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03/21/2011 09:55 #53887

Exploding with phone happiness
Category: nerd
Ok, anyone who's spent any time with me has known that I have a hatred for my phone that's slow and low and steady, but I haven't changed it since none of the devices I've seen on the network have really impressed me much. It's super slow and does some of the dumbest things when it's at it's worst. Many mooses have gotten punched over this device...

To boot two of my plan mates have the critically acclaimed EVO and it's a nice device. There's the EVO shift (ie. same crap with a physical keyboard), and some other lame devices that don't need to be mentioned, but I didn't see the point in upgrading to any of those when there wasn't enough of a shift in what I wanted or needed most on those devices.

Over the weekend (e:paul) sent me a link on engadget that got me going. Apparently the first 3D phone will be out on sprint and it'll be on par with (e:paul)'s Nexus One or maybe a little better.

Just today I found out that the Nexus S will be showing up on sprint later this spring. I'm pumped. Never before has my patience paid off so well. I can't wait to own a decent phone again... Now I only need to choose which one I want to get, the 3D phone or the pure Googler.... oooh my mind she wabbles. I'll just have to play with (e:ejtower)'s Nexus S to find out how sweet that is before deciding. I'm plumping my piggybank for the day when it's out.

Look how cute it is!
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tinypliny - 03/22/11 22:57
Welcome to droid gang? :-)

03/08/2011 06:32 #53781

Don't Get Mad
Category: unnerd
Ok, so this article is going to piss some of you off, but go ahead and read it: The workplace should be segregated. Maybe.

She's so cute, you'd think she'd be a really nice lady
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Made some people I know really mad and they starting calling Ms. Trunk really rude names like "Stupidhead" and "poopypants" and "smellycunt" (my personal favorite). This was my reply.

I know this article is going to get people emotionally charged as it was intended to do, but unless you wish to prove dear Ms. Trunk right I beg all readers of all genders to stop and think about what she is saying before reacting.

To be clear, I don't "agree" with her out of hand. I don't entirely disagree with her either though. Still If I were to make statements about the information she's collected, they'd sound completely different.

I'm only going to make this point before standing back from this dervish of emotionally charged blades of scientific stereotyping and sexism. Averages are tools to be used to protect you from dangers not subject you to servitude. If women are generally better at a certain task it'd serve the employer of one to perform such a task to seek a woman when trying to find the right "man" for that job. You'll save time and energy not rejecting every candidate, but you'd also rob your self of an amazing candidate if you were to ignore every male applicant. It goes both ways.

Ultimately if you're bent from reading that article you're making the same kind of mistake as a stereotyper but to the article writer and the publications advantage. Notice the adversing in the margines. You're also just human, so I forgive you. Hopefully that'll give you enough cause to put down your picket signs and pitchforks and maybe be a bit more entertained than offended. Yah, think of this article as microcosm of the Fox News business model. It's really just entertainment ...dangerous irresponsible misleading polarizing entertainment.

I'm going to go bake a more delicious cake than you can make now.

No, I'm not sharing.

metalpeter - 03/08/11 18:26
That Is a good Article but I kinda think that way on different terms. There are some things women or people with small fingers are better at it used to be that all the best Nurosurgens where women. Those tiny little movements they are good at... Where most jobs with Heavy lifting are better for men. Now of course some women are very strong and some guys have that great control.....

02/03/2011 11:24 #53538

Love Never Fails
Category: unnerd
I responded to someones assertion to love that read as follows:

"Love never fails. If it's not gonna matter tomorrow, make it right today ♥"

Like this:

"Love fails all the time. Sometimes we keep trying to make it right with the wrong alcoholic convict harlot theif sociopath cause we loooooove them, but no hard feelings, nothing's perfect."

Some one named Sarah responded with:

"Thats not love boo boo thats lust cause pure unadulterated love never returns to you void.."

And I was a jerk who dismissed her comment by calling her "young". Lame I know. I tried to fix things with this next bit whcih I think is apropos what with candy and cards day just around the bend.

"You're right Sarah. Dismissing someone's knowledge of anything on a the basis of youth or any quality of that individual outside of their understanding of the argument at hand is fallow. So I apologize for my gruff assessment of your view. I really don't know you, and that was rude of me. I just like to think I'm funny sometimes...and I am, just not this time.

Otherwise, I feel like l understand this emotion as well as any human can (I might be wrong). I just get perturbed when peoples romantic assessment of anything, let alone a chemical system of our physical minds denies the fact that all things can and do fail. I'm not a pessimist, I still do have hope for healthy functional love, but I can't ignore the fact that things break sometimes.

I think that when people ignore this fact it leads to greater failure. Such as loving the 'wrong' person or thing, which include all the former, but don't exclude those from the following: people who just don't love you back enough or the way you want and need. Hobbies and habits that destroy you in tiny undetectable bits or huge wave, and the list goes on. I've seen love without reason destroy lives and create wonderful things at the same time, as much as I've seen reason without love exclude a person until they've become emotionally caustic to everyone around them and them selves.

I think we're on the same team after all though. Love works sometimes, and when it does it's one of the greatest things that can be experienced by a life form on this planet ask any fat house cat. I think that was Aprils point. Still, the idea that anything is perfect is just an imperfect idea...it's kinda why I think love exists; to allow for the imperfect to stick around long enough to matter....

Ok I'm done, but stop talking bad about lust. It's just as necessary and dangerous as love, but really, lust is not what I was talking about. No one who sticks around to get abused by someone who's been drunk and out of shape for years is in a wild fit of lust. That's reaaally something else."

What do you think estrip?

PS. I missed you. You're so cute when you read lengthy stuff.
tinypliny - 02/04/11 01:37
man.. another Sarah. Around 70% of the new people I have met over the past couple months have all been Sarahs.
tinypliny - 02/04/11 01:35
Here is where you cue Haddaway. ;-)
metalpeter - 02/03/11 17:57
As Much as I hate love and Hate Valentines Day (e:leetee) at the end kinda said what I was going to to say. There are different degrees of love of strengths to it... love Doesn't fail. Yes people do fall out of love but it isn't because of the love it is because of differences or things in the relationship..........
leetee - 02/03/11 12:11
i believe that the romantasized version of love is merely unrealisitic expectations wrapped up in heart shaped box with red ribbons.

expecting love or relationships to be the way they are in films, on sitcoms or even live up to the public view of what people in love show us is foolish, at best.

people inside relationships set their own rules on what is wanted and needed. without that conversation, it's all guess work and unfufilled expectations, with eventual relationship failure.

does it mean that love fails if a relationship fails. no, i don't think so. the love did not fail. it was there. what failed was relationship.

10/08/2010 08:42 #52916

Almost Over
Oooooh, migawd. This trip is almost over. One last plane to puddle hop home from Cleaveland. Thank goodness. I started traveling yesterday at this time by boarding a bus in Torrace,CA at 9:00am and I'm still traveling. I can honestly say all I wanna do is get home and squeeze my baby. Matt my travel buddy is actually more worn out than me...

if I find the energy later I'll jot down some trip details, for now (e:strip). Take care. I'll see you and the rest of buffalo in just a few hours.

tinypliny - 10/09/10 08:45
Is this a fast-as-you-can pilgrimage to Elvis?

11/10/2010 08:25 #53084

Really?
Category: nerd
Hey hey eStrippers! Tony here for some phone hate...again.

This is a fun comercial. The microsoft people had to pick some angle to market their phones on, so they decided to choose the "hey, stop using your phone so much" angle. Really?

So this phone makes me not want to use it so much, how did they go about doing that?

Oh this wooden background is my favorite on estrip ever Paul, very nice.... here's the video.

Oooh, note the sexy lady that the guy is ignoring is so hot I keep watching this video, but um, well let's go to tape.



Paul was complaining about his phone making the same noises as everyone elses phones the other day, and that that was one of the reasons he was glad to make the switch to Android. I wonder if it's enough to make him want to try a Windows 7 phone. Prolly not.

heidi - 11/16/10 21:50
I saw another Win7 phone ad on hulu that made the point of this ad much more clear. (e:fing) & (e:metalpeter) got the point of this one, altho I took it the same way (e:enknot) & (e:james) did. Let's hate some more! :-)
james - 11/11/10 19:19
I got the same thing as Tony from the ad. I thought they were selling it with an implied piece of software that keeps you off your phone so long. Which, is nice, but not ad worthy.

Microsoft is pretty famous for its shitty ads. Remember the billion dollar campaign with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? It was like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm without the laughs or the tuba.

But, I don't think they are saying the phone is efficient. Most of the people in the ad are actively doing something with their phone, which has nothing to do with efficiency. Efficiency would be them pulling their phone out of their pocket, click-click, close phone, smile of satisfaction.

Or maybe they are saying that their phone is so addicting you wont notice your wife trying to fuck you.

It is all so ambiguous and confusing. WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME WINDOWS! WHAT DO YOU WAAAAAAaaaaaaaaNT!
metalpeter - 11/10/10 20:29
(e:fing) got the point of the ad. It is aimed at people who don't use there phone to talk but to do all the other stuff. The ad also implies that not only is it quicker but it is set up so you can see all the stuff would normally see at once..... I think it is a great ad plus it is funny also.. Maybe I just watch way to much TV when I like and dislike ads....
fing - 11/10/10 12:46
Tony, I think what they were trying to tell you is that the Windows phone is so efficient you don't have to be on it very much. Let's say it takes you 10 seconds to check your Estrip on an Android phone. It might only take 3 seconds on a Windows phone.

I especially like the father getting hit in the head with the baseball. However, I still hate Microsoft and everything they stand for. I think most of that stems from the fact that Steve Ballmer is arrogant.

I was reading an article the other day with either a comment from Ballmer or another MS goof. It was in regards to the iPad killing Netboook sales. The statement said something like "I don't understand by people want an iPad when they could have Windows on a netbook" It's almost like they are offering up eternal life but nobody wants to drink it. The only difference is in this case it does not give you eternal life and it tastes like garbage.

paul - 11/10/10 09:03
That company is killing itself.