August 31, 2009

The evils of Google Checkout

Google Checkout is evil.  No, seriously.  Bad newz!
Whenever I see a site where I can buy something with Google Checkout I know it’s going to be easy and I won’t have to enter my billing address and my shipping address and my cc number and one more password for a site that I’ll never go [...]

August 28, 2009

Scott Adams: believer, philosophist, cartoonist

Man, this guy cracks me up:
“First, if you are American, and you believe the deficit means certain doom, you should cash in all of your investments and move into some sort of survivalist encampment, or to a country that has less of a budget problem. You don’t want to pay your share of the $19 [...]

August 27, 2009

Prius Solar Roof scam, Dealers are useless

My wife’s like Hyundai Accent is almost 10 years old and it’s falling apart.  Still runs but we have to start looking.
I want three rows of seats AND 50 mpg but that’s not an option we have to settle for one or the other.  So I start looking at the Prius.
Right from the Toyota website [...]

August 26, 2009

Google Voice SMS is broken

I don’t have a texting (SMS) plan on my phone . . . it’s $5/month for 200 messages and $20 for unlimited (AT&T) and though it would come in handy sometimes I refuse to pay for something that should be free!  Also I never think to use it because I just use the SMS feature [...]

August 25, 2009

Android Root

Okay, so the hackathon of my Google Phone is over.  I decided to “root” my G2 (Google Ion, myTouch, whatever) phone so that I can install other versions of the operation system.  The primary reason was the speed advantages but I was also interested in wifi tethering.  There are a ton of options but I [...]

August 21, 2009

I accept!

Not sure if this came after www.stackoverflow.com but it’s horrible!
http://www.justanswer.com/
No mention that you have to pay to get an answer. And, just out of curiosity I decided to go ahead and offer $9 for an answer to my question (it was about my garage door and how it won’t close at around 5pm because [...]

August 20, 2009

The New Monitor is Here!

Wherein Jim discovers the joys of oversized electronics.

Great Phone . . . or Greatest Phone

Some background first . . . .
I got my wife the iPhone 3G the day it came out.  Waited in a line for a few hours and everything.  She had been using a Razr for about 3 years and it was time.  And we were already on the AT&T network so it was easy.  I [...]

August 19, 2009

Tourist Craps

This article that I found with Consumerist inspired me to make my own list that’s small now but will grow as I remember the places that underwhelmed me.
Meteor Crater (someplace in AZ)
I won’t even bother trying to find this on the map because I’m sure it’s a Google Search away . . . and with [...]

August 14, 2009

Skittles must be made with lard

I made the Skittles flavored vodka.
http://mixthatdrink.com/skittles-vodka-tutorial/
Basically, you separate the Skittles into colors and put them in empty water bottles to dissolve in vodka for a few hours (or overnight).  Then you have to filter out the white gelatinous stuff.  I did the filtering with coffee filters and the white stuff that was left in the filter had the consistency [...]