Posts from October 2011

Its the end of an era.

@tinypliny sent me a link to some blogger page about something and it gave me this when I tried to visit using the android browser on my gingerbread phone.

Basra and tortoise B are having fun grazing in the yard. Both of them had their mouths open as I carried them out and ate directly as I put them down.

How cute are these two together? Tomorrow we are going to the zoo after the tongue doctor appointment.

The galaxy s2 phone is really blowing my mind with my first true all day battery. Seems like it was definately the right choice. Considering it weighs almost nothing and is as thin as a wasa cracker - its so unbelievable.

One day in. I took it off the charger at 9:30am. Here we are at 11:39pm and its still going at around 50% battery power. Maybe I don't need that second battery afterall.

This is my grandmother's father. Now I know where that bald patch in the middle of my head comes from. Nonna also said he died of terrible stomach problems. I should probably find out more about him.

This Wednesday, I finally gave an appointment with a dentist that specializes in geographic tongue thanks to some research by @tinypliny. I am ready for it to be over. Hopefully they can do something about it.

Before tongue scraping/brushing


After

The Samsung galaxy s2 came out on ATT&T today and I finally jumped ship from the nexus one after almost 2 years. It feels like the future because this is my first video phone. I called myself between the fedora 15 laptop and the phone. It was pretty neat. Its even neater between phones. The thing that did it was a combination of the speed, size, amazing screen and camera. The screen is so clear and the blacks of the AMOLED are so black. I want a TV like that someday.



The camera is amazing. Actually it was the main factor as I can you it to document my geographic tongue better and take close-up pics of text. The nexus one had cracked lens so closeups were a no go.



As you can see by the benchmarks, it blows away my old phone.



It even has this fun cartoon mode.

Last night @matthew, @mike and I went to the Seneca Casino last night. Gambling at the slots sucked. Sometimes I win a bit, even if I am going to lose. This time I consistently lost $20 worth of plays on the penny slots. Even though it was the penny slots we were playing 50 lines at a time.

Actually, I was exaggerating - there was on win, this was it. How the frick is this a win? I can't understand how the machine works at all, which makes it seem all the more suspicious.


The best part was the Mega sized mozzarella cheesesticks. The worst part was the cigarette smoke. I had no idea what it was like to be in a place where thousands of people are smoking cigarettes indoors.



We opened the glowstick fairy wand, but had no chance to show it off. Its kind of a sad end to the fairy wand.