Japanese "Star Wars" Tuna?

Ahh, what?

Sir Patrick Stewart Loves His iPhone

Sir Patrick Stewart a.k.a. Captain Picard of Star Trek TNG loves his iPhone but doesn't see the need for Twitter. I love how he puts this, because I agree with him.

The "Game it Up" Phone

The Orion Concept. A Gaming phone with some pretty well thought out ideas, including buttons for use as controls. The iPhone is not a good gaming console because there are no buttons. On screen buttons make you block the screen to push them, and you have to look at the buttons instead of the action. The Orion phone has buttons on the sides of the screen that appear to be raised so you know when you are pushing them.

Nice concept. Read more about it at recombu.com.

Star Wars vs. Star Trek

I would agree with this video.

The Star Trek franchise is actually my favorite of the two. Sorry Ted.

These nerds are pretty good with the special effects.

Dump Truck Dump Bed Dumps Body Onto Freeway

Ahh, make sure the dump bed is down. Check out the guy on the bridge who noticed the dump truck coming and stopped walking across the bridge, but still falls (probably to his death) when the truck hits. Scary.

About the iPad

First, it sounds like a feminine hygiene product. Gross.

Next, everything I wanted to say is wrapped up in a commenter's comment on Engadget.

"A giant iphone that can't place a call, can't take pictures, can shoot video, cannot multitask, cannot run Adobe Flash and is ridiculously expensive even before adding the cost of a 3G antenna. Yeah, I'll take three [/sarcasm]"

Finally, it is actually the direction I think computers should go. The picture below is what makes me interested, with the attachable keyboard docking station. I also love that you can get iWork (Apple's Office like suite) on it. I believe, and posted about it in 2007 here (scroll down to "Here is a Rabbit Trail"), that computers should go the way of the portable do everything device. This is really a set in the right direction. It's too bad it's been apple-ized. If Apple got there heads out of their "apple cores" and added or fixed the things in the comment from the Engadget reader, I'd run down and buy 3 of them, for realzies.


What do you think?

Pepsi From Canada

Ted brought this from Canada for me. Thought I'd share the can design.
I guess it's the Olympic design.

The A-Team Movie

I was watching reruns of The A-Team a few years ago, when I had 3 and 4 days off in a row. Man, that was the life. And now, they have a movie coming out. Although, I'm not holding out hope that his will be a good movie, I'll probably go see it as a fan of the old TV show.

Here is the first trailer to be released.

It does have an All-Star cast (from IMDb) and some of the originals:

Bradley Cooper ... Lt. Templeton 'Faceman' Peck
Liam Neeson ... Col. John 'Hannibal' Smith
Sharlto Copley ... Capt. 'Howling Mad' Murdock
Jessica Biel ... Lt. Sosa
Patrick Wilson ... Lynch
Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson ... Sgt. Bosco 'B.A.' Baracus
Dirk Benedict
Dwight Schultz
Gerald McRaney ... General Morrison
Brian Bloom ... Pike
Omari Hardwick ... Chop Shop J
Maury Sterling ... Gammons
C. Ernst Harth ... Gilbert
Raj Lal ... Private Silyman
Neil Schell ... Army Meddac Hospital XO

Get That Commercial Audi Here

Audi made a commercial that may be considered to be in "bad taste" and has already been pulled from YouTube. My favorite automotive blogs, autoblog, found this copy for us to be shocked by.

Please, don't try this at home.

Ewoks Lunchbox

This was my lunchbox growing up. Although I no longer have the
thermos, this box still holds all my old Matchbox cars. I've been a
Star Wars fan a long time. I don't remember ever liking the Ewoks, but
I guess at some point I must have.

Dear AT&T

Dear AT&T,

Your service sucks.

Sent from my iPhone

Google Nexus One

I actually missed the fact that Google was going to introduce their own phone. I started hearing about this for the first time at breakfast with some friends on New Year's Day. When I started looking into it, I found that Google was going to announce the Nexus One phone today.

The Android software hasn't been out for too long, with phones on Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile, but there is a lot of buzz about it. Android is software written by Google for mobile phones. The G1 was the first phone to come out with the Android software. The latest and most advertised has been the Droid on the Verizon network. These are the first phones that seem to be able to generate some interest from the iPhone crowd and those who don't trust Apple and their "proprietary-ism".

Because I can not do the phone details justice, and because Google did a pretty simple but detailed job of it here, check out the phone's specs. Better, better, better stats than the iPhone.

Let's see if this prompts Apple to release the full potential of the iPhone. Heck, the jail-breakers have made the iPhone great and have shown Apple some things that need to be added or unlocked. They've offered Apple some help in developing other great apps, showing and pushing Apple to make the phone a better tool, and are still showing Apple they need to work on their phone.

The Ariel Atom (Top Gear Style)

I love people who think outside the standard box. This sports car's makers did.

Randomness to Start 2010

It's a new year and I don't yet have a 2010 entry. I've become a very busy person. We moved, work is still just great (he said sarcastically), and the holidays with family and friends have devoured my time as of late.

So, how are all of you? 2010 treating you good so far? Good. Good. Not really listening.

Okay, well I'm having computer issues again. The XPS is running poorly (time for a reformat), the desktop is just old and slow. I'm thinking about a new computer but I can't decide which direction to go in. Mac vs Windows. I started pricing out computers, Apple, Dell, HP. I tried my best to build them with the same specs, and it was very interesting, the outcome.

All of them have Intel chips (quad core 2.8Ghz), all of them have 4Gb of memory (the HP actually had 6), all of them have 1Tb of Hard Drive space, and a bunch of other similar specs. Pricing...the Mac was the highest and the HP was the lowest. And Dell has been nothing but a pain for me in the past (my employer with its 50,000+ employees is moving away from Dell).

iMac = $2,239.00
Dell = $1,272.00
HP = $1,195.00

To be fair to Apple, the iMac does have a monitor and the Dell and HP prices don't, but it's no $1,000 monitor. ARE YOU KIDDING ME APPLE?

Time for family time, well, wife time. HELLO? No it's not what you think. TV and pretzels in bed. Our kind of closeness. (Edited for the kids)

Christmas 2010 is Here

Christmas is this week and I haven't been updating my blog with Christmas music. Booo!!!

So here is a great new song from Pomplamoose. Yes, I love them. They are so talented. I'm jealous.

Merry Christmas