How I finally got over my Ex-Girlfriend

What the fuck were people thinking when someone greenlight Max Payne? Or rather, lets talk about who decided to cancel certain shows, like Arrested Development or Firefly.  And don’t let me get started on VH1 otherwise known as the channel with more love shows involving the most irrelevant celebrities ever.  This is a fucking atrocity, a god damn viral infection. How many “reality” television shows do we need, how many terrible takes on video games do we need, how many times will a great television show get canceled.

I’d like the record to show that this isn’t just isolated incidents, its not only dedicated to Fox (who did cancel the previously mentioned shows Arrested Development and Firefly), but NBC as well. They canceled Journey Man, an interesting take on the past experiences/time travel scenario, with not only great writing but good acting as well. Arrested Development won how many Emmy’s, but was canceled because it was never marketed, now finally realizing the error of there ways Fox is making a movie. Thanks, but its honestly a little to late. Its more or less a lot like Firefly, yeah the movie was great and all, but we really would’ve liked you to just keep the show going, because you plainly realized after you fucked up that you fucked up

As for the movie industry, why do you keep paying people to make movies with scripts that clearly don’t make sense. Like fucking Max Payne or Stepford Wives. We don’t want movies that don’t make sense. Oh and stop ruining video games. Really we don’t need to make a movie about a game that doesn’t have a story period, like Doom. The fact that you made a movie about a game that involves a marine and some zombies with barely even a pretense of a story is sad in itself.

A kicking playlist, all 4 hours and 47 minutes of it

Heartbeat    Annie
Paper Planes    M.I.A.
Disturbia    Rihanna
Smack That (Feat. Eminem)    Akon
Industry Groupie    Chamillionaire
The Girls    Calvin Harris
Glamorous (Feat. Ludacris)    Fergie
On Top of the World     T.I.
Whatever You Like    T.I.
Swagga Like Us     T.I.
What You Know    T.I.
Change Clothes    DJ Danger Mouse
Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)..    Jay-Z
This Is Why I’m Hot (Rock Mix)    Mims featuring Purple Popcorn
Big Poppa    Notorious B.I.G.
Hynotize    Notorious B.I.G.
It’s Tricky    Run-D.M.C.
My Adidas    Run-D.M.C.
Sexual Eruption    Snoop Dogg
Staxxx In My Jeans    Snoop Dogg
I Love Tha P***y    Brandon T. Jackson
Fight For Your Right    The Beastie Boys
Brass Monkey    The Beastie Boys
Random    Lady Sovereign
Love Me Or Hate Me Remix    Lady Sovereign
Big Shit Poppin    T.I.
Lose Control (Feat. Ciara & Fat Man Scoop) (Produced By Missy Elliot)    Missy Elliot
Bomb Intro/Pass That Dutch    Missy Elliot
The Bomb    New Young Pony Club
The Beginning Of The End [Ladytron Remix]    Nine Inch Nails
Mutiny    Pendulum
Such Great Heights    The Postal Service
Cobrastyle    Robyn
Crash and Burn Girl    Robyn
Gin And Juice    Snoop Dogg
Some Kinda Rush (Dub Mix)    Booty Luv
Forever    VHS or Beta
Pop the glock    Uffie
Feel Good Inc.    Gorillaz
DARE    Gorillaz
Where’s your head at    Basement Jaxx
What’s My Age Again?    Blink-182
All The Small Things    Blink-182
Feeling This    Blink-182
First Date    Blink-182
Cassius 99 (Remix / Radio Edit)    Cassius
Nighttiming    Coconut Records
Music Is My Hot Hot Sex    CSS
Indo Silver Club    Daft Punk
Human After All    Daft Punk
One More Time    Daft Punk
Digital Love    Daft Punk
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger    Daft Punk
Voyager    Daft Punk
Enjoy The Silence    Depeche Mode
Love In This Club (MSTRKRFT Remix)    Usher
Woman (Mstrkrft Remix)    Wolfmother
D.A.N.C.E.    Justice
Ya Mama    Fatboy Slim
Weapon of choice    Fatboy Slim
Stress (Auto Remix)    Justice
Over the Top    Mr. Flash
Candy Shop (feat. Olivia)    50 Cent
Disco Inferno    50 Cent
I Kissed A Girl    Katy Perry
Hot N’ Cold    Katy Perry
Wayfarer    Kavinsky
Wow    Kylie Minogue
Put On (Remix) (Ft. Jay-Z)    Young Jeezy
Je Veux Te Voir    Yelle
When I Grow Up    Pussycat Dolls
Bottle Pop (Feat. Snoop Dogg)    Pussycat Dolls

iPhone post

This is my first post from my iPhone. Awesome

Longhorn != Vista?

So as many of you may know, Microsoft announced yesterday, that they will continue the production to XP until 1 year after the general release of Windows 7.  In addition, Bill Gates announced to shareholders that Windows 7 will be released next year.  If you do your math, that means that the time between the release of Vista and the yet unnamed Windows 7.  How can they possibly produce a quality OS in such a short period of time.    Microsoft spent over 5 years with many delays to produce a an OS that many consider trash.  This has led myself and  some of my friends to develop a theory that Vista was never a planned OS.  The following is probably completely bogus but I would love to here what others thing about this.

What if Vista isn’t Longhorn?  We have heard many people compare Vista to ME.  What was ME?  ME was a place holder for Microsoft.  They needed more time to develop the greatest OS they have ever made, Windows XP.  So what if Vista is just that.  Could Microsoft have been half way through the development of Longhorn and realized that they needed more time.  As a result decided, hey we needed an OS that will be ready for release soon for our investors.    Most Vista users will agree that Vista seems like a rushed OS.  Microsoft cut out many of the planned features of longhorn.  Things like WinFS that we all wanted to see got stripped.  What I am hypothesizing is that Microsoft started to develop Vista after longhorn.  They took the NT kernal, the best of XP, and what they had complete of longhorn and called it Vista.  Meanwhile another team continued to develop Windows 7.

Now we have developed a lot of crazy ways to support our conspiracy, but I don’t want to type that all out now.  Maybe I will add that later.  But lets take a look at what this would mean if this is fact not fiction.   XP was released in 2001 and I am theorizing a 2009 Windows 7 release.  That would be an 8 year development  for Windows 7.  With a dev time that is that long it should be the best OS Microsoft has ever released.  Yes and that includeds the Holy Grail that is XP.

So my question for all you that are reading this conspriracy theory is:  What do you all think?  Do you have anything to add that may be of intrest.  I am sure I have a lot of bad thinking here, but take this entry as food for thought.

An Open Letter to Vaynerchuk

Open Letter to Gary Vaynerchuk.

Hi GV. I’ve been watching your show for sometime now, and while I can’t say I’ve been with you from the beginning I have gone back and watched most of your shows. I’m not 21, and I haven’t had much if any wine. But I’m doing what you did, I’m trying significant flavor profiles week by week and am building my palette. Its something I never would’ve thought to do. You made me think of it.

And its not just me, You’re making everyone think about there wine. How we drink, why we drink, drinking what we like, not listening to others. Its not us thats coming up with these ideas, it was you. You are more than just a wine taster and critic. You’re a teacher. You’ve been teaching to try new things, to get out of the box. And as you you’ve said this is changing to wine world. A wine world that has predominately been held in oligopoly those Sir Gary Vaynerchuks of the wine world.. But you’re breaking those barriers, and claiming that oneself it the only authority to your own palette.

You say at the end of every episode,”You with a little bit of me, We’re changing the wine world”. While this may be true, can you believe before saying, “You with a little bit of me, WE’VE CHANGED THE WINE WORLD”. In the next seven days I don’t think you can.

Gary Vaynerchuk. You’ve done a lot for us. Informed us, Taught and Entertained Us. You can’t leave now. You can’t leave for a long time. You’re revolutionary, and one day it’ll be know. Gary Vee and the Vayniacs, changed the wine world.

Sorry guys

I’d like to take this time to apologize. I haven’t been very diligent or responsible for my posting or promises. I do have legitimate reasons however, it isn’t going to change anything. I’d like to take this time and tell everyone (all 3 of you), that my posting will be more diligent and of the highest quality. This coming year looks to be the golden year of technology, the web, and connectivity, & I look forward to telling you about it and my opinions on it. Thanks!

Followup to the Apple Event.

Later today I will be posting a follow up to the new Apple event. Heres hoping to a good one.

The engadget podcast is dead

I have some seriously sad news. As most of the readers of engadget know by now, the podcast is dead. It was the premier tech/gadget podcast and was produced by some of the best writers and most knowledgeable people in the business, Ryan Block & Peter Rojas. And while there are many, many good tech podcasts such as TWiT, Diggnation, Cranky Geeks, and Webb Alert, none will compare to the quality and knowledge of the Engadget Guys.

Long Live the Engadget Podcast

New Content , New stuff

Sorry for any subscribers to the RSS that I haven’t updated in a while, a lot of exciting stuff has been happening and this blog had to go on the back burner. I won’t be trying to play catch up with any of the news before this weeks stuff. Anyways to the news.

Morgan Webb of G4′s X-Play has started a new Rocketboom type video site, but its actually relevant. Well produced its a great way to get daily tech news quick, right before work or class.

Find RSS/iTunes subscriptions over here

Today is the best day. EVER!

Today EMI, the largest record company, announced that all of it’s music will be sold DRM free on the iTunes Music Store.On top of that, they are raising the bitrate for all tracks sold. This is simply a boon for digital music everywhere, as Warner, Sony, & Universal will follow suit, they just have too to keep up. And before that indie labels such as Tooth & Nail, A&M, Fueled by Ramen, will follow suit.

read the engadget blog post here

via engaget

[update: I have since found out Tooth and Nail is a subsidiary of EMI]

Ask A Ninja: “MySpace Will Censor You”

The Guys at Ask A Ninja talk about net neutrality and how its affecting how they make a living.

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The iPhone “Continued”……..

So Apple you released the iPhone. You created probably what is arguably one of the greatest, most powerful, innovative, and sexy devices of all time. Destined to either to become an instant icon or another Apple Newton. A user interface second to none with great fluid graphics and animations. Simple and powerful, like OS X. Yet Apple did something that Apple isn’t used to doing. Creating a great product that developers can’t use.

Mac OS X, is a great operating system. This is partly due to its extensive Unix backend, powerful Core API’s, & Cocoa Interface. These API’s allow developers to create programs that integrate well with the operating system. Programs such as Camino, Adium, and a whole mess of other open source and commerical software and integrates with iTunes or Spotlight. This is what makes OS X a great operating system, the amazing pieces of software that allow tight integration with the os, as if they were first part programs. Yet for this round, Apple has crippled their developer model, not allowing third programs, “for quality assurance reasons”, which is ridculous. Essentially Apple is going to extend its iPod model, selling you everything, in an attempt to “streamline” the experience. However the iPhone is different than an iPod, and while they share similar features the iPhone has distinct differences that makes it well, different.

So in an attempt to actually finish this post, I’m going to make a list of a few things that the iPhone should do, and why I don’t think the First Gen iPhone won’t do it, and may never do.

1) Customizable Ringtones: Apple if you think you can extort 99 cents for every ringtone you sell on the iTunes Store… you probably can. However that doesn’t make it right. They should take a cue from there great ability to make wallpapers, just search you’re library and apply. If you want to compete with Windows Mobile 5.0, Palm, & RIM, allow contact specific ringtones and global ringtones. Its ridiculous that Apple a company that has mastered the integration of common databases won’t allow us, the users , this simple feature. Seriously its probably like 15 minutes of development using you’re core api’s and cocoa.

2) HSDPA….. Oh wait it doesn’t have it: Give us faster internet access to use that super slick browser you give us.

3) Third party Applications: Okay so maybe this makes sense, you don’t want the phones to crash, understandable, but allow us the ability to install widgets, something that would allow us to use that great internet access. Oh and no one who uses Mac OS X wants to use iChat for the iPhone at least allow Adium to make some software.

4)Give us more…: What I mean by this, is that for the iPhone to really compete it needs a few more things. It needs some sort of Note taking application, maybe a stripped down Pages, maybe a Keynote viewer, something to gain the business mind.

5) We want real Widescreen: There isn’t any reason Apple would do this…

All in All, the iPhone while better than every other phone, still isn’t a good phone by Apple’s standard, missing clear integration with user’s media and lacks as a true platform to make better. I’m holding off, in hope of either hacks to make it better or for my favorite company to make some serious improvements.

The iPhone

I have a lot to say about the iPhone, but I have yet to get all the information about it. However, Soon (probably today after classes), I’ll definitely address all the issues.

Sandisk Does it again.

First the Sansa E200 series, and now this.

Laptops with Sideshow

So far at CES, a few laptops have been announced with support for Vista’s Sideshow, a “widgetized” interface that is used while the machine is powered down. The Asus W5fe and the LGE-Z1 by LG. Sideshow while a cool and interesting concept of widgets, as far as I know doesn’t have major developer backing just yet, or maybe thats just cause only 2 laptops in the world have the technology to do so.

CES 2007 coverage courtesy of Engadget.

CES 2007

I’ll be blogging what I think is the really important and things that i find that are awesome during CES 2007. So look foward to that. And I’ll be blogging Macworld ’07 also. Yeah I’m going to be busy.

Roller in paris

Dailymotion blogged video
Roller in paris
Video sent by soze_kaiser

The best freeride for the best places in paris.

Religious Freaks Gone Wild

Sorry to my evangelical fanbase

Yesterday, Thanksgiving, What I’m thankful for.

Most people would think, I’ll just say my new MacBook Pro (Which is true, I’m quite thankful that I now run Mac OS X 10.4.x). However there is so much more.

First and foremost I’m thankful for my faith and religion, for the strength it has provided me in the harshest and hardest of times.
Secondly I’d like to thank Charles Babbage/ Ada Lovelace. You guys were the forerunners for what I’m using right now. And then I’d like to thank my family and friends. Not to say you are less than Ada Lovelace, you are certainly not, but I think that I would not be telling people what I’m thankful unless it was for Ada Lovelace.
And now in no particular order:

Srinivasa Ramanujan, Pierre de Fermat, Andrew Wiles, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Issac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, & Bernard Reimann. You guys were/are pretty freakin’ awesome.

Metallica, Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor), Slayer, Panic! at the Disco, Norma Jean, Five Iron Frenzy, Daft Punk, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, & Alice in Chains. Wondrous Music!

Eugene Atget, Ansel Adams, David Hockney, and various other photographers. You show the world as it is

Salvador Dali, Claude Monet, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci. You show the world as it might be.

Bill Gates, Kevin Rose,Tim O’Reilly, Linus Torvalds, IBM, Engadget & Weblogs Inc.,Google, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Shigeru Miyamoto, Cliffy B, Bungie, John Carmack,Valve, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, ATI, Sony, Nintendo, & Apple. Thanks for making technology, gadgets, and computing my life and for creating gmail.

George Lucas, Tron, Steven Spielberg,The Wachowski Brothers, Kevin Smith, Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves. Great Movies.

Douglas Adams, Micheal Crichton, J.R.R Tolkien, Robert Ludlum, Charles Seife, R.L Stein, & J.K Rowling. Great Reads, and interaction at an intellectual level.

My best friends (H-dog and K-dog). Thanks Brothers, good times.
All the people I’ve met at college, especially my R.A.

Peace

Thanks People

dalipods

dalipods

Originally uploaded by axb500.

if the title isn’t self explanatory, just a little twist on the Persistence of Time by Dali with everyone’s favorite little music player.