Paul's Journal

02/25/2011 18:09 #53724

Bowling at kenmore lanes
Category: games

Last night I was supposed to go bowling with terry and friends but I misheard which lanes. Apparently, I was supposed to go to Classic Lanes for disco bowling night but I understood Kenmore Lanes and I directed half the party there. So (e:samathon) won with the high score of like 153.

Hadn't been there in years, since like 93 when I used to go there to play gauntlet.

I found a nice pink ball to use but I only bowled a high of 119.

(e:keithT) dressed the part. I wish there was more light in the pic.

heidi - 02/26/11 15:03
His bowling ball even coordinated - you can see the edge of it in the shot of (e:paul)'s pink ball.

tinypliny - 02/26/11 00:06
Bowling chic...Love the shoes and (e:Keith)'s getup.

02/24/2011 20:57 #53711

Matthew's phone - Matthew's Journal
Category: mobile

This screen is what sold it for me. Frankly, I am a bit jealous.

tinypliny - 02/24/11 22:56
It actually resembles the Samsung Nexus S a lot. I kind of like the solid feel of the Nexus one.... of course a bigger screen would be awesome. At some point, I will get a tablet that runs on Chrome OS and accepts Stylus input.

02/23/2011 18:15 #53698

6:13 and its light out
Category: weather

Wow, typing and walking with blind trust in your spelling corrector doesn't work.

I meant

It feels so weird to leave work when its light out again.

not

It feels do weird to leave work I'm the light again.

Time to get my yoga on.

tinypliny - 02/24/11 07:56
I totally thought you were talking about some trippy enlightenment analogy...

02/22/2011 21:50 #53688

Fur on Metal
Category: texture

I am even more jealous of this HTC inspire 4g. The camera seems pretty amazing. The only downside is that it does not have the front facing camera.

The keyboard text selection on it better than on the gingerbread. At least the gingerbread I have have.

tinypliny - 02/24/11 07:57
And so you got it for (e:matthew). That is so typically sweet of you. :)

02/21/2011 23:54 #53680

Gingerbread is Pretty Fun
Category: mobile

I couldn't wait any longer for the Nexus One to get gingerbread. For like a year I used Cyanoygen mod 6 on my nexus one but then I unrooted and reverted everything back to the standard android ROM around thanksgiving 2010 in anticipation of gingerbread coming out. Needless to say, it never came.

Tonight, I moved on to cyanogen 7 with gingerbread. I have no idea what standard gingerbread has because the cyanogen mods always have so much more. However, one thing I think is in both is the cursor when typing. This is great. It was one thing the android OS was really missing. Especially in devices like my Nook where I didn't have a trackball.

Another interesting thing is that it enabled the fabled FM radio chip in the phone making it possible to once again listen to FM radio on the go. I like this feature and missed it since giving up my nokia devices which had it. I don't understand why google didn't enable this by default if the chip was in there the whole time.

I am sure there are a bunch of other changes that I haven't discovered yet.

tinypliny - 03/03/11 03:51
Mine automagically updated to Gingerbread today. I guess they took one week to iron out those gallery glitches I was having earlier (or maybe the glitches are still there and I am going to have to roll back once more... who knows).

KeithT - 02/22/11 11:20
Ive heard sooo many awesome things about rooting phones but im terrified of turning mine into a paper weight. Would you mind showing me that this is an irrational fear and how easy it is? Maybe after yoga tomorrow?