Universe Against David

This Is Your Solution Apple?

2011-08-20T03:06:00.000-04:00

Really apple this is what you came up with when asked to write an app for media streaming from iTunes. i am so irritated by the craptastic state of this app it is hard for me to form sentences.

so i have an iPad and i have a mac with iTunes that has all my media in it. i can not fit all of that media on my iPad so the obvious solution is to stream it from my mac to my iPad so i can view it in comfort at my leisure. i use Airvideo because it is easy and a very well written app. when iOS 4.3 was released i was super excited because they had said there would be iTunes library sharing for all iOS devices. i was hoping it would be a sleeker version of what Airvideo does built into the video app on the iPad. however i have never been more disappointed in an apple written product in my life.

first of all when you open it the library looks like this.

Please explain to me the organizational paradigm where season 3 of Seinfeld goes next to freaks and geeks and also season 5 of scrubs? i have never seen anything like this. it is quite possibly the biggest clusterfuck of nonsense i have ever seen. how does this code exist. this is how i assume the code is written:

<(are you sure, that seems kind of silly)>

i honestly have no idea who wrote this code but they need to get slapped in the face......really hard.

so it gets worse...much much worse. once you finally find the season of the show you want to watch it opens up to let you view the episodes. logical except this is what you get.

I do not know if anyone knows that much about the office, but Branch Wars most certainly does not come before Fun Run. who the fuck is in charge of this seriously. so not only are the seasons and shows out of order but the episodes are a clusterfuck as well. moving on, one would just think they could muster through and just find the episode they want, knowing of course exactly what order the season goes in. but no.......it seriously gets worse. not only are the episodes jumbled but the app does not even load all the episodes you have in your library. from my experience it shows a maximum of 16 episodes from a show. also it does not pick the first 16 episodes, it just picks 16 random episodes and displays them in a random order.

this is what you get at the bottom.

so given no choice because the episode i want is for some stupid reason not being displayed i touch get more episodes, maybe that will just load the rest of them. maybe it is a cache issue and it only loads a certain amount. so lets touch that and see what happens. you are seriously not going to believe where it takes you.

Yep, thats right, it takes you out of the app and into the iTunes store to view episodes one can buy. this is such a pathetically designed app am having trouble finding adjectives severe enough to accurately portray how i feel about it. honestly it makes me want to find the human who programmed this and shove something pointy into his left eyeball. i do not understand how this can exist. i honestly can not understand how it has not been patched yet. i really do not understand how there is not a larger uproar over this steaming pile of feces that is this application.

in conclusion all i want to say is FUCKING FIX THIS SHIT. i am tired of this existing in the state it is.

ok i feel moderately better. :D

Replicator?

2010-12-08T18:31:00.000-05:00

Imagine a future where energy is limitless and free. A world where because of the advances in science we control fusion to get our energy. No one fights about energy resources anymore because we have key power plants placed in places that power the entire globe evenly and thoroughly.

Now that we have the setting, in this world goods would no longer be manufactured or produced. They would be designed and tested. Then they would be replicated. Each building would have a replicator and each building would have a store of matter. No one would actually purchase products any more, they would pay for the rights to replicate products. They would be paying for the architecture of the products. Once the architecture is purchased by the consumer they have the rights to replicate it as many times as that purchase contract allows. if science advances far enough ways of taking raw energy and transforming it straight into forms of matter would prove more efficient. However that does not seem likely to happen for a while.

Imagine a hospital equipped with this kind of technology. Instant vaccines, medicines, and supplies. Would save millions of lives. Imagine a replicator placed in a small town in Africa, now able to replicate food and water. It would change how we live. No longer would the population be dependent on the earth for it's survival. No longer would people be forced to die because their region experienced a drought, disease or disaster.

Where would we get all the material for this from? Well if we are powering the world by fusion then there is the answer. We use the leftover matter from the fusion reactions to be used in the replication processes.

Is this technology even close to being possible? We have the technology For 3 dimensional printers right now. People use them to test a multitude of things in the real world. All we would need to do is modify this process to account for density and different types of materials. When it comes to fusion, even though they always say it is 50 years away, eventually we will possess the technology to control a reaction and obtain the energy from those reactions.

The world would be saved from overproduction, and the carbon foot print for moving products around the world reduced to almost nothing. The resources spent in packaging products would also be reduced to almost nothing and the garbage produced from those packaging would be reduced to almost nothing. Overnight the worlds waste would decrease substantially and we would finally be able to feed the billions that go hungry everyday.

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Sleep?

2010-12-02T17:20:00.001-05:00

I can not even begin to count the amount of nights I have laid awake at night wondering why sleep is such a hard thing to come by, or better yet why It is even necessary. The reasons for it are obvious though. The brain needs some downtime to repair and maintain itself. The thing that gets me all interested in it is why it was evolutionarily weaves into every animal on the planet.

The cause is probably as simple as the fact that since it gets dark at night the body might as well have a resting period due to the fact that there is no way of seeing the world around them. Not until very recently when homo sapiens discovered they could harness energy and illuminate the nighttime for their own wills, no other creature was able to fully take advantage of all 24 hours of the day. Which begs the question, could we systematically reduce our sleeping periods to a fraction of what they once were?

The thing that bugs me about the whole sleep thing is that it does not seem evolutionarily prudent. I would think that any animal that decides to lay down for 8 hours un-moving and un-aware of its surroundings would have died out a long time ago. A sleeping animal would be easy pickings to any fortunate predator that may stumble upon them. Even that did not stop sleep from continuing to be a huge part of an animals cycles.

Probably the most irritating thing about sleep is that it is not an instant thing. One must almost chase it down and overtake it, or at least that is what it feels like sometimes. The brain has to wait until the heart rate and breathing are a certain reduced speed before the process can begin. It is almost painful having to wait for the body to decide it is ready for sleep when the person had decided on that fact hours beforehand.

I wonder if on planets in other systems where they are gravitationally locked into their rotation, one side of the planet always in darkness and one in light. That if those twilight zone animals require sleep or if it has even come to exist in their ecosystem. If sleep originated due to the dark nights here on earth, what would happen if on that planet it was always daytime? Would animals that were never unable to sense their surroundings have come to a point where sleep is required?

I think one of the goals of future bioengineers should be to either find a way for the brain to do the processes it does while sleeping on the fly, or at the very least reduce the required time for sleep. A world without sleep would be a much more efficient place.

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Onstar?

2010-11-21T18:54:00.000-05:00

I recently took a family vacation to Washington DC. The trip was a result of the need to go to the Jon Stewart Rally to Restore Sanity. On the way there I got to thinking about the integrated on star function in most cars nowadays. I soon came to the realization that on star does not actually give a damn about the safety of it's customers and I will explain why.

The service as it is setup currently is that the customer pay a fee every month after they initialized the service. Now this is clearly a type of insurance plan for the passengers and driver of the vehicle of which only works if the fee is paid every month. So if one is not a customer of this service then they will not have immediate emergency response if something were to go wrong.

The way it should be is this. The service is paid for when purchasing the vehicle. The feature should be a premium feature paid in full upon acquiring the vehicle for the first time. Once the car is started for the very first time the on star function should initiate on it's own. So the second the car is driven off the lot by the owner they are "insured" with the functionality of on the spot response to whatever may happen. No monthly payments and no subscription. If that is not entirely viable as a product then the most it should ever be is a pay to use service. Where upon using the service for an emergency response the customer is charged a fee, but that should be a last resort.

The reason I got to thinking about this is if we were to have gotten in an accident on our trip, even though our vehicle was equipped with the hardware required for then onstar service it would have been useless since we do not pay for the service. So my question is, why do they automatically put it in vehicles if it will go unused? And why make a clearly innovative safety feature just another money ploy.

It should be an automatically initiated response service meant to keep people safe. Instead it is just another way in order for GM to make some quick cash. They should Stop making it a product to make money off of and make it a standard safety feature across the board.

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Stopping Time?

2010-08-13T00:56:00.001-04:00

Whenever someone on a tv show or in a movie stop time they always seem to be able to do it very easily. I am not going to dispute the impossibility of achieving this with our current level of technology or that a biological being would somehow be able to achieve it on their own via a gamma burst or an eclipse. The thing that really concerns me about the whole concept is, if that person is really actually stopping time they could possibly produce a grave situation for anyone they decide to take with them. Let's say if that person were to bring someone with them on the time travel adventure and somehow leave that person behind. The consequences for that person would he atrocious. Once the time traveller resumes his position in time, the passenger would now become stuck at that one point forever. An infinity would pass for that person and the matter that they are composed of. Some possible situations that could arise would be that person would consume their lifetimes worth of oxygen, food and water in what would seem like an instance for everyone else. Proving to be possibly disastrous for the rest of the planet. The percentage of oxygen would reduce drastically because no oxygen would be being produced while that person is consuming it. The person and all of the waste they produced would last for an infinity within a point of normal time.

The only way it would be less disatserous for everyone would be if instead of the time traveler stopping time, they merely slow it down. This would be more reasonable. Depending on the rate in which the traveller slows time down would depend on how long an abandoned passenger would have to wait until the time traveller realized what happened and slows time down again. it is much easier to comprehend that all of the waste that the passenger produced would not be confined to a single point within time, it would still be visible to the people at the normal rate of time, it would just decay at an increased rate.

Moral of the story is simple, if you can stop time, make sure you don't bring anyone with you and if you can slow time down make sure you decrease the rate of time so that you have enough time to re-slow time down in case you leave them behind.

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Recycling Facilities?

2010-08-12T02:40:00.002-04:00

When it comes to recycling I have never understood why it is always put into the hands of the consumer alone. For instance it is up to everybody to have to recycle on their own at their own will. This has not proven to work. The waste management system itself should have some kind of recycling built in.

The way it should work:
the consumer puts their garbage out for the company to pick it up. After it gets picked up by the management company it is taken to the facility where it is sorted preferably by robot controlled systems into the various recyclable materials. Thereby leaving only biodegradable waste behind to rot in the giant compost pile that is the dump. The facility could also turn a profit on this venture simply by selling the recycled material to companies who can use it. Not only does this solve the issue of non-disposable waste being left to decompose at the dump It also makes it so companies in the area are using cheaper recycled materials instead of having to buy newly created or mined materials that only go further in exhausting non-renewable materials.

Consumer side of things:
the only thing the consumer would be aware of would be that they put out the trash. Some would say that this would lead to less care on what people throw away. That may be true however that should be the issue anyway. We should be able to throw anything away that we want and have it all sorted out at the facility we pay to manage our waste. Also when it comes to consumers recycling things on their own, their are a lot of financial reasons the consumer would choose to recycle what they can on their own.

Overall I think that if this kind of plan was implemented I would guess that not only would our world start to become a lot cleaner, but companies that should be "managing" our waste would not just be burying it in a hole somewhere but actually doing the management that they currently propose they do.

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Modern Warfare 2 is an Epic Failure?

2010-07-10T00:32:00.003-04:00

For as long as there have been video games there have been LAN parties. For As long as there have been video games there have been nerds, who even though socially inept, have had there fellow nerds to enjoy the art form that they are. Whether it be in an arcade, a chat room, or even moms basement. Nerds have always gravitated together to be awake into the wee hours enjoying that new interactive masterpiece together.

Infinity Ward has decided however that this is no longer acceptable. They in one fell swoop made all LAN parties impossible with their newest addition to the Call of Duty franchise. Modern warfare 2 with all it's glamor and beauty lacks one of the most important features for any video game.

These are the things that make this game an enormous failure, even if it is the most popular game.

1. No LAN(Local Area Network) support whatsoever.
They decided to tell their customers that either connect to xbox live, play split screen, or you are playing on your own.

2. System connect only allows for 1v1.
If I can play split screen up to 4 players, why not allow me to port that experience to a system connect. There won't be any lag because there is no network to rely on.

3. DLC maps only playable when connected to xbox live.
This is absolute bullshit. I paid money for these maps. They are on my xbox. Why am I forced to be connected to the Internet to access files stored locally on my hard drive. This is a crime against video games.

There seriously should be some list of rules, a video game charter if you will. That has the rules that all games should be developed by. For instance, if I download a DLC, it is now my property. Don't restrict me to having to be connected to the Internet or only certain users allowed to use it. If it is on the hard drive the account is saved to, then I can use that DLC. Halo 3 for all the problems i have with the game has done this part right. Recently my roommate downloaded the new map pack under his gamer tag on my hard drive. On my gamer tag I had not downloaded them. But halo 3 allowed me to play those maps simply because they were on my hard drive. Allow for all possible multiplayer possibilities. System link, LAN, and split screen.

Update:
people have said to me, why do i reserve such hostility to MW2 and not Starcraft 2 a game that should have LAN support but does not. my answer is simple. Blizzard announced a long time before Starcraft 2's release that it was not going to have LAN support. full disclosure. with MW2 however they just failed to put it in the game and never told us about it.

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Car Years?

2010-06-27T22:42:00.001-04:00

Why don't car makers put the year of the car on the outside of the vehicle? Instead of just putting the name challenger, why not have it say the year before or after the name. It would make things a lot easier. For instance mechanics, or police officers would find it helpful. No more having to either remember it off hand or tearing apart the glove box.b

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No Network Play?

2010-06-26T00:45:00.000-04:00

The story goes like this. My buddy brought over his xbox so we could play 2 on 2 MW2. Not thinking anything of it we Plug his xbox into the living room tv and mine into my monitor in my room. We both get signed into the network and then into xbox live. I said to everyone, "hey let's do a local network match, it will have almost no ping and no lag". So the connections would make for a very even match. The options for multiplayer are either split screen, xbox live, or system link. Up until this point I was under the assumption that I could just set up a match via the network we were on, but no this is apparently impossible for this game to do. For fucks sake, star craft was capable of this and halo 3. Why is this not a feature that is standard on all multiplayer games now. It is really ridiculous. We ended up having to play across xbox live, which led to ping between systems. Why do some features always seem to get left behind?

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WWDC?

2010-06-09T23:33:00.001-04:00

Some words on WWDC 2010. As I sit back and reflect on the keynote this past Monday, I begin to realize just how disappointed I am. Granted the new iPhone 4 looks fantastic, and the technology they added to this new phone is really quite impressive. However there are a few things I have on my mind that I think should have happened but did not.

10.7?
Apples next big cat should have made at least a Preview or a mention. This is the developers conference after all. In the past it has almost always been the event that apple uses to show a sneak peek of the new Mac os. I was a little disappointment their wasn't even a slide hinting at them working on it.

MobileMe?
I have recently posted about my opinions of the current MobileMe set of functions. So really all I have to say is that it is still way over priced for the limited functionality it gives it's prescribers. I really had hoped for any kind of iTunes streaming, cheaper price....really anything would have been nice.

AppleTV?
Apparently it is still a hobby, how unfortunate. Apple concedes victory to google.

Mac Pro?
From what I understand the new i7 chips would seriously upgrade the performance in those machines. I may be wrong, but they have not made a very big deal about their top of the line Mac in a while.

MacBook Air?
Still a joke of a product in my opinion, but it would have been nice to see something about it this year. It was quietly updated earlier this year, but it doesn't seem like that was enough. Even though I have had countless conversations with my cousin about how they should just remove that laptop all together, it is over priced and under powered.

Overall this years WWDC was all about the iOS and the new iPhone. I had just hoped for a lot more. However I always want a 4 hour keynote anyway, and they always keep it under 2. I just hope they quietly release some stuff over the next few months, or even have a special keynote for some of the stuff I mentioned. Either way this years WWDC was just meh. There is always next year.

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Large Engineering Project Impossibility?

2010-06-03T22:01:00.001-04:00

Nowadays I believe it is impossible to have a large engineering project commissioned. Some would argue that building a stadium, or a skyscraper would be considered a large engineering project, but I am talking more like the Hoover dam, the pyramids of Giza, the highway project in the 1950's and the transcontinental railroad. Those were true engineering projects and in the present I don't think that with all the regulation and union issues about, that it would be possible to start and finish such a large project without immense political whiplash or an incomparable amount of lawsuits.

Why it worked in the past...

Well frankly most of the worlds greatest projects were created using slave labor, or something very close to it. The pyramids were built by slaves who had no rights and did not see any kind of payment for building them. The amount that must have died during the long proccess of building all 138 pyramids must have been staggering.

The transcontinental railroad was built mostly by Irish and Asian immigrants. Whose working conditions would never pass in today's world. The rate at which they completed the project clearly means they worked well beyond the work day limit in today's world.

The Hoover dam was built as an economic boost for the depression, so men were eager to go to work on the project, 112 people died while building it. Something that would never be allowed to happen in the modern age. Even 1 death is a travesty nowadays, and would spread across news outlets like wildfire emphasizing how the project is doomed and how it was a terrible idea to begin with.

The 1950's interstate project is the most recent. Suggested by president Eisenhower It was immense, the goal was to connect the country in a way that was never before seen. much like the railroads in the 1800's the interstate was meant to enable travel to more places even easier. A trip that would take 30 days prior to the interstate now took two. Since it took place in modern times the conditions were quite good when compared to prior projects. However the price tag was a staggering 128 billion dollars. The pubs would have a cow if Obama wanted to spend that much money on a single engineering project.

That's not to mention union issues, where to manufacture goods, housing transfer, and so on. The cost for something that big is too high in today's world. The regulation would restrict it so the length would be ridiculous and it would be political suicide if the project went awry in any way.

I think the closest thing to these examples would have to be the Burj Dubai tower. However even that was built using sub par working conditions.

Why we need one right now...
The reason I bring this up is because take the Hoover dam for instance. When it was commissioned in the 30's it was designed to create jobs and boost the economy. It worked, and it also created the largest hydroelectric facility on the planet powering most of nevada and southern california. The country could use the boost in it's economy with a project of that size. Unfortunately it will probably never happen.

Obama has said multiple times that he plans to redesign and re construct our crumbling infrastructure. This means redoing roads, electrical distribution, water, and much more. I have not seen any progress in my home town just yet, but he may have this on the back burner since now he has to deal with finishing healthcare, the oil spill, 2-3 wars, terrorist issues, and so on. Hopefully he gets to it because we need the jobs and we need the economic boost that would surely follow.

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Thermal Scope Reversion?

2010-05-28T22:53:00.000-04:00

So in MW2, when using the thermal scope, why is it so hard to use on a snowy map? But is the best thing to use on afghan the desert level? When playing with thermal on derail the snow causes the thermal scope to have a white out effect but on afghan it is clear as day when looking at the terrain. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If this was a real thermal scope, on derail the snow would appear dark grey or black because it is so cold. But on afghan the terrain would light the thermal scope up like it was A Christmas tree. The game is backwards in that regard and is really frustrating to think about.

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Google vs. Apple - The Battle for My Living Room?

2010-05-28T01:09:00.000-04:00

GoogleTV is Google's entry into the living room. Let's see if google can dethrone apple from another area that they have..... wait a second, An area of media where apple doesn't have the upper hand already? This could get real interesting.

I am personally an apple fan. I also love technology. I think The fact that I love apple products so much is because that company seems to put more care into what they manufacture than any other company in the market. Everything is polished, and clean. The industry even holds each apple product as a comparison to what all other products strive to be like in their chosen field. For the last 12 years apple has been the leader for innovation in pretty much every division of technology that it touches.

However when apple released the AppleTV in 2007, it was being sold as a product to connect your living room to the large digital library people had been massing since the release of the iTunes store. The product didn't do so well for a lot of reasons. Mainly because it was not really all that compelling at it's price point. Plus iTunes didn't have any HD content to stream to a device that also could not display 1080P. So the device was immediately labeled as a "hobby". And apple has referred to it as such ever since. The device received an upgrade a little later boosting it's video output resolution and a view more things hardware and software wise, but the product remained mostly the same dull box.

With google releasing this new platform for their GoogleTV apple seriously needs to take those old AppleTV ideas out of storage and start realizing that in order gain control over the living room like they had hoped to do originally, they will need to seriously step their game up. The GTV platform is cool in a lot of ways. It puts the box after the cable box and by doing that allows for the device to aggregate all content available on cable and the Internet to make it all searchable and viewable. Also the fact that they are taking the extra step with it and putting it into new tv sets themselves is really cool for everyone.

I have an ATV right now in the living room. Personally I love what I can do with the device. Granted it is useless unless the owner either is loaded and can afford to purchase everything they want to watch or they steal all their content. I will not divulge which of those describes my situation. One thing they could add to the ATV would be an app store of some kind. What would be cool about this is they already have thousands of developers making thousands of apps for the iPhone and iPad. So if they opened up an app store for the ATV, I can guarantee it would be an over night success just like all of the other platforms they have. I can also see apple having some kind of video subscription service, allowing ATV owners to subscribe much like cable and be able to view all content in the store. Would be interesting, however I can just image the cow the networks would have over the slightest inclination to that idea. Plus they probably would force adds into the videos as well.

In closing since WWDC is only a week or so away, it will be very interesting to see what apple comes up with. I just really hope they update the ATV to compete with the GTV because if they do not then they are basically conceding victory over the living room to google and their new platform.

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360 down to 8?

2010-05-27T00:16:00.001-04:00

So I'm playing the new super mario galaxy 2, and I am on a stage where I need to throw fire balls at some boxes so I can clean the area. It was a bonus stage. Anyway while I'm playing it I realized that nintendo seriously fucked up. In my left hand is the nun chuck, which is used for moving around and aiming the fireballs. I noticed that the nun chuck joystick is restricted to 8 degrees of actual movement due to the fact that the joystick is surrounded by an octagon. The reason this is frustrating should be obvious. I am going from 360 degrees of free 3 dimensional movement down to just 8. It is extremely restricting and frustrating.

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Magazine Prices?

2010-05-26T18:13:00.001-04:00

So reading on this ipad is amazing. However the price I have to pay is not. I really want to get popular science and time. But both cost $4.99 an issue. AN ISSUE. I mean come on. Give me a years subscription for 30 or something. $4.99 is way to expensive for a magazine issue in my opinion. I was really hoping to be able to read magazines and comics on this device, but now I find myself realizing just how poor I am, lol. Even comics are around 5 dollars. I guess this is how much these things would cost in the real world so it makes sense. However most magazines like popsci have a yearly subscription service for a drastically lower price then it would cost to purchase each in the store. I really hope they bring that kind of service to the app store, because then I will actualy start buying magazines. As for comics, I really want marvel to bring their online service price of $59.99 yearly price to view thousands of comics online. Why don't they bring that to the iPad? Clearly it is because people will buy the comics regardless. Overall the whole comic and magazine trend on the iPad is disappointing to me. Hopefully things change in the future.

Update: wired came out and said today that they would be releasing a subscription service in the fall. Let's hope the rest of the magazine companies follow their example.

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Only The Best Pictures...

2010-05-25T13:41:00.002-04:00

Some Thoughts on MobileMe

2010-05-24T18:00:00.001-04:00

Now that I have an iPad, iPhone, and two macs I am realizing just how difficult it is to keep all of my data synced together and accurate across all the devices. For instance if I change a calendar date on my iPhone in order to get everything synced to that change, I need to sync my iPhone to my MacBook, then sync it to my iPad and then send the info to the iMac. It might not seem like a big deal, but over time it starts to get really monotonous having to sync and re-sync all these devices manually. This is where MobileMe comes into the picture, it automatically syncs data across all of my devices. Plus the find me feature for the iPhone is really cool. Almost is reason enough to get the service alone. The only bad thing is it cost $99 per year. Kind of a ridiculous price for convenience. I did have the service a while back because I was opted in for a cheaper rate for some reason by apple. So I had it for a year, and I did like it I just really had no use for it at the time. The only real big issue I remember having was the photo sync feature in iPhoto. It almost never worked and when it did it usually resulted in corruption of my files. Now this might be because my iPhoto is continually acting up( I think I may have corrupted a library file or something). But the online viewing experience was phenomenal. I used to put my college photos on the web so my family could view them. But overall I was happy with the service.

It just seems like MobileMe is kind a simple solution to some of the issues that arise while having multiple mobile apple products. It is a good attempt but the service needs to become way more extensive in order to compete with the new droid syncing and streaming services and the new Microsoft kin project. I have hope for the service improving in the future because since apple is selling more ipads then they are selling macs, I think this service is going to become extremely vital to their product line.

Speculation part: rumors have it that apple is planning on releasing a streaming function for iTunes. Now if they add this to MobileMe then that is reason enough for me to buy the service.

Update: i am just going to wait until WWDC to see if they improve the service. i am assuming they are going to since they pretty much need to in order to stay relevant. than i might buy it.

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iPad Blogging

2010-05-24T01:10:00.001-04:00

Being my first blog post from my brand new iPad I am still getting used to this soft keyboard. It is actually very nice to use. One of my original peeves was the non tactile feeling and sound. Well with the clicking that I have turned on it actually satisfies the sound need. The feeling though is still kind of odd, but is something I have no problem getting used to. The keyboard is very spacious and I make very little mistakes. Since I don't actually use the standered way of typing on a regular keyboard. I usually just stare at the keys anyway, with the soft keyboard I am required to stare at the keyboard. So my typing speed has transferred. Also the auto correct works rather well. More reviews to come soon. I plan on blogging a lot more often now that I have an app that makes it so much easier.

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Favorite 20 Albums?

2010-04-25T02:46:00.016-04:00

20. The Stranger - Billy Joel

19. Beautiful Lie - 30 Seconds to Mars

18. Boston - Boston

17. Heavier Things - John Mayer

16. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

15. Beautiful Letdown - Switchfoot

14. Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

13. A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar - Dashboard Confessional

12. So Much For the Afterglow - Everclear

11. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

10. The Sufferer and the Witness - Rise Against

9. Mmhmm - Relient K

8. Narrow Stairs - Death Cab for Cutie

7. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance

6. Love - Angels & Airwaves

5. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

4. Don't You Fake It - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

3. End of Silence - Red

2. The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against the Machine

1. We Don't Need to Whisper - Angels & Airwaves

Windows Terminal?

2010-04-23T20:58:00.002-04:00

i am using a public terminal to type this with.

the entire purpose for getting on this windows machine at work is so that i could print off my pay stub. but they have it locked down so i cannot even save a document to the desktop to allow me to email it myself. i would try my flash drive but it is in my locker downstairs and i don't feel like walking all the way down there just so when i try it i am not able to access it. the reason i would need to email it to myself is because there is not a printer connected to either of these terminals because of the simple fact that people would destroy their ink reserves here at the hospital.

there used to be the library here that had printers, that associates could enter using their ID badges. since they renovated it, they have blocked out anyone who is not a Doctor from using the library. apparently the doc's were getting pissed they had to share their library with the other staff from the hospital. i would try and get my pay stubs at home but their website only works in IE, which is beyond stupid. i have a mac and there is not an IE for Macintosh. so i am restricted to a windows machine to check my pay stubs. they don't even allow for FireFox to access their website. what a brilliant idea Promedica web programmer.

so now i have to attempt to connect a printer to my windows partition on my mac just so i can print out a pay stub. kind of lame that the security on these terminals is so extreme. why not just allow for desktop saving of documents, but when the machine logs off it restores to the default empty desktop. this way i at least could email myself the saved HTML of the websites that contain my pay stubs.

i went to put a picture on this post and apparently i am not even allowed to open a new window. how lame is that. also i just found out i cannot create a document in google documents either. i fail to see the reason for those two things to be disallowed.

also, this keyboard fucking blows.

Only The Best Searches

2010-04-23T01:14:00.002-04:00

Only The Best Pictures

2010-04-23T01:09:00.002-04:00

People?

2010-04-21T17:03:00.002-04:00

I will never understand the need for people to bother other people. I
am sitting next to the window on my lunch break eating my turkey
sandwich. I am trying to enjoy my break. The room has a huge capacity
and is barely filled with people. So these two people decided to come
and sit directly behind me. What the fuck is wrong with you people.
Their are plenty of seats. If you wanted to sit next to the window
there are plenty of window seats too. Worst of all the damn lady is
talking about some giant needle her husband had put in his chest here
at the hospital. Seriously people what is wrong with you.

Update:

they both received phone calls from unnecessarily loud cellphones, and are both talking on their phones in two seperate pointless conversations....I moved across the room.
.

Dweebed?

2010-04-18T14:53:00.005-04:00

Update on Dweebed:

we have been kind of keeping Dweebed on the back burner for a while for a couple of reasons. Steve has had a lot on his plate and has been really busy with all his stuff and since he does like 90% of the work on the site i have been unable or really not willing to try and add some stuff to the site. we are working to bring a new design to the site and change a few things to hopefully attract some more people to the site.

Old Google Searches?

2010-04-17T18:17:00.003-04:00

one of the more frustrating things about searching for information on the internet is when for instance a piece of information is widely excepted and therefore is the only thing one can find. am example of this is today i wanted to try and figure out a way to stream music from my itunes to my iphone(should already work, but doesn't for some dumb reason). almost everyone says to try SimplifyMedia. well thats fantastic except for the fact that the company has removed the app from the appstore and stopped supporting the app for their servers. the public announcement goes like this,

"After developing the technology behind Simplify Media for over 4 years, it is time for us to take it in a new direction. In order to focus on this transition, we will no longer be offering the current software to new users. Today we are removing the Simplify iPhone applications from the App Store, and new account creation will be disabled shortly after that. However, existing Simplify accounts and clients will continue to work fine."

so since most of the internets say that i should use an app that no longer exists, there is no other viable option available, since everyone agreed that was the best way. its not like someone is going to go around the web and inform everyone to update their 3 year old blog posts that the app doesn't exist any longer. so now the giant series of tubes that is the internet are all clogged with inaccurate data leading me to just give up on yet another technology adventure.

Blog Post?

2010-04-17T17:27:00.003-04:00

i wish i could write a book. i feel like i have some great ideas, but whenever i start to write, i am like "this is terrible, a 5 year old could type something up that is more coherent". so i inevitable give up and feel like a failure for even trying. so ya. wish my xbox wasn't broken.

also for the very few who visit this site, i also updated my site to a more pleasing color and template. now people wont get nauseated while reading, or look away and see those squiggly after marks from looking at mono-colors too long.

AppleTV Syncing Issues?

2010-03-25T02:39:00.003-04:00

What a mess. I have an AppleTV and a 2TB drive full of media. What I want to do is have an easy way to stream all of my content to my AppleTV so when I move into my apartment anyone can watch whatever they want on the AppleTV at any point in time. But of course there are 4 problems that are keeping me from achieving this.

I could plug the hard drive into a computer and stream it through iTunes on that computer. Problem is I only have a laptop. So if I ever want to go anywhere with my computer no one can view content on the AppleTV.
I could use the usb drive on the back of the Airport router from apple and stream everything that way. Problem here is the transfer rate is insanely slow. Like unbelievably slow. So because it is so slow it is not only painful to add content to the drive, but the artwork for the content takes a very long time to load on the AppleTV. Plus this also requires me to have iTunes open on my laptop at all times, and have my laptop on the network at all times.
I could do what I am doing now in my parents house, and have a stationary computer dedicated to running iTunes for the AppleTV. However I cannot afford to just buy a mac mini (because I am not using a windows machine).
I could use the USB port on the back of the AppleTV by hacking the device. Only problem here is the app used to hack the usb port, nitotv, no longer exists. All of the How-To websites tell me to use this app that no longer exists, which is extremely frustrating.

It just seems like all this could be solved if apple stopped treating the AppleTV like a damn hobby and make it work to its potential. Stop forcing me to tether the device to one computer. Especially when that one computer is a laptop that is not always there to allow for streaming. Or apple could stop being little bitches about that damn usb port on the back and let me expand the storage beyond the measly 160 GB they have internally.

The Apple iPad?

2010-01-28T02:41:00.007-05:00

Apple's newest product had more hype behind it than anything i can remember to date. so many expectations and hopes for a product that frankly was inevitable. for the most part i am satisfied with the product. i am not disappointed and i am not excited. just satisfied. i feel as though they filled that gap between smartphone and laptop rather well with this product. granted i am only making this opinion on what i have read and seen online. the product is still 60 days from shipping but i am waiting anxiously to hold one.

my main concern with a product like this was how am i going to type on it? apparently the on screen keyboard is fantastic. the keyboard dock is an awesome idea and will make the tablet style much more tolerable.

honestly i was totally unimpressed by the product until steve announced the pricing. i was floored. this device starting at $499. the kindle DX is the same price and is crap compared to this. nothing even comes close to this product, although technically apple just created a whole new class of device. it makes everything that just came out at CES look like junk. which makes this whole thing even better. time will tell if they will get any stiff competition (but they undoubtably will).

Whenever anyone buys a new product the one thing that should always be going through their minds is "is there going to be support for this product?". for instance, a game console is whether or not their will be games. or a music player on whether or not their will be music for it. whats really cool about the iPad is that their is already 140,000 things to do immediately out of the box. the inclusion of the ability to run apps from the app store is essential.

The potential for the iPad is immense. for instance the medical field. if a company were to write and app that allows for monitoring and diagnosing patients for this 10 inch multi-touch screen, it would be a godsend for the industry. the iPad is just the right size to be carried around and with a 10 hour battery life it is plenty to make it through a shift. plus they start at $499 so they are extremely affordable for the medical industry that already spends millions on computing devices.

Apple has succeeded in my opinion of creating a whole new class of product here. one with unlimited potential abroad a dozen different spectrums. once these things get out into the real world i'm sure people are going to fall in love with them.

iPhone OS 4.0 List

2010-01-16T03:18:00.006-05:00

Some of the things i would like to see in the next iPhone and its OS.

Send MMS messages over wifi.

i work at a hospital. most of my time i am either walking through lead walled hallways or i am in the basement with no service. however they do have wifi. so allow me to send MMS over the wifi. i do not see the problem with it. right now if i want to send a text to someone i have to use google voice. since it requires me to have a new number it gets messy, so just fix this AT&T.

Built in photo tools such as sepia, black & white, frames, ext.

on even the most basic of phones the ability to take a photo in sepia or black and white is available. i mean even on the ipod nano now they allow filters during video recording. why not bring that technology to the iphone.

Ability to listen to ipod music in background regardless of the app.

i cant tell you how many times i have started up fieldrunners to find my music stop playing. i end up just not playing that game simply because i cant listen to my own music during it. make ipod music a background option across the board please.

View faces within contact app and messages app

this one seems like a no brainer. allow me to see the image of the contact within the contact app and also the messages app.

Take messages app information off the phone

their are MMS sessions i would love to have copies of off of my phone. to show what someone said, or give someone a reference point of a convo.

Allow for Disk mode an Bluetooth information transfer

its a hard drive with a screen. they allow it on the ipod classics, so why not allow the iphone and ipod touches disk mode. also since bluetooth is so fast why not allow for quick bluetooth transfers of information between devices or between itunes.

New map types like overlays

Apple just recently purchased a maps company called Placebase. mainly because Apple and google are becoming rivals in almost every industry the two companies participate in. so it is only natural that they part ways. since the iphone uses google maps they needed a new source. hopefully the new maps company will allow for a new kind of mapping on a device. such as overlays like weather or traffic. even weird custom ones like 3G coverage or killer bee migration.

iCal location search

when i sync ical information to my iphone sometimes i will have location information within an event. yet when i click on the location nothing happens. i feel like it should jump into the maps app and show me directions.

Stream content from itunes to iphone

there is an app that allows an iphone to control an itunes library which is nice. but i want to be able to stream content from my itunes library to my device. for instance i want to watch a TV show in bed on my iphone and done feel like going and sitting in my chair to enjoy it. why not have an app that streams the content so i can enjoy it anywhere in the house.

Queue up texts

i would really like to queue up texts so when my phone gets service it automatically sends them. instead of playing the game were i stare at my phone until i see the little ...searching to go away.

Aluminum case

i love the aluminum casing on the 1st gen iphone. i have always felt that the 3G and the 3GS plastic casings felt a little cheap for an apple product. so it would be really nice if they could find a way to get back to the anadized aluminum look. i know that the reason they dont is simply due to thermal considerations, but if they could make it work i would be uber excited.

Lock screen change

the lock screen is just not good enough. it should have way more customization on what can be viewed. more details of texts and emails, and even widgets like weather or stocks.

App navigation

i have 8 screens of apps. it is quite a hassle getting to the 8th screen. their should be some kind of expose of the screens or something. much like what Ocean Observations came up with.

FLASH

it has been done to death, but seriously apple. you and adobe have a great relationship together make this work!

Remove apple apps or at least hide them like nike plus

Stocks, weather, compass, and voice memos are all apps i do not use. and even if i did i would download a much better app on the app store to do the job. make them hide able just like nike plus is.

Flash for the camera

Apple was recently quoted buying a ton of LED flash bulbs. so they will probably be putting flash into the next phone. i'm hoping the logo is what flashes. would be so sweet!

5 MP camera with HD video Recording

i want the camera to be amazing. the processor can handle the HD it is just a matter of fitting a sensor into the phone and making it affordable.

Multi-tasking

the palm pre does it and still manages to have mediocre battery life. it sure would be nice.Ocean Observation came also came up with a cool multi-tasking view.

TV Dinner Scalding Suit?

2010-01-15T02:08:00.003-05:00

Why do microwavable dinner companies insist on putting the instructions for cooking their "meals" on the bottom of the containers? almost all "meals" consist of two cooking periods. so the 2 choices the consumer has is either memorize the instructions beforehand, or run the risk of spilling scalding hot food on their face because they had to lift the dinner above their heads to read them.

Serious iPhoto Flaw

2010-01-14T03:39:00.005-05:00

Here is the problem i have. when i import videos into iphoto from a camera and/or my iphone. they are labeled as img_1809 or MVI_3406. no problem for iphoto because in that app filenames are unimportant because titles are used. i edit all the titles of my photos/videos for my own organization and for my windows family members within iphoto. the problem is when i want to stream those videos to my TV or i want to convert the .AVI to MP4. when i drag those videos into itunes so they will sync to my TV, the filenames show up and because IMG_1809 does not chronologically fit with 2009-01-150, which is my labeling system the videos are all out of order. i tried exporting them so the titles would now be the filenames, but by doing that i lose all the metadata. because iphoto doesn't know how to permanently tag mete-data to video files. so i cant do that if i want to keep the info on when the video was taken. there is a batch re-namer within iphoto but it does not batch change the filenames, only the titles. so now i have 2 years of videos that i can not watch on my TV or anywhere else actually because i cant change the filenames without loosing the metadata. why doesn't TV read the title information of these files, not the filenames. that would at least give me a temporary fix. i think the only option left is to call an apple genius and see what they have to say. or drive to the nearest store because this is frustrating and is virtually impossible to google search.

Possible Fixes

Allow batch filename changes within iphoto
conserve metadata while exporting videos from iphoto
TV read titles instead of filenames

Smoking Ban

2010-01-13T04:25:00.006-05:00

Michigan is going Smoke Free may 1st, 2010. meaning that no longer will people be allowed to smoke in public places. personally i hate smoking. it is one of those things that i simply do not understand. let me breath smoke into my lungs so it makes me happy? doesn't make any sense to me. but i digress, so i am happy the ban is going into affect. however if we look at this from another direction it is really dumb. it is just another case of government taking rights away from people. if anything now it will cause that rebellious behavior and push the use of tobacco up. it boggles my mind that people cant smoke a cigarette outside of their house now but yet drinking is still allowed just about anywhere. even though smoking only effects the person ingesting it, but drinking can cause horrible destruction when people under the influence decide to go get some TB.

iPhone App List?

2010-01-11T16:00:00.002-05:00

Facebook - Free - Essential app.

Twitterrific - Free - My favorite FREE twitter app.

Tweetie 2 - $2.99 - My Favorite Twitter app.

Tweetmusic - $.99 - Tweet current song playing on the device.

Slacker Radio - Free - Free internet radio, type in any song or artist.

Pandora - Free - Free internet radio, type in any song or artist.

Midomi - $4.99 - Detects any audio it hears from the speaker. identify songs with iphone speaker. There are other cheaper and possibly free versions of this but this is my favorite.

Urbanspoon - Free - Locates restaurants surrounding the devices location according to price and type of food.

Sketches - $4.99 - Drawing app.

Snaptell - Free - Identifies books, movies, video games, and so on with just a picture of their covers, and finds prices on amazon. great for school books.

Bump - Free - Great device-to-device transfer app.

The Weather Channel - Free - Best weather application.

IMDB - Free - Internet Movie Database. search for anything video related.

Games

Fieldrunners - $2.99 - Simply the best iphone/ipod touch tower defense game.

Blocks Classic - Free trial $.99 Full Version - My favorite block breaker game.

Line Rider - $1.99 - Classic line rider flash game ported onto the iphone/ipod touch. very well done.

Lux Touch - Free - Mobile version of the classic board game Risk. also there is a $4.99 version of the game.

Blocked - $.99 - Mobile version of the board game Traffic.

Peggle - $4.99 - Peg-busting game.

Doodle jump - $.99 - move the phone to guide a jumping doodle upwards.

Minigore - $1.99 - Fun time waster. kill as many enemies as possible for an infinite amount of time.

Earthworm Jim - Free Trial $4.99 Full Version - Classic SNES video game ported.

Mega Man 2 - Free Trial $4.99 Full Version - Classic Mega Man game ported.

Simcity - $2.99 - Basically the game Simcity 2000.

CES 2010

2010-01-11T03:25:00.002-05:00

So did anyone besides me think CES sucked this year. I was not able to go because of obvious reasons, however i did follow Engadgets feed of information. all that i kept seeing every time i checked their iphone app was another company releasing an Ebook, or another TV with 3D playback ability. first off, ebook readers are nice but seriously does every single company have to release one. the electronics market is officially flooded with these products now. i would not be surprised if Cnet has to add a whole new section to their review site just for ebook readers. and 3D televisions....rly? until we have holograms i am sticking with two dimensions.

Apple has their event on the 27th of this month. the rumor is that they will also be releasing some kind of tablet. being Apple i hope they come out and blow everyone away. i hope they release a product that radically changes how we interact with computers. much like what they did with the iphone in 2007.

How hot is 8?

2010-01-11T01:52:00.001-05:00

Why don't stoves have a temperature display? I asked this about toasters a while back to my dad on why they have numbers ranging from 1-10 instead of a temperature gage. He responded “it is because the filament wears out over time so what used to be 6 is now 8”. It makes sense, however on a stove it does not. The part of the stove that heats up shouldn't wear out like a toaster filament. Even if it does wear out over time that still doesn't explain why they don't put a thermometer of some sort in the unit that heats up and will read the temperature back. So instead of deciding whether 6 is hot enough to boil water, one can actually punch in the number 100. Showers suffer from the same problem. I spend the first 2 minutes of any shower just trying to figure out the right temperature. Why not put in some kind of system so when I turn on the shower I turn it to 55 degrees, or whatever temperature I want. Instead of having to figure out how much of the cold handle should be on and how much of the hot handle should be on.

Transfer Rates

2010-01-10T02:29:00.005-05:00

In a world where we have hard drives that can hold up to 4 TB’s. We have SSD drives that are reaching equivalent capacities. We have transfer rates in I/O coming out next year of up to 5 GB/S with USB 3.0, and up to 10 GB/S with the new Light Peak cable designed by apple and intel. SDHC cards transfer at 6 MByte/s right now. It is not very fast but next year the SDXC has potential of reaching 300 MByte/s. But it is still nearly impossible to send a file larger than 100 MB file to anyone over the internet. Outside of owning a server or knowing someone that can host a large file it is nearly impossible to send “large” files to people. For instance if I take a 2 minute video of christmas. I struggle trying to find ways to send the video to my grandma and grandpa. I would think I could email the file but most email clients don't even support emailing files as large as 100 MB and even if they do it takes 2 hours just to send the file. What about sending it over aim? It takes 25 minutes to transfer 100 MB’s. Why are transfer rates so insanely low on the internet. Why is email not able to be used as a method for sending files such as my christmas video.

Back again maybe?

2010-01-10T02:18:00.003-05:00

I am not a very consistent blogger. going to try and get back in the blogging vibe.

Bad Apple?

2009-08-23T15:23:00.002-04:00

Why does apple hate .avi's?

Air Strike?

2009-08-20T00:33:00.004-04:00

Anyone who has played Call of Duty 4 will attest to the tense action of calling in an airstrike and trying not to die in the process. as a player when that person works their way up to 5 kills and is awarded an airstike only two additional kills are required for a helicopter. so when they get the airstike and find safe place to place it, the game displays a flat map screen. the airstrike goes in a line in one direction throwing bombs down at the surface.

the problem here is if you want the airstrike to come in north to south, well you better hope it does cause it probably wont. they do what they want. it can come in east to west and hit nothing but buildings. it is absolutely stupid. who in the design team stood up and said, "I know lets not let the player control the direction of the airstrikes!", "BRILLIANT!". i just do not understand why i cannot control the direction of the airstike.

Year Metadata?

2009-08-19T02:15:00.003-04:00

Why does Apple/iTunes hate year metadata? no year views on ipods or iphones. why?

Update:
In the new iOS 4.0 my dream came true. inside album view they added the album art and some metadata at the top. I am a happy person now. :)

Toledo Hospital

2009-08-19T00:24:00.002-04:00

I started working at Toledo Hospital 4 days ago. it is astounding how much trash that place produces. anything the patients touch needs to be thrown away. it is completely understandable, but most of the stuff is plastic. wouldn't it be smart to collect all the plastic somehow, sell it to a recycling factory. melt it all back down, and than the hospital purchases the re-fabricated plastics from the company at a lower price. i am amazed at some of the stuff i am forced to toss. heavy plastic measuring cups. heavy plastic sports bottles too. when i say heavy plastic i mean the kind of plastic ya feel bad throwing away, not the flimsy dollar store stuff. un-opened food, all kinds of plastic tubing. the hospital used to recycle cans and bottles in the cafeteria, but it got to expensive so they stopped. they tell us consumers to recycle to save the environment. crock of shit that is. hospitals generate more trash than any consumer could even dream of.

Bi-Daily Youtube Clip

2009-08-18T02:33:00.005-04:00

Steve Vs. Steve. who is the better jobs?

Blogspot Complaint

2009-08-18T02:19:00.002-04:00

All i want to do is have it so when i post, it sends it to my facebook. i want to be able to tell people on my facebook account when i have posted without actually having to tell them when i posted. grrrr

iTunes Genre

2009-08-18T01:27:00.008-04:00

So, i have a pretty large music library in my iTunes library. the problem is i have 7,000 songs with wrong genres. now i could quit my job and spend the rest of my life figuring out all the genres, but my computer chair is not that comfortable and i would need money to purchase a new chair. i digress, why can i not get genre information for songs from the iTunes music store. the music store allows me to pull album art from their database, but not genres. why not? so now i am stuck scratching my head trying to figure out how to quickly fix the genres in my library.

Questionable Standards?

2009-03-13T00:24:00.005-04:00

So I bought a fm transmitter for my iphone, well actually I bought it for my zune about 2 years ago. but nevertheless I bought it and I used it many times draining I would say at least a dozen AAA batteries(and my wallet, batteries are expensive). so recently I pulled it out of my tangled technology drawer because I was tired of hearing the BS on the radio. so I decided to save some money and use rechargeable batteries. now I use rechargeable AA's all the time for my mighty mouse and 360 controllers. so I am not new to them. so I charged up a few AAA's and put them in the transmitter. it didn't work. stunned because the transmitter cost 50 dollars, I decided to test some more AAA's thinking maybe the first batch were bad. those didn't work either. so I decided to test some regular AAA's and viola it worked. flabbergasted I stood in confusion because this didn't make any logical sense to me. so I started seeing the requirement of the batteries. and I found out that a standard AAA puts out 1.5 Volts and that is what the transmitter requires. BUT the rechargeable only put out 1.2 Volts. WHY? I do not understand why this is the way it is. I can usually come up with a crack pot reason, but I am actually answerless. I have no idea. so ya standards my ass.

Smoking at a mud hens...

2008-07-05T20:48:00.001-04:00

So we are at the mud hens game, and my dad wanted to go for a smoke.
So we walked around trying to find a smoking area. With no luck we
were about to go out of the "facility" so he could have a smoke. But
they have a no re-entry policy. So essentially if you smoke dont to to
a mud hens game. Their is no way to light up while watching a mud hens
game. people can get wasted off their ass and drive home, but can't
smoke.

Spore 2nd Day

2008-06-19T00:23:00.006-04:00

I bought the full version of the creature creator. and this is some of the things i pumped out.

Working

2008-06-18T12:29:00.000-04:00

Almost on break.

Spore Creatures

2008-06-18T00:40:00.004-04:00

Here are the creatures i created using spore last night.

Check it out, there is a free trial download, for both mac and windows.

Spore

Mac Problems...

2008-06-17T22:34:00.001-04:00

For the first time since i bought my mac i have found a major flaw. i only have 64 MB of Video RAM. what the hell is that. that isn't even enough to run basic video games. so i didn't know this of coarse until i download and install the Spore Creature Creator, the game i have been waiting 4 years for, and find out my mac isn't ad good as it should be. what i don't understand is if my computer cannot handle a program why does it let me install it still. grrrrr.

Well...

2008-06-17T13:13:00.002-04:00

The women I loved for 5 and a half years is officially gone now. She
quite her job, granted it was wendys, but quite nontheless and went
and moved in with her new boyfriend in grand rapids. So ya. Now all I have is work.

David The Great

Garbage fire

2008-05-22T09:52:00.001-04:00

Ya, so last night I came back upstairs from my shower in the Basement
and I walked by the bay window and as like what is that orange
outside. And I looked out an saw 10 foot flames barreling off our
garbage pile. So ya. Damn kids.

Break Time... Once Again

2008-05-21T00:08:00.001-04:00

Taking a break from blogging till a few other things get straighten
out in my life. So if anyone reads this or cares I'm not dead...

David The Great

Question

2008-05-17T01:00:00.003-04:00

What do they do with the cars that killed someone. Like if the driver
runs someone over and kills them. What do they do with the car?

o ya and happy anniversary to me, would have been 6 years today.

My Comic...

2008-05-15T18:19:00.001-04:00

Why...

2008-05-13T18:02:00.000-04:00

When was this ever a good slogan or logo to anything other than to
represent an apocalyptic event. Looks like something out of an
inconveinant truth play book.

Bi-Daily Youtube Clip

2008-05-12T23:37:00.002-04:00

Family Guy Gift Frog. my sister showed me this clip and i honestly cried laughing.

Only the Best Pictures

2008-05-12T23:35:00.002-04:00

Things Younger than McCain

2008-05-12T22:59:00.002-04:00

Great blog.....check it out.

all things younger than McCain.

Work

2008-05-12T18:01:00.000-04:00

Roof work on water damage.... Again.

Only the Best Pictures

2008-05-10T01:37:00.003-04:00

Quote...s

2008-05-10T01:34:00.001-04:00

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable …
– H. L. Mencken

Don't make someone a priority, if you are only an option.
- Anonymous

i know about that last one all too well.

AGAIN....

2008-05-10T01:29:00.002-04:00

I said last year

"My prediction for this hurricane season is simple and i am writing it down now for proof that i thought of it now. a hurricane will have a direct hit on New York City."

and i will say it again, My prediction for this hurricane season is simple and i am writing it down now for proof that i thought of it now. a hurricane will have a direct hit on New York City.

and i confidently say this because it always work keep predicting things until they finally happen and then you seem like a hero, worked for the Christians, worked for the government, and so far it has panned out well for the both of them.

GTA IV 003

2008-05-09T23:26:00.001-04:00

Apparently in this city ya get shot for punchin a car.

GTA IV 002

2008-05-09T23:01:00.002-04:00

The First Screen.....this is going t be sweet.

GTA IV

2008-05-09T22:58:00.001-04:00

Got it and just started playing it. SO FUCKING EXCITED!!!!!!

Friday

2008-05-09T15:01:00.002-04:00

Well I got paid today and I am going to best buy tonight to get
speakers for my car, 93' Escort, cause the ones I have are shot. And
some accessories for my new iPhone. Only 3 more hours till end of work.

David The Great

102!!!

2008-05-09T00:09:00.002-04:00

WOOT 102 POSTS(missed the 100th, o well) WOOT!!!!!!

AWESOME

2008-05-08T23:35:00.001-04:00

COLBERT GALAXY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only the Best Pictures

2008-05-08T23:16:00.000-04:00

Bi-Daily Youtube Clip

2008-05-08T23:14:00.002-04:00

This is for Knoch.

SWEET....

2008-05-08T23:11:00.003-04:00

Just look at the picture and then follow the link to see if you were right when you tried to guess what the hell is going on.

Movies...

2008-05-07T23:47:00.002-04:00

Do you want to know my greatest thing i hate about star wars is. the fact that they have the technology to build massive battlestations, blow up planets, make weapons that defy every law in physics, and can travel light speed which is also an impossibility due to the fact that in order to go light speed the matter is transformed into energy. but when analyzing and planning out the destruction of the most important and dangerous thing known to man, they are using visual technology that makes the 8-bit NES look like a goddamn supercomputer. GAHHHHH

o yeah and there are no sounds in space.

Only the Best Pictures

2008-05-07T23:35:00.002-04:00

God's left over pieces...

2008-05-07T23:29:00.003-04:00

All this thing needs is wings, and hell it would be the greatest animal Ever.

Question?

2008-05-07T12:07:00.000-04:00

So at what point do steps become a ladder?

Quote

2008-05-07T11:36:00.001-04:00

Bi-Daily Youtube Clip

2008-05-07T00:30:00.005-04:00

A true tribute to the book. if anyone has ever read the actual book than this is the best way to explain it to anyone who hasnt.

How To Kill a Mockingbird

Only the Best Pictures

2008-05-07T00:28:00.002-04:00

Driving...

2008-05-07T00:21:00.003-04:00

So i was going to best buy with my sister and we were driving down the road and we looked over to the cars driving next to me, and the girl was curling her eye lashes while driving. just felt like putting that out there.

Language...

2008-05-06T23:26:00.004-04:00

When the constitution was written the founding fathers and mothers, didn't include a national language. and most people do not know this. i hear all the time people say about immigrants "they love here so thy should speak our language." i find it funny because they are so damn sure about their ignorance. o well these people are just as good of an example of how dumb people can be about stuff.

Bowling

2008-05-03T15:22:00.001-04:00

Wii style.

See things according to mass

2008-05-03T05:06:00.002-04:00

An interesting idea that would be cool to have for an alien, is instead of like us where we se things according to their radiation wavelength. we see the part of the spectrum that we call visible light. but i think it would be cool if an alien could see things according to their mass.

Chilling at baker

2008-05-03T05:05:00.001-04:00

Well I made it till now without getting caught and kicked out. It is
alot longer than I expected.

Question?

2008-05-03T02:47:00.001-04:00

When you are driving down the highway and you drive by a semi truck are you sucked towards the truck or pushed away?

Iron Man

2008-05-03T00:04:00.000-04:00

Entire movie was techology porn. Amazing movie.

A field

2008-05-02T12:28:00.001-04:00

Outside my work. Peaceful. :)

Its about to rain.

2008-05-02T10:51:00.001-04:00

I dont know why I get so excited for rain. Maybe it is because where I
live the weather usually goes around us. And we only get like 1 or 2
bad storms in one year. O well.

David The Great

Ugh work

2008-05-02T10:23:00.000-04:00

Just Pitiful

2008-05-02T00:02:00.002-04:00

I have no words for this man, and nothing to explain why he is still in office. just go to the link.

Bush

Cell Phone Service

2008-05-01T23:28:00.002-04:00

It amazes me that with me with my phone. i was in my buddy joes house and i couldnt get service while sitting on his couch. but when i moved not even 1 foot towards the window i got 2 bars. it blows my mind that 1 foot in any direction changes my cell service so dramatically.

At joes

2008-05-01T21:01:00.001-04:00

Can't see the screen but we are playing call of duty 4.

Waisting time in bed

2008-05-01T17:26:00.001-04:00

Google Ocean?

2008-04-30T18:34:00.003-04:00

Google has become quite an entity, and they have managed taken control of the mapping market with google maps, and google earth. well last year they added google sky which allowed to view the sky from where you are on the planet and anywhere else. and now they are moving on to the only other thing left to map, the ocean. it will be exciting to be able to view the ocean in detail.

"We know far more about the surface of Mars from a few weeks of radar surveying in orbit than we know of the bottom of the ocean after two centuries."

Banks...

2008-04-30T18:27:00.002-04:00

One thing i will never understand is why banks are only open to six. in my town they are not open anytime after 6 during the week and close even sooner on the weekends. i would think since banks are the central location for our money that it should be open 24/7. i mean McDonald's is open 24/7 why not the place i keep all my money at. i mean i get paid on Fridays rite and i do not get out of work until six. so that means i have to wait till Saturday to get my money. i mean it really is not that big of a deal i just do not understand why they do not have banks open all the time.

Worried...

2008-04-30T17:37:00.001-04:00

About ruining the fun.

WHERES DAISEY!!!!!!

2008-04-30T17:35:00.001-04:00

God created pizza rolls in his own image!

2008-04-30T14:09:00.001-04:00

Greatest fucking food ever!

MMMMMM

2008-04-30T14:07:00.001-04:00

PIZZA ROLLS!!!!

Goodnight World

2008-04-30T01:08:00.001-04:00

See you in the morning.