they owe money when the fund raiser is done.
Xbox.com: Voice Search on Xbox 360 What if you could find your favorite games, music, movies and TV shows, just with the sound of your voice? What if you could ask your TV to find Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and it did—instantly? Only on Xbox 360 is your entertainment together in one place—and now you will be able to find it with your voice.
Forgot that I can finally talk about what I’ve been working on!
Coming to your Xbox 360 and Kinect in the future – now with video: YouTube
I’ve read more than my fair share about The Rapture. Somehow stories about “the end” have often found a way to my shelf and I discovered Left Behind when the series had just put out book 4 in paperback – they already had over 4 million readers and I found it in a Waldenbooks, on an end cap with all four books stacked up there. The marketing team on the covers did a nice job, so I picked up the first book. Several years and 15 books later, and I’m pretty well read on the theory of it all. Did it impact my world view? My religious beliefs? My day to day coding expertise? Nah. I read the books as fiction, no matter how preachy they got. After the third or fourth book, I actually got really good at skipping the chunks of preaching, and kept the story and dialog moving quite well.
In fact, three things stood out to me from the book series: the authors of the series tell a great story, they have great copy editors (because I found very, very few errors in their text, unlike a lot of books today,) and they really believe in what they’re writing about. And if you do opt to read these books, end up changing religions, and are happy about that, then I’m happy for you, but it didn’t happen that way for me. I often recommend fictional books and this set is one of them for me. If I acted on all of the fiction I read… well, between Tolkien and Lewis, I would be trying on every single ring I saw, hoping for something glorious to happen. Ah well.
Anyway, imagine my surprised when I heard that someone had predicted the actual date of The Rapture – I said “Eh?” and went straight to Wikipedia.
Continue reading The Rapture: May 21, 2011?
ifoAppleStore: Apple’s retail team would say that moving their Bellevue Square (Wash.) retail store from its narrow, 30-foot storefront into the chain’s largest space is simply part of the company’s on-going commitment to expand square footage. But anyone visiting the small Apple store can’t help but notice a shadow, cast from the enormous Microsoft store three spaces away that opened last November, and might wonder if Apple is trying to win back the spotlight that Microsoft very deliberately stole.
Color me humored, but in all honesty, the BelSqr Appl Store is pretty small…
Portal 2 hit today. The critics are spoodging all over themselves over it, much like they did for Portal 1. Users, on the other hand, are having a hissy fit. To paraphrase: VALVe overhyped it, the reviewers are too enamoured of it, the game play is too short, the PC/Mac versions feel “ported” and they have way too much DLC content – totaling $86 if purchased separately – that only offers cosmetic changes in the game… no extra levels, no power ups – just customization. And that reaction has caused critics to defend their reviews… nothing good can come from this.
Me? I haven’t bought it yet but I likely will. GLaDOS is too good of a character and Portal 1 was a classic piece of gaming not to give it a shot… That said, the above argument feels like when the Academy comes around with their Best Picture winner or when the Grammys start pushing their Best Pop Album which are called “critically acclaimed” yet the mass populous want no part of it.
Looks like the gaming industry has caught up to the rest of the entertainment industry: reviewers can’t be trusted for an unbiased opinion.
You have to love ThinkPad. Be it Lenovo or IBM before them, that product line has the fastest turnaround of any computer product I have ever dealt with. Jolene’s shiny new laptop had a bulging bezel around the screen – we think it’s been there since she got it a few weeks ago, but we only noticed it now. Call Lenovo. Returning box is sent to us on a Friday; will take about 6 business days to get to us. Box arrives the next business day: Monday.
We send the computer into them on Monday afternoon; they work on it on Tuesday; they ship it on Wednesday; thanks to UPS Red, it lands today – Thursday – by 10:30am.
Well, it should have – UPS got out the good ol’fashioned sand paper condom to make things complicated.
Continue reading Simmering Pot
MSNBC: As shutdown looms, agencies brace for impact
RABBLE!RABBLE!RABBLE!RABBLE!RABBLE!RABBLE!RABBLE!
Honestly, aside from:
– People that work for shut down government agencies
– The IRS not being able to issue refund checks
– Not being able to get a passport
Would anyone really notice? I don’t think we will.
Continue reading Government Shutdown
iMediaMan for Windows Phone lets you take your MediaMan data on the go with you! MediaMan is a general purpose collection organizer for Windows; iMediaMan allows you to download your exported-to-CSV data files and view your collection on your Windows Phone while offline.
MediaMan for Windows information | iMediaMan for Windows Phone in the Zune Marketplace
Jump to the FAQ on iMediaMan for Windows Phone for more information.
Continue reading iMediaMan for Windows Phone 7 version 1.1
On December 6th, I voluntarily let someone stick a laser in my eye with hope of being able to get 20/20 vision without glasses or contacts for the first time since 1982.
After a number of entries on my blog around my experiences with PRK, this the last of the posts.
Continue reading PRK: Epilogue (Week 16)
AngryBirdsNest: How to Transfer Angry Birds Data to Another iPhone or Mac
One of the various flaws in the iPhone ecosystem is actually a rather large feature hole. The folks at iPhoneExplorer give me the tool to help fill this hole while the guys at AngryBirdsNest helped me by giving you a solid case study.
While personally thrilled I don’t have to re-three star a bunch of stuff in Angry Birds, I think that there’s a huge exploit hole here.
Continue reading How To Transfer Your Angry Birds Game Data
CNN: White House conference tackles bullying
That’s pretty much it folks. America is done with the #1 slot – I hope China wants it, because we’re abdicating the slot quicker than I think they expected us to.
This one headline marks the start of our official End Game.
Continue reading America: The End Game
iMediaMan v1.1.1 has been submitted to the App Store for Review.
In this release:
– FIX: resized product image for Details, based on product image
– FIX: updated the product image view
– FIX: retina display icon is now being used
– FIX: some better handling on landscape for details
– FIX: tweaked the layout on “Description”
– FIX: landscape mode on “Add a Library” handles rotate better
– FIX: better handling when the phone runs low on memory
iMediaMan for iOS FAQ | MediaMan for Windows information | iMediaMan in the iTunes store
Looks like there is a Shuffle By Album for the Zune HD that is now available in the Zune Marketplace!
I am very happy that Shuffle By Album now exists on every Microsoft Zune-enabled mobile device.
Continue reading Shuffle By Album: Zune HD edition