Remember in the movie Unbreakable, Bruce Willis’s character was the only one that survived a train crash? It turns out he was the only that survived because he had a super human gift.
It looks like there’s a just one single survivor from the Yeminia plane crash from the Comoros Islands to Paris. How in the world is she alive when everyone else perished?
I was pretty excited when Sirius announced they were going to release an IPhone app that would use the 3g network or WiFi to stream Sirius content.
It actually works pretty well on both Wi Fi and 3G. i have no idea if it’s a battery hog yet. I thought it was cool because since I have a two story house, I can dock my phone anywhere and listen to Sirius. Without it, I can only listen to Sirius through a computer or through our portable unit that uses an antenna that I’ve put on the roof of the house.
When I first installed the app, I looked high and low for Howard Stern, the main reason I installed the app. I couldn’t find his channel. Surely, I wasn’t looking in the right place for the biggest star on Sirius.
It is widely speculated that Sirius doesn’t have Stern listed because he’s too adult for Apple who does not allow any adult content on their IPhone through the app store. Although I have seen really lame apps that just show girls in bikinis.
It’s still a great app to have though without Howard Stern. I can still get commercial free music and it’s good for ESPN talk shows during football season. You know what, I wonder if that theory is even true. Now that I scroll the channels, I see the Playboy channel and RawDog is listed which is really raunchy…
Update: “It was a rights thing, a contractual rights thing,” Stern told listeners on his radio show today. “It was a rights issue and a whole entanglement thing. So, we’re not on it. Maybe one day we will be.”
It has been ten total days since I have submitted my app for approval in the Iphone App store. I have yet to be rejected or approved. I wish they’d hurry so I can get to work on my LITE version and my FANTASY/Medieval version which will be superior because I’ve learned so much…
I’ve had to fake sick call in one time in my life when I worked at Target. I’ve been “sick” many times since then but I’ve never had to talk to someone live. I believe I’ve left a sick voice mail before and numerous sick emails but only one live phone conversation.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I worked the night before and I wanted to get out of working Sunday. I only worked weekends when I worked at Target during high school so I rarely got my Sundays off. I called my boss lady who actually worked with me the night before. The phone call really sucked. She was talking to me in a jokey tone but she basically said I wasn’t sick and that she would call me back later to make sure I was at home. She also told me I didn’t sound sick. I didn’t try to pull a sneeze or cough on the phone or talk while pinching my nose. It wouldn’t have seemed real especially since she saw me the night before. She might have said it in a jokey way but she was clearly annoyed because there was a lot of manual labor waiting for me and it was hard to get anyone to cover on such short notice on a weekend. She never did call me back to check on me.
I wanted to get out of work because I wanted to hang out with my friend at a Chinese New Year’s fair. Back then they still had gambling and a bunch of other things to do at these celebrations. Not only was I fake sick calling, I fake sick called on a pay phone at the Chinese New Year fair so god knows what background wind and sounds were swirling in the receiver. I couldn’t make that call at home because I had to wait till the boss lady was at Target for her shift. No voice mail back then.
These days, in a white collar world, if you have a decent boss an email is usually sufficient. I wasn’t exactly working on salary when I worked at Target and I certainly didn’t have sick days that most corporate jobs kind of expect you to take now.
In the days before xBox, I used to go to the arcade all the time and dump my allowance. I used to go to the local Putt Putt and play StreetFighter II. The good thing about StreetFighter at the time was that if you won, you would stay on and not have to spend more money. I did pretty well for a while until this “Guile” player came in and started putting handcuffs on everyone. He would literally put handcuffs on your player. (A secret backdoor method the programmers put it and if you didn’t know how to take it off, the game would lock up and require a reset)
I still went to the arcade after I got a Nintendo Entertainment system because the quality of the games on the NES were extremely crappy compared to the ones at the arcade. On top of that, you wouldn’t have any competition unless your friends came over.
It wasn’t until the Xbox/PS2 came out that the quality of home games pretty much matched the quality of games at the arcade. You throw the internet on top of that then you get competition.
I saw an unplugged Donkey Kong machine the other day and the idea of putting quarters in that machine to play it for 5 minutes (if you’re lucky) seemed completely bizarre to me. I can now play that same game for 8 hours straight and never pay more than my $40-$50 investment.
I remember as late as college I would go to Einstein’s arcade on the Drag and play for a little while. Now it’s shut down. Even those network gaming places have all closed down. You know those places where they hook a bunch of computers together so that everyone can play together. It’s completely senseless for the nerds now to go somewhere and try to be social when they can sit at home and drink Mountain Dew and network with thousands of people.
Ah, arcade in the 80s. Part of my childhood and countless scenes to so many 80’s movies like War Games and the Karate Kid.
I’ve heard an IPhone App can take between 5 and 20 days to review. I’m on the 7th day and I find it pretty annoying. In the days when I made Palm apps, I could list it on a website and it would be available immediately. The problem with that is eventually there would be such a glut of bad apps that it becomes hard for a consumer to find yours. Sometimes I will try out different apps and if too many of them are bad in a row I give up looking for a while. Some “developers” would almost spam these retail sites with their bad apps back in the day. For example I saw one app which basically just let you enter like a name or description in a little database on the Palm. That’s all it did. But this developer would make like 20 iterations of this. One app he’d call a vinyl record database app. Then he’d call the same app a book inventory app and maybe another one he’d call a DVD organizer app. But it was the same crappy app with no features!
Another problem with me just waiting for my App to review is that I don’t know where to go from here. If I don’t get any interest in my adventure game app, I need to either beef it up, create a LITE version, advertise, or just go another way. If there were any interest in my game app as is, I could start working on a sequel or a different genre of the adventure game app like fantasy or sci-fi. But if it’s a total bust, then I would try to brainstorm something completely different.
I don’t really need cashiers to make comments about what I buy. It doesn’t enhance my shopping experience. One time I was buying buffet food that gets weighed at the register and the cashier said, “You must be hungry today.” Another time I was buying some edamame and the cashier said, “hmm… edamame. I haven’t eaten that for a while. I should get some…” One time Mandy was at a Michael’s buying this small 10 dollar crate and the cashier said, “That’s a nice crate, what are you going to use it for?” She’s going to use it for none of your beeswax it what I wanted to say.
Let me just check myself out so I don’t have to worry about octogenarians writing checks in front of me. Although I do have to say there are still annoying people at self checkout. I still can’t believe in this day and age people don’t have a credit/debit card. One time I was stuck behind someone in the checkout out line literally deposting like 100 dimes. I’m cereal.
I’m going to try to sing this on my karaoke system at home. It’s tougher than we didn’t start the fire maybe. This homemade video to this song is kind of fun. It has real news clips.
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
Look at me, look at me
hands in the air like it’s good to be
ALIVE
and I’m a famous rapper
even when the paths’re all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to “De Colores”
And “I’m Proud to be an American”
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:
I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome
And I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone
Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it’s good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
I’m all curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
Cuz I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
And I can split the atom of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule
Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won’t stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let’em all die in exasperation
Have’em all healed of their lacerations
Have’em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don’t like’em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
Because I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
And I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
And I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
Just looking at her makes my skin crawl. I think that when Jon was caught “cheating”, the couple had already split. There were rumors that Kate told Jon he could go out and be with other women as long as he did the show. Since he got busted on video, he had to pretend that he was caught cheating because the couple would have alientated more people if they had heard he had a special arrangement with his wife so they can continue to make money on their reality show.
Someone just pull the plug on this show. I tried to watch it recently and it’s all stupid tie ins now. They had Emeril Lagasse on one show and then the next show they had them visit that bike shop. It was more interesting watching a nice family struggle with raising so many kids with limited resources but still love each other.
I bought all my suits at around the same time. I think I got them around 2001 or 2002 or something. I had to wear one recently to go to a wedding and I am realizing that I am really out of date. The pants are pleated, which I think is out, and my shoulders were boxy because I had shoulder pads on. I’m done with this suit. I’m buying a new suit for the next fancy affair I go to.
So I think I got the wrong tennis game to use with my Wii Motion plus. I bought Virtua tennis which doesn’t seem to react the new Wii remote very differently than without it. But if you watch this youtube of an alternate tennis game, you’ll notice that as you turn your raquet, the character on the screen will do this in real time. In virtua tennis, they just swing like they do in the original tennis game. As you swing low to high in this game, it will actual direct the shots. I need to give this tennis game a try before I decide that the Wii Motion plus stinks.
My motion control plus for the Wii came in last Saturday and I gave it a try. The number of games they have for it is very limited right now so I just bought the tennis game. Other than being a more fleshed out game than the free tennis game that comes with the system, I don’t feel like the Motion Control plus did anything more than the Wii already did. It’s supposed to be more responsive or something but the regular Wii control is pretty responsive as it is. It’s also supposed to read your exact hand motion better but the game doesn’t really have a feature for it.
The free boxing game is very unresponsive for the Wii and that’s what I’m looking forward to but I’m sad to report there are no boxing games that use this “technology” yet. It could just be that tennis games are boring but I guess I’ll try another couple of games before I deem this technology a bust.
I was watching the very horrible movie, Live Free or Die Hard, the other day and I was just thinking about about how fantastic the first movie was compared to this one. This was one was so unbelievably ridiculous that I couldn’t believe it was green lit other than the fact that it was called Die Hard and Bruce Willis was in it.
I found the first Die Hard completely believable. Some cop got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time while some people are trying to rob Nakatomi Plaza and then saves the day? Sure!
This Live Free movie had an American Jet Fighter fire missile after missile at an overpass trying to shoot Bruce Willis’s semi. It had Bruce Willis jumping on and jumping off said jet fighter. It had Willis driving a van into an elevator shaft for no apparent reason. It had a ridiculous fight where Willis and this other girl knock each other down, walk away, and then had the other person make a comeback. This happened like 4 different times. And this movie had of course an endless supply of explosions.
I remember watching the making of the first Die Hard many years ago. I remember how they had to wire all these explosives to the bottom of that building. They talked about how intricate wiring those explosions were and how they had to make sure they got everything in one take. These days, over bloated “special effects” movies are all computer graphics and watching a big explosion scene isn’t much more interesting than watching someone play a video game which isn’t interesting at all.
I guess movies will never do anything in “real life” again that they think they can get close to with computer graphics. I blame Smeagol/Gollum.
The other day I was trying to do some work at a Starbucks. I got my laptop all ready, connected with a really high signal strength, and then got some AT&T Wi Fi page that says I can pay almost $4 for two hours or buy some membership. I ended up not buying the two hour block of service. I actually made a log in and halfway through typing in my credit card number, I decided it was a rip off and just did some off line work.
That’s pretty lame that they charge money. Don’t they want people to just hang out in there and maybe buy coffee and snacks? I mean how much internet money are they really earning?
Maybe it’s a lot… But not from me!
This incident reminds me of the time I was at Aussie’s Grill and I saw some guy pull in the parking lot. He didn’t get out of his car, instead, he got out his laptop. He stayed parked for a while and then took off. He never came in. I wonder the Internet emergency was?
I had a power outage at my apartment once but it wasn’t through the entire complex. I drove to the other side of the complex to catch some person’s personal Wi FI. It took a little bit of time to find a good signal and a reception that wasn’t encrypted. It was either that or go in to work.
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