here’s what I want in a new phone

I don’t want music, I don’t want a hard drive, I don’t need a QWERTY keyboard, don’t need touch screen, and I don’t need to watch video files (i.e. movies or TV shows). ok, that’s what I don’t want. here’s what I want:

• 3.2 mp camera with flash and MicroSD card slot
• flip (i.e. clamshell) form factor
• “real” internet browser such as opera or firefox, with flash player native
• WiFi
• Verizon’s network
• push email client with attachment previewer
• sync contacts and email to PC
• bluetooth

and it should not be made by Motorola, because their phones suck.

WNC list

I have many numbers in my cell phone’s phonebook that I have saved there with no intention of ever calling. I’ve saved a name with each number as well, but I won’t be seeking their voice anytime soon. no, these are people who mattered (sometimes a lot) once in my life, and it’s comforting to know that I have their junk saved, and that if one of them ever calls me, I’ll know it’s them and can answer accordingly. I also have the numbers that all my creditors used when they’d call me every 40 minutes, starting at 8:30 am including sundays.

so I’ve created a “group” in my phonebook (like family, work, fbuddies) called “WNC” which means will never call. Then I labeled all these dear folks that way, and now when I search in my “default” phone book, I only see the people I call often. your entries never go anywhere; they just don’t show up in the main list any more.

weird trouble with English

I was writing on a friend’s wall, like the zombie facebooker I truly am, and it occured to me that the English language has no way to indicate the gender of a noun that has gender in real life but isn’t a pronoun. This does not mean we would give every noun a gender as it relates to parts of speech.

For example, there could be both a friend (who is male) and a friende (who is female). farmer, farmere. yes, I know some words won’t work like that, jerkface. Overseas, these gender-indicating spelling adjustments are made to pronouns, serving the gender of the word itself. for example:

car is a feminine noun in french. “his car” translates as “sa voiture”, even though the “his” in that sentence is a feminine word since voiture is feminine. when one rule won’t work (based mostly on spelling I think), they use another.

perhaps some words (like boss or president or doctor) should not take a gender-indicating ending. perhaps they could or should.

ooh, look at me!

I have enough money to buy a bluetooth status symbol!
I’m wearing it while eating pizza with my buddy.

models? ecort?

what the hell kind of family is this?

another sudden motion sensor thingy

The sudden motion sensor in the latest Mac laptops is a truly magical thing. I’ve seen racing games where you tip the computer left and right to steer, and I’ve seen lava lamp looking things where you can “slosh” the liquid around by moving the computer like a pan full of water.

But this is just genius. I can’t see it since I… well you know why. I also like the way his post is written. This blog is a partner of AOL, believe if or not, so the posts are written as if they originate in Salt Lake City. I usually like their unbiased take.

iPhone vs. rim job, SDK, gangbang

oops, I meant RIM Blackberry. What was I saying? Oh yes: the Blackberry architecture is a far more efficient and technologically secure method of transmitting messages over the public internet than the ActiveSync method. This fucking brilliantly written piece of nerd porn explains the differences.

ActiveSync is a Microsoft product, and its official endorsement was announced as part of the iPhone SDK/dev map/Exchange gangbang. I don’t recommend watching the video on that page, since it’s way too long and unbelievably dull. The bitter rivals really did announce a partnership.

Let the iPhoning of the world begin.

truly the future of media

The idea that a physical disk is required to purchase and watch any kind of media is one that makes me laugh so hard, I fall down and brake my wooden underpants. Tivo already lets us watch TV whenever and wherever we want sans commercials and HD (though not true HD) movie rental downloads and CD downloads on the iTunes store are giving us instant gratification. Now a new way to crush your opponent (or just join them, as this article points out) is to include the iTunes/AppleTV video computer file on the DVD itself, along with the regular DVD feature film.

Of course, it can only be extracted to one computer, ever. Pirate Bay, anyone?

The North Face: outfitting hip-hop

It happened within the space of about a week: I saw 5 of these jackets on the street. Two of them were being worn by friends sitting next to each other on the subway:

and then I saw a couple girls wearing them in my neighborhood, and a guy on the street wearing one. It’s fascinating to me that The North Face has added a fur edge to the hood on these jackets (not visible in the photo but shown on their site), and that these jackets are now appearing on stylish minorities around NYC. It used to be that the only jacket anyone wore was the classic black fur-trimmed nylon model, but now that there’s a $300 jacket, made by the most desirable outfitter of rappers and their friends, that includes a fur-trimmed hood… well, it’s no surprise that I’m seeing them all over the place.

Apple links of interest

Despite my rant in the previous post, I do still keep up with three websites that blog about Apple-related stuff. They should be fascinating reading for anyone who cares about Apple as a company, Mac products, and geeky stuff in general. I’ve put them in the links section on the right.