August 2010
2 posts
The Fading of Heroes
Imagine a hot, summer day….it’s around 2pm. The sun is glaring down and you can smell the hot-dogs cooking outside the ballpark as a crowd of kids huddle around the player entrance, looking to see their heroes leaving in hopes of getting an autograph. Scandal has shocked the game recently, but some are still hopeful. As Google slowly walks out of the player locker-room into the street...
What exactly IS the Apple iPad?
There was a recent broadcast of This Week in Tech (TWiT) in which Leo Laporte expressed his concern about the Apple iPad, (which he admits he loves) being a “consumption” device and not one meant to create content. He said he was troubled by this and I’ve been reading the same thing on a number of blogs and opinion pieces; the iPad is just for consumption…as if this were...
July 2010
2 posts
Underground Comics and Me. Part 1
I was never a traditional comic book fan. I mean, I would would read a superhero comic from time to time while growing up, but they never grabbed me in any significant way. I was a lover of the printed word though, and I read books and short stories from a young age and that love continues to this day. I did have some love for the horror comic though, mainly the old EC Comics like Tales from the...
iPhone 4 vs. All Those Android Phones
I was looking at getting the iPhone 4. I currently don’t have any phone, but I do have the iPad and I love it….so naturally I would think that going with an iPhone would be a logical choice as I can use many of the apps I have on the iPad with the iPhone.
But I also listen to people like Leo Laporte. He LOVES Android phones and talks about them all the time. So I looked into possibly...
June 2010
3 posts
Apple's Walled Garden vs. Open Garden
Next time you hear someone talking about Apple’s “Walled Garden”, think of this:
You come into Apples walled garden…it’s a nice place. Big variety of plants and flowers and bushes and trees. Very clean place, very peaceful, very safe…calm…sunny, albiet with a lot of rules. HEY, get off the grass buddy, can you see that sign? HEY miss, pick up that soda...
Facebook Privacy: Time to Use It Wisely?
Everyone has come down on the privacy concerns over Facebook. How they want everything private, yet be able to share everything too. People are appalled when their bosses or potential employers look them up on Facebook to see what they’ve been up to. Doesn’t the solution to this seem so obvious to everyone now? LIE!
Seriously, use the non-privacy of Facebook to your advantage. Turn on...
Unmemorable Memorial Day
My wife and I and our 15 year old son went over to my in-laws house for Memorial Day yesterday. Living with my in-laws are my wife’s sister and the father of their baby. I’m not sure what else to call him because she seems ambiguous to him at best. I suppose “boyfriend” can be used, but since the only clue that they’re a couple is the product of their supposed love-making, I don’t want to presume....
May 2010
2 posts
Everyone Rushing to Develop iPad "Killer"
Wired has this story about other companies working in their versions of the iPad.
And they’ll all probably fail.
For one, and many people don’t get this still, it has to be better than just the sum of it’s parts. It has to be better than just a spec-sheet. Everything has to come together to make a viable product, but what we’re probably going to see in the next year...
I want to be creative
All my life, I’ve endeavored to be creative. I started out, around age 12, wanting to be a photographer and now that I’m 48 it’s still the thing I’m best at, artistically speaking. It’s a very expensive art though, in terms of the equipment needed to get the results that I want or see in my head. Besides, photography isn’t really an artform that one can really...